James connection

INTESTATE WILL: Information found in the National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C. 20409.

Edmond T. Martin applies for letters of Administration for his brother, James M. Martin's two Mexican war Bounty Land Warrants. He testifies before clerk of the circuit court applying for letters of administration of his brothers James M. Martin's estate, upon his death. He is deposed and says to the best of his knowledge, that the deceased died without a will, that the names and places of residence of the heirs of said deceased are:

• William Martin who resides in the State of Alabama.

• Sarah Lynch who resides in the State of Illinois.

• Elizabeth Smith, Edmund T. Martin, Solomon P. Martin and John M. Martin, all residing in the state of Arkansas.

NOTE: The following Probate Court Minutes documents has the following names in it. Elizabeth Smith - "an unmarried woman who resides in Sebastian County, Arkansas." - Do not know who this is? William M. Martin's sister was known as Elizabeth Smith, or Elizabeth "Granny" Smith, or legal name, Elizabeth S. (Martin) Smith. William M. Martin's sister might have been too elderly to attend these court proceedings, and was probably the reason that Mary E. Smith represented herself to be Elizabeth S. (Martin) Smith. Mary E. Smith is Mary Elizabeth (Jones) Smith and daughter-in-law to Elizabeth S. (Martin) Smith who is the sister of William M. Martin.

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William T. Martin - [legal name William Thomas Martin - b. 1851 d. 1916 - Son of Edmund T. Martin and Margarette "Margaret" (Schrum) Jones Martin]

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Sarah Jane Smith - [legal name Sarah Jane (Martin) Smith - b. 1850 d. 1890/1898 - Daughter of Solomon P. Martin by his first wife who is unknown. Sarah Jane (Martin) Smith is the wife of Martin Van Buren Smith]

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John T. Martin - [legal name John Thomas Martin - b. 1853 - d. 1939 - Son of Solomon P. Martin by his second wife, Eva Louisa (Bean) Martin]

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Georgianna King - [legal name Elizabeth Georgianna (Martin) King -b. 1855 d. 1927 - Daughter of Solomon P. Martin by his second wife, Eva Louisa (Bean) Martin]

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Rule King - [legal name Reuben Alfred King - b. 1851 d. 1939 - husband to Elizabeth Georgianna (Martin) King]

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Matilda Jacobs - [legal name Matilda Ethel (Martin) Jacobs - b. 1857 d. 1917 - Daughter of Solomon P. Martin and his second wife, Eva Louisa (Bean) Martin]

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Jasper Jacobs - [legal name Felix Jasper Jacobs - b. 1854 d. 1926 - husband to Matilda Ethel (Martin) Jacobs]

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William B. Martin - b. 1858 d. 1903 - Son of Solomon P. Martin by his second wife, Eva Louisa (Bean) Martin]

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Mary E. Johnson - [legal name Mary Ellen (Martin) Johnson - b. 1863 d. 1905 - Daughter of Solomon P. Martin by his second wife, Eva Louisa (Bean) Martin]

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Reed Johnson - [legal name Thomas Andrew Johnson - b. 1858 d. 1938 - husband to Mary Ellen (Martin) Johnson]

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Mattie Mann - [legal name in question but could be Martha Louisa (Lynch) Mann or Martha Louiza (Lynch) Mann or Martha Laura (Lynch) Mann - b. 1851 d. (_?_) - Daughter of Joseph W. Lynch and Sarah Ann (Martin) Lynch - It is Sarah Ann (Martin) Lynch who is burried next to her brother in Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Dallas County, Alabama]

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Robert Mann - [no information other than he is the husband to Martha Louisa "Mattie" (Lynch) Mann]

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Sarah A. Porter - Annie Porter - [legal name Sarah Ann (Lynch) Porter - b. 1863 d. (_?_) - Daughter to Joseph W. Lynch and Sarah Ann (Martin) Lynch.

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John V. Porter - [b.1863 d. (_?_) - husband to Sarah Ann "Annie" (Lynch) Porter]

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John M. Lynch - [legal name John Marion Lynch - b. 1843 d. 1897 - Son of Joseph W. Lynch and Sarah Ann (Martin) Lynch]

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James Thomas Lynch - [b. 1839 d. 1927 - Son of Joseph W. Lynch and Sarah Ann (Martin) Lynch]

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William Riley Lynch - [b. 1841 d. 1915 - Son of Joseph W. Lynch and Sarah Ann (Martin) Lynch]

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Henry D. Lynch - [legal name Henry Dudley Lynch - b. 1850 d. 1902 - Son of Joseph W. Lynch and Sarah Ann (Martin) Lynch]

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Charles W. Lynch - [b. abt 1853 d. (_?_) - Son of Joseph W. Lynch and Sarah Ann (Martin) Lynch]

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Miles Edward Lynch - [b. abt 1869 d. (_?_) - Son of Mary Jane (Lynch) Lynch and William Smith Lynch]

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Cora Lee Lynch - [b. abt 1871 d. (_?_) - Daughter of Mary Jane (Lynch) Lynch and William Smith Lynch]

