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I admired the chimp one of my flickr contacts (bettybean) got for free with a box of PG Tips. So she sent one to me! All the way from London to SF. Thanks bettybean! Here he is, posing on Jeff's record collection.
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Company D, 124th Pennsylvania Infantry
Wilson County Citizen
January 14,1916, Pg. 1
DEATH OF W. L. MARTIN
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Aged Fredonian Succumbs at 81 to
Attack of Grippe.
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William Lewis Martin, was born January 14, 1835, in Delaware co., Pennsylvania, 17 miles southwest of Philadelphia. He died in Fredonia January 10, 1916, lacking four days of being 81 years. Mr. Martin’s grandfather, received a grant of 500 acres of land from Charles II of England, at the mouth of Chester creek in Delaware co., Penn., where the Martin homestead was established in 1860 and was held in the family until five years ago. In the house where Mr. Martin was born, his father Thomas Martin, was born, and his older children. His mother’s family came to America with Wm. Penn but were not Quakers. He was educated at the Johnathan W. Gouse school for boys at Chads ford, and finished at Shortledge academy at Concordville, Penn. Mr. Martin learned the carpenter’s trade at Wilmington, Delaware, his mother’s people living near that place. He taught school at Brandywine Hundred in Delaware co., at the age of 17. He went to Paisa, Illinois, in 1856, where he taught school in the winter, and worked at his trade in the summer until 1862. August 11, 1862 he enlisted as a private in Company D, 124th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. May 15, 1863, he was honorably discharged on account of ill health. Mr. Martin was with McClellan’s army at the battle of Antietam. February 4, 1864, he was married to Cornelia W. Ford, at (unreadable), Ill., and returned to Pennsylvania. In his diary Mr. Martin tells of his trip east, leaving Alton, Illinois, February 22, and the crossing the Allegheny mountains at night. He spent the years from 1864 to 1870 on the farm at the Martin homestead in Pennsylvania.
Mr. And Mrs. Martin came to Kansas in 1870, and bought a farm one mile north of Fredonia, where they lived one year; the place is still known to many as the old Martin place. Moving to Fredonia in 1871, he was the first principal of the Fredonia schools; was appointed postmaster of Fredonia in 1872, and held the office until May, 22, 1888. He conducted a store in connection, with his duties as postmaster, and in 1879 moved to the farm and spent four years there, then returning to Fredonia to engage in the lumber business. In 1885 he was seriously afflicted with rheumatism, and for the past thirty years has not been able to follow an active business life. With the exception of a year in Oklahoma, and a part of a year in Utah in search of health, he spent his remaining days in Fredonia. Mr. Martin’s death was the result of a severe attack of the grippe, after several weeks of unsuccessful struggle against the malady. To Mr. and Mrs. Martin ten children were born; four died in infancy; thise living are Thomas N. Martin, Fredonia; Anna Julia Hess, Fredonia; May I. Martin, Fredonia; William H. Martin, Stillwater, Okla.; G. Fred Martin, Columbus, Ohio; Charles I. Martin, Fredonia. Mrs. Martin had with his at the funeral all the children except the son living in Ohio. Four grandchildren are living; Mrs. Hazel Hess, Fredonia; Frank and Fred Martin, Odessa, Mo.; Charles Wayne Martin, Stillwater, Okla.
Mr. Martin was a member of the Masonic lodge, and the Grand Army of the Republic. In religion he had his birthright in the Quaker faith, his creed was the Golden Rule, and like his Mater he went about doing good.
Funeral service was held at the Methodist church at 2:30 p. m., Wednesday, by Rev. Weimer, pastor of the Congressional church and Rev. Odom of the Methodist church. Interment was in the Fredonia cemetery. The Masonic lodge had charge at the grave.