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Below is a family biography from the book, History of Kentucky, Edition 1 by J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin and G. C. Kniffin and published by F. A. Battey Publishing Company in 1885.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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IVASON B. MARTIN, Calloway County, is a native of Williamson County, Tenn., born August 30, 1855. His father, Ivason B., was a native of North Carolina, a farmer by occupation; he came to Tennessee at an early date, and died in 1871; to him and his wife, Sallie A. Roberts, were born fourteen children, of which number our subject was the fifth. The last named remained on the farm until of age, attending in the meantime the schools of the vicinity, and afterward the schools at Hico, Ky., after which he taught school in Trigg County, Ky.; then for a year was engaged in selling general goods on the road; then he accepted a situation as salesman in a mercantile establishment at Shiloh, Ky. He next sold tobacco a year in the South for R. C. Stubblefield, and after traveling one season for a Paducah wholesale confectionery house, settled in Murray, gave some attention to farming interests, and then opened his present grocery and confectionery establishment. He gives active support to the temperance movement, and is interested in enterprises of a public character. October 9, 1882, he married Miss Lina Danial, of Murray; they are both members of the Christian Church.

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This family biography is one of 31 biographies included in the Calloway County, Kentucky section of the book, The History of Kentucky, Edition 1 published in 1885 by F. A. Battey Publishing Company.  For the complete description, click here: History of Kentucky, Edition 1

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