 | It is believed that ORLANDO MARTIN, son of, WILLIAM THOMAS MARTIN, was back at the MARTIN Family Farm on Red Lick Mountain and in Red Lick Township, (farm being about 8 miles north of Clarksville Arkansas), attending the funeral of his Mother, MARY ANN (BEAN) MARTIN, when he asked for the large picture we have of MARGARET MARTIN. ORLANDO MARTIN, upon returning home to his farm which was in McIntoch County, Oklahoma, 4 miles north of the small town of Hanna, Oklahoma, hung the Picture of MARGARET MARTIN in his bedroom. MARY THELMA (MARTIN) MOORE THOMAS, wanting her children to learn something of her family, would take her children to Oklahoma on summer vacations now and then. As a child I, DON MARTIN THOMAS, remember seeing the picture of MARGARET MARTIN in my Grandfather’s bedroom. Since his bedroom was dark all the time and in those days they never smiled in their pictures, all of us grandchildren used to think that she, MARGARET MARTIN, was a witch. The darkness of the bedroom and her scowling face picture seemed to make the room haunted and left us with a neat childhood memory. Sometime later when my mother went to the farm by herself I asked her if she would ask Grandpa if I could have the picture of MARGARET MARTIN? I guess Mother had asked him because on another visit to the farm, my Grandfather said, “MARY, If Don still wants that Picture he can have it.” My mother then brought the picture of MARGARET MARTIN back to Salt Lake City, Utah, on a Trailways Bus, reminding the Bus Driver to not put any freight on it every time the bus would stop for passengers and freight. Even though I was a child I picked up on the fact that my grandfather, ORLANDO MARTIN, held his grandmother, MARGARET MARTIN, in the highest respect. Since my grandfather remembered seeing her chop wood at two years of age and going by wagon to her funeral at three years of age, and since he held so much respect for her, I also wanted to know everything I could about her. |