Margaret (Sharpe) Martin (1791-1880) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

Margaret Martin formerly Sharpe

Born 4 Apr 1791 in Orange, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Daughter of Adam Sharp and Mary (Whitesides) Sharp

Sister of Celia (Sharp) Dodd and Adam Hiram Sharp

Wife of Alexander Strong Martin — married 10 Aug 1808 (to 1864) in Rockingham, North Carolina, United States

Descendants

Mother of Elizabeth Strong (Martin) Allen, Mary Sharp (Martin) Andrews, Jane Louise (Martin) Cardwell, Sallie Fields (Martin) Cardwell, James Lawrence Martin, Alexander Hamilton Martin, Samuel Bainbridge Martin and Robert Martin

Died 17 Jun 1880 at age 89 in Rockingham, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

born 4 April 1791
married 10 August 1808 to Alexander Strong Martin
1845 moved to Holmes County Mississippi
Returned to live in Rockingham County North Carolina after husband’s death in 1864.
Shown in 1880 census living in Madison, Rockingham, North Carolina in family of daughter Elizabeth Strong Martin Allen.
died 17 June 1880 in Rockingham County, North Carolina
buried in Allen family cemetary, Madison, Rockingham, North Carolina

Sources

"North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8GK-1Z9 : 3 November 2017), Alex S. Martin and Margaret Sharp, M; citing , Rockingham, North Carolina, United States, p. , Office of Archives and History, Division of Archives and Records. State Archive of North Carolina and various county Register of Deeds; FHL microfilm 518,428.

Year: 1850; Census Place: Holmes, Mississippi; Roll: M432_373; Page: 264B; Image: 79;Source Information;Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

Year: 1880; Census Place: Mayo, Rockingham, North Carolina; Roll: 980; Page: 41B; Enumeration District: 228;Source Information;Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site.

"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QV2N-KPFL : 11 July 2016), Margaret Sharp Martin, 1880; Burial, Madison, Rockingham, North Carolina, United States of America, Allen Family Cemetery; citing record ID 67120594, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
*World Family Tree, Vol. 5, tree #2912, Family Archive CD.

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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Margaret by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Margaret: