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Original Obituary in possession of Mrs.Verzillia Nichols, Houston Texas, this was in the 1980's. (Kay's Book)

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 Obituary  (Transcribed)
(Newspaper name unk at this time)

Martha Ann White Alford
Died Feb 4,1903

God knows how to deliver his
children. Wednesday, February 4 Mrs. Martha Alford was found dead in bed, her eyes closed as if in sleep. About twenty-eight or thirty years ago she found the Methodist Church with her husband and two daughters and has remained in the church and lived a true Christian life from that time. She was sixty-seven years old and the mother of seven children, four of whom she has lost besides her husband. After her husband’s death Taylor Lee, her son-in-law, moved into her house to take care of her.

Last year two Mormon Elders came there and Mr. Lee allowed them to Preach in the house until he and his whole family were converted and became full-blooded Mormons. They tried to get the old lady to join them but she was to strong a Christian to be led off into heathenism. Though they told that if she would join them and be baptized they would afterward lay hands on her head and she would receive the holy ghost and would prophesy and whatever she prophesied would come to pass, also that if she would be baptized for her husband who was dead it would save him.

The good old woman would only reply: "I do not believe your docrine." They could not humbug her her. To show what kind of people they have beguiled and go into their church, they sent one of them down to the Creed Graveyard with the measure of the box. They lost it before he got their. A girl ask him if they were going to hold an inquest over Grandma; he said, ‘I guess so, if the Elders come.’ She told him it didn’t take Elders for that and asked who would hold the services at the grave. ‘If the Elders come they will, if not we won’t have any,’ he replied. About two o’clock they drove up to the graveyard with the corpse. They opened the coffin to let the people see her, then after a short while they closed and lowered it and had sang and prayed then the Elder said: ‘We have come together to pay our last respects to this woman who has lived and moral life’. Then he read the latter part the fifteenth chapter of first Corinthians and said a few words about the glory of the sun, moon and stars and then dropped everything that is pertaining to a funeral.’

Note: Martha & Leroy Alford were members of the Maud Methodist Church.
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