Two Hundred Years of Our American Families

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Sarah Jane STEWART
 b. 4 AUG 1837, GA
 m. John S. MARTIN, 23 MAY 1858, Shelby, AL
 m. Nathaniel Ezekiel CLIFTON, 18 JUN 1869, Hopkins County, TX

The Civil War record of John S. MARTIN is scant. He served in Company I, 18th Regiment Alabama Infantry, alongside Sarah's brother William Wallace Stewart, and other family and friends including Luther B. THWEATT, Frederick Seybert POSEY and his uncle Captain Dan Martin. John's record lists Sarah Jane MARTIN as his widow on 31 DEC 1863.

CHILDREN

1. Mary Gertrude MARTIN
    b. 9 APR 1856, Shelby County AL
    m. Franklin P. Knight, 2 JAN 1879, Hopkins County TX
    m. James W. Potts, 15 SEP 1887, Hopkins County TX
    d. 29 MAY 1932, Hopkins County TX
    Greenview Cemetery, Hopkins County TX


2. John Powers MARTIN
    b. 15 JAN 1863, Shelby County AL
    m. Aletha Ellen ROBERTSON, 23 NOV 1882, Hopkins County TX
    d. 8 APR 1888, Hopkins County TX
    New Hope Cemetery, Hopkins County TX

Nathaniel CLIFTON
 b. 1801, Wake, NC
 m. 18 JUN 1869, Hopkins County, TX
 d. 1882, Rains, TX

CHILDREN

3. Lula D. CLIFTON
    b. 13 APR 1869, Hopkins County TX
    m. Francis M. Stockton, 10 Dec 1885, Hopkins County TX
    m. Joseph Richard Potts, 20 Nov 1898
    d. 29 JAN 1925, Hopkins County TX
    Old Shirley Cemetery, Hopkins County TX

See the divorce papers of Sarah Jane Clifton and Nathaniel Clifton.

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