Emanuel Henry Martin (1804 - 1851)

Born 23 Sep 1804 in Bryan, Georgia, United States

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Died 2 May 1851 at age 46 in Fort McCoy, Marion, Florida, United States

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Biography

Emanuel Martin was born in Georgia.

Emanuel Henry Martin was born on 23 September 1804, as inscribed on his memorial stone^[1], in Bryan County, Georgia^[2], the son of James William Martin (1756–1830) and Mary Lindsey Dixon (1764–1849).

Emanuel married his cousin Mary "Polly" Geiger (1806–1885) on 19 February 1825 in Georgia. Their children were:

1. Anne Elizabeth Martin (1826-1827)
2. Abraham Geiger Martin (1828-1900)
3. Henry Emanuel Martin (1830-1894)
4. James Samuel Martin (1832-1907)
5. Isaiah Abraham Martin (1838-1842)
6. Harmon Charles Martin (1842-1912)
7. William Eli Martin (1844-1923)
8. John Ulrich Martin (1844-abt.1915)
9. Elizabeth Jane (Martin) Hall (1849-1931)

Residence 1830, Bryan, Georgia.^[3]

Emanuel Martin Household:

2 males under age 5 [Abraham Geiger Martin and Henry Emanuel Martin]

1 male age 20-30 [Emanuel Martin]

1 female age 20-30 [Mary Geiger Martin]

No slaves are listed with this household in 1830.

Residence 5 November 1850, Ocala, Marion, Florida, United States^[4]

Emanuel Martin, 46, farmer, born in Georgia

Mary Martin, 44, born in Georgia

Henry Martin, 20, born in Georgia, laborer

James Martin, 18, born in Georgia, laborer

Christian Martin, 8, born in Florida

William E. Martin, 6, born in Florida, John's twin

John W. Martin, 6, born in Florida, William's twin

Elizabeth J. Martin, 1, born in Florida

Emanuel passed away at age 46 in 1851 and was buried in Indian Lake Cemetery, Anthony, Marion County, Florida.^[5]

All six surviving sons fought in the Civil War (Isaiah had passed before then).

Slave Owner

Emanuel Martin, Owner, Marion, Florida, United States, 1850 Slave Schedule^[6]

1, age 10, female, black

1, age 10, male, mulatto

Notes

From "Emanuel Henry Martin Family Genealogy, 1800-1962" by Elam V. Martin, 1963. page 11-13: "Florida was bought from Spain in 1819 and in 1821and 1822 organized as the Territory of East Florida and West Florida by Governor Andrew Jackson. Settlers from Georgia immediately began coming into the Florida territory over the Alachua trail. Boats came up Black Creek to Middleburg; boats also came up the St. Johns River to Picolata and 1824 a mail route was established from Picolata, via Orange Springs to Micanopy. Early in 1822 at Fort Moultrie a treaty was signed giving and restricting the Indians to an area in the central part of the peninsula extending from Alachua to Lake Okeechobee. Micanopy, head chief of all the Seminole tribes lived near Micanopy on the northern boundary set by the 1822 treaty. This boundary seemed to have cut through his village. And by July of the same year, 1822, the Indians complained, that the white men were settling in and near their towns which they did not like. To encourage more settlers to Florida, Congress, on April 22, 1826 passed an act authorizing citizens of the United States to settle upon public lands where no individual claims were in opposition. This offer of public lands was an inducement for Emanuel and his wife Mary Geiger to go to Alachua County, East Florida, shortly after their marriage in 1826. A footnote here says: "Information in the family Bible and information received from his children over thirty (30) years ago indicates that Emanuel and Mary first came to Florida in 1826." On May 24, 1827 when their first child, Ann Elizabeth, was seven months old, Emanuel drove the team to Newnansville, East Florida for provisions. After dark, Mary, who was left at home, was sitting in a rocking chair, the child up in her arms with its head over her shoulder and a slave girl standing near fanning them, when they were attacked by several Indians. The slave girl and the child were killed by arrows. Mary still holding the child saw the Indians setting fire to the kitchen cabin as she ran, hiding in a "tree-fall" near by. As she watched the house and other buildings were burned. The Indians then came looking for Mary. As it had grown dark the Indians soon gave up the search. Mary with the mortally wounded child in her arms made her way to the fort near Micanopy where her husband joined her later. Shortly after this Emanuel and Mary went back to Georgia only to return either in 1831 or 1833. At this time, it is thought, they settled at Pine, between Citra and Fort McCoy even before the land had been surveyed. This area was all in Alachua County at that time and it was in the Indian reservation as set in 1822. The lands granted the Indians in the Treaty of Moultrie Creek in 1822 were taken away in the treaties of Payne's Landing in 1832 and Fort Gibson in 1833. And in 1832 President Jackson set out on a policy of removing the Indians from Florida to the reservation West of the Mississippi River."

