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[Mary Clements.FTW]

[Genealogy.com, LLC  Vol. 71, Ed. 1, Tree #1233, Date of Import: Aug 1, 2001]

From David Fridley

Jesse Clements died in Missouri in 1840.  He and Polly lived at the
edge of Panther Mountain.  They lived on her father's land.
This was only a portion of about 150 acres.  Polly's father
livedthere too as did her brother Bluford and family and maybe
others.  There wereseveral houses on the property.  John and
Mary Martin (Polly's grandparents) are buried in the cemetery
on the property.

Mary Blenkenship, husband and sister visited the area leading
to the house.  Abe and Jane Trible Martin are buried there as
well as others, especially chilren who may have died young.
They were on top of the mountain for the last time in April
1963.  They had lefttheir truck at Mary's father's place
(Jennings Farm) and then walked up over her husbands and her
farm which they had sold in 1949.  Their land adjoined the
Polly Martin Clements tract before he sold to the Government
before Houstonand Violet Wright were married.

The graveyard was still visible with some rocks for monuments.
Mary didn't think she had seen it before.  The whole mountain
fields had grown up.  As a child Mary remembers them in pasture
and farm land. The house still stands but Mary doesn't think it
was nay of the originals but may have been built by one of
Polly's borther's grandsons who lived there until his death.
He was Bluford Martin, who married Anna Station Martin.  Itwas
willed to their youngest Radar O. Martin.  They had one son
Bluford always called "Little Bluford"/Radar died in 1953 and
the land all belongs to his son Bluford.  He owns a large
amount of land.  Mary is sure that it is all of the Polly
Martin Clements Tract, plus more which her great-grandfather
Gustana had owned long ago.