WILLIS MARTIN

MARTIN, WOODWARD

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 5/23/2009 at 13:00:35

The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

WILLIS MARTIN, farmer, Sec. 2; born March 21, 1813, in Harrison Co., Ind.; in 1860, came to Appanoose Co. and to Center Tp. He owns 100 acres of land, valued at $30 per acre. Maried Jane Woodward in 1836; she was born March 7, 1812, in Kentucky; have eight children - E. F., Adaline, Thomas W., Nancy A., Elizabeth J., William C., John C., Samuel A. E.F. enlisted in 1862 in 17th I. V. I., and served to the end of the war. Mr. M. has been Deputy Sheriff.