General Clarence “G. C.” Martin

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General Clarence “G. C.” Martin

Birth
Kentucky, USA
Death
18 Nov 1968 (aged 81)
Palestine, Anderson County, Texas, USA
Burial
Palestine, Anderson County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Garden of the Last Supper
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First born son of Harriet Elizabeth Bond and John Bird Martin. His dad died when he was about eleven years old. He grew up working on a farm, then as a young man, went to Oklahoma and Texas, working in the oil fields.

He returned to Kentucky, where he married Lula Frances Kidd on Sept. 7, 1907 in Wayne County, KY. They started their family and then moved to Texas where he became superintendent of the Wood Oil Company gasoline plant in Electra, Tx. He retired from the oil business (1934) and bought a farm in Alvord, Texas until moving his family to Palestine, Texas around 1940.

Hobbies included hunting and gardening.

15 Children:
William Oscar, Lora Ethel, Flora Frances, Cora Mae,
G. C., Jr., Stillborn Boy, Inez Lee, Raymond, Joyce Marie,
Ernest Glenn, Betty Bernice, Viola Irene, Harold Lloyd, Jack, and Wanda Lou,

Siblings: Thomas J.Martin 1890-1969
George Smiley Martin 1897-1948
John William Martin 1900-1981
First born son of Harriet Elizabeth Bond and John Bird Martin. His dad died when he was about eleven years old. He grew up working on a farm, then as a young man, went to Oklahoma and Texas, working in the oil fields.

He returned to Kentucky, where he married Lula Frances Kidd on Sept. 7, 1907 in Wayne County, KY. They started their family and then moved to Texas where he became superintendent of the Wood Oil Company gasoline plant in Electra, Tx. He retired from the oil business (1934) and bought a farm in Alvord, Texas until moving his family to Palestine, Texas around 1940.

Hobbies included hunting and gardening.

15 Children:
William Oscar, Lora Ethel, Flora Frances, Cora Mae,
G. C., Jr., Stillborn Boy, Inez Lee, Raymond, Joyce Marie,
Ernest Glenn, Betty Bernice, Viola Irene, Harold Lloyd, Jack, and Wanda Lou,

Siblings: Thomas J.Martin 1890-1969
George Smiley Martin 1897-1948
John William Martin 1900-1981

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