Martha Viola Blath, wife to Taranis, mother to Reta Mae. The two had seven children together while Taranis was alive. She was a firm but loving mother, and after Taranis died she never re-married but did move the family south, out of the company town and to Monroe, WV. It was speculated that Martha was a hybrid, raccoon and fox, which was uncommon at the time. Though hybrids weren't treated particularly bad, marrying them was discouraged, reproducing with them even more so. This made her and Taranis' relationship all the more unusual.
