Edward Otis
(1802-1851)
Sarah Struble
(1804-1894)
Daniel Brooks Gartrell
(Abt 1817-1891)
Sarah Ann Otis
(1838-1885)

Mahala Emmeline Gartrell
(1869-1910)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Israel Samuel Straw

2. Will King

Mahala Emmeline Gartrell

  • Born: 10 May 1869, Gravity, Taylor County, Iowa
  • Marriage (1): Israel Samuel Straw on 5 Jan 1890 in Gravity, Taylor County, Iowa
  • Marriage (2): Will King
  • Died: 6 Oct 1910, Gravity, Taylor County, Iowa at age 41
  • Buried: Cemetery in Taylor county, Iowa
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bullet  General Notes:

Written by her daughter Mary Straw Polson- This is copied verbatim, spellings puntuation and all from a typwritten sheet given to me S. Dodrer] by my mother's cousin, Dorothy Straw Meek in 2009. Much of this story had been told to me by my own grandmother Inis.
"My mother was Emiline Mahala Gartrell. Her father was Daniel Gartrell, her mother was Sarah Otis Gartrell (The Otis family can be traced back to Francis Billington who came to America on the Mayflower).
I don't know when she married my father, but she was a widow with a baby girl named Bessie. My brother told me mother was less than five ft. tall and had dark hair and brown eyes. I can remember a few things about her altho' she died when I was six years old. The first year they were married they lived in a shack that had a straw roof. One summer night she said she woke up feeling something crawling over the bed. Lighting the light, she saw a huge bull snake slithering over them! Needless to say, she was happy when father finished the house he was building that summer, and she had real windows and doors! I remember her as being willing to laugh with us and share our childish games. Once she took my sister, Inis, and me to a little sandy creek that ran thru the woods on our farm to go wading and playing in the sand. We talked mother into taking off her shoes and stockings and join us. A neighbor man came riding his horse thru the woods and saw us much to mothers embarassment but he tho't it such a good joke he told my father, and I shall never forget how furious father was. He said she had disgraced him by being bare foot and holding her skirts up above her knees and playing like a child, and he assured her he could never "hold up his head" in the neighborhood again! I'm sure the neighbor man never knew how strict my father was. Life as a farmers wife wasn't very easy in those days. Their job was to raise poultry and gardens, and they spent long hours over hot wood fires cooking big meals and preserving the garden produce.
I think mother must have been pregnant most of the time. Her childrens names were, (besides Bessie who spent most of her life with mother's sister, Martha Davis, so we saw very little of her) William,Anna Straw-Lackey,Olive,Vern,Ira,Benjerman,(Benjamin),Ida,Daniel(who died as a baby) Inis Straw-Salisbury, Mary Straw-Polson,Jesse,and Ethel Straw-England.
She died October 9, 1910, at age 41 and is buried in a little country cemetery in Taylor County,Iowa near Bedford."

per research on Rootsweb of Harry Gattrell she is Gatrell; also further research on their children by Jack Lamkin
research of Sharon Dodrer her great grand daughter, she is Emmeline Mahala GARTRELL

Taylor County, Iowa Burials
Straw, Cecil, died Apr 6, 1932, WPA only, Holt cem
Straw, Emmeline Gartrell, 1869 - 1910 mother, -14

Find A Grave Memorial# 57738473


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Mahala married Israel Samuel Straw, son of Cyrus Griffin Straw and Sarah Mae Stearns, on 5 Jan 1890 in Gravity, Taylor County, Iowa. (Israel Samuel Straw was born on 29 Nov 1860 in Gravity, Taylor County, Iowa, died on 22 Aug 1941 in Creston, Union County, Iowa and was buried in Holt Cemetery New Market, Taylor County, Iowa, USA.)


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Mahala next married Will King. (Will King was born in 1869 in Hopkins, Missouri and died in 1889.)




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