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William John Martin (son of Thomas Rogers Martin and Mary L. Dobson)750 was born March 25, 1863 in Adairville, Adair CO, KY, and died June 11, 1937 in Denton, Caroline CO, MD. He married Nannie Betty Powell on December 08, 1887 in Caney Spring, Marshall CO, TN, daughter of Austin Thompson Powell and Emily James Jimmy Thompson.
Notes for William John Martin:
Ancestral File Number 22WW-8DK.
The following is from notes perhaps prepared in 1948 and pertains to the Martin history.
The Farms:
1. The Old Home Place had about 500 acres.
a. The Street Farm was across the road from Dr. Patterson, had about 100 or 200 acres. Grandpa bought the Street Farm and added it to the old Robinson Farm. This was involved in the 500 acres.
b. The Creek Farm had 100 acres. Mama does not remember when he bought either the Street Farm or the Creek Farm but he bought them very early. After Father and Mama married they lived on the Creek Farm. The house was beside the old road that went along the creek branch. Mary Emma was born here. Father's health became very bad. He began having dyspepsia very badly. They thought maybe free stone water instead of limestone water would help him. So, they renter the farm out (it belonged to them now). Grandpa just about gave them the farm while they paid a little in it. They moved to Franklin, Tennessee (to the Johnson Place, a farm near Franklin, Margaret was born here) but father's health was no better. In a few years they built a new house on this farm at Caney Springs up another new road and moved back there. Powell was born here in the new house. Grandpa Powell died the night of the same day after Powell was born. Mama named her infant son Austin Powell.
c. The River Farm had 100 acres. This was very rich ground. They made fine wheat. On wheat threshing day, Grandma and her help in the kitchen would cook great quantities of food and she would get in the buggy and take it to the river farm and feed all the workmen.
d. The Thompson Farm (where his wife was raised). A part of this farm he hired and he bought the rest of it. It was good land and was 100 acres or 150 acres. Some years later the Martin family lived (NOTE: a line of text is missing here from the original copy)
The story of Grandma's large picture which was taken in August, 1877 at Caney Springs by a traveling photographer. His studio was a tent in the yard of the old Mallard Home. Aunt Ella, who later became Uncle Andrew's wife. was there and helped Grandma to get her hair nicely combed and took her own tucking comb and said to Grandma, "I want to put my high tucking comb in your hair, it will look nice in a picture." So she put it in Grandma's hair. On the same day, Mama who was then 11 years old and here sister Aunt Callie who was 16 years old had their pictures made together. Also on that same day Grandma had Austin, Willie, Flavius, Milton and Eris' pictures all made. A few weeks later Uncle Andrew went to a Cumberland Presbyterian church called Bethlehem, on the road to Lewisburg, not so far from Grandpa Martin's home. While there he contracted the measles. He was quite sick. All the rest of the children took measles and Aunt Callie died from the
effects of the sickness. This was a great sorrow and especially to Grandma. A few years later Uncle Andrew married the Ella McClain, the girl who put the tucking comb in Grandma's hair.
The Old Powell Home Place.
Originally it was the Robinson Homestead. Grandpa Powell came from Adair County near Adairville, Kentucky when he was about 19 years old. He started working in a blacksmith shop when he came to Tennessee. Later he married Miss Robinson whose family owned and lived on the farm that we know as the Powell Home. Her name was Sarah Robinson. Grandpa married and went to live at the Old Robinson Home. The Robinson family and their relatives are all buried at the Robinson Home burying ground on the farm. As the members of the Powell family died they were buried in this same cemetery.
Mama says her father had a little trunk that was tan and brown striped about 12" x 10" x 10". Made just like a big trunk. In this he kept all his important papers. It had a lock and key. Mama says she would have given her best dresses if she could have had that little trunk for her doll clothes.
In 1870 Grandpa Powell had the house remodeled. The big hall was two rooms, the little room was an open hallway and the other room. The room that is now the dining room was a log room and stood back of the house near the garden gate. This was taken or moved over to where it stands today (1948). The kitchen was added onto that. Half of the kitchen floor is stone. Grandpa was so afraid of fire. He was afraid if they bought a cook stove that fire might fall out and stet the house afire. So the stove was set on the stone floor. The cook usually kept a fire in the fireplace in the kitchen when it was cold.
Mama was about 4 years old and she stayed at Grandma Thompson's most of the year while the house was being remodeled. Mama often stayed at her grandmother's home. When Mama was a little older, Grandma taught little Nannie Betty to knit. In
those early days many people wore earrings. Aunt Betty Thompson was married and lived near Thick (?). The school teacher boarded with Aunt Betty and Uncle Pink Crutcher so little Nannie Betty stayed with Aunt Betty and went to school which
was very nearby.
While Mama was living there Aunt Betty put holes in her ears so she could wear earrings. Mama says during her first school, while she was trying to learn her A, B, C's, there was a little girl in her class who rather boastingly said, "I can spell anything." Nannie Betty took up the challenge and said "Mollie Cole, what does 'fg' spell?" and was talking out loud in school when she asked this.
