Biography of Jesse Martin, Sebastian Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Jesse Martin, farmer and real estate dealer of Mansfield, Sebastian Co., Ark.,
was born in the “Blue Grass State”  in 1819, and is a son of Jesse and Jane
(Hunter) Martin, who were born in the “Old Dominion,” and whose  ancestors were
among the “F. F. V.'s.” Jesse Martin, the father, was born in 1777, and died in
Tennessee in  1840. At an early day he removed to Kentucky, and afterward to
Tennessee, where he was engaged in farming,  and spent the remainder [p.1344]
of his days. His wife was born in 1782, and died in 1882, having borne a
family of ten sons and four daughters. The paternal grandfather, John Martin,
was born in Virginia, and lived to  be one hundred and four years old. He was
in the War of 1812, and served two years under Gen. Jackson. His father, James
Martin, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was on the staff of Gen.
Washington. He also  lived to be one hundred and four years old. Jesse Martin
spent his boyhood days in Tennessee, and received a  fair English education,
and at the age of twenty-one years began working for himself. In 1866 he
removed to  Arkansas and settled in Ashley County, removing to Montreal,
Sebastion County, in 1869. Here he resided until  the winter of 1887–88, when
he came to Mansfield. He is real estate agent for the Frisco Railroad Company,
and for forty-four years has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. He is a Democrat, and  cast his first presidential vote for Martin Van
Buren. In 1841 he was married to Miss Martha Jane McDaniel,  who was born in
Tennessee in 1824, and is a daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Cox) McDaniel, who
were born  in North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively. The father was a
mechanic and farmer. To Mr. and Mrs. Martin  were born nine children: Jane,
(deceased), John, adaughter (Mrs. L. P. Powell), Samuel B., James J., Thomas
F., Louisa, Wiley O. and Margaret E. In 1861 Mr. Martin enlisted in Company I,
Fifth Tennessee Cavalry, and  served with Gens. Bragg, Johnson and Hood, and
with them participated in the battles of Perryville,  Murfreesboro, Missionary
Ridge, Chickamauga, Rocky Fall, Resaca, Marietta, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree
Creek and Atlanta. He was discharged in 1865, after Johnston's surrender.