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Note: This is duplicate writing, except for the introduction, from the 19 Jan 1928 News Democrat article. This one is in the Independent, but will be saved as 19 Jan 1928.]------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interesting History in Martin Family Sketch
By John Q. Martin
Following is a continuance of the historical sketch of the Martin family, pioneers to Maysville and Southern Ohio, as compiled by John Q. Martin, Attorney of Cincinnati. The history will be published in the Independent until completed.
Edmund Martin, II, born April 29, 1789, son of Edmund Martin, the First, and his second wife Susannah. He married Rebecca Stitt September 29, 1814 [Note the Bourbon county records show the date as 19 Jul 1815] and removed from Maysville, Ky., for Nicholas County, Ky., in 1814, the Maysville and Lexington Turnpike, said pike running through the center of his farm where, in early day, it was quite a stopping place for travelers passing through that section. He was a very large man and it was said that he weighed more than 300 pounds. It was related that he occasionally visited his nephews, grandnephews and grandnieces and their families in Ohio, riding horseback, and that while sitting around the family fireside, he was so large that he usually occupied five chairs. His saddle is still in good state of preservation and is kept on the old homestead near Millersburg, Ky., and also some other articles like the old time solid walnut bedstead, almost touching the ceiling and which is said to have come down from the early Martin family. A large, tall, grandfather's clock, made in England, and known to be 225 years old, still keeping time as in the olden times. They also have an overcoat that he wore, now in a good state of preservation and quite a few household antiques, still preserved for the present generations to behold.
Most of the children of the first marriage moved to Ohio, or north of Mason's and Dixon's line. Those of the second marriage and their descendants remained south of that line. During the great Civil War conflict those in Kentucky were with the South, while those of the North and their descendants were of the side of the Union with very little communication between the families for a number of years, each believing their cause and interests just.
For many years your correspondent knew little or nothing of this family until he sought out his ancestors with a view of connecting the family with the American Revolution. A little correspondence led to a visit. Edmund Martin, II died May 27, 1863. They became the parents of the following children:
Louisa, who died young; Hiram, born January 20, 1819, married William H. H. Johnson [sic - note this is actually the birth date for Susannah Martin, who married James H. Johnson and had a son William H. H. Johnson], Millersburg, Ky., resides now at Paris, Ky.
Their daughter, Louisa Francis [Johnson] married Mr. Conway, Harry, Anna and Charlie.
Their son, W. H. H. Jr., married Betty Judy, December 15, 1864. They became the parents of ___ children, namely Lida, Lelia, Sue, Willie and Harold.
Another daughter, Betty Frank [Martin], married for the first time, Mr. Redmon of Covington, and for the second time Mr. Manford.
The third daughter, Mary Rebecca [Martin], married James Collier. They had the following children: Ida, who married W. G. McIntock. They became the parents of the following children: James and Vallette. Lutie, who married William Nedford and they had one son. Sue Kate, Rich, William, Alma, married P. Collier, and they had three children. Robert, who married P. Scott, and became the parents of a son and daughter. Julia James [Martin], born July 13, 1817 and died April 2nd, 1865, married Dr. Harvey Carpenter. [Note discrepancies - Julia James Martin may have died as a baby - Mary Williams Martin was the dau that married Dr. James H. Carpenter and had the following children and others.] They became the parents of the following children: William [Carpenter], of Millersburg, Ky., Hiram [Carpenter], 1842 - 1902, married Mary Osborn, and they became the parents of three children, namely: Mollie, Judith and Maud; Jane Amanda [Carpenter], 1844 - 1853, Edmund [Carpenter], 1851 - 1921, married Frankie Lee Herill; Laura Ira [Carpenter] 1847 - 1852; William Flemming [Carpenter], 1845 - 1912. The first time he married Sallie Harvard, daughter of Claude M. Ratliff; for the second time he married Kate McNamara.
Ella Francis [Carpenter], 1853 - 1855; James Harvey [Carpenter], 1849, who married Lilly Worthington , and they had three children; Mary, who married N. Livingford; Julia, who married L. Schrant, and Eddie, who married Charles Friend; Mollie, 1857 - 1916 married D. Conway, of Kentucky and they had one child, Mayme, who married D. Sheard, of Kansas; Stanford [Carpenter], 1855, married the first time Effie Bell, and for the second time, Minnie Hurst; and for the third time, Mrs. Martha Womack.
Jeremiah John [Martin], born January 21, 1823, died 1881, married Nancy J. McCormick, who was born October 23, 1823, and died November 21, 1893. They had two children, Edmund, who died in 1922 and John Porter, whose daughter owned the Blue Lick Springs.
William Porter [Martin], born March 2, 1825, and married Clarissa Higley of England, of German descent. They went west. He drove the first stage line west, helped to settle Salt Lake, Cheyenne and several other western cities, Pueblo among them, where his children lived for years. They then became wealthy, owning silver mines in the Black Hills in the early days. Their children were Fred, married and had a daughter Nele, and son Frederick; Georgiana, married Mr. Stimpson, a Californian, and died there on June 5, 1918. They had two children, Adele and one son; Nellie married J. B. Orman, ex-governor of Colorado. Nellie died 1918 and J. B. died in 1917. They had children: Jack who married and had three children: Ethel, Hattie and Jennie. Married the second time and had one son. E.H. died in 1918. Ormans are all dead except Jack's family: Rebecca, killed by a stray bullet. Edmund lives in Pueblo, Colo.
