Thomas Martin Williams

Thomas Martin was born on January 17th, 1834 in Washington Co,Arkansas.  Thomas Martin's father was Rial Williams and his mother was Orpha Garrett.  His paternal grandparents were Philemon Williams and Lucy Green; his maternal grandparents were Moses Garrett and Phoebe Hunt. He had eight brothers and eight sisters, named Infant Boy, Philimon, Moses, Rial, Garrett, Robert, Warren, Green, Sena, Elizabeth, Nancy, Lucinda, Margaret, Phoebe, Orpha and Matilda Ann.  He was the sixth youngest of the seventeen children. He had two half-brothers and a half-sister, named Ervin, Burton Sanders and Infant Girl.

‌Thomas Martin and Sarah were married in a religious ceremony in 1852.