THE MARTIN SIDE

Ethel Louise Martin, 14 November 1913 - 2 January 1992, daughter of Leo Bennett Martin and Almira Agnes Ames. Born near Capron, Oklahoma, buried Alva, Woods, Oklahoma

Grand Parents

Leo Bennett Martin, 8 January 1893 - September 1978, son of Thomas Jefferson Martin and Adaline "Addie" Keffer. Born St John, Stafford, Kansas, buried Watonga, Blaine, Oklahoma

Almira Agnes Ames, 6 February 1893 - 26 August 1928, daughter of Orpheus Ames and Martha Ellen Staley. Born Plevna, Reno, Kansas, buried Cherokee, Alfalfa, Oklahoma

Great-Grand Parents

Thomas Jefferson Martin, 7 August 1856 - 18 July 1933, was born in Jerseyville, Illinois and buried in Pleasant View Cemetary, Woods County, Oklahoma.

Adaline "Addie" Keffer, 15 December 1870 - 8 June 1951, daughter of Jackson R Keffer and Mary Elizabeth Byram, buried in Pleasant View Cemetary, Woods County, Oklahoma.

Orpheus Ames, 5 March 1840 - 29 January 1926, son of Loring Ames and Almira Jones. Co I, 85th Reg, Illinois Volunteers, wounded at Chattanooga, TN, 1864

Martha Ellen Staley, 8 May 1856 - 27 May 1930, daughter of David Wiley Staley and Agnes Cleghorn.

Great-Great-Grand Parents

Jonathan Martin, 26 September 1814 - 2 May 1879, born in Indiana, served in Civil War, Prisoner of Confederate Forces at a camp in East Texas.

Anna Cook, 16 December 1817 - 13 April 1880, born in Kentucky, buried Sedalia, Pettis, Missouti

Jackson R Keffer, 24 May 1839 - 9 October 1919, son of Parkinson Keffer and Eveline Howard

Mary Elizabeth Byram, 18 May 1842 - 18 May 1916, daughter of John Byram and Elizabeth Dickerson

Loring Ames, 13 September 1806 - 28 November 1880.

Almira Jones, 1817

David Wiley Staley, 2 October 1813

Agnes Cleghorn, 7 July 1823 - 31 October 1881, thought to have been born in East Tennessee.

Great-Great-Great-Grand Parents

Parkinson Keffer, 4 October 1816 - 5 July 1885, son of Michael Keffer and Elizabeth Lachman married to Eveline Howard, 15 March 1835.

Eveline Howard, 11 August 1812 - 11 December 1856.

John Byram, 5 May 1817 - 11 February 1897, son of Seth Benjamin Byram and Sarah Quick

Other ancestors

Seth Benjamin Byram 1765 - 11 October 1849 & Sarah Quick ; Japhet Byram 21 May 1721 - 9 June 1801 & Mary Chamberlain; Ebenezer Byram 1 October 1692 - 9 August 1753 & Hannah Hayward; Joseph Hayward & Hannah Mitchell; Experience Mitchell & Jane Cooke; Francis Cooke;Nicholas Byram, Jr ca 1640 - September 1727 & Mary Edson; Nicholas Byram ca 1610 Ulster, Ireland - 13 April 1688 & Susannah Shaw.

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