My Genealogy Hound

MARTIN A. CLINE. Prominent among the old settlers and pioneers of Jasper county is the subject of this sketch. He was born May 6, 1827, in Lincoln county, N. C., and moved with his parents to Georgia in 1835, and there worked on a farm, and going to school a short time in the winter months, his education was limited. The country being new, there were very few schools. He is a son of John and Elizabeth Cline, natives of North Carolina. They had eleven children, the subject of this sketch being the eldest child. He worked on the farm while in Georgia three years, and then moved to Tennessee. His father worked at the trade of carpenter, and he worked on the farm until twenty-one years of age and then worked at carpentering for two years. In 1854 he came to Jasper county, Mo., and in August, 1858, was married to Miss Mary Coope, daughter of Robert C. Coope, an old settler and prominent man of Jasper county. Mrs. Mary Cline died in 1859. Mr. Cline worked at his trade for two years, and then married Miss Sarah, daughter of William and Sarah Busby, honest and hard-working farmers. Mr. Busby is now living and enjoying good health at the advanced age of ninety years, and is living in Sheridan township, Jasper county, Mo. In 1861 Mr. Cline moved to Kansas, and engaged in farming three years. In 1865 he bought his present farm and also an interest in a saw-mill on Dry Fork, and was engaged in milling eight or ten years and improving his farm in the meantime. He now has a fine farm of 180 acres, 160 of which are under cultivation; has twenty acres of good timber, good buildings, a fine new two-story frame house, and a good orchard. Mr. Cline has three children by his second wife, named William A., Annie E., and Eva Alta. Mr. Cline came to Jasper county a poor man, but now has a good home and everything conveniently around him, which was made by honesty and hard labor.