Obituary of Martha Amelia Prickett

April 15, 1915 - Martha Amelia Prickett was born in Elkhart Prairie, Elkhart Co. Ind., May 4, 1832, and passed away at her home in Albion, Mar. 28, 1915, at the age of eighty-two years, ten months, and twenty four days.

She was the fourth daughter of Col John and Catherine Carr Jackson, early settlers, who came to Elkhart Co. in 1821. Her father, Col Jackson ws widely known among the early settlers as a brave and fearless fighter among the Indians, who in an early day menaced the lives and property of the settlers of nearly five score years ago.

On the farm in this fertile prairie, she grew to young women hood, receiving her education from the pioneer’s school of the Co. On Sept. 3, 1859 she was married to Fielding Prickett, who was also an early settler of Elkhart CO. At the time of their marriage, Mr. Prickett was a rising young lawyer of the Noble CO. Barr and in the same, 1859, they establish their home in Albion, where Mrs. Prickett has continually lived.

On May 18, 1863, one daughter was born to them, Lutie E. who became the wife of Luke H. Wrigley, also an attorney of the Noble county Barr, who is now judge of the 33rd judicial circuit court of Indiana.

The great sorrows came rather early in the life of Mrs. Prickett, the death of her husband on May 28, 1886, and the death of her only child, Mrs. Wrigley, who passed away on May 31, 1897. From that time on, her whole life seemed changed. Her on great solace and comfort, however, was in the care and rearing of an only grandson, Roy Fielding Wrigley, who at a tender age was left without a mother’s care.

In sharing this responsibility, Mrs. Prickett found the greatest happiness in her later years and those who knew her best, felt that new ambition was for the future welfare and comfort of this grandson, who is no a student of law in Harvard University.

Albion Democrat 4/15/1915

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