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Individual Record for: Melissa Margaret Self (female)

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!NAME: Melissa Margaret Self

!NAME: Melissa Margaret Self - (AFN: 1LWQ-TR5) - Source L.D.S., Ancestral File.

!CENSUS: 1860 Cove Township, Polk County, Arkansas census. Stamped Page Number, 665-A. Enumer ated on the 17th day of July, 1860.
John Self Age, 40. (m) Farmer. 1000/900. Born Tennessee.
Elizabeth [Self] Age, 33. (f) Born Mississippi.
Hezekiah [Self] Age, 17. (m) Farm Laborer. Born Mississippi.
Emeline [Self] Age, 13. (f) Born Mississippi.
Spencer [Self] Age, 10. (m) Born Mississippi.
Melissa [Self] Age, 7. (f) Born Arkansas.
Bytha [Self] Age, 5. (f) Born Arkansas.
Ann E. [Self] Age, 2. (f) Born Arkansas.
Margaret Reed Age, 55. (f) Born Alabama.

!CENSUS: 1870 Blackfork Township, Scott County, Arkansas census. Stamped Page Numbers, 566-B. , 567-A. Enumerated on the 2nd & 3rd days of August, 1870.
Martin Henry Age, 26. (m)(w) Farmer. /300. Born Arkansas.
[Martin] Margaret Age, 19. (f)(w) Keeping House. Born Arkansas.
[Martin] John M. Age, 1. (m)(w) Born Arkansas.

!DEED: (In/Part) Warranty Deed, Know all men by these presents: That I , John Martin and Nan nie [Frost] Martin, his wife, both of Scott County, in consideraton of One Hundred Dollars t o us paid by Ann Eliza Jones formerly Self, of Scott County, in the State of Arkansas, the re ceipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto th e said Ann Eliza Jones formerly Self, and her heirs a certain tract or parcel of land situate d in Scott County, aforesaid, bounded and described as follows: My undivided one half interes t as heir at law of Malissa [Self] Martin, deceased, in and to the Sourth West quarter of th e South East quarter (S.W. 1/4 of the S.E. 1/4) of Secton Eleven (11), in Township One (1) No rth, in Range Thirty Two (32) West, being 20 acres or one half interest in said forty hereb y conveyed withall the privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging[...] [...] In Witness w hereof, we the said John Martin and Nannie Martin have hereunto set our hands this 22 day o f March, 1892. John Martin {seal} Nannie Martin {seal} [Note the above described property mus t have original been the property of John Self, deeded to John Self's grandchildren, becaus e his daughter Malissa Margaret (Self) Martin was deceased]

!BIOGRAPHY: Information from Carolyn Ann (Martin) Sue, Lockney, Texas 79241., she writes th e following about her family.; Martin Family Stories. Daddy [Will Massie Martin] has always s aid his father didn't say much about his family, but I will tell what I have heard him tell . Thomas Henry Martin had 2 brothers Jack & Bill. The best I can figure Jack would be Joh n W. "Jack" Martin and Bill would be William Wilson "Bill" Martin. Tom [Thomas Henry "Tom" M artin] and Jack [John W. "Jack" Martin] fought in the Civil war. Jack came to visit in Floy d County & left his Civil war rifle & Daddy played with it and tore it up. I have no recor d of either. Bill [William Wilson "Bill" Martin] owned land in Floyd County, Texas. N.E. o f Floydada close to South Plains. Tom [Thomas Henry "Tom" Martin] had taken his boys, John [ John Millard Martin] & Wes [Marion Wesley "Wes" Martin] to the store of his father in Arkansa s. He, [John Miller Martin] told Tom to "get them boys out of here before they tear somethin g up." There was never anything said about divorce between Tom [Thomas Henry "Tom" Maritn ] & Melissa [Melissa Margaret (Self) Martin], I had always assumed she had died maybe in a ch ildbirth as so many others did. There was a baby died & he had an extra thumb on one hand . Tom [Thomas Henry "Tom" Martin], Martha [ Martha Elizabeth (Britt) Martin] & family move d to Texas, maybe Brown County, around 1885. It was always said John {John Millard Martin ] & Wes [Marion Wesley "Wes" Martin] lived with them. They moved to Floyd County, Texas arou nd 1891. When Wes [Marion Wesley "Wes" Martin] was about 16 years old his step-mother, Marth a [Martha Elizabeth (Britt) Martin] told him to go feed the horses and this made him mad so h e went back to Arkansas. This would be about 1887 about the time you found the "Guardian Bou nd" appointing Spencer Self guardian, Spencer was his mother's brother. Wes [Marion Wesley " Wes" Martin] married Sallie Berry in Vernon, Texas 18 June 1891. I have marriage license. T he article I wrote about T.H. Martin was in the Floyd County, Hesperian Floydada, Texas.

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