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Individual Record for: Elston Claude Martin (male)

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!NAME: Elston Claude Martin

!CENSUS: 1920 McIntosh County, Oklahoma. E.D., Number, 59. Sheet Number, 8-B. Burton Township . January 23, 1920.
Martin Orlando Head. Owned. Mortage. (m)(w) Age, 45. married-1. Can read, yes. Can write, ye s. Born Arkansas. Father born Arkansas. Mother born Illinois. English. Farmer. General Farm.
[Martin] Nora Wife. (f)(w) Age, 30. married-1. Can read, yes. Can write, yes. Born Indiana. F ather born Kentucky. Mother born Indiana. English. None.
[Martin] Helen Daughter. (f)(w) Age, 6. Single. Attended School, yes. Born Oklahoma. Father b orn Arkansas. Mother born Indiana. None.
[Martin] Elston Son. (m)(w) Age, 5. Single. Attended School, yes. Born Oklahoma. Father bor n Arkansas. Mother born Indiana. None.
[Martin] Ella Bernice Daughter. (f)(w) Age, 2 11/12 Born Oklahoma. Father born Arkansas. Moth er born Indiana. None.
[Martin] Mary T. Daughter. (f)(w) Age, 1 1/12 Born Oklahoma. Father born Arkansas. Mother bor n Indiana. None.

!CENSUS: 1930 McIntosh County, Oklahoma census. E.D., Number, 46-2. Sheet Number, 2-A. Burto n Township. 1930.
Martin O. L. Head. Owned. (m)(w) Age, 55. married. 38 at time of first marriage. Attended S chool, no. Can read & write, yes. Born Arkansas. Father born Arkansas. Mother born Illinois . Farmer. Farm.
[Martin] Nora Wife. (f)(w) Age, 40. married. 22 at time of frist marriage. Attended School, n o. Can read & write, yes. Born Indiana. Father born Indiana. Mother born Indiana. None.
[Martin] Helen Daughter. (f)(w) Age, 16. Single. Attended School, yes. Can read & write, yes . Born Oklahoma. Father born Arkansas. Mother born Indiana. None.
[Martin] Elston Son. (m)(w) Age, 15. Single. Attended School, yes. Can read & write, yes. Bor n Oklahoma. Father born Arkansas. Mother born Indiana. None.
Martin Bernice Relative. (f)(w) Age, 13. Single. Attended School, yes. Born Oklahoma. Fathe r born Arkansas. Mother born Inidiana. None.
[Martin] Mary Relative. (f)(w) Age, 11. Single. Attended School, yes. Can read & write, yes . Born Oklahoma. Father born Arkansas. Mother born Indiana. None.
[Martin] Nadeen Relative. (f)(w) Age, 5. Single. Attended School, yes. Can read & write, yes . Born Oklahoma. Father born Arkansas. Mother born Indiana. None.

!LETTER: Hanna, Okla. 9/18/17 - Mr. Loyd Martin, Salt Creek Wyo. Dear brother, Yours of the 5 th, inst. received the 17, was glad to hear from you. It seemes that you have been somewha t disconnected from this part of the country for some time Replying to your request as to whe re the folks are will say that I am very sorry to inform you that father died the 4th day o f last Nov. Mother and Zola lives at the old home place. I guess you knew that Zolla marrye d bout 3 years ago, last spring while she was visiting home her husband disappeared and has n ot been heard of since they lived at Miami Mo. [Oklahoma] Auvella married a fellow by the na me of Balentine and I think they are at Haskel Okla. Carl is a rig builder in the oil field h e gets bout $7.00 per day Arris joined the army last sping and is in training camp at Clarksv ille Ark. I dident think he was dam fool enought to do that Ed bought him a farm near Litt le Rock and moved there last winter. Gus is hear in this neighborhood. Mother says they hav e a fine crop on the old place, we have good corn and feed crop here but the worms have eat u p the cotton, but I don't have much of it only 8 acres. I have 12 head mares and colts als o 30 head of cattle am just finishing me a new house. What for a country is that out there ? You farming? or what are you doing and are you making any thing? Nora wants to know i f you can sing Casy Jones like you used to. Well the second one is named Elston the 3 one i s Ella Bernice baby girl and that is the crop I broke the machine. Well if you wish to kno w any thing more I can tell you. Very Truly O.L. Martin.

