CRAWFORD - MONROE COUNTY, GA - Obits - Thomas Martin Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Buehler Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/crawford.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm THOMAS MARTIN TAKEN BY DEATH Former Crawford County Official Dies in Atlanta FATHER OF MACON CITIZEN Thomas J. Martin, 84, former tax receiver and chairman of the board of education in Crawford County, died at his home in Atlanta Sunday morning, according to messages received here yesterday. Mr. Martin is the father of Henry Martin, manager of Bradstreet’s Macon office. Funeral services will be held at Culloden at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon, central time. Services will be held in the Culloden Primitive Baptist Church, Elder W.W. Childs and the pastor of the Culloden Methodist officiating. His six sons will be pallbearers. The other surviving children are Lee W. and Stiles Martin and Miss Dorothy Martin of Atlanta; John T, Martin of Memphis, J Oscar Martin of Covington; state school supervisor; Charles B. Martin, of Athens; Mrs. Clarence C. Lowe, of Byron; Mrs. Roy Richards, of Calhoun, Ga. and Mrs. Thomas Haygood of Culloden. His widow and a half brother, S. Douglas Martin, of Texas. Mr. Martin was born on his father’s farm in the Robley section of Crawford county and lived there until about 20 years ago when he moved to Culloden,[Monroe Co] living there until three years ago when he moved to Atlanta. He was formerly tax receiver of Crawford county and served for 20 years as chairman of the Crawford county board of education. He had extensive farming interests in Crawford and Monroe counties in which he was highly successful He served four years in the Confederate army being a member of Company E. Sixth Georgia Regiment, Colquitt’s brigade, and was wounded at Cold Harbor. He was one of the organizers and officers of the Veteran’s camp organized at Knoxville, removing his membership to the camp at Forsythe when he moved to Monroe county. MRS. MARTIN NEAR DEATH Mother of Henry F. Martin is Well Known in Middle Georgia Mrs. Thomas J. Martin—daughter of the old South, widely known in Macon and throughout Central Georgia—lies at the point of death in Atlanta, according to word reaching here yesterday. She is the mother of Henry F. Martin, superintendent of the Macon branch of Bradstreet’s. Recovering from an extended illness in November, Mrs. Martin moved from her home in Culloden. In December she suffered a relapse and yesterday when physician declared her condition to be critical, friends and relatives were notified Mrs. Martin is a member of one of Georgia’s pioneer families, being the granddaughter of Samuel Butts, for whom Butts County was named. She is a sister of the late Gen. A. J. West, idol of the Confederacy during the War Between the States and was a schoolmate of Gen. John G. Gordan. During a visit to Macon a year ago, Mrs. Martin was taken ill but after being treated at a local hospital, recovered sufficiently to return to her home in Culloden. Two daughters, Mrs. Clarence C. Lowe of Byron, and Mrs. Thomas M. Haygood of Culloden are members of her immediate family residing in the vicinity of Macon. Note: Mary Buehler Grandma Lowe's Scrapbook Grandma's daughters-in-law was a Martin and had a brother named Stiles. One of the obits from the ledger was for their father, Thomas Martin, Included in the lot was a small ledger about 12" X 4". It is very well worn with the covers having been sewn back on with needle and thread. It's pages are yellowed and the edges a bit tattered but surprizingly readable. In it was a record of items either bought or sold with a lot charged to the hired hands, I suppose against their wages. The record begins about 1877 and ends in 1884-85. Dates on most pages were covered over. After using up its pages as a ledger, Grandma recycled it as a scrapbook. Most of its pages have newpaper clippings pasted over the figures. The earlier clippings featured "Heloise type" housewhole hints and recipes (great sounding cakes) and seemed to be from the Atlanta Constitution in a feature call "Women's Kingdom." Later items appeared to be from The Macon Telegraph and The Macon News and probably the Christian Index. She expanded her collection to religous and inspirational, patriotic, historical subjects with a few obits, etc thrown in.