LONDON Martha A

1858 - 1916  (~ 58 years)

• Name	LONDON Martha A
  Born	Apr 1858	Madison Co, MO
  Gender	Female
  Died	21 Apr 1916	Madison Co, IL
  Buried	24 Apr 1916	St. Patrick's Cemetery, Alton, Madison Co, IL
  Person ID	I0032	Hans Landis Tree for trimming
  Last Modified	19 Jul 2010

  
  

  Father	LONDON James Alexander,   b. 1832, TN ,   d. 23 May 1917, Madison Co, MO  (Age 85 years)
  Mother	BERRY Rutha,   b. 1841, TN ,   d. Apr 1858, Madison Co, IL  (Age 17 years)
  Family ID	F0007	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	HAWK William,   b. Nov 1858, Iron County, IL ,   d. BET. 1905 - 1910, Iron County, MO  (Age ~ 51 years)
  Married	ABT. 1874	Probably Iron Co, MO
  Children	1. HAWK Emily,   b. 1875, Iron Co, MO ,   d. BEF. 1910, Iron Co, MO  (Age < 35 years)   2. HAWK Bertha,   b. 31 Jan 1876, Iron Co, MO ,   d. 11 May 1893, Iron Co, MO  (Age 17 years)   3. HAWK George,   b. Feb 1880, Iron Co, MO ,   d. BEF. 1910, Iron Co, MO  (Age ~ 29 years)   4. HAWK Melissa Ellen,   b. Jul 1885, Iron Co, MO ,   d. 1922, Iron Co, MO  (Age ~ 36 years)   5. HAWK Minta Agnes,   b. 4 Feb 1888, Ironton, Iron Co, MO ,   d. 11 Dec 1959, Lebanon, IL  (Age 71 years)   6. HAWK Jessie,   b. 29 Jul 1891, Iron Co, MO ,   d. 30 Aug 1928, Hartford, Wood River, IL  (Age 37 years)   7. HAWK Mary Estelle,   b. Feb 1894, Ironton, MO ,   d. May 1949, Elizabeth, NJ  (Age ~ 55 years)   8. HAWK Bessie,   b. 1904, Iron Co, MO ,   d. AFT. 1950  (Age > 47 years)   9. Living
  Family ID	F0073	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Martha was born in April, 1858, the same month her mother died. Martha was the first and only child of James London and Rutha Berry, Rutha's father had died 4 months before his daughter. Martha can be found on the 1860 census records living with her father in Madison Co, MO, Liberty Township, Fredericktown, MO. They are family number 376, James London, 23 years old, born in NC, farmer, Martha A. London, 2 years old, born MO. Martha can be found in the 1870 census records in Liberty Township, Madison County, MO, livng alone. Her father had remarried and started a new family and Martha was not included in that family. She is listed as 12 years old, born in MO and living with the Lwellen family who were farmers from KY. Not only is Martha without a family, she is not attending school and cannot yet read and write. The next census record, 1876, Martha is found livng with her husband and children. Since the first child was born in 1875, the marriage most likely took place in 1874 when Martha was 16 and her husband was 18. Martha had apparently moved with her two children, Mary Estelle and Jessie, to Wood River, IL sometime after 1910 from Iron Co, MO. She and Katarina Sonnenberg (future mother in law of Mary Estelle (Stella) who would marry John Sonnenberg in 1912, bought a family buriel plot in Alton, IL (Madison Co) sometime before her death there in 1916. She and Katarina and Jessie Hawk, as well as George Sonnenberg and his wife Annie, are all buried there. Her son, Jessie Hawk, witnessed the death certificate. Cause of death was heart failure, with general dibility a contributing factor. Attending physician was H.B. Giths from Woodriver, IL. 1910 Census Records, Iron Co, MO, Arcadia Twp (Pilot Knob) Martha Hawk, 48 years old, born MO, widowed, 9 children, 5 alive, rents a home, cannot read or write Jessie, son 19, laborer in factory, can read and write Stella, daughter, 16, in school, can read and write Bessie, 6 There is some confusion on number of children reported born by Martha. On 1900 census records she reported 9 children born and 7 living, in 1910 she reported 9 children with 5 alive, but at least one child (Bessie) was born after 1900 making total born 10 or more. Adair Sonnenberg, daughter in law of Stella Hawk Sonnenberg, reported that she had been told that the father of Stella (William Hawk) had been shot in the back by an irate husband for some inappropriate behavior with the husband's spouse.