From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Thomas Jefferson Martin III - Resident of Ringgold and WWII Veteran

Thomas Jefferson Martin III's obituary is another of the approximately 175 newspaper clippings saved by Marguerite Cook Clark, her mother, and her daughters.[1] The photograph is from an interesting collection of photos sent to me by Mary V. Martin Smith, niece of Thomas Jefferson Martin III.[2]

Thomas Jefferson Martin III is a descendant of Reddick Bryan and Elizabeth Regan, making him my third cousin. His parents were Thomas Jefferson Martin Jr. and Willie Bessie Murph Woodard.[3] 

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Diana

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    1. "Martin [obituary]," newspaper clipping, n.d., unidentified newspaper, from the privately-held collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Clippings were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016.

    2. Thomas Jefferson Martin III, photograph, ca. 1940; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of Mary V. Martin Smith, Alaska, 2004.

    3. Laura Decker, "Laura Ann Martin Decker," public tree, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/114525353/family/familyview?cfpid=350132377968&dtid=100 : accessed 9 November 2021).