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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: Jack Buck Martin Note Born: 4 Nov 1895 at Ennis, , Ellis Co, Texas Married: 17 Nov 1920 at Waco, , Mclellan Co, Texas Died: 22 May 1971 at Shreveport, , Caddo Par, Louisiana
WIFE
Name: Winona Mckinney Note Born: 13 Feb 1904 at Gainsville, , Cooke Co, Texas Died: 28 Apr 1989 at Ruston, , Lincoln Par, Louisiana Father: Willie Bob Mckinney Mother: Donna Emma Stone
CHILDREN
Name: Jack Buck Jr. Martin Born: (suppressed / living) Died: Wife: Florine Smith
Name: Robert Ambrose Martin Born: (suppressed / living) Died: Wife: Faith Rose Busk
NOTES
1). mytree.FTW Cause of Death heart attack Jack Buck Martin was born in Ennis, Texas. There is a family sto ry that the name entered in the family Bible is Lorenzo Dow Mart in but we have not been able to locate the Bible. We do have a c opy of the birthdates of the family from it and that copy has J . B. Martin. Florene Shrum remembers that all of the younger part of the fami ly lived together in a big house on Austin Avenue in Waco. The f amily included her father, Houston, and his family, Uncles Jack, Jim, and Joe and Aunt Sybil and her son Floyd. Aunt Fannielive d there too. They were all unmarried. Grandma Martin Mammy was head honcho. After the evening meal they d all gather on the large front porch. Joe had a slingshot and all the men would tak e shots at rats crawling on the electric wires to the house. Unc le Jack and Joe were the best shooters. Jim and Joe were in thei r late teens but Uncle Jack was a fireman. Florene remembered wh ere the fire station was and called the fire marshall but they c ould find no record of Jack Martin. The marshall said that in th ose days a lot of firemen were volunteers and he might have been one of them. After Uncle Jack and Aunt Winona were married they moved to Summer Street in another part of the city. She remembe rs seeing them many times after that because the Martins were a close knit family no family feuds existed. She remembers visi ting them in Shreveport and being treated royally. They took the m to visit the glass plant and the hatcheries and the sights of that lovely city and Florene was impressed.She remembers that J ack and Winona used to come back to Waco for family visits but u sually stayed with Aunt Bunch or Uncle Miles because they had mo re room. The rest of the family would all congregate for a famil y reunion lotsa fun. Florene saw Uncle Jack in Lubbock in 194 7 when her father, Houston, died and then in the late 60 s when Aunt Fannie died. She remembers Aunt Winona and J. B. coming to Waco in the 1970 s to see all the family and enjoying their visi t. The house and property on Austin Avenue in Waco were bought by t he Presbyterian church next door. The house was torn down when t hey built an annex on the property. Florene still remembers that house it was the only house she ever saw with a big cistern in the middle of the downstairs area. It wasn t in use as they h ad city water, but it was enough to impress and scare the gizzar ds out of a little 5 year old girl. Jack Buck Martin and Winona McKinney met when she had a flat tir e near the fire station where he was working. She was probably i n her father s Bob McKinney s Model T. Two firemen came out to help, one changed the tire and one talked to her Jack. Atthe time her father, Bob McKinney, was running a cafe in Waco to sup plement his income from pastoring a local church. They married i n Waco in 1920. Their son, Jack Buck Martin, Jr. J. B. was bor n 24 September 1921. My father, Robert Ambrose Martin, was born 17 January 1925. The hospital misspelled his middle name, it sho uld have been spelled as his grandfather s name was, Ambrous. Th is upset his mother, Winona McKinney Martin. Jack had a nickname for his wife, Winona. He called her Hosslee because she was a hustler and loved to travel so much. I guess Grampa Jack was still working as a fireman in Waco until 1929 when they moved to Shreveport, Louisiana, where Jack went to work for Longleaf Lumber Company as a Millwright. They had a house