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| Mary Jane Mulholland Martin |
Mary Jane Mulholland
(or as she was known by the family, just Jane), born in 1842, was the oldest of
the nine children who lived to adulthood in Samuel Mulholland jr's family. Twenty
years older than her youngest sister, she left home when her youngest siblings
were still toddlers.
In 1866 at the age of 24,
Jane married Andrew Martin, an Irish
immigrant, who was six years younger than her. They moved to a farm in
Livingston County, but any thought of a long, happy life together was too
quickly ended.
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| Will & Lil Martin |
After
nine years of marriage, Andrew died of typhoid fever at the age of 37, leaving Jane with three
small children. Unable to manage the farm alone, she was forced to move back to
her father's house with her two daughters, while son William Martin was boarded out to help on his uncle's farm. Her
youngest daughter, Mame, died a few years after her father at age 6.
Mary Jane lived in Superior Township with her birth family until her daughter Lillian
Martin married Bob Butterfield in 1898. Jane moved in with the newly weds and lived with
them in Alma, Michigan until she died at the age of 64 in 1907.
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