Yolo County Biographies


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GEORGE C. MARTIN
 
George C. Martin, a farmer near Woodland, is a son of James and Lina (Williams) 
Martin, who were among the early settlers of California, and will be remembered 
by many old pioneers.  They were natives of Virginia, where they remained until 
1844; they then moved to Livingston County, Missouri, and resided there until 
1853; he sold his property there, spent one summer in Texas, returned to 
Missouri and remained there until the spring of 1854, when he with his family 
came overland to the Golden State, with horse and ox teams, and settled in Yuba 
County, eight miles above Marysville, on the Yuba River.  There the senior 
Martin resided until his death in 1861, when he was sixty years of age.  His 
wife survived until 1884, when she died, in Yolo County, at the age of 
seventy-five years.  In their family were four sons and one daughter, all of 
whom came to California.  One son, M. D. Martin, came in 1849, and died in Yolo 
County in June, 1872.
 
George C. was born January 30, 1833, in Giles County, Virginia, and had been all 
his life upon a farm.  He was with his father in Yuba County until 1862, when 
the well-remembered floods of that year destroyed their agricultural stock.  He 
sold out and came to Yolo County, purchasing a farm northwest of Cacheville, 
where he remained until the fall of 1870.  He then purchased his present 
property, consisting of 160 acres of choice bottom land, a mile and a half 
southeast of Woodland, which is well improved and fertile and well stocked with 
farm buildings, etc.  He has altogether in Yolo County 410 acres.  His home 
place is especially adapted to the raising of fruit and alfalfa.
 
Mr. Martin was married March 7, 1867, to Miss Mary A. Waysman, a native of 
Missouri, and they have three sons and two daughters, namely:  Jackson L., Anna 
L., James W. (who died July 25, 1883), George V. and Mary V.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler