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Submitted: 11/16/21 • Approved: 11/16/21 • Last Updated: 11/19/21 • R469020-G0-S3
1888-1935
Please see Martin Family Marker
*Photo/Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Following a brief illness with appendicitis, T.W. Martin, 47, well-known Wheeler county man living in the Briscoe community, passed away late Saturday night in the Clinic hospital, Shamrock.
Thomas Wesley Martin was born Feb. 29, 1888, in Montague county, Texas, and died Nov. 9, 1935, at Shamrock, Texas, at the age of 47 years, eight months and 10 days. In 1900 he moved with his parents to Oklahoma, where on Nov. 25, 1906, he was united in marriage with Mary M. Burke at Pontotoc, in that state.
To this happy union were born six children, the first boy dying in infancy. Another son, little Jack Walton Martin, preceded the father in death on Sept. 21 of this year.
Mr. Martin united with the Missionary Baptist church at Boggy Depot, Okla., and had lived a quiet, consistent Christian life for 18 years. He served as deacon in the church at Boggy and at Mt. Zion, near Mobeetie.
Surviving members of the family are the beloved and faithful wife and four children: Ernest of Apache, Okla.; Arthur of Allison; Mrs. Vera Worthington of Mobeetie, and Mrs. Martha Helton of Allison. Other near relatives left to mourn his demise are his father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Martin; two sisters, Mrs. Jennie Norwood and Mrs. Laura Bell Garrett, two brothers, Will and Charlie; two half-brothers, Solomon and J.B., and two half-sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Beck and Mrs. Ruby Rogers, besides a host of friends and more distant relatives.
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Baptist church in Briscoe with Rev. Fields officiating. Interment was made in the Wheeler cemetery under direction of Clay-Youngblood and Clay-Beasley Funeral homes of Shamrock and Wheeler. The Masonic order, of which the deceased was a member, assisted with the last rites.
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In Memory of Uncle Wes Martin
By his niece,
Mrs. Alvin Burke
They tell me life is over for this dear one,
They tell me that his body here is dead;
And yet my Bible tells me that his soul is living.
For I know a Christian's life he led.
Oh, God, who deals with mercy unto all things,
Dry these tears, and ease the hearts of those who cry,
For we know Thy way is best 'though sometimes hardest-
And we know that we can join him by and by.
I feel that if he could return today,
And if we could hear that dear voice so loved by all,
That he would urge us all to bear up bravely
And be ready when the Lord our soul shall call.
His was a noble life: soft words and kind
He spoke to one and all;
But I for one shall never question
Why God saw fit this loved one to call.
He has two children there in heaven-
Perhaps God thought 'twas best that he should be
There with the two to bring them pleasure-
Perhaps some other reason God could see.
Although He blinds our eyes to His just course
We know not why these things should be;
We can find comfort in the Bible-
In sincere prayer upon our bended knee.
God help us find comfort in the knowledge
That a Christian life was what he led.
God knew our feet would falter-
I wonder if he called him on to clear the path ahead.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume 11 - Number 48, Thursday, November 14, 1935, Page 1)
Contributed on 11/16/21
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