Biography of Jacob F Martin, Independence Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas. 
Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
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page 695 

Jacob F. Martin, one of the well-to-do and most highly respected
farmers of Washington Township, Independence County, resides five miles
southwest of Victor postoffice. He was born in Independence County, August 18,
1839, and is a son of John and Sarah (Fulbright) Martin, natives, respectively,
of Tennessee and North Carolina [p.695] The parents of John Martin were early
settlers of Lawrence County, Ark., where they died. John Martin was married in
Independence County, where he died about 1858. He was a farmer by occupation.
The mother of our subject died in 1887, and of her eleven children ten lived to
be grown. Jacob F. was the sixth child. He was reared in his native county, but
was deprived of the advantages of an education, his help being required at
home. In 1859 he married Miss Elizabeth F. Nettles, who was born in the State
of Tennessee, April 15, 1841. Of the nine children who have blessed their union
but four survive, viz.: Henry, Frances (now the wife of William F.Shaw), Laura
and Minnie. In 1861 Mr. Martin enlisted in the Civil War on the Confederate
side, serving faithfully until the surrender, in 1865. He is a stanch Democrat
in politics, and cast his first presidential vote for John Bell, of Tennessee.
Heowns 353 acres of land, about 115 acres of which he has under cultivation.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in
which they take an active interest. The family is most highly esteemed by their
many friends, and their long residence in the county has made their name a
familiar one here.