FIFTH GENERATION

107. James LeRoy Martin was born on 29 Mar 1832 in Marshall County, Tennessee. He appeared on the census on 20 Jun 1860 in District #4, Decatur County, Tennessee. ⁽¹³⁰⁾ He captured by a detachment of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's regiment under Col. William L. Duckworth on 24 Mar 1864 in Union City, Obion County, Tennessee. He died on 8 Sep 1864 in Andersonville, Georgia.


John LeRoy Martin was a private in Company H, 7th Regiment Tennessee Cavalry (Union), and appeared on this regiment's muster rolls for January and February, 1864. He and most of his regiment was captured at Union City, Tenessee, on March 24, 1864. J. L. Martin was later listed as a prisoner of war at Andersonville Prison, Georgia, where he died of Typhoid on September 8, 1864. He is buried near the prison.

He was married to S. Ellen McMillan (daughter of Gilbert McMillan and Eleanor Nichols) in 1850 in Decatur County, Tennessee. S. Ellen McMillan was born in 1828 in Tennessee. She died in 1861 in Decatur County, Tennessee. James LeRoy Martin and S. Ellen McMillan had the following children:

+231 i. James Harvey Martin.
+232 ii. John Filbert Martin.
233 iii. William W. Martin was born on 19 Oct 1856 in Decatur County, Tennessee. He died 1860 to 1870 in Decatur County, Tennessee.

He was married to Harriett Emmaline Rushing (daughter of William Gulledge Rushing and Martha J.) in 1862 in Decatur County, Tennessee. Harriett Emmaline Rushing was born in Mar 1840 in Anson County, North Carolina. She appeared on the census on 2 Aug 1870 in District #4, Decatur County, Tennessee. ⁽¹³¹⁾ She appeared on the census in 1880 in JP #5, Johnson County, Texas.⁽¹³²⁾ She appeared on the census on 8 Jun 1900 in Precinct #1, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas. ⁽¹³³⁾ She died in 1907 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas. She was buried in 1907 in Oakwood Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas. ⁽¹³⁴⁾ James LeRoy Martin and Harriett Emmaline Rushing had the following children:

+234 i. Martha Ann Martin.
+235 ii. Newton Elijah Martin.