Martha Divine was born around 1849 in New York to Bradley Divine and Ann Mason. Her father was a farmer who owned $2,000 of real estate by 1850. She grew up and attended school in Fallsburg, New York, and her father “deserted” the family in the late 1850s. She lived with her mother in Fallsburg until at least 1875. She married William Wickham, and they had three children: Mabel, born around 1879; Isabel, born around 1881; and Ernest, born around 1883. They lived in Wallkill, New York, and her husband worked as a farmer. They eventually moved to Middletown, New York, and her husband died in the late 1890s. By 1930, she was living in her daughter Mabel’s household in Middletown. She died sometime after 1940.

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