Jasper COUNTY  GA   Rev. Wiley F. Martin

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 ST. ANDREWS BAY NEWS
                   St. Andrews, Florida, January 2, 1923
                     WELL KNOWN CLERGYMAN PASSES AWAY.


     Our Bay County readers will be much interested in the following
obituary of the Rev. Wiley F. Martin, which is taken from the DeFuniak
Breeze of Dec. 28th.  Rev. Martin was well known to the citizens of this
section, having been for some time the resident clergyman at Millville,
where the family resided, and from which place his son, Captain Malley
Martin, entered the world war, as Lieutenant of the company that was
formed there.
     Rev. Martin was highly esteemed by all who had the pleasure of his
acquaintance, and was a noble Christian leader.  His many friends in this
section tender their heartfelt sympanthy to the surviving members of his
family.  Herewith is the breeze's article.
     "Rev. Wiley F. Martin well known in DeFuniak and Walton County
generally, having resided here for some years, passed away at the home of
his sister, Mrs. Docie Crosby on West Romana Street, Pensacola, December
22nd at 5:30 P. M. following a brief illness.  Rev. Martin had rounded out
some fifty-six years in the ministry and had attainted his eighty-first
milestone, a record his children may be justly proud of.
     Rev. Martin was born in Jasper County, Georgia, November 12, 1841. 
He served four years in the Confederate army, having volunteered in
Company B, 18th Alabama Infantry from Andalusia.  He was married to Nancy
Caroline Carvey at Newhope Church, Covington County, November 5, 1865, by
Rev. G. W. Kieree.  He was ordained to preach in the Missionary Baptist
Church and served continuously from 1866 to 1922 in work as pastor,
minister and evangelist.  His wife died at Millville, Florida, May, 1916.
     Rev. Martin is survived by one son, Captain Malley Martin, of Atlanta
and one daughter, Mrs. Ella Nix, Columbus, Ga.  He is also survived by two
sisters, Mrs. Docie Crosby, with who he made his home for the past few
years, and Mrs. Gracie Sharpe of Tampa, Fla.
     Rev. Martin was a member of Laurel Hill Lodge No. 44 F & A. M.,
Walton Chapter No. 37 R. A. M. DeFuniak Springs and Andalusia Commandery
Knights Templar.  He was a member of the First Baptist Church in
Pensacola, his funeral taking place at that church Saturday afternoon at 3
o'clock, rev. A. J. Moncrief officiating, internment wasa made in St.
John's Cemetery, the Masonic fraternit of which he was a member performing
the last sad ties at the grave."



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