Vancleave - Martha Northcutt
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 5/26/42, p 3
Mrs. Vancleave, age 92, is dead. Had resided here since girlhood – funeral Thursday morning. Mrs. Martha Alice Vancleave, 92, resident of this city since her early girlhood, died at her home, 604 Binford street at 1 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. She had been ill the past two years. Mrs. Vancleave was born on January 18, 1850, near Shelbyville, Ky., the daughter of Joseph and Louisa Emmons Northcott. She was married three times, first to Robert Brackett, the second time to William B. Gott, and then in later years to John Vancleave. She had been a resident of this community since she was 15 years of age and was the last of a family of eight children. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Mary Ella Surface, and two sons, William N. and Samuel D. Gott all, of this city. The body will remain at the Profitt and Sons funeral home where the funeral will be held at 10:30 o’clock, Thursday morning with burial in Indian Creek Cemetery. - kbz