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- Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, March 19, 1874 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Obituary - Many of the oldest citizens of Pulaski have lost a warm and esteemed friend, by the death of Mrs. Martha I. Maltby, on Saturday, the 14th inst., in New York City, at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. Charles P. Crosby. A daughter of Mr. Robert Nichols, of Port Ontario, born in Rodman, New York, fifty-five years ago, she married the late Mr. DeSalvo Maltby, of this town, and during her brief married life, resided here; here, too, in the earlier years of widowhood, she lived with her father- in-law, the late Mr. Anson Maltby. Moving west, she lived in Detroit, Michigan, with her two daughters, who were married. Since 1868, she has resided in Brooklyn and New York City, with her daughter, Mrs. Crosby. An invalid for many years, at times a most acute sufferer, she bore her afflictions with a calm and meek Christian fortitude, such as is rarely beheld. Confined to the house for many months, she was during the autumn much better, but about four weeks ago was attacked with increased severity by her disease, and though attended with the tenderest solitude by her daughters, sister, and friends, she sank rapidly and with great suffering, until she succumbed to peacefully and without a struggle. As she had lived her life, so she resigned it, with calm, honest bravery. God gave her afflictions, and she bore them; God gave her release from them, and she welcomed it. A noble woman, endowed with justness of character, love of duty, uprightness, and a soul clad in simplicity, that best garment, she has passed away from this earth mourned by many relatives and friends. Whom God loves, He takes unto Himself. On Tuesday last, she was laid in the Pulaski burial ground, near the scenes of her childhood, by the side of the husband of her youth, to whose memory she remained true, through a long widowhood. And so she has, home. Peace be onto her.
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