Mrs. M. G. Hamm, living five miles west of Holton, died suddenly on Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock, as a result of apoplexy. She was engaged in household duties when she suddenly collapsed dying within a few minutes. Mr. Hamm was in town preparing to start to Manhattan, but Merrill was at home and came to the house just after Mrs. Hamm was stricken ....
The Holton Recorder, December 5, 1912.
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Nannie E. Barnhouse was born in Harrison county, Ohio, Aug. 11, 1866. She grew to womanhood at Hopedale, the same county, where she received her education in the school and academy of that place. Coming to Kansas in the year 1889 with her brother's family, they located at the Dewey Ranch near Manhattan. Here she made many friends, and becoming attached to them and fair Kansas, decided to make this state her home. It was at the little country church near the ranch she met the “circuit rider” then on his first charge. Her love for the church, her ability as a musician and her sweet womanly life endeared her to all that knew her. On the 25th day of June, 1890, she was united in marriage to the “circuit rider” above mentioned, the Rev. M. G. Hamm .... the following are the appointments of the church to which she went with her husband and family. Olesburg, Vermillion, Hanover, Oneida, Westmoreland and Circleville in Kansas, and to Austin and Winnemucca, Nevada.
It was here in the Nevada fields of labor, amid the trials and hardships and harrowing scenes of pioneer missionary life, in the storm center of iniquity, that wrought such havoc on her nervous system that she was required to return to quiet lovely Kansas for needed rest and consolation. She is member of a family of seven, three sons and two daughters, five of whom survive her. They are Mrs. Zella Smiley, of Steubenville, Ohio, Mrs. Mayme Lauflin, of Jewett, Ohio, Wm. A. Barnhouse, Washington, Pa., John F. Barnhouse, Newark, N. J., and Miss Ola Barnhouse, Jewett, Ohio. She is the mother of four children, Merrill, Golden, (Mrs. Robert Armstrong), Geraldine and Perry .... Interment was in the Holton cemetery .... ....
The Holton Recorder, December 19, 1912.