Jefferson County NyArchives Military Records.....Martin, David Rad January 19, 1914
Other War Company C, Third Regiment Infantry, US Army, Madison Barracks, New York
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Promotion Of US Army Private DAVID RAD MARTIN, To Corporal.
"The Commanding Officer of the Third Regiment of Infantry. To all who shall see 
these presents greeting: Know Ye, That reposing special trust and confidence in 
the patriotism, valor, fidelity and abilities of DAVID R. MARTIN, I do hereby 
appoint him Corporal, in Company "C" of the Third Regiment of Infantry in the 
service of the UNITED STATES, to rank as such from the 19th day of January one 
thousand nine hundred and fourteen..."




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David Rad Martin was born on December 15, 1893 in Gray, Knox County, Kentucky 
enlisted on March 6, 1912 and was honorably discharged on March 7, 1915 as a 
corporal of refered unit at  Madison Barracks, Jefferson County, New York.

David Rad Martin was my grandfather.
 
David's father was John Dalton Martin and his mother was Lucy Frances Johnson.

On December 24, 1915, David Rad Martin married Nannie Walters in his father 
John Martin's home Harris Road (Arapaho Trail), Gray, Knox County, Kentucky.   
With Nannie Walters (Martin), David fathered Vernon Eugene Martin & Theodore 
Rossevelt Martin.  

David Rad Martin perished on October 22, 1918  from the Spanish Influenza and 
was buried on his father John Dalton Martin's farm.  Though he was the first, 
the burial site was demarked for future Martin Family burials and is now known 
as the John Dalton Martin Memorial Cemetery.

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