Obituary - John W. Martin
East Liverpool Tribune
John W. Martin, aged 81, died at his home on Smithfield street, Northside, at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon (May 28, 1911). Death was due to general diseases of old age. Mr. Martin had been a resident here for 10 years, previously residing in St. Louis, Mo. He was born in Tyler county, W. Va. Mr. Martin is survived by his wife and one daughter, Mrs. Lee Weikart, of Smithfield street; also two brothers, Robert and White, of Tyler county, W. Va., and two nieces, Nellie and Letta Martin, at home.
Funeral from the Orchard Grove Avenue M. E. church at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. Interment at Riverview Cemetery.
Mr. Martin was a veteran of the Civil war, enlisting in Nevada, and was also one of the Forty-Niners, spending 30 years in the west.
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