!BIO: Some of the following was written by Don Martin Thomas and some of the following was wr itten by Roylene Elaine (Thomas) Day. Dedicated to those few who might be interested in gene alogy and Family History. I remember dad telling how Aunt Nellie Irine (Miller) Young, an d her husband Guy Young would throw pine cones onto the roof of the cabin to scare Grandma, D ella Melvina (Miller) Thomas. From Williams, Arizona I think Grandpa and Grandma, dad, and m aybe Guy Marion Young and Nellie Irine (Miller) Young, moved to California. I think it was i n Newport Beach that Grandma Della (Miller) Thomas saved her neices life. I think it was Nel lie Irine (Miller) Young's daughter, Helen Gurtrude Young that she nursed back to life. Dad , (John Melroy Thomas), met mother, (Mary Thelma (Martin) Moore), while visiting aunt, [Nelli e Irine (Miller) Young Ore,] in Douglas] Arizona. Grandma's neice, Helen Gertrude Young ha d married Elston Claude Martin, mother's brother, and they also lived in Douglas, Arizona . Dad and his first cousin, Helen Gertrude (Young) Martin and mom's brother, Elston Claud e Martin, were all sitting in a car in front of a store when mother came down the sidewalk wi th a little girl called Brenda Kay following along. That was how the story went whent Dad an d Mother met the first time. Mother, (Mary Thelma (Martin) Moore), was staying with dad's Au nt, Nellie Irine (Miller) Young Ore, at that time. Mother stated that Nellie Irine (Miller ) Young Ore's husband ran a gas station there in Douglas, Arizona and that Nellie also ha d a big house there where her brother and sister-in-law, Elston Claude Martin and Helen Gertr ude (Young) Martin, also lived. Nellie Irine (Miller) Young Ore moved to Phoenix, Arizona an d Mother also stated she had a house there. Mother moved to Phoenix, Arizona with them sinc e mom and dad dated for a time in Phoenix, Arizona. Mother said that Nellie Irine (Miller) Y oung Ore had a house and some land and decided to raise chickens there in Phoenix, Arizona. M other stated that she thought that Nellie thought they were going to make a lot of money sel lling chickens, but the chickens caught a desease and all died. Uncle Elston as we called hi m, Uncle Elston Claude Martin, worked for the Railroad. Uncle Elston and his second wife, Au nt Pat, bought grandpap's farm in Oklahoma and through their life time added to the size of t he farm until they owned over a thousand acres.

!OBITUARY: Elston C. Martin was born Sep. 13, 1914 in Hanna to Orlando and Nora (Russell) Mar tin, married Maurine Porak on June 29, 1946 in Muskogee, OK and died Monday, Nov. 27, 2000 i n the Muskogee VA Hospital. Services were Thursday at the First Baptist Church in Hanna foll owed by burial in the Dustin Cemetery under the direction of Black's Funeral Home, Eufaula . Survivors include his wife; a daughter and son-in-law, Susan and Larry Leichtman of Virgin ia Beach, VA; three sisters, Nadine Martin of Eufaula, Mary Thomas of Salt Lake City, UT an d Bernice Wells of Tucson, AZ; three grandchildren, David Leichtman of Norman and Laura and L ogan Leichtman of Virginia Beach, VA. He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister , Helen Duncan. - THE INDIAN JOURNAL, Thursday, December 7, 2000.

!OBITUARY: The Indian Journal, Eufaula, McIntosh County, Oklahoma Newpaper, Volume Ninety - F ive, Thursday, April 15, 1971. No., 34. O.L. (LANNY) MARTIN BURIED AT DUSTIN APRIL 8. O.L. (L anny) Martin was born in Clarksville, Arkansas, October 17, 1874 and died April 3, 1971 in Tu cson, Arizona. He was 96 years 5 months and 16 days old. He was visiting with his daughter , Bernice in Tucson enroute to El Paso to visit with his son, and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Elston M artin, then planned on returning to Lakewood, California where he had made his home the las t 2 years. Martin was married to Nora Julia Russell [Julia Nora Russell] on June 23, 1912 . They have five children, which survive. They are: Helen Martin Duncan of Lakewood, Califo rnia, Elston C. Martin, El Paso, Texas, Bernice Martin Wells of Tucson, Arizona, Mary Marti n Thomas of Salt Lake City, Utah and Nadine Martin Wilson of Del City, Oklahoma. He had on e brother, Arris Martin of Sacramento, California, one sister Zola Carter of Bartlesville, Ok lahoma, 23 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. He came to Hanna, Okla., in 1908 and pu rchased the farm where he lived the rest of his life with the exception of the last few year s when he moved to Dustin. Some things worth recalling, spoken by a very old and very dear f ather were recalled by his son: "He took the scripture literally." The 23rd Psalm being hi s favorite, he said, "I never let the sun catch me still in the house when I was farming, ear ly to bed and early to rise." When asked by his daughters why he wanted to leave his farm ho me and move to Dustin, he said, "Here on the farm I have the best neighbors in the world, the y will do anything for me, but they are all young people and young people are busy. Dustin h as many retired men, I will have someone to visit with and play dominoes." His grandson aske d him why he never started to drink and smoke like many other men. His answer was "Becaus e I had better sence and I knew it wasn't good for me." He told of working with a crew of me n while building the telephone lines from Vinita, Okla., to Ashland, Wisconsin. He said "Mos t of the other men would collect their pay checks each weekend and head for the nearest tow n to drink and gamble and by Monday morning they were broke, but I felt that my money was har d to earn so I mailed it to the bank instead." One of his grandsons inquired as to why he wa ited so long to get married. He answered "When I was a young man a couple would get marrie d and live with one set of parents for awhile and then go to live with the other set of paren ts. I made up my mind that I would not get married until I had a place to take my wife." Ma rtin helped to organize the Shell Creek School District in which he lived and helped to dra w up plans for the first school house and supervised its construction. He served on the scho ol board of trustees much of the time. For a short while when he was a young man he worked a t the first cement plant in Missouri. It was near Kansas City, Missouri and he saw the firs t paved street in Kansas City. He attended college in Clarksville, Arkansas at what is now T he College of the Ozarks in the late 1800's. He earned a teaching certificate and taught sch ool for 2 years in a rual district for $30.00 per month. After this he changed his employmen t to the Telephone Company. Mr. Martin was buried in Dustin Thursday, April 8. His funera l was at Dustin Baptist Church and Rev. D.C. Jackson officiated.

