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The Greene County cemetery book lists date of death as December 11, 1879. |
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Rhoda and Elijah purchased tolls from Jabez's Estate Sale. |
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Burial: Borlin Cemetery, Greene County, Illinois |
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Cause of Death: Typhoid Pneumonia |
Notes for Seth:
Burial: Borlin Cemetery, Greene County, Illinois
Seth was born in Grafton, NH. Sometime around 1832 he moved to New Bedford, MA. 1839, Seth Martin and his 1st wife Mary came back to Grafton and quit claimed deeded land over to his brother, Jonathan Martin. On this deed it states Seth was married to a Mary and living in New Bedford, MA where he was a tanner.
In the Grafton County Registry of Deeds:
Grantor Seth Martin Residence: New Bedford (Bristol) MA (Tanner)
Mary Maritn (my wife)
Upon researching Massachusetts and New Hampshire records repeatedly, a marriage between Seth and Mary can not be located. Several researchers have also checked in New Bedford Vital records and there is not a listing of a death for Mary, his wife. However, he married Rhoda in 1850 in Missouri so something happened to Mary someplace..
There are no tax records listed for Seth, which indicates he didn't own any land. Upon coming to Greene County he moved to a town called Woodville, Illinois.
Seth & Rhoda moved from Callaway County, Missouri to Butler County, Missouri to ??? to Calhoun County, Illinois to Greene County, Illinois.
| In the 1850 census of Callaway County, MO |
Seth Martin 42 yrs Male NH
Rhody Martin 34 Female KY
Jabis Potter 12 Male MO
Hannah Potter 9 Female MO
Wm. M. Potter 7 Male MO
Sarah Potter 5 female MO
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No finding of Rhoda and Seth in the 1860 census of him in Missouri or Illinois. Might have been moving around at that time. |
| In the 1870 census of Calhoun County, IL |
Martin, Seth age 62 Male Clock Tinker Born NH
Martin Rhoda age 54 Female Housekeeping born Kentucky
Martin, Robert age 15 Male Attends school born MO
White, Perry age 28 male farmer born Ill.
White was in the same household as Martins..
Marriage Notes for RHODA HAM and ELIJAH POTTER:
Marriage
notice published in the Callaway County, MO records:
POTTER, ELIJAH m RHODA HAM - June 24, 1837
Marriage Notes for RHODA HAM and SETH MARTIN:
Marriage notice published:
MARTIN , SETH m POTTER , MRS. RHODA - MAY 7, 1850 BY OLIVER McEWEN MG
Children of RHODA HAM and ELIJAH POTTER are:
1. JABIS E. POTTER4, b. 1838; m. (1) ??, Bef. 1882; m. (2) EDNA MCGUIRE, November 1, 1882, Pettis County, Missouri5.
He was on T-9 roll 1397 in Salmon Bay& Washington Precinct , King Co. WA, date 28th & 29th of June 1880 page 274, lines 49 and 50
William Hall W.M. 40 born V.
Jabe Potter W.M. ? Farm laborer, MO>MO>MO
No further information on Jabis/Jabez as of 1999.
He supposedly was married several times and then moved to the state of Washington.
2. HANNAH ELIZABETH POTTER6,7, b. February 15, 1841, Callaway County, MO; d. June 15, 1916, Marysville, Yuba County, CA8,9; m. (1) THOMAS MOSES GEE, November 22, 1855, Callaway County, Missouri; m. (2) JOHN BLANCHARD, June 16, 1896, CA.
Hannah and her husband Thomas Moses Gee and family followed her Uncle William to California where he had gone during the Gold Rush around 1874.
3. WILLIAM M. POTTER10, b. 1843; m. JANE ANN BOSWELL, August 12, 1866, Callaway County, MO11.
1860 census of Callaway County, MO in the Collison household.
John Collison 60
Margaret 49
William M. Potter 17 born in MO
Listed in the 1870 Callaway County, MO census
William age 27
Jane 22
Elmer 2
No other information on him except a son Elmer in the census. He supposedly moved to Canada
4. SARAH C. POTTER12, b. 1845.
Have no further information on Sarah as of 1999.
Children of RHODA HAM and SETH MARTIN:
1. INFANT MARTIN, b. Bet. 1851 - 1856.
Information from Phyllis Martin Suhre, says Seth and Rhoda had an infant who died sometime after 1854. As deaths were not reported in Missouri at that time, I can find no record of this.
2. ROBERT B. MARTIN13, b. November 3, 1854, Poplar Bluff, Missouri14; d. July 7, 1932, Greene County, Illinois14,15; m. MARY ELIZABETH RICHARD/S, November 14, 1873, Greene County, Illinois16.
Endnotes
1. Madison County Kentucky Vital Records, Birth Certificate.
2. Greene County, IL Courthouse, Death Certificate.
3. Callaway County, MO, Marriage License.
4. 1850 census Record of Callaway County.
5. County Court Records, Film #0947352-0947355.
6. 1850 census Record of Callaway County.
7. A descendant of Hannah Elizabeth.
8. Book 2, page 34.
9. Glenda Brothers-descendant of Moses and Hannah.
10. 1850 census Record of Callaway County.
11. Marriage Book, Callaway County, MO.
12. 1850 census Record of Callaway County.
13. 1870 census record of Calhoun County, IL.
14. Greene County Illinois Courthouse, Death Certificate.
15. 50th Wedding Anniversary article in the Carrollton Illinois Newspaper, Obituary.
16. License # 7065, Married by R.S. Cole MG.
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