David Martin

Birth Date

c1804

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bath County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Polly Ragland Martin in Bath County in December 1829. Married to Jane Thompson Estill Martin in Bath County in March 1851. Father of John D. Martin. Married to Margaret Martin. Father of William S. Martin. Farmer in Bath County in 1860. Employed Samuel Estill as a farmhand in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in 1860. Household owned one additional slave in 1860. Served in the 9th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private from September 15, 1862. Reported as missing from Woodbury, Tennessee, May 1, 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 23.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 77A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 50A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bath County Marriages, Film #000273003, p. 106 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bath County Marriages, Film #000273005, p. 433.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1914), KDLA, Film # 994027-994058: Bath County Births, 1852, p. 2 of 8 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 2 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 24-25.

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