William Constantine Martin

Brief Life History of William Constantine

When William Constantine Martin was born on 15 September 1834, in Coldspring, Douglas, Missouri, United States, his father, Thomas J L Martin, was 26 and his mother, Elisa Amelia Dryden, was 19. He married Martha Anne McQuown on 24 May 1859, in Sullivan, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Pleasant Hill Township, Sullivan, Missouri, United States in 1880. He died on 16 January 1916, in Toledo, Lincoln, Oregon, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Philomath, Benton, Oregon, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Constantine Martin
1834–1916
Martha Anne McQuown
1834–1916
Marriage: 24 May 1859
Susan Anne Martin
1861–1944
Patrick Henry Martin
1862–1951
Celeste May Martin
1867–1922
Mary McQuown Martin
1869–1968
Inez Vesta Martin
1871–1970
William Price Martin
1874–1875
Kenison "Kenneth" Duncan Martin
1876–1959

Sources (11)

  • Wm Martin, "United States Census, 1880"
  • William C Martin, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
  • William Martin, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"

World Events (8)

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

1843

Historical Boundaries 1843: Highland County create from Non-County Area 23 1845: Highland County renamed Sullivan County

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, Irish, French, Walloon, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Italian (Veneto); Spanish (Martín): from a personal name derived from Latin Martinus, itself a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’. This was borne by a famous 4th-century Christian saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. In North America, the surname Martin has absorbed cognates and derivatives from other languages, e.g. Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Marcin , Albanian Martini , Polish surnames beginning with Marcin-, and Slovenian patronymics like Martinčič (see Martincic ). Martin is the most frequent surname in France and one of the most frequent surnames in Wallonia.

English: variant of Marton .

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mártain, ‘descendant of Martin’ (compare 1 above). Otherwise, a shortened form of Gilmartin or McMartin ; sometimes also spelled Martyn.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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