Robert Martin

MARTIN, FULP

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 5/30/2002 at 21:38:17

Robert Martin came to Washington township in 1870, from Lafayette county, Wisconsin, where he had lived since 1855. He was born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, June 29, 1828, where his younger days were spent in school and on the farm. He made his home there until his removal to Wisconsin. He lived but two years in Washington township, and lived there one and one-half years; then back to Washington township, where he lived nine months, on section 32; then moved to the Greene farm, in Madison township, where he lived seven years. In 1881 he bought a farm on section 2, Washington township, and moved there in April of the same year. He was married in 1857, to Miss Ziza Fulp, a native of North Carolina. They have five children – Mary, James V., Charles R., William W., and Cora.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 734