Henry Martin

As printed in 1883

HENRY MARTIN, farmer and stock-raiser, post-office Joplin, was born in Cooper county. Mo., June 25, 1837, his parents, Joshua and Sarah (Edwards) Martin, being natives of Kentucky. In the spring of 1847 our subject moved with his parents to Jasper county, locating where he now resides. He went overland to California in the spring of 1854, and for three years engaged in gold mining in that state; then went to Oregon, but returned to California, and shortly afterwards to the states via the Isthmus of Panama. He stopped for a time in Cooper county. Mo., and returned to his present farm in 1867, where he has since remained, engaged in agricultural pursuits. Mr. Martin was married in Cooper county, Dec. 8, 1861, to Miss Missouri, daughter of Jas. J. and J. J. (Wood) Stephens, natives of Kentucky, she being born Nov. 3, 1846. From this marriage there have been nine children: William Jefferson, born Nov. 16,1862; Virginia Lee, born Feb. 8, 1864; Paris, born July 22, 1866, and died June 22, 1871; Henrietta, born June 22, 1868; Joshua, born May 28, 1870, and died July 11, 1870; Susan Effie, born Oct. 9, 1872; Mary A., born July 23, 1875; Charles T., born

Aug. 11, 1877; and Upton, born Aug. 25, 1878, and died Oct. 9, 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Martin are members of the Baptist Church.

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.