{"id":3258,"date":"2022-01-10T15:45:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3258"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:45:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:45:08","slug":"martin-r-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/martin-r-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin, R. W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr. R. W. Martin<\/strong>, physician and farmer, is a son of William A. and Charlotte<br \/>\n(Robion) Martin. The father was born in Chesterfield County, Va., and the<br \/>\nmother in Cumberland County, Va. They had twelve children &#8212; ten boys and two<br \/>\ngirls &#8211;only four of the sons survive. The father was a soldier in the war of<br \/>\n1812, serving until the end. He was a Methodist, and in politics an old line<br \/>\nWhig. He died in 1858. The mother was a Missionary Baptist, and died<br \/>\nFebruary 7, 1863. Our subject is of Scotch descent on the father&#8217;s side, and<br \/>\nFrench on the mother&#8217;s, her parents being French Huguenots. Mr. Martin was<br \/>\nborn in Chesterfield County, Va., July 25, 1841, and was raised on a farm,<br \/>\nreceiving a high-school education, and in 1861 graduated in the Virginia<br \/>\nMedical College at Richmond. After graduating he volunteered April 16, 1861,<br \/>\nin the First Virginia Infantry (C. A.), and was promoted in August to<br \/>\nassistant surgeon, and in 1864 promoted to the rank of surgeon, which he held<br \/>\nuntil the close of the war. October, 1868, he came to West Tennessee,<br \/>\nlocating in Lauderdale County, where he engaged in the practice of medicine<br \/>\nwith marked success. July 16, 1870, he was united in marriage to Miss M. V.<br \/>\nPosey, a daughter of Mr. W. P. Posey. They have one daughter &#8212; Mary E., born<br \/>\nAugust 7, 1875. They are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church<br \/>\nSouth. Dr. Martin is a Democrat, and belongs to the Masonic, Odd Fellows and<br \/>\nKnights of Honor Lodges. In addition to his professional duties he has a farm<br \/>\nof 450 acres of land, most of it under cultivation. Dr. Martin is a<br \/>\ncultured, pleasant gentleman, and is well liked by all who know him.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. R. W. Martin, physician and farmer, is a son of William A. and Charlotte (Robion) Martin. The father was born in Chesterfield County, Va., and the mother in Cumberland County, Va. They had twelve children &#8212; ten boys and <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/martin-r-w\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-3258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-martin"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3265,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions\/3265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}