Mrs. Martha A. Broughton

    Mrs. Martha A. Broughton (widow of John Broughton), is a native of Botetourt County, Virginia, and was born May 9, 1837, the daughter of Jacob and Nancy Echolds, both natives of Virginia, where they married. They afterward moved to Kentucky; thence to Madison County, Indiana; thence to Johnson, and thence to Morgan County. Their family consisted of Jeremiah, Martha A., Nancy J., William, Jennie, Eliza, Anna and Joseph.

    In Johnson County, Indiana, our subject married James Childs, and they moved to Effingham County, Illinois, in which locality Mr. Childs died. In 1852, Mrs. Childs returned to Johnson County, Indiana, and was there wedded to Thomas Stout, with whom, in 1858, she moved to this county, where he died in 1872; finally she wedded John Broughton, who left the world in 1879. Mrs. Broughton has been the mother of eight children, as follows: By Mr. Childs, two, Roan H. and an infant deceased; and by Mr. Stout, six -Charlie T., Albert L., Nancy A., William W., Hattie F. and Joseph H. Mrs. Broughton is an exemplary and highly esteemed lady.

Source: Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.