Biography of Joseph H 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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Joseph H. Martin, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Maury County, Tenn., in
1844, and is a son of Patrick  and Sarah (Lee) Martin, natives of Virginia, who
accompanied their parents to Williamson County. Tenn.,  where they married.
They then settled in Maury County, and a few years later removed to Obion
County, Tenn.,  where they still live. Mr. Martin is a well-to-do farmer, and
both himself and wife belong to the Methodist Church. Thomas Martin, the
grandfather, was of Irish descent, and died in Maury County when Patrick was a
small boy. Joseph H. Martin is the fifth of a family of six children, and when
young attended school but little. In  1862 he joined Company K, Seventh
Kentucky Cavalry, under Gen. Forrest, with whom he remained until the  close of
the war. He operated in Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia,
and participated in  the engagements at Nashville, Franklin, Murfreesboro,
Shiloh, and was through the Atlanta campaign. He was  also at West Plain at the
time of the surrender. After the war he returned home, and December 28, 1865,
married  Lucinda, daughter of Joseph and Ruth Hogan, a native of Virginia, who
when young went to Indiana, where they were married and Mrs. Martin was born.
Mr. and Mrs. Hogan had a family of nine children, eight of whom  are living.
About three years after the birth of Mrs. Martin they removed to Obion County,
Tenn., where they  died in 1884 and 1870, respectively. Mr. Martin lived in
Maury County for two years after his marriage, and in  1878 came to Sebastian
County, settling upon his present farm, which was then but little improved.
This was  situated just south of the present site of Huntington, and consisted
at first of eighty acres. Mr. Martin since has  sold about forty acres for town
lots, the tract being known as Martin's addition to Huntington. He has always
followed agricultural pursuits. In politics he is a Democrat, and his first
presidential vote was cast for Seymour  in 1868.