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MARTIN, NEWTON, farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 7, P. O. Carrollton. The father of our subject was Samuel Martin, who was of Welch origin; but little pertaining to his early life can now be gleaned; it is supposed that he was a native of Ohio, and afterward moved to Kentucky, where he followed farming to some extent, although by trade he was a cooper; it was here that he formed the acquaintance of, and married Miss Elizabeth Guntermon; from Kentucky Samuel Martin moved to Indiana, where he remained a short time, when he moved to Greene County, the date of his arrival is not known, but it was probably a very early day, as Jersey County still formed a portion of Greene County, and in the vicinity of the bluffs, where he settled, it was but thinly populated, scarcely a cabin dotting the surface of the prairie for many miles; he became moderately successful in life, and died at an advanced age in Greene County in 1844. Mrs. Martin survived her husband some thirty years, and her ashes repose in the Hutchens Cemetery. The survivors of this family are ten, of whom our subject is the seventh child, who was born in Jersey County in 1827. October 3, 1848, he was united in marriage to Miss Jane Thomasson, a daughter of William and Sarah Thomasson; by whom he had sixteen children, eleven of whom are living: William E., George O., John W., Samuel P., Stephen Douglas, Eudora A., Mary A., Jacob E., Frank, Elizabeth E. and Virginia A. After a long and honorable career Mr. Martin has become comfortably situated in life, and resides on his farm of 200 acres of valuable land situated in township 9, range 12.