on Lillian Street 3rd house from the corner on right whi ch is one block over from West College. My dad remembers riding down Lillian Street in Grampa McKinney s Bob McKinney s car. I n the winter of 1929 they had a record snowfall with 6 on the g round. About 1930, when Daddy was about 5 years old, Winona and my dad were shopping in downtown Shreveport. They went to Hearn s on Te xas Avenue and went inside for just 5 minutes. When they came ba ck out their new Model T was gone, it had been stolen. They neve r got it back. They had to buy a used car to replace it. Daddy r emembers the cop said to Mom Winona What do you want me to do , cry? The Depression reached the South and Grampa Jack was first laid off in September of 1931. He once went 15 months without a paych eck. Mr. and Mrs. Whitten owned a grocery store and allowed them to buy groceries on credit. During the Depression my dad, Rober t A. Martin, remembers once that the family was living in a rent house and were about to have to move out. A Jewish man had a ho use close by and said they could live there rent free for 3 5 mo nths so that he could keep it insured. About 1933 Jack was working in Keatchie on an oil drilling crew. It was a dry hole and they were down to their last $5.00. Mom s aid We re going to Houston. Her brother, Paul McKinney, lived on Avenue J in Houston and had a job as a city busdriver. They s tayed 2 3 months while Jack looked for work. Then they moved to another of her brothers, Umphrey McKinney, who lived in East Ber nard, Texas just west of Houston . He had a job as an electrici an with the power company. He and his wife, Oma, lived ina comp any house. They stayed with them 4 or 5 months. In East Bernard the boys picked cotton and made a little money they were paid 10 cents for every 20 pounds of cotton they picked. Next, they moved to Lott where Jack s brother Miles and his fami ly lived. Miles was very generous he said Jack, you can stay h ere as long as you need and as long as we have something to eat so do you. Robert Ambrose remembers Jack helping Miles killsom e hogs Jack shot them and then Miles sons Ambrous and Henry slit their throats. He also remembers churning butter for his Au nt Georgie and having to walk about 1 mile to go to school. J. B . remembers that Mammy Grandma Martin Dorcas Ellen Fields Mart in seemed to ignore him. She only liked the local grandchildr en. Daddy remembers helping Uncle Miles move from Lott to Chilto n about 1932 or 1933. All the neighbors helped too. After that they moved back to Shreveport and Grampa Jack got a c all to come back to work at Longleaf Lumber Company. He went bac k part time about 1934. He also worked as a garbageman a G ma n, as Grampa Jack called it about 1934 and 1935. They livedin a house on Judson Street in 1935 36. About 1939 Jack quit workin g for Longleaf Lumber and started working as an outside carpente r and making better wages and they were able to send both of the ir sons to college. After Winona s sister, Lala, passed away, they took in her three youngest children, Frankie, Thomas, and Pat Hyatt, in 1945. Velma Pirtle remembers her Uncle Jack and Uncle Jim coming from Louisiana to visit her dad, Alonzo, in Fort Worth when he was so sick. Jack and Winona went to Waco to get Loma so she could see her dad. Winona stayed in Waco with Bunch, who was also in the hospital, while Loma went to Fort Worth to see her dad. Alonzo a nd Bunch died within weeks of each other in 1957. Grampa Jack enjoyed being a Mason and later a Shriner. He enjoye d classical music and attending the community concerts in Shreve port. He also liked to go deep sea fishing on his visits to our family in Nederland, Texas. I remember once in the late 60 she was writing a play when we visited them in Shreveport. He kept c oming out of the back room to ask us how to spell words. I don t know what ever happened about that play. Usually when we visite d them in Shreveport he would be seated at the kitchen table, sm oking a cigar and playing solitaire. He suffered his first heart attack in 1969 and died as a result of the second one in 1971.
