Individual Details

Martha married Singleton Posey, 7 Jan 1849, Coosa Co, AL. There was also a Singlton Posey who married a Martha Cooper - he was born about 1812 in Georgia and is not the same man.

1860 Census. Mt. Olive, Coosa Co, AL, Hh 715
Singleton Posey, age 29, b. AL
Margarett, 28, b. GA
Nathanl. 8. Appleton 5. Nalder 3. Mary J. 6 months. All born AL.

Singleton Posey was a Private, Company B, 34th Regt, Volenteers, Alabama, during the Civil War. Martha M. Posey received his pension. He died 15 April 1866. She first applied 15 June 1887, Franklin Co, AL. She had no taxable property and $20 worth of household furniture. He died of wounds received in the service of the Confederacy and she had not remarried.

1870 Census. Lewis Twp, Coosa, AL, Hh 3
M. M. Posey 38, female, b. GA
Nathaniel 18. Apleton 16. Noluden, 12 (only one marked as born in Arkansas) M. J. 10 (male, but she wasn't) Singleton, age 8.

1880 Census. Marble Valley, Coosa, AL, Hh 101
Margret Posey, 48, b. GA
Nalder, 23, son (b. Arkansas). Mary J., 20 daughter. Singleton, 18, son.
Hh 102 - Apleton Posey, 29, and family
Hh 103 - Nathaniel Posey, 28, and family

On Ancestry, there is a receipt from the Office of the Judge of Probate, Franklin Co, AL, signed by pensioner, Martha M. Posey by Nalder Posey, atty in fact, for $11.88 received on 1 Nov 1899. Said to be Warrant No. 7208. R. J. Moody was the Judge. So apparently Martha drew a pension for her husband's Civil War service.

1900 Census. Living with daughter Mary Jane:
Newbury, Franklin Co, AL, Hh 229
Joseph M. Martin, b. May 1857, age 43, married 16 years
Mary J., wife, b. Dec 1859, 40, 4 children
Lee. O. S., son, b. Feb 1886, 14
Lora A., dau, b. Nov 1891, 8
Ida, dau, b. Feb 1894, 6
Joseph E., son, b. Sep 1896, 3
Martha M. Posey, mother-in-law, b. Feb 1832, age 68, widow, 1 child, b. GA, parents b. SC

FindAGrave.com:
Singleton Posey, Sr.
Birth: 1831
Autauga County, AL
Death: Apr. 15, 1866
Coosa County, AL
Buried Pine Grove Cemetery #2, Marble Valley, Coosa Co, AL - this memorial later merged with the following:
Find A Grave Memorial# 35206250
Picture of a hand-carved stone. "Singleton Posey RP 1865"
Singleton Posey volunteered at Loachapoka, Lee Co., AL on May 3, 1862, as a private in Co.B., 34th AL Infantry, the same outfit his brother , Gilbert, joined. He was captured by Federal troops and parolled as a prisoner of war at Talladega, AL on July 8, 1865. He died of his wounds on April 15, 1866. The 34th fought at Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and Atlanta. Singleton's descendants remember his wife relating how she could pull a silk handkerchief through his wound. He is buried at the Baxley Cemetery in Coosa Co. AL., as his wife was related to the Baxleys.
Father was Squire Posey, b. 1790, served in the War of 1812, Georgia Militia. He has a memorial stone at Posey Mill Cemetery, Franklin Co, AL
Note: his wife was a sister to Mary Morris, wife of William Boxley.
Index for U.S. Veterans Gravesites gives different data - born 3 Sep 1831, died 15 Apr 1866; buried Baxley Cemetery, Haleyville, Coosa County, AL.


Martha was born 10 Feb 1832, Henry Co, GA; died 1 May, Winston Co, AL. Buried Baxley Cemetery, Coosa Co.
Martha Margaret reared her family of five children alone. She moved to the Posey Mill community after 1880 to join her husband's brothers. Her children related the story of how they thought that their mother never slept. She made a crop each year, working in the fields by day and keeping up with her household duties at night.The children would go to bed hearing her spinning wheel going and would awaken to the same sound in the morning.
Martha Margaret was the daughter of Jesse and Mary Kuglar Morris. Her maternal grandmother, Ann Caren Kuglar, is said to have ridden horseback from GA., likely Henry Co., to Coosa Co., to see her daughter, Mary Morris, when she (Ann Caren) was 90 years old. Ann Caren spoke Dutch and lived to be more than 100 years old.

Birth	10 Feb 1832	Henry County, Georgia
Death	1 May 1917	Franklin County, Alabama
Burial		Baxley Cemetery, Coosa County, Alabama

Father	Jesse P. Morris (1796 - 1876)
Mother	Mary Ann Kuglar (1796 - 1877)
Sibling	William J. Morris (1816 - 1903)
Sibling	Mary A. "Polly" Morris (1818 - 1886)
Sibling	David DeLorean Morris (1819 - 1896)
Sibling	Jesse Richard Morris (1822 - 1905)
Sibling	Elizabeth A. Morris (1824 - 1891)
Sibling	Lewis Jackson Morris (1835 - 1864)
Sibling	Marion W. Morris (1838 - 1864)
Sibling	Francis R. Morris (1839 - 1863)