Binford - Martha H.
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Friday 3 June 1892
Mrs. Martha H. Binford, mother of Joseph Binford of this city, died at her home in Thorntown yesterday afternoon, aged 77 years. The funeral services will be held on Sunday morning at 9 o’clock, after which her remains will be laid away at Sugar Grove Cemetery. Pall bearers will be six of her granddaughters. A mother in Israel has indeed gone to rest.
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Saturday 4 June 1892
Martha H. Binford, widow of the late John Binford, one of the pioneer settlers of this county from Virginia about 1825, died at the residence of her son, William P. Binford, of Thorntown, on Thursday, June 2d at 7 a.m. Mrs. Binford was the mother of seven children, two of whom have preceded her. Joseph Binford, one of her sons, lives in this city, and Acquilla, another son, in Boone County. During her painful illness of the last few months, all her children have been in attendance upon her, among who are Mrs. Lycurgus Railsback and Mrs. Mary B. Morgan, of Kansas City, widow of General Wm H. Morgan of this city. Mrs. Binford was a life long member of the Friends Church. She inherited from a pastoral and prosperous ancestry those sterling domestic virtues which are becoming rare in the present time. Having been an invalid from the birth of her first child, her sphere was thereby limited to the home circle, where her energies and devotion to the interests of her family never flagged until the last few months of her life, although 77 years of age. Her loss will be greatly mourned by her children, most especially her younger son, Wm., over whose home she presided during the sixteen years of her widowhood. The funeral services will be held at the residence on Sabbath at 9 a.m. Burial at 10 o’clock in the Friends Cemetery. - s