Individual Details

Most of the data on the family of Thomas Martin was found in a WorldConnect file, updated 13 Aug 2006; submitter Mary Ann Nichols.

Estate of Thomas Martin, Box #13, 452. Probate Judge Office, Anderson Co SC
Estate Administrators, 5 Sep 1831, Jacob Martin, William Martin, Ezekiel Murphy, bound unto John Harris, Ord. for $10,000. Citation published at the Big Creek Meeting House. There was a widow and nine children, names not given.
Notes were due the Estate from Abraham Martin, Edman Martin, John Harris, John Towns, Ezekiel Murphy and Anderson Crains.
Sale was held 18 Nov 1831. The buyers included Wilburn Duckworth, William Martin, James Martin, the Widow Martin, Ezekiel Murphy, Bejamin Duckworth, Abram Martin Senr, Abraham Martin Jr., Moses Welborne.

The Martins gravestones are pictured on FindAGrave. They are buried Big Creek Cemetery in Anderson Co. SC. I do not believe these are the original grave markers - they look much too new. A footstone reads "Pioneer settlers who came from Virginia to South Carolina about 1790." And I believe they have the wrong maiden name for Hester.

Vandiver's History of Anderson County; R. M. Smith, 1970. Found in the Library of the SC Genealogical Society, Charleston, SC, May 2011, p.114-115.
Thomas Martin and wife Hester Roundtree, left Martinsville, VA in 1779 with several young children....Martin offered $2.50 to any of the children that could make the whole journey without crying, but none did. The family settled in what is now called Williamston township, a mile or two east of Piercetown. Big Creek Church was their place of worship. Son William, later gave the site for the Beaver Dam Baptist Church. [children and their spouses are listed]

Birth	Abt 1767	Virginia
Marriage	Abt 1789	North Carolina - Hester Duckworth
Death	6 Jan 1830	Anderson County, South Carolina

Spouse	Hester Duckworth (1770 - 1855)
Child	Jacob C. Martin (1790 - 1876)
Child	Charity Hester Martin (1793 - 1884)
Child	Mary "Polly" Martin (1793 - )
Child	William Thomas Martin (1798 - 1862)
Child	Frances Martin (1801 - 1867)
Child	James Martin (1802 - 1887)
Child	Abram Martin (1804 - 1875)
Child	Elizabeth Martin (1810 - 1882)
Child	Chelsey Martin (1812 - 1877)