William Porter Martin, born November 5, 1823, and died January 17, 1895, at Yalala Fla. [Note: this info is incorrect - the dates belong to Samuel Fitch Martin, as does the wife...] His first wife was Rebecca Jane Carpenter, who married in March 1851. He built the present home in 1866. their children were: Owina Martin, born September 19, 1852, died September 22, 1853; Ada Louise was born August 30, 1854, married Hugh R. Biersdorfer of Kentucky and they became the parents of Sam Cary Bierbower [sic] and Grace Carey Bierbower [sic], born in 1890 and now resides in California.
Cornelia [Martin], born September 24, 1856, and died March 6, 1857; Mollie Bettie [Martin] was born March 31, 1858, and died October 20, 1864. Edmund Hiram [Martin] was born April 17, 1862, and married Anna Stockton, of Maysville. They had one child, Rebecca Stockton, who died in 1892. Edmund H. now resides on the home farm at Millersburg, Ky..
Kate Ella [Martin] was born August 9th 1865, and died in 1867.
Charles, who resides on the home farm, was born March 19, 1868. He married Martha Maud Oney, daughter of a Methodist preacher now residing at Lexington, Ky. They became the parents of the following children: Sam Coleman, born May 21, 1902, yards [sic] at Chicago and Edmund Hiram, born April 16, 1905, and resides at Paris, Ky. Charles Fulton, born January 14, 1920.
Albert [Martin], born December 19, 1870, married Mrs. Betty Garth Fible Young. he is practicing law and resides at Orange, N.J. They became the parents of two children, namely Edmund F., born November 1, 1902, and Betty F., born August 11, 1907.
Rebecca Jane [Martin], born January 20, 1875, married Joseph Henry White on June 24, 1908. He was from Milroy, Pa. They became the parents of one child, Henry Martin White. Mr White is dead and Mrs. White resides at Lexington, Ky.
[Note: He returns to Edmund Hiram and Rebecca Stitt Martin's children:]
Elizabeth Leah [Martin], born March 30, 1831, and married Frank Johnson and they became the parents of one child, Martin Johnson, who died in infancy.
Margaret Johnson [Martin], born March 1833, married Rev. Clark King, April 9, 1851. They became the parents of two children: Mary Louisa [King] who married Robert McClelland. Their daughter Martha Francis, married G. W. Baird for the first time and for the second time, married D. C. McNamara, and they had one daughter, Martha. The other child, Edmund Carson married Miss Wheelack and they had a son and daughter.
Louisa Jane [Martin] was born April 11, 1835 and died March 10, 1850.
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While Captain Elijah Martin was serving in the war as heretofore stated, Gen. William Lytle was appointed the Major General of The Ohio Militia, and in 1829, Surveyor General of the Public Lands of Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. We are told that he later removed from Williamsburg [Ohio] to Cincinnati where he died in 1831. It has been said that he strikingly resembled President Jackson. He was present at Grant’s defeat in Indiana. In that desperate action, the Kentuckians overpower by four times their number, performed feats of bravery scarcely equaled even in early border warfare. In this struggle, Lytle, then hardly 17, his hair singed to the roots with powder burns, and both his arms shattered when nineteen bullets passed through his clothing. In this condition, a retreat being ordered he succeeded in bringing off the field several of his friends, generously aiding the wounded and the exhausted by placing them on horses while he, himself ran forward in advance of the last remnants of the retreating party, to stop the only boat on the Ohio at that time, which could take them over and saved them from the overwhelming force of their savage adversary. On reaching the shore he found the boat in the act of putting off for the Kentucky shore. The men were reluctant to obey his command for a delay until those still in the rear should come up, one of them declaring that “It was better that a few should perish than that all should be sacrificed.” He threw the rifle, which he still carried on his shoulder, over the root of a fallen tree and swore he would shoot the first man who pulled an oar until his friends were aboard. The boat was crowded then to almost dipping. He returned to the bank, secured a horse, and holding onto the mane by his teeth, he was taken in the middle of the stream into the boat, bleeding and almost fainting from his wounds.
Staunton was the first place of permanent settlement, in Miami county. Among the earliest settlers was Mr. Levi Martin. His wife, when a young girl, about the year 1788, during the same year of the settlement at Losantiville, then living not far from Red Stone Fort on the Monongahela, was knocked down and scalped by the Indians, and left for dead. The family name was Corbly and hers, Delia. They were on the way to church and were shot at from a thicket, when Mr. Corbly and three children were killed outright. Two younger daughters were knocked down, scalped and left for dead, but were resuscitated. One of these was Mr. Martin, who lived until 1836, and reared ten children. Her wounds extended over the crown of her head, wide as the two hands. Her hair grew up to the scalped surface, which she trained to grow upward, and served as a protection. At times she suffered severe headaches, which she attributed to the loss of her scalp.
Your correspondent, while searching through the records at Maysville, Ky., in connection with the Griffith Estate a few years ago, found where Edmund Martin, the First, had been a witness to deeds of transfer of lands in Mason county, running back for about fifty years, he being well acquainted with the old Griffith family.
One John Griffith owned a tract of land in Carter and Greenup counties, Ky., receiving a patent from the state containing more than 2,00 [sic] acres of fine timber and coal lands, part of which is now and has been, for probably 75 years, in a high state of cultivation, as shown by an examination made by your correspondent some two years ago on behalf of the Griffith heirs.
