Martha Parsons

(1993 July, Parsons memoirs)
[To her Rueping memoirs, Polly added a few scattered recollections about her own family.]
[Martha Newton Parsons was my father's mother.]  She was illiterate, and Aunt Lois [her daughter] used to say she could get the Martha all right but when it came to the Parsons would just write a big P and trail off the rest.  I think Lois wrote it over and explained so she could get her pension from her husband [William Henry Parsons] from being a soldier in the Civil War.