Description
“Faithful Servant Dead” - Marth Owens was born in Platte County in June 1857; when but an infant she was bought as a slave child by the late B. Dean (Bart Dean), who gave her at the age of 5 to his daughter, the late Mrs. Minerva Owens. The Owens family consisted of six children and these six children remember with tender appreciation the simple faithfulness with which she watched the cradle days, the baby pranks, the tottering steps, and growing ways of their youth. As time grew apace, she watched the joys and sorrows of life come into their realm, and with them she sorrowed and rejoiced. With the death of her beloved “Missy”, Mrs. A. B. Owens, she lived with Mrs. Lydia Hillix until her death Friday, June 10. For the past 12 years she has been bedridden with rheumatism, cared for tenderly by those, whose baby feet and hands she had helped to guide. No burden too heavy for her, no task too tedious in her youth, and in her old age her affliction was their opportunity to repay faithfulness - that faithfulness of a real “Mammy.” Simple services were held in the Hillix home at two o’clock Saturday afternoon, conducted by Prof. W. L. Morgan and interment was made in the Owens plat at Camden Point.Date(s) of Creation
6/17/1927
