Mother - Martha

Edith's mother Martha Jane ("Mattie") was born on 11 March 1846 at Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. She married her first cousin, Orange William Brooks on 23 October 1864 in Gun Plains, Michigan. They had one son Herbert Huntington Brooks, born on 26 September 1865. He was also known as Herbert Granger. Martha and Orange divorced on 9 May 1868 and he died in July 1868. She does not make any mentions of her marriage to Orange, nor the birth of her son in her autobiographical manuscript, "Memories: Grave and Gay."

Martha married her second husband Ransom Edwin Granger of Chicago on 28 October 1868 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Ransom was born on 5 April 1836 in Rochester, New York. Ransom and Martha resided in Chicago, Illinois and they had two daughters, Edith Lucy (born 8 October 1869) and Gertrude Mable (born 10 November 1875 and died 4 August 1904, from the effect of a gasoline explosion). Herbert also resided with them for some time. Ransom Granger died in Omaha, Nebraska on 8 March 1892, aged 55 years. In Chapter 23 of her manuscript, Martha mentions that "in the spring of 1892 we lost Mr. Granger, who was taken suddenly ill in Omaha. I was telegraphed to, but it was impossible for me to go there at that time, so his brother John, of St. Louis, attended to everything for me."

Martha was the daughter of a soldier who fought for the independence of the United States in the Revolutionary War and she organized the Santa Rosa chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution ("Mrs. Granger's Death Saddens D.A.R. Group She Organized In 1925").

A portion of Martha's autobiographical manuscript was published in Michigan History in 1954.