Martha was a daughter of Franklin Watts Metcalf and his wife Betsy.
Sources
Find-a-Grave, Shaw Cemetery, Albion, Maine
1870 United States Federal Census
1880 US federal census of Albion, Maine
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Martha 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 Martha:
I believe that Martha Metcalfe Wixson (which i have also seen as Wixon) was the mother of my paternal grandmother, Ella M. (Wixson) Conant, who was born in 1887 in Albion, Kennebec, and died in 1968 in Rockland, ME. She and her husband Ralph P. Conant had four children, including my father, Roger Francis Conant.