Intro Letter To – JDM Jr

The enclosed herein are intended for my great grandson Edwin Stanton IV, born in 1963. He is the last of the male members of our Martin line which I will ever know. I hope when he grows up he will be interested in knowing something about his Martin ancestors.Born Feb 24th, 1880 at Cleveland, Ohio, and living in Lancaster, Ohio in the home of my grandfather John L[illegible] Martin I, from 5 years of age until 12 years, and now being 86 years old, I have personally come in contact with my grandfather’s “Uncle George” Martin to begin with and in all to date. I have been living at the same time in its eleven generations of our Martin family: “Uncle George,” my grandfather John L. Martin I, my father Edwin S. Martin I, my own generation, my son Edwin S. Martin II, my grandson Edwin S. Martin III and my great grandson Edwin S. Martin IV.My grandfather born in 1819 lived from the time he was a young man in Lancaster, Ohio. My father spent his young years in Lancaster and then in New Straitsville, Ohio. He spent his life in the coal business. I have lived as a child in Cleveland, O. and lived then in Lancaster, then in New Straitsville and Coshocton, O. to date. My son born 1917 at New Straitsville, O., later lived in Columbus and Lima, Ohio where he died in 1964.When Edwin IV reached manhood he can trace his Martin line back for a period of 200 years, beginning with my grandfather’s father Samuel, (a retired leading mason).The present distaff member of my family is our daughter Elizabeth Martin born in 1906 at New Straitsville, to her two sons are Richard Moreta Wolfe & Bruce Fowler Wolfe, the former of LaPark Drive, Columbus, Ohio; the latter a