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William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
WILLIAM MARTIN, farmer, Section 4, Township 16, Range 25, P. O. Louisburg was born in Fayette County, Va., June 24, 1818, and resided in Virginia til 1850, and then moved to Cass County, Mo. In 1860 he removed to the township of Middle Creek, Miami Co.,
Kansas. Three years later, he purchased a
farm adjoining the village of Louisburg, where he resided til 1872, when he sold out and purchased 320 acres on Section 4, same township. He has since conveyed all but eighty-three acres to his children. Mr.
Martin married in Fayette County, Va., January 20, 1841, to Miss
Helen, daughter of Edward Sims. They had a family of eleven children, eight of whom are living:
Edna is the wife of A, Watson; Mary is Mrs. John Q.
White; Mildred is Mrs.
Benj. Wingrove;
William H. died, aged eleven years; Charles E. lives in
Wea; Rebeca A. is the wife of L. Martin; Joseph C; Eunice died, aged twenty-five years;
John; Sarah E. died in childhood; Peter is married and living at the old homestead. They have also an adopted
son-Charles Sims, a nephew of Mrs. Martin. Charles E., the eldest living son, enlisted in the late war when only sixteen years of age in a Kansas regiment, and served on the frontier. He was one of a detachment that fell into an Indian ambush, where he and one other, only, escaped death., Their comrades were horribly mutilated. Young
Martin was saved by being well mounted.
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