John and Lousia had one daughter who was born in 1860. She never married and had no chldren of her own. Total descendants equals 1.

John Ogden Martin, the sixth child and third son of the nine children of Jonathan Martin and Lydia Read, was probably named after his mother's older brother, John Ogden Read. He was born 11 February 1833 in Warren County, New Jersey (Kern 1938; Union Brick), probably in Hardwick Township. His father's farm was located in Hardwick Township on the census for 1830 and 1840. John was listed as a resident of Jonathan Martin's household on the 1840 census. He appears on the census as a male between the ages of 5 and 9 (1830 United States Federal Census, Hardwick Township, Warren County, New Jersey, page 438; 1840 United States Federal Census, Hardwick Township, Warren County, New Jersey, page 380).

By 1850, John had moved out of his parents house. His eldest brother Benjamin was married with children and had a farm in Stillwater, Sussex County (1850 United States Federal Census, Stillwater Township, Warren County, New Jersey, page 86B). John's next eldest brother, David, was living in Belvidere, the Warren County seat, and appears to have been working as an apprentice or journeyman in the cabinetmaking trade (1850 United States Federal Census, Belvidere, Warren County, New Jersey, page 487B). John Ogden was also an apprentice in 1850. He lived with the family of John S. Edwards in Northfield, Richmond County, New York, which is on Staten Island (Table 1). John Edwards was a tailor. He appears to have had two apprentice/journeymen: Jacob Lane Edwards and John O. Martin. The Edwards household was large and included two apprentices/journeymenJohn Edwards, his wife Mary, his six children (Mary, Theodore, Emma, Addra, Pretta and John), and two young women who were either learning the tailoring trade, or who were domestics. The later were Emma Van Campen and Fanny Freegood (1850 United States Federal Cenus, Town of Northfield, Richmond County, New York, page 165B, 11 September 1850).

Table 1: Household of John and Mary Edwards in 1850
1850 United States Federal Census
Town of Northfield, Richmond County, New York, page 165B

Not far from the Edwards household in Northfield was the household of Jasper Cadmus (1850 United States Federal Cenus, Town of Northfield, Richmond County, New York, page 162B, 10 September 1850). Cadmus was a "House Agent" (probably a real estate agent). His household included his wife Lavina and their four children (George, Elizabeth, Gertrude, and David). The Cadmus family was also boarding the local Methodist minister, the Rev. Charles Hill and his wife Hester and infant daughter Caroline. In addition, there were two young women who were either domestics or governesses: Orlina A. Tish and Louisa Knight (Table 2).

Table 2: Household of Jasper and Lavina Cadmus in 1850
1850 United States Federal Census
Town of Northfield, Richmond County, New York, page 162B

Louisa Knight was born April 1829 in New York (1900 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 199, 1st Ward, Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey, sheet 17A, 18 June 1900). What her duties were in the Cadmus household are unknown. John Ogden Martin met her during the time he lived in Northfield. By the late 1850s they were married and had returned to John's childhood home in Warren County, New Jersey. In 1860, John and Louisa lived on a farm in Hardwick Township. They probably did not own the farm as there is no real estate value listed in the census. John and Louisa owned a personal estate valued at $2,000. Louisa was expecting the couple's first child at the time of the census. Lidia Arvilla Martin was born a little over a month after the household was enumerated (LDS Batch #509791). John's occupation was given as farmer, not as tailor. His younger brother Jonathan Oliver (called Oliver in the census) lived with the couple and worked as a farm laborer (Table 3). John, Louisa and Oliver lived in household 459, dwelling 459. John and Oliver's parents were nearby in household 461/dwelling 461 and their sister Lydia Martin Wintermute and her new husband Baltis lived in household 462/dwelling 462 (1860 United States Census, Hardwick Township, Warren County, New Jersey, page 555, 14 July 1860).

Table 3: Household of John and Louisa (Knight) Martin in 1860
1860 United States Federal Census
Hardwick Township, Warren County, New Jersey, page 555

