Martha Jane Hereford Geron
Temperance Activist
Notes:
• She was usually referred to as Mrs. P. Y. Geron. - Editor's Note
• "the Huntsville liquor store apparently was doing a booming business, even advertising Pabst Blue Ribbon, despite the probable efforts of the newly organized Madison County Women's Christian Temperance Union against the advertising. The Union was organized in 1913 with Mrs. P. Y. Geron as President. Their organization also brought to the forefront much talk and action about 'houses of ill repute' and of 'bottle clubs' ." - Record
• Martha Jane Hereford & Preston Yeatman Geron obtained a marriage license November 14, 1872, in Madison County, Alabama. Preston was born in 1848 and died in 1917. - MCRC
• Active in Huntsville's First Methodist church. - Ford & Van Valkenburgh
• Mother of:
Claiborne Theodorick (1873-1953)
Annie America (1874-1928)
Ellen Agnes (1877-)
Yeatman (1879-1906)
Hereford Chambless (1882-)
Gayle Figures (1884-1958)
Dora Bradford (1886-)
Richard Preston (1888-)
Martha Stewart (1891-)
Leslie (1893-1894) - Ancestry.com
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The Following Pages Link to this Page:
• Gayle Figures Geron (b1884)
• Preston Yeatman Geron
• Record
• Richard Preston Geron (b1888)
| Nickname: | Mattie |
| Born: | July 27, 1853, Madison County, Alabama |
| Died: | July 12, 1930, Madison County, Alabama |
| Buried: | Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Alabama |
| Mother of: | Gayle Figures Geron (b1884) |
| Wife of: | Preston Yeatman Geron |
| Mother of: | Richard Preston Geron (b1888) |
Notes:
• She was usually referred to as Mrs. P. Y. Geron. - Editor's Note
• "the Huntsville liquor store apparently was doing a booming business, even advertising Pabst Blue Ribbon, despite the probable efforts of the newly organized Madison County Women's Christian Temperance Union against the advertising. The Union was organized in 1913 with Mrs. P. Y. Geron as President. Their organization also brought to the forefront much talk and action about 'houses of ill repute' and of 'bottle clubs' ." - Record
• Martha Jane Hereford & Preston Yeatman Geron obtained a marriage license November 14, 1872, in Madison County, Alabama. Preston was born in 1848 and died in 1917. - MCRC
• Active in Huntsville's First Methodist church. - Ford & Van Valkenburgh
• Mother of:
Claiborne Theodorick (1873-1953)
Annie America (1874-1928)
Ellen Agnes (1877-)
Yeatman (1879-1906)
Hereford Chambless (1882-)
Gayle Figures (1884-1958)
Dora Bradford (1886-)
Richard Preston (1888-)
Martha Stewart (1891-)
Leslie (1893-1894) - Ancestry.com
Related Links:
• Ancestry.com - Page owned by Finniegirl1959 and can be viewed only with an Ancestry.com paid subscription. This page is currently private. (Originally found at http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/741179/person/-1224933141.)
• Find A Grave - Page created by Graveaddiction.
• Ford & Van Valkenburgh - A History of The First United Methodist Church of Huntsville, Alabama 1808-1983, by Ruth Sykes Ford and updated by Nancy Wilkinson Van Valkenburgh, 1984, page 76, 90.
• MCRC - Madison County Records Center
• Record - A Dream Come True: The Story of Madison County and Incidentally of Alabama and the United States, Volume II, by James Record, 1978, pages 151, 304.
The Following Pages Link to this Page:
• Gayle Figures Geron (b1884)
• Preston Yeatman Geron
• Record
• Richard Preston Geron (b1888)