MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - James M. Martin
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JAMES M. MARTIN is a son of Henry and Maria (Tankersley) Martin. Henry
Martin was born in North Carolina in 1802, and when young came to Tennessee
and located in Bedford County, where he married Miss Tankersley, born in
1808. They were the parents of eighteen children, seven of whom are living.
The mother was a member of the Christian Church, as was also the father
until the last few years of his life, when he became a Universalist. He
held the position of constable six years and that of deputy sheriff two
years. During the late war he supported the Confederacy although too old to
take an active part. The mother died in 1842 and two years later Mr. Martin
marries Mrs. Delilah Lamb, by whom he had six children. His death occurred
in I864. James M. was born September 6, 1822, in Williamson County, and
secured a practical education. At the age of twenty he began working by the
month and in 1845 married Nancy McGee, who was born February 21, 1826, in
North Carolina, and died in 1856, having borne one child who died.  In 1857
Mr. Martin took for his second wife Mary Stanfield, and seven children
blessed their union. Husband and wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, and he is a stanch Democrat in politics and for
some eight years has held the position of magistrate and has been constable
nearly four years. He owns 260 acres of land and is known to be a thrifty
farmer and an honest man.

Surnames: Lamb, Martin, McGee, Stanfield, Tankersly
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."