Re: Sendal/Sandal Vayden-VA
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Re: Sendal/Sandal Vayden-VA
Deb Mowry 7/13/00
Hi Deb,
Sorry I haven't answered sooner.We just got in from a week in Florida.And what a pleasant surprise when I checked my e-mail to find your message.
It surely sounds like we are related.My Sandal Vaden was the wife of Joseph Mart. They both came from Pittsylvania County Virginia.Their son John J. Mart Sr. was born in 1803.John J. Sr. married Catherine Crane.Their son William J. Mart married Mary Jane Atkinson.Their third child was my grandmother, Mary Cornelia Mart.
I only recently found the information on William J. Mart's ancestry in a Kentucky biography about his brother, Richard,and know very little about them, except what is stated in the biography, which is copied as follows:
'Richard A. Mart, trader, of Boardley, is the son of John J. Mart and Catherine (Crane) Mart; his father, who lived in Pittsylvania County, Va., came to Logan County, Ky., in 1818; he is still living, a farmer, near Clarksville, Tenn., aged eighty-two.The mother of our subject came with her father from the same county in 1815, and first settled in Danville, Ky., but afterward moved to Logan County. His grandfather, Joseph Mart, died when his father was only fifteen years old; his paternal grandmother was Sandal Vaden. They were both Virginians. His grandfather, William Crane, married Mary Vaden.Mr. Mart was born in Logan County December 29, 1834; he attended the common schools for ten winters, and entered a store at Keysburg, at the age of seventeen.In 1855, he removed to Union County, and worked on the farm of C.B. Ross, who was then Postmaster for the country in the vicinity of present Boardley.While here he engaged in trading considerably, and he also taught school previous to 1857, for a term or two. In 1857 he bought the present site of Bordley; soon sold it to Woodring & Strouse, who set up a store in 1858. In 1859 Mr. Mart comenced in the mercantile business himself, and continued for two years, but when the war broke out he would up his affairs and returned to Logan County; he again returned to Bordley in 1865, after the cessation of hostilities, and once more set up in commercial life.In 1867 his brother, W.J. Mart, who had moved to Bordley, entered partnership with him; he continued in the store until October, 1881, when he sold out his interest in merchantile affairs to his nephews, H.L. and M.F. Mart.He now operates the real estate business of R.A. Mart and Bro., of which he owns a half interest.In politics he is a Democrat; he hasbeen a member of the Baptist Church for twenty years, and also the Masonic and Odd Fellows fraternities.Mr. Mart is a well-informed man on all topics of general interest, but he is modest withal, and always ready to listen rather than to talk; he is a model of business probity, a good Christian, and a thorough Kentucky gentleman.'
I would love to have any information you can send me and will send you anything I have that you don't have.
Thanks for answering my genealogy query.
Dottie Russell
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