Dick farmed & ranched in Wellington, TX. Both he & Carrie were active in the
Baptist Church. No children.
Claude kept books for Martin Bros., Raised Polled Hereford cattle, sold his
herd to Harry Dulick, drilled two dry wildcat oil wells in Bosque County, &
sold real estate, selling Ran Morgan the "Morgan Ranch" outside of Morgan, TX.
About 1954 he & Zella moved from Morgan to Cleburne, TX.
Zella was a member of the Morgan Federated Women's Club & held offices in the
Morgan Methodist Church.
Siddie was educated at Blue Mountain College in Mississippi, founded by Gov.
Robert Lowry, her mother's kinsman, & in Missouri, becoming an accomplished
musician. Her husband was a depot agent for the Texas Central Railroad, later
the Katy Railroad. Marcellus served in Morgan & Gorman, where the couple
moved.
Buried in Indiana be his first wife (name unknown). No children with Hattie.
None known of by his first wife.
Hattie's husband was the Morgan postmaster & Canada Hotel owner. Hattie
survived four bank failures during her lifetime & was an excellent
businesswoman. Widowed, she managed boardinghouses in Morgan & Denton. Her
husband is buried in Indiana? by his first wife. No children.
Walter "Joe" clerked in the Carlton Dry Goods Store in Walnut Springs, where he
met & married Lillah Crawford, a music teacher. They moved to New Mexico where
Joe was a farmer & realtor. Both are buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Houston,
TX, which is near where her family, who were in the lumber business, desired.
No children.
Sam's cousin, Marcella Scales, introducted him to her college roommate, Mary
Etta Richards, as they all were returning home on the train. Both Sam & Mary
earned their MA degrees. Sam is listed in WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA as a cotton
specialist with USDA; he worked for them from 1928-1958. No children.
Living in Dallas, Dallas Co., TX, 1992. Retired Dallas public school business
teacher, thirty three years.
Margaret graduated as the valedictorian of her class at Morgan High School;
& later was simultaneously a student & assistant instructor at Meridian College
in Meridian, Bosque Co., TX. She earned three degrees (BA/Baylor Univ./1920/
Waco, McLennan Co., TX; BS/Mary Hardin-Baylor College/1932/Belton, Bell Co.,
TX; MA/Baylor Univ./1951/Waco, McLennan Co., TX), toured Europe, and studied at
the Sorborne, Univ. of Paris, taking the opportunity to witness the Olympic
Games while in residence there.
She taught English at Port Arthur High School, Port Arthur, Jefferson Co.,
TX, from 1920 until 1923 when she moved to Ft. Worth, Tarrant Co., TX and
taught Physical Education until 1925.
At her home in Morgan, Bosque Co., TX, on 26 Dec 1925, Margaret wed Allen
David Fensty, a businessman. They lived in Wichita Falls, Wichita Co., TX,
Corpus Christi, Nueces Co., TX, & Temple, Bell Co., TX. In 1930 Margaret began
work as Temple's first professionally trained teacher of Girl's Physical
Education; she later served as director of Health & Physical Education while
coaching the tennis & tumbling teams. In 1967 she retired.
Margaret was a member of Delta Gamma, Baylor Alumni Association, Woodson
Scholarship Fund Committee of the Temple-Bell Retired Teachers Association,
Temple Federated Womens Club & Study Club, Temple First Baptis Church. She was
an honorary member of Theta Phi Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi & honorary grand-
mother of Jefferson Elementary School in Temple & was shown esteem by having
the Temple "Fensty Tumblers" named after her.
She was chosen as State Personality in 1965 by the Texas Association of
Health and Physical Education. In 1976 she was accepted to appear in the
Bicentennial Edition of NOTABLE AMERICANS OF THE BICENTENNIAL ERA, American
Biographical Institute, subsidiary of Historical Preservations of America, Inc.
Margaret & Allen had no children. Many of the children taught over the
years by Margaret became very good friends to her & Allen. She maintained a
very active social calendar right up to the last weeks of her life.
My father. I am Mary Margaret (Martin) Heartsill, the compiler of the
family information.
John Monroe Martin attended school in his hometown of Morgan, Peacock
Military Academy, & Texas A & M University. He was a fifty year Mason &
Shriner. "Jack" was a bank employee for Provident National Bank of Waco,
McLennan Co., TX, and he was a teller & a stock & bond salesman for the Bank of
America in San Francisco, California, working under the great financial wizard,
A. P. Gianinni. During WWII he served in the Army X Medical Corp.; his base
When Jack moved back to Texas, he asked his cousin, Margaret (Martin)
Fensty, if she knew of any nice young ladies; he had begun to think about
settling down and starting a family. She told him that she knew a very nice
young nurse working at Scott & White Hospital; she introduced him to Mary Lou
Hamrick. They married in Cleburne, Johnson Co., TX on 1 Nov. 1942. Private
Martin & wife moved to Sherman, Grayson Co., TX, Jack's army base; he served in
the Army X Medical Corps during World War II.
Upon discharge, Jack & Mary Lou returned to Morgan, at first living in
town, but they soon moved out to the ranch. Jack & his father Sam operated the
cattle ranch as S. M. & J. M. Martin Ranch, raising Polled Hereford cattle,
Angora goats & turkeys. Jack served as President of the Bosque County Better
Roads Association. He became a Realtor; one of his sales was the purchase by
Vernon & James Smith of part of the Cambell Ranch outside of Morgan. The
Smiths named it El Colina Ranch. Since James's death, Bruce Hunt's family has
purchased his portion of the ranch.
Mary Lou (Hamrick) Martin was Clinic Supervisor at Scott & White Hospital,
Temple, Bell Co., TX, at the time of her marriage. She had private duty
nursing in Sherman, became the Surgery Superintendent & was on general duty at
Meridian Hospital, Meridian, Bosque Co., TX, in 1943. When her children came
along, she put a hold on outside employment until they had reached their
teenage years. During the interim, she nursed family & friends. Once she
returned to public nursing, she was a visiting nurse in Bosque & Hamilton
Counties for several years; later she was the First Floor Supervisor at the
Goodall-Witcher Hospital in Clifton, Bosque Co., TX.
While we children were young, Mother served as a Cub Scout Den
Mother, was a volunteer & President of the Bosque County TB Association, was
President of the Morgan Federated Women's Club and the Kopperl Parent Teachers
Association. She was pianist at the Kopperl Baptist Church & at other
functions. She kept all of the ranch records and acted as secretary-bookkeeper
for Daddy in his real estate business, and later became a salesman herself,
concentrating on houses while Jack focused on ranches.
Both Jack & Mary Lou were members of the Baptist Church. Daddy liked to
attend Sunday school with several of his friends in the Kopperl Methodist
Church. Daddy loved to read & study the Bible as a book of history, as well as
for its other comforts. Both he & Mother were voracious readers.
Sent by Valeska Vicars. D/o John Washington Hamrick and Vessie Vera Whatley. My mother. I am Mary Margaret (Martin) Heartsill, the compiler of the family information.