![]() Martin was confined to her bed and asleep, stated the record was accurate up to this time last year, but close touch between all branches of the family tree has been made impossible since then and it is not known how many new members have come since that time."Īpplication for Pension Due to a Deceased Pensioner ![]() Fountain, who interviewed the reporter as Mrs. Sanders, who was also present, offered to run into the house and get a brand new tablet to take all the names down on if he cared to. Fountain laughed heartily at the expression on the face of the reporter when she asked if the press wanted the names of all of the family, and Mrs. Wilder, pastor of Calvary Baptist Temple, and during her year of confinement from old age, there have been very few days in which she has not been called upon by the minister. Martin's birthday was last Monday, the Fourth of July. The religion of the families extends only to two faiths, Baptist for all, except two which are Methodist. To name all the descendants would make the story read like a city directory. ![]() The other son is Billy Martin of Nashville, Ga., who is the daddy of 8 children and has 5 grandchildren. Martin of Miami is the father of 6 children and has 26 grandchildren. Mary Fletcher of Valdosta, who has 11 children and 37 grandchildren.īarney Martin of Hastings is the father of 5 children and has 2 grandchildren. Sallie Sanders of Savannah, became the mother of eight children and now has seventeen grandchildren. Ida Dixon of Blackshear is mother of eight children and has one grandchild. Mattie Powell of Nashville, Ga., became the mother of ten children and is now grandmother of two. Carrie Radcliffe of Argyle had eight children in her family and is now the grandmother of seven. Fountain is the grandmother of three children. Martin is staying, had one child in her family. Fountain, who lives at Fifty-fourth and Montgomery Streets and with whom Mrs. They became the parents of six girls and three sons. Sixty-two years ago Miss Isabelle Peters of Lowndes County and W.C. Martin's immediate family, the total makes 186 members of the great family, all of them living. Martin is grandmother to 65, now grown up and married, great grandmother to 100, some grown up and married, and great great grandmother to 12. While her nine children do not make a record of the largest immediate family, it is believed the roll of her grandchildren, great grandchildren and great, great grandchildren is the record of the state, if not the country. Martin, age 84 years, has lived to see her family develop through five generations, and while she has not been able to see each of her 186 descendants, she has found a fond spot in her heart for each of them and as the tidings of another great-great-grand child comes to her, she still finds her abundance of love sufficient to welcome it into the large number of descendants. Martin Has Hundred Eighty-Six Living Descendantsįamily Believed To Be Largest In The State She passed away in 1929.ĭeath: (aged 83) Berrien County, Georgia, USAīurial: Cat Creek Cemetery, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, USAīio: _
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