Hi Laura, I hope that you are able to make some connections.. Do you by chance have any idea about where in SC your Martin came from? Sandy -----Original Message----- From: Laura L. Horton <elhzm@tir.com> To: MARTIN-L@rootsweb.com <MARTIN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, November 12, 2001 8:46 AM Subject: [MARTIN-L] Re: >Hi Fellow MARTIN Researchers! > >H-E-L-P???!!!!!!! PLEASE??!!!!! > >My Great Uncle (who never knew anything about his MARTIN family; other than >a couple of his Aunts and Uncles); is very ill with cancer. He is also 83 >years old. He has already lost one eye to this cancer;and the other eye is >beginning to lose it's vision. His doctors have given him less than 1 year >to live. > >All of his life; it has been his desire to find out more about his family. >His Father would NEVER speak of his parents/brothers/sisters/ >etc.............he just did not know anything. It is his DYING WISH to know >of his Grandparents and family heritage. > >We have been working FEVERISHLY for a couple of years now to find the >answers for him. Even went to a professional genealogist who had some >clues; but no definitive proof. All I know is that: > > >SOMEBODY IN SOME MARTIN LINE SOMEWHERE OUT THERE IS RELATED TI OUR MARTIN >LINE; AND WE NEED TO CONNECT THE DOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > >PLEASE check your family files and see if YOUR Martin line could be a "dot" >on the map to our family?! It would be sincerely appreciated!!!!!!!!!!! >Time is growing short.................. > > >WE NEED THE PARENTS AND SIBLINGS OF ABRAHAM MARTIN; born 9-4-1797 SC; died >7-28-1852 Wayne County, IL. Married about 1823/1824 (place unknown) to >MARY JANE "POLLY" HEADY born 2-5-1801 VA; died 7-20-1845 Wayne County, IL. >(Also need parents/siblings of "Polly"!!!!) > > >We THINK Abraham and parents/siblings (whoever they were!!!!!!!) MAY have >migrated from SC to TN/KY (although it is VERY possible they MAY have gone >to GA!!!!!!); then on to IL. Abraham and "Polly" settled in Wayne County, >IL from about 1830 till deaths. Abraham could very WELL have sibllings who >lived in GA.........but I have no proof!!!!!! > >The names of Abraham & "Polly"'s children: ( to compare family names which >could have been "handed down"): > > >JEPTHA MARTIN born 1825 >EMILY MARTIN born 1828...married AARON W. HODGES >PRUDENCE JANE MARTIN ...married JOHN D. VAUGHAN >JAMES C. MARTIN...nothing else known! >GEORGE W. MARTIN born 1835...married SARAH "SALLY" ANN MOFFITT >ELEAZER (ELEY) MARTIN born 1838...married LUCRETIA WATKINS ***** (my 3x >ggrandparents!) >ABRAHAM H. MARTIN...born 1840...died 3-18-1862 Shawneetown, IL during Civil >War >MARY MARTIN (twin) born 3-22-1842...nothing else know! >MANERVA VIRGINIA MARTIN (twin) born 3-22-1842...married JAMES F. DAY >MARGARET (or MARTHA) MARTIN born 7-20-1845 Wayne County, IL. > > >These names/dates taken from Abraham's Probate Court records at his death in >1852. Probate handled by 2nd wife- MARY MARTIN . (Abraham & she married >between 1846-1852) Wayne County, IL. > > >UNFORTUNATELY.....the courthouse in Wayne County, IL burned in >1886;destroying all records. THIS IS WHY WE NEED HELP!!!! > >Please e-mail: elhzm@tir.com if you can help "connect our dots" > >THANKS SO MUCH! > >Laura >L. Horton (Martin) > > >----- Original Message ----- >Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 8:14 AM > > >> MARTIN-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 147 >> >> Today's Topics: >> #1 [MARTIN-L] That elusive Azariah Ma [Fmfco@aol.com] >> #2 Re: [MARTIN-L] That elusive Azaria [Valerie Ewald ><vwald@voyager.net>] >> #3 [MARTIN-L] Howard Martin ["Norman Walker" ><normusmc@bellsout] >> #4 [MARTIN-L] 1915 NYC Census: 212 11 [Genuspecies@aol.com] >> #5 Re: [MARTIN-L] Martin, Margaret, 1 ["John E. Mellick" ><mellick@spacey.] >> #6 [MARTIN-L] MARTIN BOWNE connection ["Gregory Bowne" ><gregbowne@earthli] >> #7 [MARTIN-L] Obediah Martin Sr [Fmfco@aol.com] >> #8 [MARTIN-L] Obediah Martin ["Jo Carol Larkin-Hunt" ><jochunt@ho] >> #9 Re: [MARTIN-L] That elusive Azaria [James Martin ><jaminkc@earthlink.ne] >> >> Administrivia: >> To unsubscribe from MARTIN-D, send a message to >> >> MARTIN-D-request@rootsweb.com >> >> that contains in the body of the message the command >> >> unsubscribe >> >> and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >> requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. >> >> ______________________________ > >