When Lela Victoria Martin was born on 22 July 1877, in Habersham, Habersham, Georgia, United States, her father, Joseph Marion Martin, was 28 and her mother, Catherine Matilda Warren, was 28. She married Loving Langford Stephens on 3 November 1895, in Habersham, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in District 414, Habersham, Georgia, United States in 1900. She died on 9 April 1965, in Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Graceland West Cemetery And Mausoleum, Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, United States.
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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.
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