Friday's Photo: Uncle Bill and Aunt Kate - Is this the William A. Martin Family?

Marguerite Cook Clark's photo of Uncle Bill and Aunt Kate might be the William A. Martin family of Bienville Parish, Louisiana. The second photo is the same photo edited and enlarged, but the features are still difficult to see. William A. Martin was over 20 years older than his wife, Catherine Evans. If this is his family, I assume most children are his. I don't know which one is his wife, but William would be the older gentleman on the left. 

According to the History of Bienville Parish, Volume I, William A. Martin was the son of John Nutt Martin and Matilda Bateman. If this is correct, William would have been half-brother to Rev. Thomas Jefferson Martin, whose parents were John Nutt Martin and Sarah Pittman. 

William A. Martin was a life member of the Mackey Lodge and, for several years, served as the chaplain. He died in 1902 and is buried with his wife in the  Social Springs Cemetery in Red River Parish. 

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Diana

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Billie Jean Poland, The History of Bienville Parish Vol. I (Bossier City, Louisiana: Everett Companies, 1984), p. 311.

Proceedings of the M. W. Grand Lodge of the State of Louisiana Free and Accepted Masons, Eighty-Ninth Grand Annual Communication, February 11th, 12th, and 13th, 1901 (New Orleans: A. W. Hyatt, 1901), 90;  PDF download, Louisiana Masonic Library/Museum (https://library.la-mason.com/pastproceedings.html: downloaded 21 ‎March ‎2020).

Uncle Bill and Aunt Kate, no date,  digital image, 2016, 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. Used with permission.