obit of Mrs. Martha (Boatman) Gaffney 1897
From the Chatsworth Plaindealer
Chatsworth,Livingston,Illinois
MRS. MARTHA GAFFNEY
MARCH 5, 1897
Mrs. Martha Gaffney, mother of Mrs. John Massey, of this city, passed away at the Kankakee Hospital on Saturday last, February 27. The remains were brought her on Sunday. Funeral services were held at the Baptist church on Monday afternoon, Rev. I.W. Kimberling officiating, and the remains interred in the Chatsworth cemetery.
Martha Boatman was born in Ohio on June 12, 1833. In 1853 she married John Shreve. Three children were the result of the union, two of whom --Mrs. Mary Massey, of this city, and William O. Shreve, of Pontiac-- survive, Mrs. Lena M. Reemts having died about four years ago. The subject of this sketch was again married in 1870 to Frank Gaffney, and one daughter was born, Mrs. Addie Stonecipher, of Harrisburg,Pa. For the past six years Mrs. Gaffney had been a resident of Decatur, Ill.