Martha Jane (Wilson) Ewalt (1842 - 1917)

Descendants

Died 4 Jul 1917 at age 75 in Wyoming, USA

Biography

Martha was born in 1842. She passed away in 1917.

Martha's maiden name was Wilson. After her husband Samuel Henry Ewalt had died of consumption in 1898 she moved with son James' family to a ranch on the South Fork of the Shoshone River near Cody, Wyoming. On July 4, 1917, she and other family members were involved in an automobile accident while returning home from Independence Day Celebrations in Cody. The car in which she was a passenger went off the road and into the South Fork Canyon. Her son James, who was driving, survived with minor injuries, as did a young girl passenger, a daughter of a neighbor. Martha died in the crash. James' wife, Dixie Marie Zimmerman Ewalt, and their infant daughter, Beulah Cleota Ewalt, were fatally injured and died a few days later. Martha's remains were brought back to LaBelle, Missouri, for burial.

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6968270/martha-jane-ewalt