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Note: m the Isaac and Josephine Martin Family Bible. Digital copies of the pages are in the possession of Neil Rutman (2012). This includes middle names of the children, birth dates, death dates, and in some instances, burial locations of both the parents and the children. Addtional information and confirmation was found on the 1900 Illinois census. Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Independence, Saline, Illinois; Roll: 342; Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 85; FHL microfilm: 1240342.
There is an interesting but unresolved entry in this Bible in the person of Alice Martin, born 30 May 1857 and died 25 Sept 1859. The dates are clearly legible and undisputable. This Alice may be a daughter of Lorenzo Dow Martin (Josephine's stepfather) from a previous undiscovered marriage during the fifties (he was 36 at the time of his 1864 marriage to Sarah Clarke Barr) or, less likely, she could be a sibing or relation to Isaac Martin, the husband of Josephine Barr, Sarah's daughter by her first marriage.
The birth and death dates and list of surviving siblings for Josephine Agnes Barr exist in her obituary from the Harrisburg Daily Register, 21 Aug, 1921, pg. 5.
CHILDREN:
It is likely that Carmen never married yet had a child. Carmen is single on the 1910 and 1920 census living with her parents, Isaac Lobe and Josephine Agnes Martin, in Saline County. However, on on both of these census reports there is a Hester Martin born abt 1908 in the houshold listed as grandaughter to Isaac and Josephine. On these records there is no indication whose child she is.
On the 1940 census Carmen Martin, still single, is living with a Hester Nolen, born in 1908, and husband. Carmen is listed as mother in law to Hester's husband. Source Citation: Year: <i>1940</i>; Census Place: <i>Harrisburg, Saline, Illinois</i>; Roll: <i>T627_883</i>; Page: <i>1A</i>; Enumeration District: <i>83-26</i>.
Hester is found on the 1930 census also, although mother Carmen is not present. Source Citation: Year: <i>1930</i>; Census Place: <i>Equality, Gallatin, Illinois</i>; Roll: <i>515</i>; Page: <i>3A</i>; Enumeration District: <i>0004</i>; Image: <i>914.0</i>; FHL microfilm: <i>2340250</i>.
It is likely that Hester was illegitimate and that Carmen never married. A less likely and more remote possibility is that sometime between 1900 and 1910 Carmen married, had a child, divorced, and resumed the use of her maiden name.
Note: The source for the reconstruction of the family of Isaac Martin is fro
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