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Born 1832, Lawrence county
From The history of Jasper county, Missouri : including a condensed history of the state, a complete history of Carthage and Joplin, other towns and townships : together with numerous portraits of prominen (1883)
HENRY H. MARTIN was born in Lawrence county, Ark., July 4, 1832, but raised in Dallas county. Mo. In 1850 he married Rachel Hutchinson, of Dallas county. Mo., her native state, however, being Ohio. The names of the children are Mary F., Thomas D., Ella N., John W., Edward, Cora A., Arona B., and Athelene, and three grandchildren, children of their oldest daughter, Mrs. Mills, whose names are James, William H., and Lewella. Mr. Martin enlisted from Lawrence county. Mo., in 1863, in the Fifteenth Missouri Cavalry Volunteers. Both he and his wife are members of the M. E. Church in good and regular standing. Mr. Martin has a small farm of forty acres near the mining town of Carterville, and has prospected with a degree of success upon his farm.
As printed in The history of Jasper county, Missouri : including a condensed history of the state, a complete history of Carthage and Joplin, other towns and townships : together with numerous portraits of prominent (1883). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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