Biographical Sketch of William A. Martin, Webster County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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William A. Martin.  Among the men of Webster county, Mo., who have 
attained prominence as tillers of the soil and stock men, may be men-
tioned Mr. Martin, who was born in Marion county, Tenn., March 19, 1841
but was reared to manhood in Webster county, Mo., whither he came with
his parents, James D. and Catherine (Thompson) Martin, in 1852.  The 
father was born in Virginia, and after attaining manhood went to Tenn.,
where he was married, and after a few years' residence in that state,
moved to St. Louis county, Mo.  In August, 1861 he joined Company B,
Twenty-fourth Missouri Infantry, and served until his death in May, 
1864 at Pleasant Hill, La.  William A. Martin enlisted at the same time
in the same company as his father, and was at the battle of Pleasant
Hill, and in a great many skirmishes, and was severely wounded in the
right shoulder by a gunshot at the former engagement, being in the
hospital at New Orleans and Memphis for about five months.  He received
his discharge at St. Louis, January 11, 1865, homesteading the same
year the farm of 200 acres where he now lives.  He has about 150 acres
under cultivation and well improved, and his farm is situated about
eight miles from Marshfield.  He has always supported the measures of
the Republican party, and in the fall of 1884 was nominated and elected
sheriff of Webster county, and ably filled the duties of that office
for two years.  Since then he has resided on his farm.  February 19,
1865 he was married to Miss Mary L. Turner, who died in Webster county,
on the 16th of April, 1868, and he took for his second wife Miss Sarah
L. Morton, a native of North Carolina, and daughter of George Morton,
who died during the war.  Two children were born to his first marriage,
Laura M. and Charles F.  The following are the children of his last
marriage: Mary S., and James P. and Matilda C. (twins).  Mrs. Martin
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he belongs to the
A. O. U. W. and G. A. R.

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