By request. Source: 1880 History of Grundy County, Missouri Wiliam F. Martin, p. 629-30 WILLIAM P. MARTIN Was born in Miami county, Ohio, January 21, 1803. He is a son of Levi Martin, a native of Pennsylvania, who cut the first bush where the city of Cincinnati now stands, and was a soldier during the Revolutionary War. His mother, Delilah Martin, nee Corbly, was one who suffered terribly by reason of Indian barbarities, as will be seen from the following extract copied from a sketch in a book of narratives published in 1785: " On the second sabbath in May, 1782, I set out with my dear wife and five children to fill my appointment at Red Stone Fort, about a mile from my dwelling. Not suspecting any danger, I was walking about two hundred yards behind my family with my Bible in my hand, meditating, when I heard frightful shrieks from my family. I hastened toward them, vainly looking for a club. When I was within forty yards of them, my poor wife, seeing me, called to me to make my escape. An Indian ran up to shoot me, but I outran him. My dear wife had a babe at the breast, and this in- fant they killed aud scalped. They then struck my wife several times, but failing to knock her down, the Indian that pursued me ran and shot her and scalped her. A daughter, besides the infant, they also killed and scalped. My eldest daughter was hid in a tree about twenty yards distant and witnessed the whole proceedings. After seeing the Indians go away she came from the hollow trnnk, bnt one of the Indians saw her and run up and knocked her down and scalped her." Other atrocities were perpetrated upon this family. The last mentioned daughter was the mother of the subject of our sketch. She survived the terrible wounds, and although she lived to be sixty-nine years of age and was the mother of eleven children, ten of whom she reared to manhood and womanhood, the wound where she had been scalped never healed. Win. P. Martin, of whom we write, was the third son of this noted and noble mother. Her father was a noted minister of the gospel. Mr. Wm. P. Martin was married October 12, 1826, to Miss Mary Blue, of the same county, born April 24, 1807. This couple in their young days lived on the frontier and remember well the events that occurred during the War of 1812. In 1836 they moved to Elkhart county, Indiana, lived there about thirty years, and in 1867 moved to Grundy county, Missouri, and settled upon the farm now occupied by them, and called the model farm of the county He also has a very fine orchard of six hundred trees. His farm contains two hundred and eighty acres. They have had eight children, named as follows- Clarissa, died when twenty-eight years of age; James, died when thirty- two years; Tyler, was a Union soldier during the civil war; Blackford, now living near home; Arsinoe, died while a nurse in the hospital at Corinth in 1863; William, died in infancy; Washington, died when twenty-four years of age; Mary, now the wife of Albert Yates, is living with her parents and keeping house for them. Three grandchildren; viz., Nora M Yates, Martin Yates and Ella Yates, also make their home with their parents and grandparents. They have been life-long members of the Christian Church. 1880 Census Place: Lincoln, Grundy, Missouri Source: FHL Film 1254688 National Archives Film T9-0688 Page 353B Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace Albert YATES Self M M W 40 OH Occ: Farmer Fa: --- Mo: --- Mary B. YATES Wife F M W 37 IN Occ: Keeps House Fa: OH Mo: OH Nora M. YATES Dau F S W 13 IN Fa: OH Mo: IN Martin YATES Son M S W 11 IN Fa: OH Mo: IN Ella L. YATES Dau F S W 7 IN Fa: OH Mo: IN William MARTIN FatherL M M W 77 OH Occ: Farmer Fa: PA Mo: PA Mary MARTIN MotherL F M W 73 OH Occ: Lives At Home Fa: PA Mo: PA