SOWERS, Martha "Mattie" Samuels

 

Martha Caroline Samuels-Sowers

IDENTIFICATION ON PHOTO:  Tattie Sowers (Martha Caroline Samuels Sowers), Aunt “Tattie”

PHOTO TAKEN: Bellar’s Art Co., Elizabethtown KY circa 1897

PHOTO ACQUIRED: Paisley Pig Antiques, Shelbyville KY, 2022

 This is Martha Caroline SAMUELS, seen as “Mattie” on Census and newspaper records, and apparently known within her own family as “Tattie”.  She is the aunt of James and Walter NANTZ, described on the post directly before this one. Her photo was found in the same booth as the photos of her nephews.

 She and her siblings were the children of William Thomas SAMUELS (1821-1902) and Caroline SYMPSON (1824-1892). William and Caroline’s children:

   1844 Mary Samuels-HAYES (d. 1911) married Benjamin HAYES. They had five children.

   1848 Sarah E Samuels-SANDERS (d. 1932) married Richard D. SANDERS. They had a daughter.

   1852 James L Samuels (died __)

   1854 Louise E. Samuels-NANTZ (d. 1911, the mother of James and Walter Nantz)

   1857 Martha C. Samuels-SOWERS (d. 1932) m. William M. SOWERS. No children.

   1860 William T. Samuels (d. 1917)

 

 Martha was married first to William M. SOWERS (1857 – 1889, the son of John Pleasant Sowers & Mary Mason Crenshaw. He died at age 32 and is buried in Larue County Kentucky.

 She later married James M. CARLETON (1844-__)

 

She died at age 75, 21 May 1932, and is buried in Resthaven Memorial Park, Louisville, KY, where her nephews are also buried.