History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr,
American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. III, p.266,
Henderson Co.

     George Burney Martin.  At his death at Corydon, January 10, 1919,
George Burney Martin closed the record of a very long and most useful
life.  His career was devoted almost entirely to farming, and he never
sought the big honors and achievements of politics or commerce.  He was
very successful none the less [sic], and his success was not reoriented
merely by accumulations but by wise distribution of his means and his
working energy.  He was a prominent churchman, a generous giver to
church and philanthropic causes, and it is easy to understand the wide
esteem in which his name is held in this section of the state.
     He was born at Smith Mills in Henderson County, February 13, 1831
and lived almost to the age of eighty-eight.  His parents were Stephen
and Sally (Smith) Martin, his father of Revolutionary ancestry and a
pioneer of Henderson County.  During his boyhood days George Burney
Martin acquired only such education as was afforded by the limited
schools in his home community at Smith Mills.  His knowledge was due to
reading and wide experience more than to formal schooling.  He grew up
on a farm, and from farming as a vocation he obtained through his good
judgment and industry ample rewards, not only sufficient for his own
needs and those of his family but to do good elsewhere.  For many years
after his marriage he lived on his father's old homestead, but in 1885
retired to Corydon, and remained a resident of that village until the
close of his life.  His generous fortune he dispensed liberally, and for
twenty-five years or more maintained a paid missionary in the foreign
fields.  At his death he left a legacy to the Orphans Home of the
Baptist Church.  After his home and family his church was to him the
strongest tie of his life.  For more than sixty consecutive years he
served as superintendent of the Baptist Sunday School in his home
community.  He was a stanch democrat and prohibitionist and a member of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
     In 1860 Mr. Martin married Eleanor Allin, daughter of Dr. Charles
Allin, of Henderson County.  She died in 1885, the mother of eight
children, one son and seven daughters, seven of who reached mature
years.

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