Burnett, Martha Jane

Female 1838 - 1928  (90 years)


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  • Name Burnett, Martha Jane 
    Born 11 Feb 1838  Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • According to her death certificate, her father was Roland Burnett, born in Virginia. Her mother's name and birth place was not know to Mrs. Nannie Jesse, of 6240 McGee Street, who provided personal information for the certificate.
    Gender Female 
    Died 3 Apr 1928  Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • According to the death certificate, Martha died at 10:30 a.m at 6240 McGee Street of "Senility & Large Abdominal tumor malignant intestional [sic] omentum tumor."
    Buried 4 Apr 1928  Mound City, Holt County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I7464  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 8 Apr 2012 

    Family Hoblitzell, William,   b. 29 Oct 1833, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Nov 1910, Mound City, Holt County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years) 
    Married 1856  Holt County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4

    • The following sketch was published in An Illustrated Historical Atlas Map of Holt County, Mo.... in 1877.

                William Hoblitzell

           This gentleman, one of the leading residents of Mound city and an old citizen of the county, was born in Richland county, Ohio, October 29th, 1833. Adrian Hoblitzell, his father, was from Maryland. His mother, Elizabeth Dorland, was from Pennsylvania. When the subject of this sketch was about nine years of age, in the year 1842, his father moved with the family from Ohio to Platte county, Missouri. He was engaged in farming there till 1844, and then removed to Holt county, settling at first in the vicinity of Oregon, and afterward moving into the town. Mr. Hoblizell had the advantages of a common school education, which he received mostly at Oregon. When about eighteen he left the farm, and became clerk in a store at Oregon. He has been engaged in the business of selling goods from that time to the present, and few men have been so closely and actively connected with the merchandizing interests of the county. He remained in the store at Oregon about three years.
           He first started in the business of selling goods on his own responsibility in the year 1855, when he opened a store at Brownville, Nebraska, in partnership with I. T. White. After carrying on business for himself at Brownville, for three or four years, the store was given up, and Mr. Hoblitzell was employed in clerking till 1861, and then moved back to Oregon, and occupied a position as clerk in a store at that place. He first came to Mound city in 1853 [sic], and for six months carried on a store with James L. Allen - at that time the only store in existence at Mound city. In 1864 he removed to St. Joseph, and was engaged there as a clerk in a store. In partnership with Mr. B. B. Frazer, now of St. Joseph, in the year 1865 he opened a store at Mound city. This partnership was continued till 1873, when the interest of B. B. Frazer was purchased by Mr. Hoblitzell and T. D. Frazer. The firm, for part of the years 1873 and 1874, carried on a store at Bigelow, where Mr. Hoblitzell resided for about one year. The firm of S. B. Austin & Co., composed of Mr. Hoblitzell and S. B. Austin, was established in January, 1875, and carry on a large mercantile business at Mound city. They are among the enterprising merchants of the town, and by their liberal course of dealing and wide-awake business habits, have done not a little to give Mound city it reputation as a good business point. S. B. Austin & Co. have a well stocked store, and have adopted the plan of offering the most liberal inducements possible to purchasers, and the people of that part of the county will find it to their interest to patronize this reliable firm.
           In connection with his brother, Mr. Hoblitzell is also carrying on the lumber business at Mound city, and has transacted a heavy business in this important branch of trade. He is favorably known as one of the old and reliable merchants of the county, almost his entire life having been identified with the interests of this part of the state. He commenced in the business of selling goods at a period of the state. He commenced in the business of selling goods at a period before the war, when the population of the county was small, and there are not many of the old settlers of the county with whom he is not personally acquainted and has had business dealings. There is no stain upon his reputation as a business man, and during his whole career he has always tried to carry on business on business principles. He was married in 1856, to Martha Jane Burnett, of Oregon, Missouri. In politics he has been a Democrat, and believes in the principles of the party, which has numbered among its members some of the most distinguished statesmen of America. He is however, rather [sic] conservative and liberal in his views, and has not hesitated on any occasion to vote for the best men for office regardless of politics.
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F2398  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S237] Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates Database (https://s1.sos.mo.gov/records/Archives/ArchivesMvc/ - last confirmed in August 2017), Martha Jane Hoblitzell; Jackson County; 1928; certificate of death #13204.
      Accessed in April 201211
           Missouri State Board of Health, Certificate of Death #13204. For Martha Jane Hoblitzell. A white, female born on 11 February 1838 in Tennessee. Father's name: Roland Burnett; born in Virginia. Mother's maiden name: "no record;" born at "no record." Personal information was provided by Mrs. Nannie Jesse, of 6240 McGee Street.
           See the notes for this person's death for more details of the death certificate.

    2. [S237] Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates Database (https://s1.sos.mo.gov/records/Archives/ArchivesMvc/ - last confirmed in August 2017), Martha Jane Hoblitzell; Jackson County; 1928; certificate of death #13204.
      Accessed in April 201211
           Missouri State Board of Health, Certificate of Death #13204. For Martha Jane Hoblitzell. A white, female born on 11 February 1838 in Tennessee. Father's name: Roland Burnett; born in Virginia. Mother's maiden name: "no record;" born at "no record." Died at 10:30 a.m. on 3 April 1928 at 6240 McGee Street, Kaw Township, Jackson County, Kansas City, Missouri at the age of 90 years, 1 month, 22 days. Her usual residence was 6240 McGee Street. She was "wid" [i.e., widowed] at the time of death; the name of the spouse was not recorded. Her usual trade or profession was "Housework." Cause of death was "Senility & Large Abdominal tumor malignant intestional [sic] omentum tumor." There was no operation prior to death. There was no autopsy. Diagnosis was confirmed clinically. Burial, cremation, or removal was to be on 4 April 1928 at or to Mound City, Missouri. The undertaker was Mrs. C. L. Fonter, of Kansas City, Missouri. Personal information was provided by Mrs. Nannie Jesse, of 6240 McGee Street. B. S. Po[r?]ell, M.D., of 926 McGee, had attended the deceased on 3 April 1928 and signed the death certificate on 3 April 1928. The certificate was received by the local registrar on 4 April 1928.

    3. [S237] Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates Database (https://s1.sos.mo.gov/records/Archives/ArchivesMvc/ - last confirmed in August 2017), Martha Jane Hoblitzell; Jackson County; 1928; certificate of death #13204.
      Accessed in April 201211
           Missouri State Board of Health, Certificate of Death #13204. For Martha Jane Hoblitzell. A white, female born on 11 February 1838 in Tennessee. Died at 10:30 a.m. on 3 April 1928 at 6240 McGee Street, Kaw Township, Jackson County, Kansas City, Missouri. Burial, cremation, or removal was to be on 4 April 1928 at or to Mound City, Missouri. The undertaker was Mrs. C. L. Fonter, of Kansas City, Missouri. Personal information was provided by Mrs. Nannie Jesse, of 6240 McGee Street
           See the notes for this person's death for more details of the death certificate.

    4. [S217] Book, Biographical sketch of William Hoblitzell.
      In An Illustrated Historical Atlas Map of Holt County, Mo: Carefuly Compiled from Personal Examinations and Surveys (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Brink, McDonough and Company, 1877), page 42.
           "He was married in 1856, to Martha Jane Burnett, of Oregon, Missouri."