Yolo-Yuba County CA Archives Biographies.....Martin, George C. 1822 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

GEORGE C. MARTIN, a farmer near Woodland, is a son of James and Lina (Williams)
Martin, who were among the early settlers of California, and will be remembered
by many old pioneers. They were natives of Virginia, where they remained until
1844; they then moved to Livingston County, Missouri, and resided there until
1853; he sold his property there, spent one summer in Texas, returned to
Missouri and remained there until the spring of 1854, when he with his family
came overland to the Golden State, with horse and ox teams, and settled in Yuba
County, eight miles above Marysville, on the Yuba River. There the senior Martin
resided until his death in 1861, when he was sixty years of age. His wife
survived until 1884, when she died, in Yolo County, at the age of seventy-five
years. In their family were four sons and one daughter, all of whom came to
California. One son, M. D. Martin, came in 1849, and died in Yolo County in
June, 1872.

  George C. was born January 30, 1833, in Giles County, Virginia, and had been
all his life upon a farm. He was with his father in Yuba County until 1862, when
the well-remembered floods of that year destroyed their agricultural stock. He
sold out and came to Yolo County, purchasing a farm northwest of Cacheville,
where he remained until the fall of 1870. He then purchased his present
property, consisting of 160 acres of choice bottom land, a mile and a half
southeast of Woodland, which is well improved and fertile and well stocked with
farm buildings, etc. He has altogether in Yolo County 410 acres. His home place
is especially adapted to the raising of fruit and alfalfa. 

  Mr. Martin was married March 7, 1867, to Miss Mary A. Waysman, a native of
Missouri, and they have three sons and two daughters, namely: Jackson L., Anna
L., James W. (who died July 25, 1883), George V. and Mary V.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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