Martha F. HULETT

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Living with parents in Rockton, Winnebago Co., Illinois
• Census: 1860, Living with parents in Owen, Winnebago Co., Illinois
• Census: 1870, Living with husband in Beloit, Rock Co., Wisconsin
• Census: 1880, Living in Beloit, Rock Co., Wisconsin; Lists as being divorced
• Census: 1900, Living with son, William, in Kansas, Jackson Co., Missouri
• Census: 1910, Living in Kansas, Jackson Co., Missouri
• Census: 1920, Living in Kansas City, Jackson Co., Missouri

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Daughter of John M. Hulett born Vermont and Lucinda Jay born NY, Martha F. Hulett married Thomas W. Parry in 1861. By 1880, Mattie Parry was separated from her husband and a Lecturer in Rock, Beloit, WI. Head of the Parry household, her children were Willie, Johnnie, Mattie, Edward, and Lulu. The children were born in MI with the exception of Lulu born WI. On 4 Nov 1880, Cook County, IL, she married widower Judge Arnold Krekel.
Judge Krekel's obituary of 18 July 1888 reported that Mrs. Krekel and his children were with him in his last hours: He passed away without much suffering, and seemed to be going to sleep. His wife and daughters were grief stricken. All of his relatives were summoned by telegraph.
In accordance with Judge Krekel's wishes, his funeral was conducted at the family residence without ostentation and he was to be buried in St. Charles where other members of his family were interred.
Martha H. Krekel/Kreckel survived her husband by more than 30 years and died at the age of 81 years and 5 months; informant on her MO Death Certificate was her daughter, Miss Lulu Parry (MO #26181).
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A Free Thinker in her own right, Mrs. Krekel was a vice-president of the American Secular Union and she is acknowledged in The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12): http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38812/38812-h/38812-h.htm
CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN SECULAR UNION.
Albany, N. Y., September 13, 1885.
In this particular, leaving out myself as I have said, you have done magnificently well. Mrs. Mattie Krekel, another vice-president, is a woman who has the courage to express her opinions, and she is all the more to be commended because, as you know, women have to suffer a little more punishment than men, being amenable to social laws that are more exacting and tyrannical than those passed by Legislatures.
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K - Philosopedia
http://philosopedia.org/index.php/K
Krekel, Arnold (1815?1888) Krekel was an American judge who had been born in Prussia but went with his parents in 1832 to America, settling in Missouri. He was elected in 1852 to the Missouri State Legislature, served as a colonel during the Civil War, was president of the Constitutional Convention of 1865, and signed the ordinance of emancipation by which the slaves of Missouri were set free. A pronounced agnostic, he was described in Putnam's Four Hundred Years of Freethought. Krekel when he realized he was about to die requested his wife not to wear mourning, saying that death was as natural as birth. His wife, Mattie Parry Krekel (Born 1840), was also a freethinker. In a Truth Seeker (15 February 1890) article, she wrote, "Freethought means, first of all, mental self-assertion."
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A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations
http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakefield/history/34513-h/34513-h.htm

Krekel (Arnold), American judge, b. Langenfield, Prussia 14 March, 1815. Went with parents to America in '32 and settled in Missouri. In '42 he was elected Justice of the Peace and afterwards county attorney. In '52 he was elected [194]to the Missouri State Legislature. He served in the civil war being elected colonel, was president of the constitutional convention of '65 and signed the ordinance of emancipation by which the slaves of Missouri were set free. He was appointed judge by President Lincoln 9 March, '65. A pronounced Agnostic, when he realized he was about to die he requested his wife not to wear mourning, saying that death was as natural as birth. Died at Kansas 14 July, 1888.

Krekel (Mattie H. Hulett), b. of freethinking parents, Elkhart Indiana 13 April, 1840. Educated at Rockford, Illinois, in her 16th year became a teacher. Married Judge Krekel, after whose death, she devoted her services to the Freethought platform.
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Illinois Marriages, 1851-1900
Name: Thomas W. Parry
Gender: Male
Spouse Name: Martha F. Hulett
Marriage Date: Dec 18, 1861
Marriage County: Winnebago

Cook County, Illinois, Marriages Index, 1871-1920
Name: Mattie H. Parry
Age: 39
Gender: Female
Birth Year: abt 1841
Birth Place: Belot, Rock, Wisconsin
Marriage Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 4 Nov 1880
Spouse Name: Arnold Krekil
Spouse Age: 65
Spouse Gender: Male
Spouse Birth Place: Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri
FHL Film Number: 1030114

Posted on Find A Grave created by: Jane Denny

Martha married Thomas W. PARRY on 18 Dec 1861 in Winnebago Co., Illinois, and was divorced before 1880. Thomas was born about 1824 in England; died in Dec 1884 in Rockton, Winnebago Co., Illinois; was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Beloit, Rock County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Martha married Judge Arnold KREKEL on 4 Nov 1880 in Cook County, Illinois. Arnold was born in 1815; died on 17 Jul 1888; was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Saint Charles, Saint Charles Co., Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1870, Living with parents in Beloit, Rock Co., Wisconsin
• Census: 1900, Living in Kansas, Jackson Co., Missouri
• Census: 1910, Living in Kansas, Jackson Co., Missouri

William married Mary ? about 1897. Mary was born in Aug 1870 in Kansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1870, Living with parents in Beloit, Rock Co., Wisconsin
• Census: 1880, Living with mother in Beloit, Rock Co., Wisconsin

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1870, Living with parents in Beloit, Rock Co., Wisconsin
• Census: 1880, Living with mother in Beloit, Rock Co., Wisconsin

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1870, Living with parents in Beloit, Rock Co., Wisconsin
• Census: 1880, Living with mother in Beloit, Rock Co., Wisconsin

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1870, Living with parents in Beloit, Rock Co., Wisconsin
• Census: 1880, Living with mother in Beloit, Rock Co., Wisconsin
• Census: 1900, Living with mother in Kansas, Jackson Co., Missouri
• Census: 1910, Living with mother in Kansas, Jackson Co., Missouri
• Census: 1920, Living with mother in Kansas, Jackson Co., Missouri