Friday's Photo: Preachers - Thomas Jefferson Martin of Bienville Parish and Others

Thomas Jefferson Martin is standing in the middle of the back row in this photo labeled "Preachers - (Grandpa) Thos. J Martin."   This photo was found in an album that once belonged to Marguerite Cook Clark, his granddaughter.[1] 

According to information found in the Wimberly Family History, Thomas Jefferson Martin was a minister from about 1880 into the early 1900s and was the founder of the Grand Bayou United Methodist Church in Bienville Parish.[2] Was this a photo of Rev. Martin with other Methodist ministers - possibly at a conference? Or, was this a photo of him with other ministers in the Bienville Parish area? 

More photos of Thomas Jefferson Martin and his wife, Laura Frances Bryan, can be seen at Friday's Photo: The Family of Thomas Jefferson Martin and Laura Bryan Martin and From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Laura Frances Bryan Martin.

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Diana

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    1. "Preachers," n.d.; digital images held by D. B. Quinn, from the privately held photo collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Photos 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. 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.