Obituary
Sondra Jones
Collage of Western Idaho
English 102 034W
Leslie Jewkes
Martha Moore Ballard
Feb 1735 through May 1812
Wife, Mother, Midwife, Friend.
Martha worked as a midwife both in her place of birth, Massachusetts and in Maine. She was a respected member of her community and was called upon in times of sickness as well as birth. She was a healer and comforter. She was a woman who loved her children and trained each of them up in the best way she saw fit. Martha loved and enjoyed her work. She enjoyed working in her garden and moved it wherever she went. She carefully documented her life through a personal journal. She moved from Massachusetts to Main in 1777, and later to a home built by her husband and sons. She enjoyed her family and caring for the people around her. She worked hard throughout her life, both in the trying times and the joyful ones. Proceeded in death by three daughters Triphena, Dorothy, and Martha, and her niece, Parthenia Barton Pitts, survived by her husband Ephraim Ballard (Married December 19, 1754) and children; Cyrus, Ephraim and Lucy Towne, Jonathan and Sally (Pierce), Moses and Hannah Pollard, Barnabas and Dolly Lambard and Ephraim Jr. and Mary (Farwell) and many grandchildren. She was seen as a mother to all those around her and loved and respected by everyone. She will be loved and missed and her legacy will carry on through generations.
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