Eight days after the Civil War began, John's next older brother, David R. Martin, enlisted in the Union army. David and his wife Drusilla were living in Sycamore Ohio in 1861. David enlisted in a 90 day regiment, the 15th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (Company G). A few months later, he re-enlisted in the 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. David died a few months later in November 1861, while in winter quarters at Camp Nevin, Kentucky (Interment.net; Stevens 2004; Union Brick; Wyandot County, Ohio GenWeb). The following summer, on 9 August 1862, John enlisted in the 15th New Jersey Infantry, Company B (NPS; Union Brick). This was about about three weeks before his daughter's second birthday. The regiment was gathered at Flemington, Hunterdon County, New Jersey and mustered into service on 25 August 1862 under the command of Captain Samuel Fowler. On 27 August 1862, the regiment started for Washington, D.C., where they were stationed in Tennallytown, Maryland, on the Northwest border of the District of Columbia. There the 15th helped to build Fort Kearney. The 15th NJ Volunteers was attached to the 1st Brigade, 1st Division 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac and Army of the Shenandoah until June 1865. It's battle record in the war, during the time John served in the unit, included: Fredericksburg, Virginia, 12 to 13 December 1862; Chancellorsville, Virginia, 3 May 1863; Salem Heights, Virginia, 3 to 4 May 1863; Franklin's Crossing, Virginia, 6 to 14 June 1863; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 2 to 3 July 1863; Fairfield, Pennsylvania, 5 July 1863; Funkstown, Maryland, 10 July 1863; Rappahannock Station, Virginia, 12 October 1863 and 7 November 1863; Mine Run, Virginia, 30 November 1863; Wilderness, Virginia, 5 to 7 May 1864; Spotsylvania, Virginia, 8 to 11 May 1864; and Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia, 12 to 16 May 1864 (Beegle 2001; Snell 1881). John was probably killed during the Battle of the Angle at Spotsylvania; he was 31 years old. Over all the 15th regiment lost 361 men during the war: 9 Officrs (8 killed in action, 1 died of disease) and 352 enlisted men (239 killed in action, 98 died of disease and 15 died of uncertain causes) (Beegle 2001; Bilby 1998; NPS). There is an inscription for John Ogden Martin on his parent's tombstone in Union Brick Cemetery, Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey (Union Brick). It is not known where John was buried, Given the number of deaths during the spring campaign of 1864 it is likely that his remains are buried in Virginia.

After the war, Louisa Knight Martin settled in Frelinghuysen Township with her daughter Lydia. She filed for a civil war widow's pension on 1 October 1864 (application number 67009, certificate number 37892). In 1870, Louisa and Lydia appear on the census (Table 4) as residents of what is probably Kerr's Corners (judging from the number of Kerr families living in the surrounding households). Louisa was a 41 year old widow and was not employed. She and Lidia were probably renting the house as no property value is given in the census. Louisa (named as Luza Martin on the census) owned personal property valued at $1,300. She and Lidia were surrounded by John's extended family. His first cousin, Isaac Marshall Coursen, was listed adjacent to them on the census. Several members of the Kerr family also lived in close proximity. The Kerrs were the children and grandchildren of Ira and Phebe (Read) Kerr. Phebe Kerr and John's mother were first cousins (1870 United States Federal Census, Frelinghuysen Township, Warren County, New Jersey, page 74, 29 July 1870, Post Office Vienna).

Table 4: Household of Louisa Knight Martin in 1870
1870 United States Federal Census
Frelinghuysen Township, Warren County, New Jersey, page 74

The 1870 census states that Louisa was a widow under occupation. It also stated that she was keeping house. Lidia was at school. Louisa and Lidia were still residents of Warren County in 1880. Louisa (whose name is given as Savilla Martin in the census) was the housekeeper for Elisha Cook. He was a 63 year old retired farmer. Louisa and Lidia lived in Elisha's house in Blairstown Township. Lidia was 19 years old and had completed school (1880 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 191, Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey, sheet 286C, 5 June 1880).

Table 4: Household of Elisha Cook in 1880
1880 United States Federal Census
Enumeration District 191, Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey, page 286C

From at least 1900 to 1910, Lidia and Louisa Martin lived at 353 Franklin Street in Bloomfield, New Jersey. They never owned the home, they always rented it. Louisa stayed home and Lidia taught. However, it was a two income household, as Louisa had a widow's pension. In 1900, Louisa and Lidia had a servant, 23 year old Annie Jackson. Annie Jackson was African American. She was born November 1876 in Virginia to parents who were natives of North Carolina. By 1900, she had made her way north to New Jersey and was working as a domestic (1900 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 199, 1st Ward, Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey, sheet 17A, 18 June 1900; 1910 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 150, 1st District, 1st Ward, Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey, sheet 18A, 26 April 1910, the census gives Lidia's name as Lillian).

Louisa Martin was 82 when the 1910 census was enumerated. She probably died within the next few years, as she does not appear on the 1920 census. I currently do not have any information concerning when she died, or where she is buried. In 1920, Lidia A. Martin was still employed as a public school teacher. She no longer had the house on Franklin Street. Either the house was too large for her to maintain on her own, or the loss of her mother's pension had meant that she could no longer afford the rent. Lidia boarded at a house on Race Street in Bloomfield. The house belonged to a neighbor whom she had probably known for close to thirty years, a woman named Florence N. Francis (1920 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 12, First Ward, Town of Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey, sheet 11 A, 26 January 1920)..

