Martha Heck

Martha was born in 1826 in ,,Virginia.¹   Martha's father was Jacob Heck and her mother was Barbara Kilmer.  Her paternal grandparents were Daniel David Heck and Susannah Zellman. She had nine brothers and a sister, named Jesse, John W., George Washington, David Preston, James, Adam Stewart, Jacob, Lafayette, Lloyd and Sarah.  She was the fifth oldest of the eleven children.