1906 - 2001 (94 years)
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Name |
Martha Elease Boots [1] |
Birth |
21 Nov 1906 |
Beaver County, Pennsylvania [1] |
Gender |
Female |
Death |
2001 |
Beaver County, Pennsylvania [1] |
Burial |
North Sewickley Cemetery, Beaver County, Pennsylvania [1] |
Person ID |
I51123 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
17 Nov 2020 |
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Notes |
- Martha Elease Boots was born 21 November 1906, in North Sewickley township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. She died 4 March 2001, in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. She married 1 January 1964, in the Riverview Free Methodist Church in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, Herman Melcher NYGARD, son of Melcher NYGARD and Hannah SVALNES, of Aafjord, Norway, who was born in Norway in 1904, and died in 1983. They are both buried in the North Sewickley Cemetery, North Sewickley Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. They were married by her brother Lloyd Boots, pastor of Riverview Free Methodist Church.
She graduated from Geneva College in 1928, taught in one room schools for five years, and moved to Chicago in 1933 to work at the Olive Branch Mission Training School, where she remained for over 35 years. She met her husband at the Mission and they worked there together, before retiring to Beaver County, Pennsylvania. She and her husband had no children.
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Sources |
- [S2479] MyFamily.com, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 175, Ed. 1, (Release date: April-2005
Customer pedigree.).
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