Florence Francis was the daughter of William J. and Julia Francis. William gave his place of birth in various census years as New Jersey and England. He had begun his career as a leather worker, had then gone on to work in a needle factory, but by 1900 he was a paper saleman. Florence was born January 1867 in New Jersey, probably in Bloomfield. She had spent at least part of her childhood in Connecticut and in Brooklyn. She was the sixth child of nine children. These children included her older sisters Mary, Emma, Hannah (or Anna), Kate and Eliza, her older brother George (who was suffering from lung disease in 1880), and her younger sister and brother, Emily and William Joseph (1870 United States Federal Census, Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey, page 104, 9 July 1879, P.O. Bloomfield; 1880 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 202, City of Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, page 189B-C, 5 June 1880). By 1900, William Francis had moved his famliy to 85 Race Street in Bloomfield, New Jersey. Florence lived at home in 1900 with her father and sister Anna (who was a dressmaker) and her father's new wife, Johanna. The Francis home was not far from the home of Lidia Martin and her mother. Florence was not employed in 1900 (1900 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 199, 1st Ward, Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey, sheet 16A, 18 June 1900.) William Francis appears to have died by 1910. He left his house at 85 Race Street to his daughters Anna and Florence (1910 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 150, 1st Ward, Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey, sheet 17A, 26 April 1910). By 1920, Florence owned the house in her own right. She was renting part of it out to the Crisp sisters: Louisa (age 55), Sarah (age 49) and Alice (age 42). Louisa and Alice worked in a factory. The Crisps had boarders: Esther Tillman (age 50), who was not employed and Andrew and Josephine Lezus (both age 29) who were recent immigrants, she was Polish, he was Greek. The Lezuses owned a restuarant and Josephine worked as a waitress. The other part of the house was inhabited by Florence, Lidia Martin and Elizabeth A. Terry (age 40), who, like Lidia, was a public school teacher (1920 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 12, First Ward, Town of Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey, sheet 11 A, 26 January 1920).

Elizabeth Terry was probably the daughter of John H. and Almira Terry of Ipswich, Suffolk County, New York. She was born May 1888 in New York. Her father was a janitor. She had come to Bloomfield after a teaching job in Ontario County, New York (1900 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 768, Ipswich, Suffolk County, New York, sheet 18B, 21 June 1900). In 1910, she had boarded with the family of fellow teacher Ella Graves. Ella's father John was a farmer near the village of Clifton Springs, New York. Ella's mother Anna was a native of England. The Graves only other survivng child, Cora, also lived at home in 1910 (1910 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 104, Town of Manchester, Ontario County, New York, sheets 14A & 16A, 23 April 1910). Elizabeth probably taught in Bloomington with Lidia and had come to live at Florence Francis's home because of her connection to Lidia. By 1930, Florence, Lydia and Elizabeth all lived together at 185 Race Street in Bloomfield. They also had three other women living in the house, Gertrude Trask (age 43), Dorothy True (age 42) and Flora Wolcott (age 39). All of these women were also public school teachers (Table 5). The house must have been fairly large, as it was valued at $22,000 (1930 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 7-342, Ward 2, Town of Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey, sheet 9B, 17 April 1930).

Table 5: Bloomfield Household in 1930
1930 United States Federal Census
Enumeration District 7-342, Ward 2, Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey, sheet 9B

Gertrude Trask was probably the daughter of Lysander and Jennie Trask of Springfield, Penobscot County, Maine. She was born February 1887 into a farming family. Dorothy True was also originally from Springfield, Maine. She was born December 1889, the daughter of Tabatha True (1900 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 112, Springfield, Penobscot County, Maine, sheets 3A and 6A, June 1900). Dorothy and Gertrude probably grew up together. Dorothy had begun her teaching career in East Millinocket Township in Penobscot County. In 1910, she lived in the hotel in the township while she taught in the public school (1910 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 163, East Millinocket, Penobscot County, Maine, sheet 5A, 25 April 1910). She and Gertrude may have come to New Jersey together in order to teach. The Social Security Death and Maine Death Indices list a Dorothy True who was born 7 December 1887 and died 17 July 1978, age 90 in the Town of Dover-Foxcroft, East Corinth, Penobscot County, Maine (Maine Death Index, certificate number 7806507). She was residing in Maine in 1962 when her social sercurity card was issued.

Flora B. Wolcott was the daughter of John M. and Flora R. Wolcutt. She was born October 1890 in New York and grew up in Greene, Chenago County, New York. When she was a small child, her father was a traveling book seller (1900 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 62, Greene, Chenago County, New York, sheet 7B, 7 June 1900). By 1910, John Wolcott had become a Congregational minister. Flora, who was 19 had not yet begun her teaching career. She still lived at home in Greene with her parents and two sisters (1910 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 74, Greene Village, Green Township, Chenago County, New York, sheet 5A, 19 April 1910). By 1920, she was teaching in the public schools of Bloomfield, New Jersey. She boarded with the family of William Herbert Martin at 454 Franklin Street, not far from where Lidia had lived with her mother for many years. She and Lidia may have known each other both through the school system and as neighbors (1920 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 9, Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey, sheets 9B, 13 January 1920).

It is very possible that Lidia remained in Florence Francis's household until she died. She was 69 when the 1930 census was enumerated, she turned 70 later that year. She had never married and had no siblings. Her father had died when she was four years old and she had spent close to 60 years of her life living with her mother. The home she made with Florence and Elizabeth was the first home she had outside of her family, and she was in her 60s when she and the other women set up their home.

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