Friday's Photo: Sarah Pittman, Mother of Thomas Jefferson Martin - Bienville Parish, Louisiana

If you descend from Laura Frances Bryan, the daughter of Joseph Bryan and Sarah Wimberly, you would also be a descendant of Sarah Pittman. Sarah was the mother of the Rev. Thomas Jefferson Martin who married Laura Bryan. Thomas' father was John N. Martin.[1] Both Sarah and John are buried in the Providence Cemetery.[2]  According to the 1880 Census, Sarah was born in North Carolina but no other documentation could be found.[3]

This photo was found in a digitized collection sent to me by Mary V. Smith.[4] She wrote that the photos were copied from collections of Mary Virgie Martin Walker (her sister), Anna Laura Martin (her mother), Marguerite Cook Clark (a cousin), and Niler Sledge Edwards (a cousin). This particular photo was found in the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. Marguerite Cook Clark's collection is enormous. I traveled three times to Texas to see the collection and my cousin and I spent six days scanning. This is one of many I did not copy. 

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Diana

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Sources 

    1. Vera Meeks Wimberly, Wimberly Family History, Ancestors, Relatives, and Descendants of William Wimberly, Pioneer from Georgia to Louisiana 1837 (Houston Texas: D. Anderson, 1979), 315.

    2. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24938329/sarah-martin : accessed 05 January 2022), memorial page for Sarah Pitman Martin (18 Jan 1806–9 Feb 1897), Find a Grave Memorial ID 24938329, citing Providence Cemetery, Ringgold, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, USA; Maintained by A Footstep In Time (contributor 47345816).

    3. 1880 U.S. Census, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, population schedule,  enumeration district 008, p.614B, dwelling 373, family 373, Thomas J. Martin household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6742/images/4241285-00574? : accessed 5 January 2022); citing NARA microfilm T9, roll 448. 

    4. Sarah Pittman, photograph, n.d.; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of Mary V. Smith, Alaska, 2004; original image photographed copied from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark between 1973 and 1993.