at home on section 35.
in Ebenezer Reformed Church by Rev. J.F. Schortinghuis.
Fairlawn Cemetery by Peter Notier.
Zij is getrouwd met Hendrik 2 Bor.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 22 juli 1891 te Holland, Ottawa Co, MI - USA, zij was toen 22 jaar oud.
Kind(eren):
Gebeurtenis (married:) op 22 juli 1891 in Holland, Ottawa Co, MI - USA .
By Rev. Frank Wilandt.
A family tragedy occurred on the Borr Farm in 1902.
As he grew older, Martha's father, Jacob Jacobs, grew increasingly blind and found himself unable to care for himself. So, he and his wife moved into a room in the Borr Farmhouse where his daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren could look after him.
Yet he grew increasing despondent.
According to a newspaper report of the following day, at 8.30 on the evening of 31 July 1902, his wife entered their room and found him lying face down on the floor! Unable to rouse him, she called to her son-in-law Henry, who was out in the fields working in the late evening light.
He came running and managed to turn his father-in-law over, but found he had slit his throat with a pen knife! The old man was still breathing, but a doctor could not be called in time and Jacob Jacobs died a short time later.
His wife Aaltje, continued to live with the Borr's until her own death in 1915.
The story of Grandpa Jacob's suicide remained a strict secret in the Borr family, even though it had been openly printed in the newspaper at the time.
When told about it 90 years later, Cornelia Borr (= Martha's stepdaughter), who had married one of the Borr children, said none of the Borr's had ever told her anything about it, and she had never known the name of Mrs. Borr's father before I told her.
As far as the Borr family was concerned, Jacob Jacobs had never existed!
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