© Phyllis Rhodes

Obit of Nancy posted by Phyllis Rhodes
May 20, 1867 - Nov 17, 1935

© Phyllis Rhodes

Nancy Euphamie (Martin) Rhodes was born May 20, 1867 in Mattoon, Illinois. She died November 17, 1935 in Hobart, Kiowa County, Oklahoma.

Nancy was united in marriage to Thomas Lawrence Rhodes Jr. on September 03, 1885 in Lipan, Hood Co., Texas at the home of her parents Thomas and Mary Ann (Atteberry) Martin.
In 1901, Thomas moved the family to Indian Territory (Oklahoma). Thomas farmed south of Apache, OK before moving to Maxwell, OK. The last night in Maxwell, before moving to New Mexico, the Clinton Gang rode in and shot up the town
1907--the Thomas Rhodes family moved to New Mexico via covered wagon and mules with the intention of homesteading a 160 acre farm.
Thomas did not live to see his hopes and dreams as his life was cut short when he died of gangrene due to an abscess, the result of typhoid fever. He was laid to rest in the cemetery about seven miles from the farm. His last request of Nancy was that she keep all the children together when he was gone.

Nancy was a pioneer at heart. She not only kept all the children together; she also proved the homestead with help from son Glen Rhodes and filed a homestead patent in Tucumcari, Quay Co., NM, on April 11, 1917.
Nancy Euphamie Rhodes was living with her daughter, Margie Rhodes Barnes, in Colorado. Nancy had heart trouble and stomach problems. She became ill and asked to be put on the train so she could go see her son, Walter, who was living in Hobart, Oklahoma.. She was so sick when she arrived in Hobart that her son put her in the hospital. While in the hospital she supposedly fell out of bed and broke her neck.

Nancy was laid to rest in the Hobart Rose Cemetery in Hobart Oklahoma.