Thanks to Louise Martin Miner, and her family, we are looking at the next bi-ennial Martin Family Reunion.
Memorial Day weekend, in the Salt Lake City area.
Our reunions have mostly focused on the John and Rachel Winter Martin family, but over recent years we have extended it to John's brothers and sisters: the family of his father, James Andrew and Lizzie Richardson Martin. And we are staring down a long term plan to complete our family re-connection by expanding it to the family of James's father: John New and Louisa Tolly Martin.
John New and Louisa Tolly Martin are my Great-Great-Great Grandparents. When you get to John New Martin, you approach a narrative that is brimming with tales of the Wild West. Cattle rustlers, outlaws, ruffians roaming the Texas countryside in search of plunder. Our Martin family was familiar with this.
They had ten children:
James Andrew Martin (1847 – 1928)
Francis Marion Martin (1850 – 1869)
Nancy Ann Martin (1852 – 1870)
John Elias "Red" Martin (1855 – 1905)
Mary Elizabeth Martin (1857 – 1926)
William Jefferson Martin (1859 – 1925)
Rachel Jane Martin (1861 – 1945)
George Washington Martin (1863 – 1952)
Louisa Evaline Martin (1866 – 1941)
Besides the surname "Martin," their descendants have the following last names:
Richmond, Hulse, Miller, Rockhill, Nienstedt, Gates, Ballinger, Cleveland, Hall, Williams, Gunter, Morgan, McCombs, Becktell, Burke, Walts, Milburn, Hanson, Phillips, Windle, Hodges, Scharenberg, Bonham, Helterbrand, Peters, Daniel, Cecil, Bolinger, Dismondi, Hicks, Chandler, Turnbow, and many, many others.
We estimate that the total number of living descendants of John and Louisa Martin is nearly a thousand.
We hope to meet at least one member from each of the branches of the family, come May!
