Martha (Russell) Sturgis (1697 - abt. 1774)

Born 23 Jan 1697 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Sturgis II — married 26 Dec 1717 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died about 17 Jun 1774 at about age 77 in Barnstable, Massachusetts

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Biography

Martha was born in 1696. She is the daughter of Jonathan Russell and Martha Moody.

Headstone Inscription:

Here lies interred ye Body of Mrs

Martha Sturgis Relict of Mr

Thomas Sturgis & Daughter

To Mr Jonathan Russell who

Departed this Life June

17th 1774 in ye 78th year

of her age

The sweet Remembrance of the Just

Shall Flourish when they Sleep in dust

Sources

• Sturgis, Francis Shaw. The Descendants of Nath'l Russell Sturgis (G.H. Ellis, Boston, 1900) Page iii
• https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42236008
• Russell, Gurdon Wadsworth. An Account of Some of The Descendants of John Russell (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, Conn., 1910) Page 129.
• Collins, James Wade Ferris. The Family and American Descendants of Deacon Edward Collins of Cambridge, Medford, and Charlestown, Massachusetts, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2020) Vol. 174, Page 262.