My Genealogy Hound

JAMES H. MARTIN, farmer, P. O. Aberdeen, born at the old home of his father, in the year 1832, and is a son of Ephraim and MaryAnn (Helm) Martin, of whom mention is made in this work. Ephraim was a son of Elijah Martin. Our subject was reared on the farm, and in the district schools received a common education. Has been married twice: first, in 1854, to Margaret, the daughter of Jesse Ellis, an old settler, who bore him four children, one of whom is living namely, Mary, wife of Ivan Shelton. The deceased are Ephraim, Charlie and one unnamed. Mrs. Martin died in 1860, at the age of twenty-six years; his second marriage was celebrated with Sarah, the daughter of Thomas Neeper, of this county, in 1864. Six children are the result of this last marriage, namely, Lucy, Carrie, Belle, Myra, Reuben and Anna; he is a member of Charter Oak Lodge, No. 149, F. & A. M., of Aberdeen; he owns 270 acres of improved land, which is all under good cultivation; he and his wife are members of the Christian Church at Bethlehem.