James H. Martin was born about 1813, in Kentucky. Possibly, he is a son of James Martin and migrated from Kentucky to Indiana as an infant (see research note below). He was probably a neighbor of Abraham Lincoln.
Also note that the death certificate of his [supposed] son John W states that James was first married to Elizabeth Furis--and that both James and Elizabeth came from Virginia (Kentucky was a colony of Virginia between 1776-1792). HOWEVER, the son John W Martin is the son of James Samuel Martin--not James Holland Martin. Thus, the name of the wife of James Holland Martin remains unknown.
According to the Lincoln Boyhood Historic Research Study, in 1837, a James Martin received a land patent for farmland in Spencer County Indiana. This plot of land, located in Section 32 of Carter Township, is located very near to a plot of land near Little Pigeon Creek purchased by Thomas Lincoln (the father of Abraham Lincoln). Thomas Lincoln settled on his land 15 Oct 1817 and the land patent was dated 6 Jun 1827.[1]
About 1834, James H. Martin married UNKNOWN. Six children were born. Later census data say that all were born in Indiana, suggesting that the family had migrated there no later than 1835. Searching for a marriage record.
Oscar, the last child of this marriage, was born about 1847. Presumably the mother died before the second marriage of James in 1850. The children of James H. Martin from his first marriage:
3 May 1850: James H. Martain married Sarah Hesson in Spencer County Indiana.[3] Sarah's family name was Harrison, and she had had been previously married to Samuel Hesson, who died before 1850. [4]. John Hesson and Samuel Hesson, Sarah's sons, also joined the household.
James H. Martin and Sarah (Harrison) Hesson had 7 children between 1854 and 1865:
On 4 Oct 1866, Following the death of his second wife Sarah (Harrison) Hesson, James H. Martin married Martha Abshire (Kinkade).[5][6] They had one son:
The Family Search profile for James H. Martin (K4RH-X7F) says that he died in Spencer County Indiana in 1871 and he is buried in the Martin-Harrison cemetery, located on the farm of John Harrison. This info is unsourced, but it fits circumstantially.
James H. Martin, Esq. of Centerville Grass Township served as Justice of the Peace for Grass Township, Spencer, Indiana[7]
A James Martin bought land in Spencer County Indiana Section 28, 368 acres, February 11, 1811. Possibly this is the father?.[8] If so, then James Martin of this profile would have migrated from Kentucky to Indiana as an infant, with his father's family. Most of the early settlers of Spencer County originated in Kentucky.
1850 census shows James H Martin, 37y (born in Kentucky) as head of household #782 located in Grass Township, Spencer County, Indiana. Wife Sarah, 27y (born in Indiana); Eliza J (female), 15y; Mary F, 15y (twins?); Allen, 11y; John W, 8y; Robert, 6y; Oscar, 3y. Also living in the household are John F Hesson, 5y; Samuel W Hesson, 3y; and William Evans, 30y (born in Kentucky, possibly a farmhand). All children born in Indiana.
1860 census shows James H Martin, 48y, as head of household located in Grass Township, Spencer County, Indiana. Wife Sarah, 37; Allen, 21y; John, 17y; Robert, 15y; Oscar, 14y; Nancy, 5y; Sarah, 2y; William, 5 months; John F Hesson, 15y; Samuel Hesson, 13y. The farm of James Martin is valued at $5000 and his personal estate is valued at $1000.
1870 census shows James H Martin, 58, as head of household located in Grass Township, Spencer County, Indiana. Wife Martha 42y, Nancy J 16y, Elizebeth 10y, Henry 9y, James 7y, Amanda B 5y, Theodore 3y. [NOTE: By 1870 James H Martin remarried to Martha Kincade; Theodore is their son]. Also living on the farm and working as farmhands: John Ruicaid 17y, George Ruicaid 14y, Samuel Ruicaid 9y, Henry Ruicaid 16y, and Samuel W. Hesson. [Samuel is the stepson of James Martin via his second wife Sarah].
John F. Hesson, stepson of James H. Martin was married in 1915, in Warrick County Indiana.
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