From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 720.
Brant & Fuller, 1890. 

SAMUEL M. MARTIN

Few men can show a better record than Samuel M. Martin, one of the 
principal agriculturists in Marshall county.  The date of his birth 
was 1840.  Mr. Martin began the battle of life at the age of twenty-
four, choosing the very useful vocation of farming, and he has 
evinced ample proof of his capabilities in that direction.  When he 
took the farm he now operates there was but one small, dilapidated 
building on the whole place.  A handsome home now adorns it, while 
the commodious barn is one of the finest in that vicinity.  The very 
latest improved farm machinery, buildings, high grade sheep, cattle, 
horses, etc., mark it as among the very finest estates in the county 
in which it is situated.  Mr. Martin took Miss Mary Allen to wife in 
1865.  She comes from one of the first families of the state, her 
father and mother, Thomas and Julia Hunt Allen, were old and 
prominent settlers, well and favorably known over the entire county.  
Mr. and Mrs. Allen were for many years exemplary members of the 
Baptist church, of which denomination Mr. Allen was an official for 
some time, and a deacon at the time of his death, which occurred in 
1884.  His wife had gone on before, having died in 1880. Mr. and Mrs. 
Martin are much respected and deservedly loved by their neighbors and 
all who know them, than which no greater praise can be given them.  
Politically, Mr. Martin's family espouses the principles of the 
democratic party.

(Linda Fluharty)