2).  mytree.FTW  by Robert Ambrose Martin  Winona was born into a family that changed more than most. In he r earlier years, her father, Bob McKinney was a young business m an, a gambler and had the ability to shoot rabbits on the run wi th his pistol. When she was about 7, her dad got saved and short ly thereafter, the Lord called him to preach in the Church of Go d.  In those days there were not many established churches of God so  the preaching was often in homes, schools, streets, borrowed or  rented buildings, etc. Also, offerings were not always taken in  small churches, and he, like several others, worked and bought and sold to supplement his income. Therefore, the time, financia lly, were and lean and in between.  When she was about 8, her 2 year old sister, Lala, contracted sp inal meningitis, and her back was stiff and arched like an India n  s bow being drawn back for a kill. The family prayed many time s for her, and the church prayed. At that time, they had money, and two doctors came from Dallas on the train to Moody to see he r. They said,  there  s nothing we can do, she is going to die.  The family continued to pray. While they were in the woods behin d the house praying, the Lord spoke to grandma     Go back in th e house and lay hands on her and pray, I  m going to heal her.  W hen they did, the child  s body became soft and straightened out. Two minutes later she wanted to get in the floor and play.  Seeing something like that might not convict everyone to make an  undying pledge of loyalty to the Lord for the rest of your life , but I don  t think you  d ever forget it, and she never did.  When Mama was about 11, they lived in San Antonio. There was an epidemic of small pox in 1914 in the area which killed several t housand people. Her dad contracted it. Due to the disease being so contagious, the authorities would quarantine the entire famil y within fences, or you would be taken to the  pest house.  1 ou t of 20 walked out of the pest houses, the other 19 died and wer e buried in mass graves.  At that time, they had money and so were quarantined. They survi ved by putting grocery lists and money on the gate post, and the  grocery man would put groceries at the gate later. The family p rayed and the church prayed, and other churches were calledon t o pray for him. He suffered intensely, but recovered in about 5 weeks. However, he carried poc marks on his body until he died i n 1960.  Due to the moving of jobs and an itenerant preacher, she didn  t start and complete many school grades in the same school. Being raised in a preacher  s home, she saw and experienced many differ ent things    some good and some bad.  At about the start of her last year in high school, she met Jack  Martin and married in 1920. They had 2 boys, Jack Buck   always  called J. B.  in 1921 and Robert Ambrose in 1925.   When the boys were growing up, the family did not go to church m uch except when Grampa McKinney came to town. Then they would go  to the Church of God on Yale Street in Shreveport. M. B. Crawfo rd was the Pastor. About 1942 the First Church of God builtthei r building on Exposition Street and they attended church there. J. J. Coody was their first Pastor. Rev. Crawford later moved to  the Hollywood Church of God in Shreveport.  When J. B. graduated from high school in 1938, Mom  Winona McKin ney Martin  went to work in so that he could go to college. Gram pa McKinney said that would be a waste of money  put that boy to  work! She worked as a hostess in a movie theater for $14.00a w eek. Next she found a job at the charity hospital in the houseke eping department. She worked there several years and became Assi stant Supervisor. About 1942 she went to work in a munitions pla nt. Then she worked for the revenue department of the State of L ouisiana. She handled property taxes and sold license plates and  retired at age 68. Ten years later she had gall bladder surgery  and the doctor told her that her ulcers had healed.  When Daddy was in high school Mom started going to church regula rly. The war was coming and she had a son in the Navy and later a son in the Army. Then in February of 1945 her sister, Lalia  E ulalia McKinney Hyatt , passed away. They took in three of the c hildren, Frankie, Thomas, and Pat. The oldest son, Dennis, went to live with Hyatt relatives. Mom always took them to church jus t as she later always took the grandchildren. Grampa Jack rarely went to church except at Easter and Christmas. The churchsold its property and moved close the the airport about 1975 or 76. L ater they moved again near Cross Lake.  Winona  s brother Paul  s wife, Ethel, passed away in 1945 and the n her brother, Umphrey, died in 1946. He was in the hospital as a result of an electrical accident and during surgery he died  a s a result of too much anesthesia?  Mom always blamed the doctor s for his death  she never trusted doctors much after that. The deaths Lalia, Ethel,and Umphery changed Mom  s life.  Winona and Jack celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary in 197 0 and Jack passed away in 1971. A few years later she moved to R uston, Louisiana, and lived with her son J. B. and his family. I n February of 1989 many many family members gathered in Shrevepo rt to celebrate her 85th birthday. She passed away two months la ter.

						

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