James Martin

MARTIN, LELACHEUR

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 3/18/2007 at 02:06:02

James Martin, of Ashton Township, has an excellent farm of eighty acres of land on section 22, fifty of which is under cultivation, and the balance, except six acres which are in a beautiful grove, is devoted to pasturage, upon which feeds his herd of forty head of graded cattle. He came to Monona County in September, 1879, from Delaware County, this State, and purchased his present residence, and has lived here ever since.
Mr. Martin’s birthplace was in Champaign County, Ohio, where he first saw the light July 11, 1826. He is the son of George and Mary Martin, who removed from Ohio with their family in 1845, and settled in Delaware County, Iowa, where they made their home until overtaken by death, the former in the summer of 1878, and the mother in the winter of 1885. They had a family of five children—James, our subject: Ezekial, now living in Buchanan County, who was born in Champaign County, Ohio, in 1828: Mary, Mrs John Bliss, a resident of Nebraska: Charity, Mrs. Elias Adams, now in Oklahoma: and George W., living on the old homestead at Ead’s Grove, Delaware County, Iowa. The father was a second cousin of the Confederate Gen. Martin, and the mother a near relative of the famous Gen. Robert E. Lee.
James Martin received his education in the district schools of his native State, and removed with the family to Delaware County, in 1845. He grew to manhood, surrounded by the influences of a happy home, and on attaining man’s estate, engaged in agricultural pursuits on his own account in that part of the State. He was the first Postmaster at Ead’s Grove, in the Northwestern part of Delaware County, at a time when there was only three others in the county, Rockville, Delhi and Colesburg. He there made his home until the fall of 1879, when he came to this county, as set forth above.
One of the most important events in the life of Mr. Martin, was his marriage, which occurred July 5, 1851, in Delaware County, Iowa. His bride, Miss Mary A. LeLacheur, a native of Prince Edward’s Island, was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Sensadaugh LeLacheur. They have a family of five children: William H., who had married Miss Julia Hitchcook, and is living in Franklin Township, this county: Jennie E., the wife of Henry F. Maennel, a capitalist, living in Correctionville, Woodbury County, this State: Windsor W., who married Miss Jennie Cameron, and is engaged in farming in the latter county: Delivan G., who is residing at home: and Nancy Ann, the wife of John H. Jones, one of the proprietors of the Onawa Sentinel.

Source: History of Monona County, Iowa 1890
Chicago National Pub. Co.