Knox County KyArchives Photo Person.....Martin, David Rad 1912

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Ian Martin athelhampton@hotmail.com October 15, 2008, 5:00 pm
Source:             Mary Frances Martin (Pennington)
Name:               David Rad Martin

Date of Photograph: 1912
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David Rad Martin was a private during his service to the “Old Guard”, 3rd Infantry Regiment US Army. 

David Rad Martin was born on December 15, 1893, in Gray, Knox County, Kentucky, the son of John Dalton Martin and Lucy Frances Johnson. 

David Rad Martin enlisted in the US Army, on March 7, 1912 and was registered as Recruit No. 809, on Page 309, Register of Enlistments 1912, from Knox County, Kentucky. At enlistment he was 18 years, 2 months old, had blue eyes, dark hair, and stood at height 5'8". At completion of his service he was honorably discharged as Corporal on March 6, 1915, from Company C, 3rd U.S Infantry Regiment.*
    
David's siblings were:
1-Rachel Ellen MARTIN, born September 27, 1891 
2-James Parker MARTIN, born January 16, 1895 
3-Charlie MARTIN was born December 15, 1898
4-Creed Dalton MARTIN, born May 26, 1901.
5-Chester Arthur MARTIN was born September 24, 1903
6-Samuel A. MARTIN was born June 16, 1906


David Rad Martin married Nannie Walters, the daughter of Parks B. Walters & Callie Sewell, at the home David’s parents John & Lucy Martin home in Gray, Knox County, Kentucky on December 24, 1915.

Nannie bore David, two sons:
Vernon Eugene Martin, on September 18, 1918. 
Theodore Roosevelt Martin on November 11, 1918.

David Rad Martin perished from the Spanish Influenza on October 22, 1918 at Corbin, Kentucky, and was buried at what is now known as the JOHN DALTON MARTIN MEMORIAL CEMTERY on the Arapaho Trail section of Harris Road, Gray, Knox County, Kentucky,

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