IVASON B. MARTIN

Is a native of Williamson County, Tennessee, born 30-Auguest-1855. His father Ivason B. Martin, was a native of North Carolina, a farmer by occupation, he came to Tennessee at an early date, and died in 1871, to him and his wife, Sallie A (Roberts) Martin, were born fourteen children, of which our subject was the fifth. Attending in the meantime the schools of the vicinity, and afterward the school at Hico, Kentucky, after which he taught school in Trigg County, Kentucky, then for a year was engaged in selling general goods on the road, then he accepted a situation as salesman in a mercantile establishment at Shiloh, Kentucky. He next sold tobacco a year in the South for R. C. Stubblefield, and after traveling one season for a Paducah wholesale confectionery house, settled in Murray, gave some attention to farming interests, and then opened ha grocery and confectionery establishment. He gave active support to the temperance movement, and is interested in enterprises of a public character. 09-October-1882, he married Miss Lina Danial, of  Murray, they both are members of the Christian Church.