Martha Ann Munday

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Georgie's Grandmother----Martha A. Munday was born May 25, 1834 in Alabama, she was the second wife of Thomas Hartford Scott and she Papa Georgie's grandmother. Martha’s parents were Upton Munday and Elizabeth Ogletree. The name Munday has variant spellings (Mundy, Munday and Monday) many of which are in census records specific to her family. Her father is also called Ripton or Repton. This is a common occurrence in census records because a census taker would often come to a home and just write phonetically what he heard the first time. Martha’s father was originally from southern Tennessee. The Ogletree family is from the Virginia coast area and migrated to Wilkes County Georgia where Martha’s grandfather, Edmund, was born. The name Ogletree may be a corruption of a Scotch-Irish name Ocheltree. Martha had at least eight sisters-Elizabeth, Milinda, Margaret, Harriet, Jane, Mary and Susan- and one brother, William.Martha’s parents married in Tennessee and her grandparents, on both sides, seemed to have traveled with the family to both Alabama and east Texas. It was in Texas that nineteen-year-old Martha met and married the 39 year-old, twice married widower, Thomas Hartford Scott on October 9, 1852, and became the instant mother of several step-children. She and Mr. Scott moved to Scott County Arkansas where she spent the rest of her life. She bore her children there. Her children by Thomas Scott were Elizabeth, Louisa, Emily Jane, Peter Washington (Papa Georgie’s father) and Ben Franklin. She lived the hard life of a farmer’s wife and during the Civil War suffered the horror of having her husband killed by bushwhackers when she was thirty years old.She then married William C. Hawkins and bore him several children, William C., George B., Raliegh and Kansas S. It is rather bizarrely reported that she ‘kept’ what she assumed to be the bones of her first husband for sometime. Dad and I have speculated that it was upon marrying her second husband that the bones disappeared ;). There is no mention of a burial ever taking place as there seemed to be a question of whether the bones were actually her late husband’s. She lived a long and fruitful life, one Scott County publication described her as “a lady of culture and refinement.” She was a “worthy” member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. December 22, 1925, at the age of ninety-two, she died in her home from complications acquired when her dress caught afire after having backed too close to the stove. Her obituary declares that the community suffered a loss with ’Grandma Hawkins’ passing.