Father says the first time he ever saw Mama was one day he was passing the Powell Home and he saw this girl getting on the black pony to go to school. The next time father saw Mama was at an ice cream supper held in the Caney Spring school
house, the proceeds went to the Methodist Church then in Caney Spring. Mama says she was quite a talker and was selling little bouquets of flowers to the young couples who came around. Father says she was sitting on top a school desk and had her feet on the seat when he first saw her there, and later on he saw her selling flowers. A few weeks later he sent her a note asking if he could come to call on her. She invited him to come. This was in 1885. Mama was 19 years old and had spent one year in Tennessee College for Women at Franklin, Tennessee.
This was the beginning of their courtship which never ended. They were married December 8, 1887 in the little Methodist Church at Caney Spring. They were the first couple to be married in the new church. For many years the church had been out at Allen's Chapel about 1 mile from Caney Spring.
The stock barn on the Powell Home farm held 40 mule colts. They grew for 3 years and then sold them and put in 40 more mules. One day when he turned the mules out of the pen into the lot, one of the mules kicked up his heels as he was passing Grandpa and knocked off a very small bit of his beard. That is how close he came to being killed. This barn was across the rocky road from the dwelling house. There was a rather large pond of water between the house and the barn where the stock drank. This pond had malaria mosquitoes around it and most of the children had malaria fever often. The old log barn on the side of the road was only for a few horses. There was an old cotton jin over near the mule barn.
In later years, when Uncle Austin was living at the Old Home Place, the mule barn caught fire and burned down. The hired man's wife went up in the loft and either struck a match looking for eggs or she had a lantern. She seemed to be the one who accidently started the fire.
The Croquette Parties.
There was a very pretty lawn, beautiful maple trees and nice blue grass. The young people of the neighborhood often came to play croquette and they had great times.
The Martin Family.
Miss Nannie Betty Powell & Mr. William John Martin were married Dec. 8, 1887. They went to live at his home about 3 miles from Caney Spring.
Father Martin was brought to College Grove, Tenn. by his father Thomas Rodgers Martin & mother who moved there from Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Grandma Martin died of typhoid fever not many months after they moved to College Grove. Grandpa
Martin lived in the house with his wife's parents Grandma & Grandpa Dobson after the death of his wife. Father says one day not long after his mother died & was buried there near the home, that he &a another little boy was walking along the path that led passed the cemetery. A great desire came in his heart to go to her grave & pray, the other little boy walked on, but he went and knelt down beside his mother's grave and prayed. Says he does not remember what he said in his pray. He says that he & his father & his little sister Iris were so very lonely after his mother died. His baby brother Tom was to young to realize his loss. Thomas Rodgers Martin born 1820 & died 1904 at age 84. These are approximate. dates.
Grandpa Martin & his three children moved to the farm near Duck River in Marshall Co. in about 1877. The daughter Iris was a very pretty girl. When she was about 18 years old one day a storm cloud came over & she was riding horseback & stopped in at a neighbors to get out of the storm. She jumped down off her horse & hurt herself inwardly & never recovered. She died about 1879 or 1880. This was a great sorrow to the family.
Then grandpa met Margaret Wilson from Alisana, Tenn. She was a natural artist, but never had any special training. She was married to grandpa Martin in about 1882. When grandpa was bringing his bride home. He sat on the front seat of his barouche & drove his buckskin horses and she, the bride sat on the back seat. She became a wonderful step mother to the two motherless boys and filled her place so well.
We Martin children remember with fond recollection the times we used to visit our grandmother and grandfather Martin. I remember the popcorn & hickory nuts & apples; the wonderful tea cakes and jellies and other good foods.
Sister Margaret was named for grandma. One day when Margaret was about 2 years. old she was at grandma's house. Margaret found the tub of water where they had their jars of milk, and made quite a disturbance in the tub. Grandma thought so much of her that she did not so much to her for disturbing the milk jars.
When Mary Emma was born, Mamma said the black nurse said, "this is an unusual child--she has a cap on her head, she is going to see the world."
The following is a copy of a handwritten note by W.T. Martin dated "Sept 2, 69":
Having read this day the record and biography of my parents, and kinfolk of the yesterdays, I do hereby affirm my testimony the God they loved and served and enjoyed seasons of refreshings from in like manner. I do have the much assurance all is well, lifes evening sun is far set. At the age of eighty I am at the river waiting for the boatman to take me across. W.T. Martin.
Gave family bible of Austin Powell to Mary Eugenia (Garrett) Bunker
More About William John Martin:
Fact 10: Gave family bible of Austin Powell to Mary Eugenia (Garrett) Bunker.750
More About William John Martin and Nannie Betty Powell:
Death of one spouse: Denton, Maryland, U.S.A..751
Marriage: December 08, 1887, Caney Spring, Marshall CO, TN.
Marriage Fact: December 08, 1887, Married in Methodist Church, Caney Spring, Tenn..
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name:
Nannie Powell
event:
Marriage
event date:
07 Dec 1887
event place:
Marshall, Tennessee, United States
gender:
Female
spouse:
W J Martin
page:
300
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Árbol Completo
1863 - 1937 (74 años)
