David Graves Martin (1885)

MARTIN, TAYLOR, GRIFFIN

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 10/17/2007 at 18:50:34

Winterset Madisonian - November 5, 1885
Winterset, Iowa
page 4

David G. Martin, who lived in Lincoln township, was stricken with paralysis last Thursday afternoon and died Friday afternoon. Mr. Martin was 75 years old. He moved to this county in 1853 and has lived on the farm on which he died ever since. He was much respected by all who knew him and in earlier years was an active citizen.

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Winterset Madisonian - November 12, 1885
Winterset, Iowa
page 8

OBITUARY

David Graves Martin was born May 9th, 1810, in Shelby county Kentucky. In the year 1819, at the age of nine years he emigrated with his parents to Putnam county, Indiana. September 18th, 1828, he was married to Elizabeth Taylor. He came to Iowa from Indiana and settled in Wapello county in 1847, where his wife died in 1849. In 1852, December 12th, he was joined in marriage to Emily J. Griffin who still survives him.

In the fall of 1853 Mr. Martin removed from Wapello to Madison county and purchased the farm in Lincoln township where he has since lived. He was the father of twelve children, nine of whom are still living.

At the age of seventeen he professed religion and united with the M. E. Church, a relation which he maintained during the rest of his life. While in the prime of life he was a man of considerable activity and zeal. He was one of the first to contribute of his means for the erection of the first M. E. Church built in Winterset and has since held various official positions both in church and in the community in which he lived. He maintained his faith in the christian religion firmly unto the end, and died in great peace at three o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th ult., from the effects of a stroke of paralysis received the day before.

Thus another long and varied life has been brought to a close. Another of the pioneers of Madison county is called hence. We cannot but pause to shed a tear at the remembrance of the heroes as they fall, especially of those whom we have known so long and so well as we have known brother Martin. But "he has gone to his rest and his works do follow him." Peace to his ashes.

Note: Burial was made in the Hooten cemetery.