James Homer "Chip" Martin

Brief Life History of James Homer "Chip"

When James Homer "Chip" Martin was born on 28 July 1898, in Elk City, Beckham, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Robert Eli Martin, was 30 and his mother, Sophira Snowden, was 28. He married Will Ella Weston in 1928, in Perryton, Ochiltree, Texas, United States. He lived in Hansford, Texas, United States in 1935 and Justice Precinct 4, Sherman, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 10 December 1992, in Spearman, Hansford, Texas, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Spearman, Hansford, Texas, United States.

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James Homer "Chip" Martin
1898–1992
Will Ella Weston
1908–1994
Marriage: 1928

Sources (13)

  • J H Martin, "United States Census, 1940"
  • James Homer Martin, "Texas, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947"
  • James Martin, "Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000"

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World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1917

Historical Boundaries 1917: Hansford, Texas, United States

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

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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