History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 671.
[Harrison County]   [Cynthiana City and Precinct]

ELIZABETH MARTIN, P. O. Cynthiana.  The grandfather of Elizabeth Martin,
Richard Waits, emigrated from Pennsylvania to Harrison County, Ky., at
an early date, her father, John Waits, born May 1778, remained in Harrison
County, Ky.; his father, Richard Waits, and family moved to the State of
Ohio.  The grandfather on her mother's side, Edward McShane, emigrated
from Virginia to Harrison County, Ky., 1797 or '98, and died a few months
after; he had bought land with a small improvement on it, as was common in
that day, small improvements and large scopes of timberland between.  This
is the same farm her father purchased after his marriage with Mary McShane.
It lies five miles east of Cynthiana on the head waters of Indian Creek.
Her mother was born in 1778 and married Sept. 17, 1798.  Her father was a
farmer, a man of good habits, good principles, and good mine; was a great
reader, never been satisfied than when he had a book in his hand and a
pipe in his mouth; he filled the Magistrate's place over twenty years,
which entitled him to a term of Sheriffship according to the laws of that
day; this he had filled by Deputy, as he did not wish to ride; he had
never studied surveying, but to show in ingenuity, he made a compass and
chain all complete, and surveyed with them to the satisfaction of those
who employed him; they had twelve children, five of them still living,
three sons, Richard Watts, born 1801; Edward Waits, born 1810; Charles
Waits, born October 1820, all are farmers and own farms and are men in
good standing, members of the Christian Church.  Mrs. Martin has one
sister living in Indiana, Catharine Stewart, born Nov. 16, 1804, member
of the Christian Church; her mother was a pious, good and industrious
woman, did much for the comfort of her family and others, and had great
sympathy for the poor and afflicted.  They among many other good things,
taught their children the worth of truthfulness and honesty, and they did
not depart much from it through life.  Her father remained on the farm
where he first settled, till [sic] death; died 1855.  Her mother died in
1850, both buried in the church yard at the Indian Creek Church. Elizabeth
Martin grew up with the rest family, and was educated in the common
schools.  She recollected the carding of cotton and wool on hand cards,
for clothing; this was her first spinning.  Her grandmother carded cotton
and she spun.  She came through the bulk of sugar making times; this was
a sweet season with many bitters attached to it, but when she looks back
and thinks of the children gathered around a sugar kettle, with a little
wooden paddle on one hand a a cup in the other, making wax balls and
eating them, looking like they never would want anything more to make them
happy.  She thinks she would like to be there again.  Time rolled on and
brought her to the year 1825; at this time was was married to Samuel
McClintock, in Bourbon County, near Paris, and remained in Bourbon County
till [sic] his death, July 14, 1827; he learned the gunsmith trade in
Paris, followed it till [sic] his death; he left a son, John James
McClintock, born in Bourbon County, 1826, raised and remains in Harrison
County.  1823, she was married to Edmund Martin, born in Maryland.  1745,
emigrated with his father, Joseph Martin, at an early date to Harrison
County, Ky., he settled on the head waters of Indian Creek, four miles
east of Cynthiana, purchased more land joining, and remained on the sam
farm till [sic] death; he was a farmer, himself and wife attached
themselves to the Christian Church in Cynthiana in 1840; a short time
after there was a church organized at Indian Creek, and for convenience
they moved their membership there.  They had four daughters, Eliza Jane,
born Jan. 31, 1835, and died in 1850; her father followed in 1851; they
were buried at Indian Church.  She remained on the farm with her three
little girls till [sic] they grew up and married and all died in their
twenty-second year; Matilda Ann, born Feb. 27, 1840, married Dr. William
C. Gragg, left a son, Eugene Walter Gragg; Nancy Elizabeth, born May 25,
1845, married James H. Waits; Molly Kate was born Oct. 31, 1847, married
Daniel McShane, left a daughter, Minnie Frost McShane; these three
daughters were members of the Christian Church.  It is often said we have
lost our friends, but Mrs. Martin feels like saying, they are not lost
but gone before--that

                       "Like the last withered rose,
                         I must stand here alone;
                       Until God my life will close,
                           And I am taken home."

She has remained on the farm thirty years since her husband's death, and
had it cultivated to make a support for herself and family.  Mrs. Martin
says: "Now as I am writing these lines, I see I have followed my life
down to my eightieth year."

Martin Waits McShane Stewart McClintock Gragg
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Bourbon-KY PA MD

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