My Genealogy Hound

Jacob F. Martin, one of the well-to-do and most highly respected farmers of Washington Township, Independence County, resides five miles southwest of Victor post office. He was born in Independence County, August 18, 1839, and is a son of John and Sarah (Fulbright) Martin, natives, respectively, of Tennessee and North Carolina. The parents of John Martin were early settlers of Lawrence County, Ark., where they died. John Martin was married in Independence County, where he died about 1858. He was a farmer by occupation. The mother of our subject died in 1887, and of her eleven children ten lived to be grown, Jacob F. was the sixth child. He was reared in his native county, but was deprived of the advantages of an education, his help being required at home. In 1859 he married Miss Elizabeth F. Nettles, who was born in the State of Tennessee, April 15, 1841. Of the nine children who have blessed their union but four survive, viz.: Henry, Frances (now the wife of William F. Shaw), Laura and Minnie. In 1861 Mr. Martin enlisted in the Civil War on the Confederate side, serving faithfully until the surrender, in 1865. He is a stanch Democrat in politics, and cast his first presidential vote for John Bell, of Tennessee. He owns 353 acres of land, about 115 acres of which he has under cultivation. Mr. and Mrs. Martin are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in which they take an active interest. The family is most highly esteemed by their many friends, and their long residence in the county has made their name a familiar one here.