A Remarkable Woman Of The Early West

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Margaret Ann Martin was born in Greenfield, Nelson County, Virginia on January

20th, 1834. Her parents were Hudson Martin and Nancy Thorpe. Hudson Marton was

born in Virginia in 1765. At the close of the Revolutionary War, Giddeon Martin, his after

moved to Kentucky. Giddeon Martin had fought for seven years in the Revolution under

General George Washington.

Hudsont Martin and Nancy Thorpe were married March 22nd, 1824. The

following children were born to this union John, their only son, and daughters Jane,

Mahalley, Margaret Ann, Nancy and Jennie. They were raised in Virginia.

Margaret Ann's mother died in 1859 and her father in 1861. Margaret Ann was

married to Andrew Jackson on December 16th, 1858. They loved in Broxton County,

West Virginia. Andrew Jackson, joined with the Confederate Army and was made

Captain of Company B-19th Virginia Cavalry.

Mrs. Jackson was ordered north in the fall of 1863. All of her possessions and

property were confiscated and she was allowed to take only her two saddle bags of

clothing, approximately sixty pounds of baggage. She was carried on horseback, under a

flag of truce through the Confederate lines to her house in Virginia.

During his four years of service in the army, Captain Jackson came home to visit

his wife three times. On one visit, he only had time for dinner with her and had been gone

about fifteen minutes when the house was surrounded by soldiers. Once he came for a

visit overnight and at another time for nine days.

At the close of war, Captain and Mrs. Jackson moved to South Carolina two years

in the fall of 1865hey started West by ox teams, stopping in Bandera Couny, Texas, where

they remained until 1873. Mr. Jackson was running a sawmill there.

They left Texas, May 1873 with three wagons and ox teams, driving five yoke of

oxen to one wagon and four yoke each to the other two wagons. They avaraved from

twenty to twenty five miles per day. At night, when camped, two oxen were necked

together and belled.

They spent that winter in Trinadad, Colorado, where they could have good range

for there cattle, remaining there until May 1874 when they started north on the third leg of

their journey, going out by Larma City, Pueblo, Denver and down to the great Salt Lake,

hence to Corrine into Idaho, down the Snake River to Munds Ferry, then out over the

Powder Range into backer City, Oregon. From here they traveled into Grand Round

Valley, crossed the Blued mountains into Walla-Walla and continued up the Columbia

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