Birth: 1 April 1853
Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States

Death: 29 April 1922
Oak City, Millard, Utah, United States

Gravesite: Oak City Cemetery, Oak City, UT

Brief Life Sketch

Martha is Angie’s grandmother.

As a child while living in Fillmore, Martha and her brother, Theodore, took it upon themselves to help rid the home of stink bugs because they were so numerous. They made bags of denim and filled them with the bugs and burned them.

Martha made a visit to Oak City. She saw a young man walk down the sidewalk: and remembered what a big nose he had. She wasn't too impressed by him. This man was Alvin Roper who later became her husband.

Her cooking was an art. She used to say, "The best cooks are those who can make a meal out of nothing as everyone can cook if they have everything to cook with."

Her father, Amasa came to her in a dream and he was calling for help. She heard and saw him and had the impulse to embrace him. He warned her there was a great chasm between them which made it impossible. He requested her to appeal to his son, Francis Marion, who was an apostle, to have him reinstated in the church. When her mother, Caroline Ely, passed away in 1908 in Oak City, Marion requested Martha to relate this dream again to President Joseph F. Smith who was in attendance at the funeral. President Smith was greatly impressed and said, "Well, Marion, it looks like your father has suffered long enough. We will see what can be done for him."

On January 12, 1909, in the Salt Lake Temple Amasa’s blessings were restored.