!INDIAN?: The following is a letter and some information off of the internet. Sue Webb's fam ily has tried to contact the Eric Brunner, with out any luck. This information needs to be r esearched. Nothing Documented. Sue Webb's family does not believe the following.
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LETTER: From Elston C. Martin, Rt. 1, 98, Hanna, OK 74845., (Addressed to) Mr. Don Thomas, 44 7 No. 200 West, Salt Lake City, Utah 84103. Postal Dated, Oklahoma City, OK PM 4 June 1997. L etter and enclosed information reads as follows: Hanna, OK., June 3, 1997, Dear Don & All., M e thinkun you Injun Ugh. You could be 1/32, and Don I'm enclosing the information you want . Margarette (Schrum) Jones Martin has to be 1/2 Indian. It seems my father, my daughte r & I were registered in Arkansas in 1956 by someone. Rather I should say we could have been . It was nice talking with you & your mom. Love to all, Uncle Elston & Aunt Pat.
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Subject: Re: Deleware/Lenape Rolls
From: brunner@cup.hp. com (Eric Brunner Contra)
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 20:12: 29 GMT
Message-ID: D9vEst.FAK@cup.hp.com

Dear Dr. Leichtman,

The following persons are listed on the Deleware tribal rolls Orlando Luther Martin Reg. 1452 83 registerd through Sherman Tennessee Deleware Reservation.
Elston Claude Martin Reg. 195439 registered through Sherman Tennessee Deleware Reservation. S usan Gay Martin Reg. 223457 registered through Sherman Tennessee Reservation.

The elder Maritn is listed as 1/8 through the Cloud Deer Family of the Sherman Reservation th ough the origin is actually in Maryland. Please contact me for further information. Your ch ildren could be registered though with a 1/64th claim there would not be a great benefit.

Kitakitamatsinopowaw (I'll see you again)
Eric Bruner
Representative Delaware/Lenape Council of Deleware, Maryland, Virginia.
6/12/95 America Online: Lawrencegl Page 1.
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!OBITUARY: Maurine Porak Martin, 82, of Hanna, Oklahoma, died on Monday, May 28, 2002. Grave side services were held at Humboldt Cemetery June 1, 2002 in Humboldt, Nebraska. Maurine wa s the daughter of Frank and Cleo Porak, and was born September 19, 1919 in Humboldt, Nebraska . She attended the Humboldt High School and received her collage diploma from the Universit y of Arizona. Maurine was a professional trumpet player, greeting card writer, and served i n WWII as a Seaman First Class. On June 29, 1946, she was united in marriage to Elston C. Ma rtin at Springfield, MO. The Couple established their home in Springfield, Missouri and late r moved to Tucson, Arizona, El Paso, Texas and then Hanna, Oklahoma. She was very active i n the United Methodist Church where she served as Sunday School Teacher and many other activi ties in the church. She was a woman of faith, an escellent mother and wife, and an independe nt and strong woman. She is survived by one daughter, Susan and her husband, Dr. Larry Leich tman of Virginia Beach, Virginia; three grandchildren, David, Laura, and Logan Leichtman al l of Virginia Beach, Virginia; and one sister, Doris Wilson of Omaha, Nebraska. She was prec eded in death by her parents, and her husband, Elston Martin. - Source - Indian Journal Newsp aper - Eufaula, McIntosh, Oklahoma - Thursday June 6, 2002.

!BIO: - Uncle Elston as we called him, Uncle Elston Claude Martin, worked for the Railroad, h e was a conductor for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Aunt Nadine Martin told the story tha t Uncle Elston Claude Martin took a leave of absence from the Railroad and in Springfield, Mi ssouri he took a job as an insurance salesman. Aunt Nadine Martin said there is a picture o f Elston Martin dancing on a table after he was told that he had sold the most insurance acco unts, and that the compay was going to reward him for a nice job well done, by giving him th e first car off the block. Aunt Nadine said that making cars had stopped during the war, an d now that the war was over, he, uncle Elston Claude Martin, was going to get the first car o ff the line for selling the most insurance accounts. Uncle Elston and his second wife, Aun t Pat, bought grandpap's farm in Oklahoma and through their life time added to the size of th e farm until they owned over a thousand acres. Uncle Elston Claude Martin is buried in Dusti n City Cemetery, Dustin, Hughs, Oklahoma. Aunt Maurine "Pat" (Porak) Martin is buried in Hum boldt, Richardson, Nebraska next to her parents.

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