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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Clara Louise Martin: Birth: 09 FEB 1917 in Thacker, Mingo County, West Virginia. Death: 22 JUN 1997 in Margate, Broward County, Florida

  2. Albert Lawrence Martin: Birth: 21 MAR 1918 in Powellton, Fayette County, West Virginia. Death: 29 MAR 1994 in Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio

  3. John Vinson Martin: Birth: 05 DEC 1919 in Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio. Death: 23 JUL 1980 in Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio

  4. Sylvia Irene Martin: Birth: 05 APR 1921 in Vulcan Camp (a coal mine town) , near Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio. Death: 05 APR 2001 in Delaware County, Ohio

  5. Herbert Allen Martin: Birth: 22 NOV 1922 in Vulcan Camp (a coal mine town), near Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio. Death: 15 SEP 1972 in Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio

  6. Charles Eugene Martin: Birth: 04 SEP 1924 in Sugar Creek, Athens County, Ohio. Death: 14 SEP 1924 in Athens County, Ohio

  7. Zella Jaret Martin: Birth: 26 OCT 1925 in The Plains, Athens County, Ohio. Death: 06 SEP 1987 in Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio

  8. Edna Mae Martin: Birth: 11 JUN 1927 in The Plains, Athens County, Ohio. Death: 14 DEC 2014 in Rock Springs Nursing Home, Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio

  9. Edward Rae Martin: Birth: 11 JUN 1927 in The Plains, Athens County, Ohio. Death: 22 FEB 1994 in Rutland, Meigs County, Ohio

  10. Osby Alphonse Martin: Birth: 24 JUN 1928 in Minersville, Meigs County, Ohio. Death: 10 SEP 1999 in Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio

  11. Ronald Gene Martin: Death: 1930 in Minersville, Meigs County, Ohio


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Carolyn Roush: Birth: 23 MAY 1938 in Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio. Death: 07 FEB 2015 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa

  2. Marilyn Roush: Birth: 23 MAY 1938 in Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio. Death: 23 NOV 1938 in Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio

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Sources
1. Title:   The Martin Family (non-published)
Author:   Martin, Robert A.
Publication:   Name: September, 1980 (revised February 1997), Alliance, Ohio;
2. Title:   Obituary of Mary Frances (Blankenship) (Martin) Roush
Publication:   Name: The Daily Sentinel (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio): December 1971or January 1972;
3. Title:   1910 McDowell County, West Virginia
4. Title:   1900 Wyoming County, West Virginia
5. Title:   Wyoming County, West Virginia Birth Records
6. Title:   Mingo County, West Virginia Marriage Records
7. Title:   Meigs County, Ohio Death Records
8. Title:   Greenlawn Cemetery and Greenlawn Memory Gardens Cemetery, York Township, Athens County, Ohio Cemetery Inscriptions
Author:   McVey, Owen and Faye
Publication:   Name: Athens County Historical Society and Museum, Athens County Genealogical Chapter, O.G.S.: 1987;
9. Title:   Meigs County, Ohio Marriage Records

Notes
a. Note:   H2382
Note:   She was known by her middle name, "Frances".
  Frances always said that she was born in McDowell County, West Virginia. However, her birth is recorded in Wyoming County, West Virginia.
  Frances measured 4'10" tall and weighed about 90 pounds; she was a slight woman. She had hazel eyes and brown hair.
  Frances lived her early years in the Welch, McDowell County, West Virginia area, completed "common school" (grades 1-8), and attended Hiwassie College in Madisonville, Monroe County, Tennessee.
  At the time of her marriage to Ed Martin, Frances was postmistress at the Thacker, Mingo County, West Virginia post office.
  Frances lived with her son, Osby, for about one year prior to her death. She died as the result of a cerebral vascular accident due to arteriosclerosis. At the time of her death, Frances had 38 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
  Frances' obituary in The Daily Sentinel (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, either from December, 1971 or January, 1972) is as follows:
  "Mrs. Mary Frances Roush, 73, Minersville, Route 1, died early Thursday morning at Veterans Memorial Hospital following a lingering illness.
  Preceding her in death was her first husband, Edward Martin, in 1936. She is survived by her second husband, Edgar Roush, a patient at the Tuberculosis Hospital in Nelsonville; five sons, Albert, Vincent[sic], Herbert and Osby Martin, all of Pomeroy, and Eddie Martin, of Middleport; seven daughters, Mrs. Thomas Mitchell and Mrs. Floyd George, both of Columbus; Mrs. Foyster Williams, Artemus, Ky.; Mrs. Edna Monk, Rutland; Mrs. Lowell Thompson, South Point; Mrs. Richard Rummel, Omaha, Neb., and Mrs. Jack Matthews, Gallipolis; two sisters, Mrs. Joe McNabb, Syracuse, and Mrs. Sue Hagar, New York City, N.Y.; 38 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
  Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Ewing Funeral Home. Graveside services will be at noon at Greenlawn Cemetery in Nelsonville. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6."


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