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Joseph L. Lynch [b. 1876 d. 1903 - Son of Mary Jane (Lynch) Lynch and William Smith Lynch]

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Charles Lynch - [Legal Charles Benjamin Lynch - b. 30 Sep 1880 d. (_?_) - Son of Joseph Willis Lynch and Frances Samantha (Young) Lynch]

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Bertie Lynch - [Legal name Bert Alvin Lynch b. 24 Sept 1883 d. (_?_) - Daughter of Joseph Willis Lynch and Frances Samantha (Young) Lynch]

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Jesse Lynch - [Legal name William Jesse Lynch b. 18 Nov 1886 d. (_?_) - Son of Joseph Willis Lynch and Frances Samantha (Young) Lynch]

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Mary E. Smith - legal name Mary Elizabeth (Jones) Smith b. 1839. d 1935. - Wife of Thomas M. Smith and daughter-in-law to Elizabeth S. (Martin) Smith. Elizabeth S. (Martin) Smith being the sister to William M. Martin of Selma, Dallas County, Alabama. Mary Elizabeth (Jones) Smith's deceased ex-step-father was Edmund T. Martin, so she would have known William T. Martin's name. She would have grown up with the children of deceased Solomon P. Martin, and would have known their names. Mattie Mann, or Martha Louisa (Lynch) Mann, and Annie Porter, or Sarah Ann (Lynch) Porter, were representing their mother, deceased Sarah Ann (Martin) Lynch. They would have known the names of their deceased sister's children, and would have known their brothers names, and the names of their deceased brother's children. A good possibility why John Miller Martin’s children were not listed in the Estate Court Proceedings & Records of deceased William M. Martin is because his children, either fought or favored the South in the Civil war. While the heirs of deceased William M. Martin who were from Johnson & Sebastian County, Arkansas; Marion County, Illinois; Parker and Tarrant County, Texas; Butler and Newton County, Missouri, either fought or favored the North in the Civil war.

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PROBATE COURT MINUTES: Information found in the Dallas County, Courthouse, Selma, Alabama. Probate Court Minutes, Volume, 33. Pages 507, 508, 509, 510, 520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 550, 551, 552, 553, 554, 555, 556, 574.

Estate of William M. Martin - deceased

Monday February 24th 1896, In the matter of the petition to probate the will of the said deceased......

2. He further alleges that William M. Martin, who resided in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama at the time of his death, departed this life on or about the 30th day of January, 1896, having a last will bearing date November the 25th, 1895, and is signed by the said William M. Martin, and is attested by A. L. McLeod and H. S. D. Mallory, who reside in Selma, Alabama, and said codicil is signed by the said William M. Martin, and is attested by John J. Babsick and John P. Furnise, who reside in Selma, Alabama. Your petition is made executor thereof in and by said will.

3. He further alleges that the next of kin of the said William M. Martin, so far as they are known to your petition, are as follows:

Elizabeth Smith, an unmarried woman, who resides in Sebastian County, Arkansas;

William T. Martin, who resides in Johnson County, Arkansas;

Sarah Jane Smith, John T. Martin, Georgianna King, wife of Rule King, Matilda Jacobs, wife of Jasper Jacobs, William B. Martin, Mary E. Johnson, wife of Reed Johnson, all of them reside in Johnson County, Arkansas.

William B. Martin who resides in said Sebastian County, Arkansas.

Mattie Mann, wife of Robert Mann, both of whom reside in Selma, Alabama.

Sarah A. Porter, wife of John V. Porter, who resides in Poplar Bluff, Missouri.

John M. Lynch, who resides in Sebastian County, Arkansas.

James Thomas Lynch, who resides in or near Fort Worth, Texas;

William Riley Lynch, and Henry D. Lynch, who reside in or near Spring Town, Texas;

Charles W. Lynch, who reside in Newton County, Missouri;

Miles Edward Lynch, Cora Lee Lynch, Joseph L. Lynch, all of whom reside at Salem, in the State of Illinois;

Charles Lynch, Bertie Lynch, and Jessie Lynch, all of whom reside near or at Paragould, in the State of Arkansas.

All of the above named persons are over the age of twenty one years except said Joseph Lynch and Charles Lynch, who are minors over the age of fourteen years, and said Bertie Lynch and Jessie Lynch, who are minors under the age of fourteen years. Neither of said minors has any guardian in the State of Alabama, the mother of said Joseph L. Lynch is dead; his father resides out of the State of Alabama; but his name and residence are unknown to your petitioner. The father of said Charles Lynch, Bertie Lynch and Jessie Lynch is dead. Your Petitioner does not know the name or residence of their mother, except, as he avers, that she does not reside in the State of Alabama. The other next of kin of the said William M. Martin, deceased, and their names and residences are unknown to petitioner. He further avers that the said William M. Martin left us ___, and that he left no next of kin residing in the State of Alabama, except the said Mattie Mann, said testator was over the age of twenty one years at the time he executed will and codicil. - - - - -

It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed by the court that Thursday the 19th day of March, 1896, be, and the same is hereby appointed for hearings the petition in this case, copied above; and that notice of the filing of the petition in this case be given to all the next of kin of the said William M. Martin, deceased, - those of them who reside in the State of Alabama by notice thereof served upon them personally, and to those of them who reside out of the State of Alabama by publication of notice thereof an in a week for three succeeding weeks prior to the 19th day of March 1896, in the Daily Journal a newspaper published in the city of Selma in Dallas County, Alabama and that notice to them who reside in the State of Alabama, be served upon them ten days prior to the 19th day of February, 1896.

