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"Aunty" Martha Zena Stice, colored, age 75 years (born ~1839), and a slave in Platte County, Missouri before the war, died yesterday afternoon from pneumonia after a short illness. She lived with her daughter, Mrs. Frances Gaines, at 610 North First Street. She is survived by her daughters, Mary Stice of Topeka (Kansas); Mrs. Gertrude Todd of Lawrence (Kansas), and Mrs. Frances Gaines, of Atchison (Kansas). Eldon Stice, a son, lives in Kentucky, and John Stice, another son, lives in Atchison (Kansas). Her husband has been dead several years. Funeral services will be held Thursday morning at 10 o’clock at the Sawin & Douglass chapel. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery.Date(s) of Creation
3/31/1914