Reprint from an earlier Post Dr. James T. Martin was born near Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia, August 3. 1846, and died April 3, 1908, aged sixty-one years and eight months. He was educated principally in the Academy in Abingdon. When but a boy he was afflicted with white swelling which made him a cripple for life in his right leg, otherwise he was strong and healthy. In early manhood he taught school for a time in order to obtain money with which to attend some medical college. He was diligent in his business and saving of his means. His heart was set on the study and practice of medicine and to accomplish this purpose he bent every energy of body and of mind. He read medicine under Dr. Wm. Phillipps, of Wallace, Va. Then, with some aid from hisparents, whose moans were limited, and his own hard earnings, he attended the Kentucky School of Medicine, Louisville, Ky., in 1875-6. Returning home he began the practice of medicine in the vicinity of Mendota, Virginia. After some two years of successful practice he attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Md., graduating from said college in the Spring of 1879. Returning to Mendota he resumed the practice of medicine, in which he was eminently successful. On the seventeenth day of July, 1879, he was married to the Mattie Livingston, of Scott County, Virginia. Twelve children were born to this union--nine sons and three daughters, ten of whom are yet living, viz: Seven sons and three daughters, who, with the mother, mourn the irreparable loss of the father and the husband. The two older sons, W. M. and Claude G., both practicing physicians of Kentucky, were at the bedside of the father when he died. All the children were at home except one son, Edgar, who was in Colorado. The deceased, like all mortals, was not without his faults and his weaknesses, but he had his virtues and he had many strong points of character. He was impulsive and sometimes passionate. Very decided in his likes and dislikes. He was quick to express his opinion and very frank in doing so. If he believed a thing to be right he was for that thing with all his soul until convinced, if convinced at all, that he was in the wrong. He always made choice of sides concerning matters and did not fear to assert himself in the cause which he espoused. This sometimes made him enemies, but he was never without friends. He was cheerful in disposition and warm in his admiration of those wham he honored and esteemed. He rarely, if ever, forgot a favor or a kindness shown him He would go his length far his friends. Nothing that he could reasonably do for them but what he would willingly do. He met them with a hearty hand shake, a welcome greeting, and often with some mirth-provoking jogeanda heary, riuginglilugh. In this respect he was often like cheerful sunlight coming into the homes of his patients. He sought to cheer them in spirits by his word and manner, as veil as to administer medicine for their bodily ills. No weather was too hot or too cold, no night was too dark, while he was in health, for him to go when called professionally to the homes of his friends. For a period of thirty-one years he practiced his chosen profession in Mendota and vicinity, and when the end came he died at the home where he had gone to relieve the sick. Saturday, March 28, he was stricken with paralysis in the right side while at the home of Oscar Hunter eight miles east of Mendota. He was never able to be removed. April 4 his remains were brought home. He had been in declining. health for four years, but was unwilling to give up his practice. Truly he may be said to have fallen with the harness on, doing his duty as a physician faithfully to the last. During his life he held many positions of honor and trust. He was many years vice-president and treasurer of Hamilton Institute, and far a time president. He was a member of Mendota Lodge No. 174 A. F. g~ A. M., and served the lodge as an officer in various positions including that of worshipful master. He was a local surgeon of the V. & S. W. Road, and had held a pass as such for 3 nllmherOf yea" He was an honored member of the Southwest Virginia Medical Association and the East Tennessee Medical Association. By energy and perseverance, coupled with good financial ability, he rose from obscurity and · comparative poverty to honor in his profession, and to comparative wealth. He loved his family, and amply provided for his household. He sought the best for his children. By his council and his money he was ever ready to help them to obtain an education. He was ready to spend and be spent far wife and loved ones. During his aged father's life, the care which he manifested toward him was touching and beautiful. A number of years ago he made a profession of faith in Christ and later united with the Methodist church. To use his own words, he "many times went astray, " but during the last few years of his life he told his wife that he was not afraid to die, that he felt that he was saved. When she saw that he was stricken for death she ask him if he still felt that he was ready to die and he assured her as best he could that he did. At about five o'clock p. m., Friday, April4 he died without a struggle. The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. H. W. Bellamy to a large number of friends and relatives in the Methodist church in Mendota Sunday, April 5. Text: "Who hath abolished death and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel" (II Timothy 1:10) after which the remains were laid to rest in the village cemetery. Peace to his dust and sympathy to the bereaved family who, nevertheless, "Sorrow not, even as others which have no hope." - 1 Thess. 4:13 H. W, B.