MARTENS, Joachim Christopher

   Cause of his death was Pneumonia.

  General Notes:

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,
April 4, 1865.

Brevet Major-General EMORY,
Cumberland:

A movement up the Valley is liable to be ordered at any moment, and the general desires you to see that the troops available have their transportation, ammunition, and supplies on hand. It is probable a concen-tration would be made at Beverly of the Fourteenth, Seventeenth, and Second West Virginia, the Twenty-eighth Ohio, the Third Maryland Potomac Home Brigade, the Seventy-fourth Pennsylvania, and the Twenty-second Pennsylvania Cavalry with two batteries, to move into the Valley by way of Warm Springs. General Hayes will be assigned to the command. The cavalry in the Kanawha must also be ready to move. The general desires all arrangements short of actual concentration to be made at once. A schedule of proposed arrangement of troops on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will be sent you to-morrow.

C.H. MORGAN,
Brevet Brigadier-General, &c.

  Noted events in his life were:

• He was buried at the grave 272 in Cook Cemetery, Southhampton Twp, Somerset Co., PA in 1922. Joachim chose to be buried next to his third wife, Ellen, who is the ancestor of the Getty-Repperts. There are no dates on Joachim's gravemarker, but there is the marking "Soldier Co. K PHB MD Inf". There is an "infant Martens" 11 JUN 1888, "dau. JC & EJ Martens" in grave 271. Ellen is in grave 270.

• He immigrated Immigration to America on 12 Aug 1854. ¹⁶ Joachim immigrated to America in August of 1854 on the Ship Hindu, embarking from Bremen, Ger. He arrived in America 12 Aug 1854.

Joachim married Elizabeth MEHLBERT in 1856. (Elizabeth MEHLBERT died in Sep 1857 in Pochahontas, PA.)

Joachim also married Elizabeth KNEPPENBERG, daughter of Unknown and Unknown, in May 1858 in Wellersburg, Somerset Co, PA. (Elizabeth KNEPPENBERG was born on 11 Dec 1839 in Prussia, died on 21 Apr 1875 in Wellersburg, Somerset Co, PA and was buried in 1875 in Wellersburg Cemetery, Southhampton Twp, Somerset Co., PA.) The cause of her death was childbirth.

Joachim also married Ellen Jane MARTIN, daughter of William L. MARTIN and Abigail COE, in Mar 1876 in Wellersburg, Somerset Co, PA. (Ellen Jane MARTIN was born on 1 Mar 1852 in PA, died on 23 Apr 1888 in Wellersburg, Somerset Co, PA and was buried in Cook Cemetery, Southhampton Twp, Somerset Co., PA.)

Joachim also married Mary M. ELLINGER on 18 Apr 1891 in Cumberland, Alleghany Co., MD. (Mary M. ELLINGER was born on 6 Dec 1840 in Vienna, Austria, died on 11 Mar 1921 in Morantown, Allegany, MD and was buried in Frostburg Catholic Cemetery, Frostburg, MD.) The cause of her death was old Age.