Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Barren County.

RUFUS P. MARTIN was born in Jackson, now Clay County, Tenn.  He is a son 
of Samuel Martin, who was born in Rockingham County, N. C., in 1800, and 
married in 1820 to Ruth Penn, who was a native of Virginia, born in 
1800. She died June 27, 1883, leaving five sons and one daughter, of 
whom three survive:  Abraham J., now a resident of Stokes County, N.C.; 
Sarah J. Sweezea, of Tompkinsville, Monroe Co., Ky., and Rufus P.  
Samuel Martin during the greater part of his life was engaged in 
agricultural pursuits, and for several yers carried on a general 
merchandise trade in Tompkinsville, Ky.  In 1846 he moved to Jackson 
County, Tenn., where he resided until his death. He was for a number of 
years sheriff of Monroe County, Ky.  He and wife were life-long and 
consistent members of the Methodist Church South.  He was a son of 
Abraham Martin, a native of Rockingham County, N. C., and an officer in 
the Continental Army, which he joined in 1776.  He commanded a regiment 
under Gen. Greene at Guilford, March 15, 1781.  At the close of the war 
in 1783 he remained in Virginia, where he married Ruth Red and remained 
until his death, which occured in 1823. R. P. Martin was born June 27, 
1847, and was reared to farm life.  His early education was obtained in 
the common schools, which he attended for short terms in the winter 
months until the beginning of the war in 1861, when he was obliged to 
abandon school and give his whole attention to work on the farm.  
December 1, 1870, he married Sarah A., daughter of Aaron and Jane 
(Hayes) Bray, of Clay County, Tenn. To them have been born three sons 
and two daughters:  Gabriel P., Lena R., Herschel B., Corley O. and Lula 
P., the last deceased.  In 1875 Mr. Martin's health became so much 
impaired that he was obliged to abandon farming.  He then engaged in a 
general merchandising trade in the village of Roseville; this in 
connection with an extensive trade in leaf tobacco he has continued to 
the present time with uniform success.  Mr. Martin was in 1876 elected 
to the office of magistrate of his district, which he has held for nine 
years, to the honor of himself and the entire satisfaction of the 
community.  Politically he is a Democrat, and he and wife are consistent 
and acceptable members of the Christian Church.  He is a strong advocate 
of the temperance cause, and deals a blow at the liquor traffic on every 
possible occasion

Bray Hayes Martin Penn Red Sweezea 
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Clay-TN Guilford-NC Jackson-TN Rockingham-NC Tompkinsville-Monroe 
Rockingham-VA VA

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