Family:Stoddard Martin and Abigail Squire (1)

The first Stoddard Martin derived his forename from his maternal grandmother's family. Hannah Stoddard was a daughter of the Rev. Solomon Stoddard and married the Rev. William Williams. Williams' mother, Elizabeth Cotton, was a daughter of Seaborn Cotton and of Sarah Bradstreet. Sarah Bradstreet was a daughter of Gov. Simon Bradstreet, who arrived in America with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630. The first Stoddard Martin's descendants include Stoddard Hurd Martin (1811-1865), who married Lucy Kitchell. One of their sons, Edgar Harvey Martin (b. 1835), married Sarah Green. Their son Willard Fay Martin (1871-1956) married his cousin Dora Hammond (1873-1964) and had a son, Stoddard Hammond Martin (1905-80), who married Nancy Hargis (1912-1985). Nancy Hargis' mother was born Jane Stoddard (1884-1965); her father was Benjamin Lillard Hargis, who was at one time president of the Kansas City Board of Trade as his father, Benjamin Finley Hargis, had also been. B. F. Hargis's father, Josiah Newton Hargis, had, like many Missourians, experienced hardship during the Civil War and may have associated with William Quantrill. He spent part of the war in Lawrence, Kansas, and afterwards returned to Missouri to rebuild his home at Lee Summit and to loan money to his neighbours to do their own rebuilding, ending life as a banker. A previous generation of Hargises had crossed the Cumberland Gap with Daniel Boone and perhaps associated with Davy Crockett in Tennessee. B. L. Hargis's maternal family, Lillard, owned land in Kentucky; their antecedents had arrived from France after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and claimed to be among the early Huguenot families of America.