Page 33: A number of German protestants settled in the Carolinas, Georgia and Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1775. Just prior to and during this time some areas of Europe were ravaged by wars economic and religious tyranny, all of which helped induce these people to go first to Ireland or England and some to move on to America. The German protestants were deeply religious, honest and industrious. They lived within their own social group and held to their native language and customs. The pioneer settlers did not struggle through the wilderness alone. Several families, usually relatives and others, traveled together as they emigrated. The Martins and the Geigers were in South Carolina, 1737 =1766, later in Effingham County, Georgia, 1734=1790, then still later on to Alachua Countys Florida, 1821~1833.

Pages 32/33 thru 38/39 give the "Emanuel Henry Martin Genealogy", which begins with: "Information at hand indicates that John Martin (grandfather of EHM) was a German who settled in South Carolina and was living during the Revolutionary War. He was a preacher of the German Baptist or Dunker denomination of Christians. One of his sons was named James Martin, who reared a family of several sons and daughters, among them our forebear, Emanuel Henry Martin. James Martin was a preacher of the Baptist denomination with his father." A lengthy footnote said the info came from a sketch written on the back of an old deed by oldest son of EHM.

Page 37 starts out: "Emanuel Henry Martin, the son of James Martin, was born September 23, 1804, and six years after Florida became a state he died on May 2, 1851, at Pine, Marion County, Fla., of pneumonia and is buried in Indian Lake Cemetery on the old road between Anthony and Ft. McCoy, Fla. On February 19, 1826 he married his cousin, Mary Geiger, Daughter of Felix Geiger and his wife, Mary (Martin) of Bulloch County, Georgia. Mary Geiger was born July 1, 1806 and died Dec. 17, 1885 and is buried beside her husband in Indian Lake Cemetery. Ten children were born to this marriage."

Sources

1. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28252260/emanuel-henry-martin: accessed 01 May 2023), memorial page for Emanuel Henry Martin (23 Sep 1804–2 May 1851), Find a Grave Memorial ID 28252260, citing Indian Lake Cemetery, Anthony, Marion County, Florida, USA; Maintained by John A. Williams (contributor 47021522).
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFH6-FLH : 12 April 2016), Emanuel Martin, Ocala, Marion, Florida, United States; citing family 249, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHPX-181 : 24 August 2017), Emanuel Martin, Bryan, Georgia, United States; citing 88, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 16; FHL microfilm 7,036.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFH6-FLH : 12 April 2016), Emanuel Martin
5. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVR-4RNZ : 13 December 2015), Emanuel Henry Martin, 1851; Burial, Anthony, Marion, Florida, United States of America, Indian Lake Cemetery; citing record ID 28252260, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
6. ↑ "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 ", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HRW5-ZSW2 : 23 February 2021), Emanuel Martin in entry for MM9.1.1/MV8V-CJL:, 1850.

• Martin, Elam V. 1963. Emanuel Henry Martin Family Genealogy 1800-1962. Burgman and Son, Daytona Beach, Florida. https://archive.org/details/emanuelhenrymart00mart

• Gieger, Gerald 2014, Felix Geiger Jr. Bible,..1690 - 1971. Privately Published, Crowley, TX.