Ray Ransom Martin (1900 - 1955)

Born 20 Feb 1900 in Parke, Indiana, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Bertha M (Newport) Martin — married 1946 in Indiana, United States

Died 2 May 1955 at age 55 in Clinton, Clinton Township, Vermillion, Indiana, United States

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Biography

When Ray Ransom Martin was born on 20 February 1900, in Parke, Indiana, United States, his father, James David Martin, was 37 and his mother, Cora Alice Seward, was 28. He married Bertha Newport in 1946 in Kentucky, United States. He lived in Bloomingdale, Penn Township, Parke, Indiana, United States in 1900. He died on 2 May 1955, in Clinton, Clinton Township, Vermillion, Indiana, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Terre Haute, Sullivan, Indiana, United States. He may have had another spouse, Violet Kennedy, that he married on20 December 1922 in Kentucky, but there are no sources to support this claim.

Sources

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/167963852/ray-ransom-martin: accessed 08 December 2022), memorial page for Ray Ransom Martin (20 Feb 1900–2 May 1955), Find a Grave Memorial ID 167963852, citing Roselawn Memorial Park, Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, USA; Maintained by James M Phillips (contributor 46535829).

• "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9M2-KGH: 11 March 2022), Ray Martin in entry for John D. Martin, 1900.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MK5Z-JFS: accessed 8 December 2022), Ray Martin in household of James B Martin, Wabash, Parke, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 92, sheet 17A, family 351, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 373; FHL microfilm 1,374,386.

• "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZ25-929: 29 December 2021), Ray Ransom Martin, 1917-1918.

• "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:27KK-3W2: 3 August 2022), Ray Martin and Bertha Newport, 22 Jul 1946; citing Vigo, Indiana, United States, Marriage License, Indiana Commission on Public Records, Indianapolis; FHL microfilm 007030791.