Elizabeth Martin

DAR Ancestor # A074180

Red Flagged: "FUTURE APPLICANTS MUST PROVE CORRECT SERVICE".  

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ID: I02290

Name: Elizabeth (Betty) Marshall Smith

Sex: F

Birth: 1 MAR 1725/26 in Washington Parish, Westmoreland, VA

Death: 1802 in Edgefield District, SC (Charlotte Co., VA)

Burial: Martin Cem., Edgefield Co., SC

Note: After marrying, she moved to Indian Nation 96, now Edgefield District, SC. She nursed and concealed soldiers. Her portrait is in the Art Gallery in Washington, DC

C. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Marshall b. 1727? 1 Mar 1726 d.

(1) John Smith Jr. b. d. 1783 (--)

married 1747? 21 Dec 1741

(2) (Capt.) Abram Martin b. d.

married 2 Oct 1744

ELIZABETH MARSHALL MARTIN: PATRIOT OF THE REVOLUTION

WOMEN OF THE REVOLUTION Three women bearing the name of Martin deserve to be remembered. The elder, ELIZABETH MARTIN, bore the same relation to the two younger, Grace and Rachel, that Naomi did to Ruth and Orpah. Her sons were in the Revolutionary ranks, seven of them, whom she said as they went, with the spirit of Sparta: "Go, boys, and fight for your country. Fight til death, if you must; but never let your country be dishonored. Were I a man I would go with you."

When a British officer, learning that she had seven sons in the army, sneeringly said she had enough, she replied that she wished she had fifty there.

When another British officer heartlessly told her he saw her son's brains blown out on the field of battle, she calmly replied, "He could not have died in a nobler cause."

"When Charleston was besieged, she had three sons in the place. She heard the report of cannon on the occasion, though nearly a hundred miles west of the besieged city. The wives of the sons were with her, and manifested great uneasiness while listening to the reports; nor could the mother control her feelings any better. While they were indulging in silent and, as we may suppose, painful reflections, the mother suddenly broke the silence by exclaiming, as she raised her hands, 'Thank God! they are the children of the Republic!'"

That there was courage in RACHEL and GRACE MARTIN, was evinced in their capture of important dispatches, when, disguised as two rebels, they assailed the British courier and his guard, took the papers, which they speedily forwarded to Gen. Greene, and released the messenger and the two officers who were his guard on parole, while they had not the least suspicion that their captors were women. Boadicea, rushing in her rude chariot over the battle-field, while her long and yellow hair was streaming in the wind, had not more warlike heroism than those two sisters who risked so much to aid their country's defenders.

From http://colonialancestors.com/revolutionary/women.htm

MARTIN, ELIZABETH MARSHALL Ancestor #: A074180

• Notice: FUTURE APPLICANTS MUST PROVE CORRECT SERVICE (WHY?)
• Birth: 3-1-1726 WESTMORELAND CO VIRGINIA
• Death: POST 5-2-1797 EDGEFIELD CO NINETY SIX DIST SOUTH CAROLINA
• COMMENTS (Overview)
• 1) SERVICE BASED UPON TRADITION
• 2) ALSO, FAMP/C. EL-JOHN MARR UNITY BARKSDALE IS NOT THE SON OF THIS WOMAN.
• 3) SEE DATACF 8/2012

References

• Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. AncestryImage Name Letitia Martin Wade SAR Membership 20752 Role Ancestor Application Date 13 Feb 1909 Father Abram Martin Mother Elizabeth Marshall Martin Spouse Charles Edwards Children Mary Ann Hankins Edwards