Estate of William M. Martin, deceased,

Wednesday March 18th, 1896. In the matter of the petition to probate the will, and codicil thereto, of the said decedent. This day came Mattie Mann and Annie Porter and Mary E. Smith heirs at law of the said William M. Martin, deceased, by Petters & Petters and Henry F. Resse, their attorneys, and filed in this court their allegations in writing, that the instruments in writing propounded for probate and recorded in this case, as and for the last will and testament and codicil thereto, of the said William M. Martin, deceased, are not his last will and codicil thereof; for reason set forth in said allegations in writing; and they contend the petition filed in this case, and they ask that a jury be summoned and empaneled to try the issue between Hugh S. D. Mallory as the ___, and the said Mattie Mann, Annie Porter and Mary E Smith as contestants. Said allegations in writing said contents is as follows:

In the Probate Court of Dallas County, in the State of Alabama, In the matter of the petition of Hugh S. D. Mallory for the probate of a paper ___ propounded as the last will of William M. Martin, deceased.

1. And now come Mattie Mann, and Annie Porter, and Mary E. Smith, and show to the court that said Mattie and Annie are daughters of Sarah A. Lynch, who was a sister of said William M. Martin, deceased, and that said Sarah A. Lynch died in Selma, Alabama, before the death of said William M. Martin. And so, the said Mattie Mann and Annie Porter are heirs at law of the said William M. Martin, deceased, and they further show that said Mattie Mann resides in Selma, in the State of Alabama, and is over the age of twenty one years; and the said Annie porter resides in Poplar Bluff, in the State of Missouri, and is over twenty one years of age; and the said Mary E. Smith is a sister of said William M. Martin, deceased, and also one of his heirs at law, and is over twenty one years, and resides in the State of Arkansas.

2. And the said Mattie Mann, Annie Porter and Mary E. Smith say the said paper writing is not the will of said William M. Martin, deceased, and ought not to be probated as such, and they state the following objections to the probate of said paper writing:

Thursday, March 19th, 1896. In the matter of the petition of Hugh S. D. Mallory to probate the will of said deceased. This being the day appointed by the court to hear the petition filed in this court on the 24th day of February, 1896, by Hugh S. D. Mallory, to probate, as and for the last will and testament, and codicil thereto, of William M. Martin, deceased, instruments in writing __ to be his last will and testament and codicil, now comes the said Hugh S. D. Mallory, the petitioner, in person, and by attorney, and come also, Mattie Mann, Annie Porter and Mary E. Smith, heirs at law of the said William M. Martin, deceased, who have filed in this court their allegations in writing, contesting the said petition, by Petters & Petters and Harry F. Reese, their attorneys; and the petitioner show to the satisfaction of the court, that notice of the filing of the petition in this case, and of the day appointed by the court for hearing the same, has been duly given to all the heirs at law of the said William M. Martin, deceased, named in the petition in this case, and to all other persons who are heirs at law of said deceased - to Mattie Mann and her husband, Robert Mann, who reside in the State of Alabama, by notice thereof, duly served upon them more than ten days prior to this day, by the Sheriff of Dallas County Alabama; and to all the heirs at law of said deceased named in the petition in this case who reside out of this State, and to all the heirs at law of said decedent not named in said petition who reside out of this State, if any such there be, by publication of notice thereof once a week for three succession weeks prior to this day in the Daily Journal, a newspaper published in the city of Selma, Dallas County, Alabama; and it appearing to the court that Joseph L. Lynch, Charles Lynch, Bertie Lynch and Jessie Lynch are named in the petition in this case as heirs at law of the said William M. Martin, deceased; and that they are minors under twenty one years of age; and that they reside out of the state of Alabama; and that they have been brought into court in this case by ___ of notice as aforesaid; and that it is necessary for said minors to be represented in this case by guardian and litem; and that Edmund W. Petters, of Selma, Alabama, is a competent and proper person to represent the four said minors as their guardian at litem.

Was therefore ordered by the court that the said Edmund W. Petters be, and he is hereby appointed guardian and litem for the said Joseph L. Lynch, Charles Lynch, Bertie Lynch and Jessie Lynch minors, and heirs at law of the said William M. Martin, deceased, in this case in the petition of Hugh S. D. Mallory to probate the will and codicil ___ of the said William M. Martin, deceased.

And now comes the said Edmund W. Petters and files in this court his consent in writing as act as guardian and litem in this case, for the said four minors - Joseph L. Lynch, Charles Lynch, Bertie Lynch and Jessie Lynch.