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Martha Ellice "Ellie" Twombley Dutton
20 Dec 1872 – 21 Jul 1940
| Birth | 20 Dec 1872 |
| Death | 21 Jul 1940 |
| Cemetery | Rose Hill Cemetery Spearfish , Lawrence County , South Dakota , USA |
| Added by | E D on 27 Apr 2012 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89204168 |
Bio
SOURCE: Obituary, published in the BISON COURIER, Bison, South Dakota abt 21 July, 1940. "Mrs. Melvin Dutton is Victim of a Heart Attack." At the time of death, she was age 67 years, seven months, and one day of age. Part of this obituary is included in the comments below. Martha Ellis Twombley, daughter of Hiram Harrison Twombley and Matilda Hunt Twombley, was born in Clarke County, Iowa, on 20 December 1872. She was from a family of six children. The 1880 Census for Clarke County identifies Ellice at age 9; she is with her parents, Hiram and Matilda age 35 and 33, Lydia age 11, her twin sister Alice age 9, Dan age 5, "Fluzzie" a sister age 2, and brother Fay age 2. They are also listed on an Iowa 1885 census. Later census records show her with her husband and family. The 1990 census is generally not available, having been destroyed. On 22 February 1891, she and her twin sister were married to Melvin Dutton and John Brand. Martha and Melvin moved to Kansas in 1893 through the summer of 1894. Their oldest son Hiram was born in Agra, Kansas. They returned to Iowa and ranched or farmed until the family homesteaded on Antelope Creek south of Strool, South Dakota, Perkins County, in the fall of 1908 and early 1909. Four of their children were born in Iowa: Lora May, Hiram Harrison, Harry, and Harold Marvin. Mina Alice was born in South Dakota. She died at her ranch home in Perkins County on 21 July 1940, leaving her husband and five married children, nineteen grandchildren, as well as two brothers and three sisters. (OBITUARY) Martha Ellis Twombley comes from family lines of colonial traditions. Her grandfather Isaiah Twombley was married to Mabel Otis who stems from the Otis, Little, and Warren families of colonial America. Her grandfather James S. Hunt has an ancestry trace to colonial Virginia with "Queen's" soldiers and attorneys, not to exclude George Eskridge, noted historically as a guardian for Mary Ball, George Washington's mother. Another ancestor was Colonel Richard Lee, "the immigrant"; he was a progenitor of the famous Lee family of Virginia. Lee was a major developer with 20,000 acres in Virginia in the late 1600's. (Lora Seymour history notes, and research of H. Andrew Brown--see below). DEATH: Martha Ellis Twombley died at home at the Dutton ranch in Antelope Creek, Antelope Township, Perkins County, South Dakota. She died July 21, 1940 at age 67. Interment at Spearfish Rose Hills Cemtery, Lawrence County, South Dakota, in the Black Hills.
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DUTTON Melvin O Martha E 1869 1953 1872 1940
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Siblings
- Lydia J. Twombley Fox 1869–1948
- Mary Alice Twombley Brand 1872–1963
- Dan Wesley Twombley 1875–1957
- Elizabeth May Twombley Saddoris 1878–1972
- Fay James Twombley 1878–1967
Children
- Lora Mae Dutton Seymour 1892–1964 FaG
- Hiram H Dutton 1894–1984 FaG
- Harry Dutton Sr 1904–1986 FaG
- Harold Marvin Dutton 1906–1982 FaG
- Mina Alice Dutton Sanger 1910–1985 FaG
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