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D 3. John Lewis Martin, son of Major John, was born in Albemarle county, Virginia, in 1779, and was named after his uncle, John Lewis, of the same county who was a favorite of his sisters. He was five feet eleven inches high, with black eyes and hair, and weighed about two hundred pounds. He was a very extraordinary man in his quickness of calculating. When books were kept in pounds, shillings and pence, he could add up the three columns at once as quick as he could move his hand up the column, at the rate of about four seconds to the page. He was raised a farmer.
About the year 1802, he married Catharine Blanton, and lived a few years upon a farm in Clark county, Kentucky. He then moved to Lexington, was appointed clerk of the Kentucky Insurance Bank, and afterward cashier; but not approving the management of the bank, he resigned about 1817. For some time after this he kept a broker's office in Lexington, but after the death of his wife he moved to Louisville, Ky., in 1831.
In 1834 he married Mrs. Massie, whose maiden name was Helen Bullitt, by whom he had no children.
He kept a farm near Louisville, Ky. , in which city and on this farm he spent his summers ; and on a cotton farm in Mississippi, opposite to Arkansas City Ark. , he spent his winters for many years before his death. He outlived all his children and died in Louisville, Ky., in 1854. He and all the deceased members of his family are buried in Lexington. He and his wife were members of the Methodist church.
John L. Martin raised six children by his first wife, Catharine Blanton, viz. : ...
