Safford, Martha A. (1850-1912)

Name:

Safford, Martha A. (1850-1912)

Title:

Member, Daughter of the American Revolution
Member, Congregational Church, Farmington
Grand Worthy Matron, Order of the Eastern Star, New Hampshire, 1903
President, Rochester Woman's Club, 1906

Other Names:

Hayes, Martha Ann

Born:

08/08/1850

Birthplace:

Farmington, NH

Died:

10/09/1912

Death Location:

Rochester, NH

Residence:

Farmington, NH 1850, 1870, 1880, 1900
Rochester, NH 1910, 1912

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Artist
Landscape painter

Father:

Hayes, Israel (1816-1898)

Mother:

Edgerly, Anne Freeman (1815-1889)

Relations:

Daughter of a shoe manufacturer
Wife of a jeweler and optician

Spouse:

Safford, James Fearing (1843-1904), August 6, 1868

Children:

Percival Hayes, born 1873; died 1959

Notes:

Frances MacIntyre. Women Artists in the White Mountains. (Plymouth, NH: Museum of the White Mountains, 2012), 17-18.

New Hampshire Women. A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State... (Concord, NH: The New Hampshire Publishing Company, 1895), 167.

Katharine F. Richmond, Compiler. John Hayes of Dover, New Hampshire: A Book of His Family. (Tyngsboro, MA: Katharine F. Richmond, 1936), 313, 506-507.

"Order of the Eastern Star," Boston Herald, Boston, MA, September 4, 1903, 10.

"The Rochester Woman's Club Is A Force for Good," Boston Herald, Boston, MA, May 20, 1906, 40.

Marriages, Vital Records, New Hampshire State Archives

Pine Grove Cemetery, Farmington, NH