williams branch · 1827–1920
Catherine Belinda Martin
Known as Belinda
Catherine Belinda Martin was born on August 16, 1827 in Deep Creek, Surry, North Carolina. She was the daughter of Simon Martin (b. ~1797, d. October 16, 1854) and Ruth Mackie Martin of Surry/Yadkin County, NC. Her mother Ruth was born a Mackie — daughter of John Mackie and Naomi (Moffat) Mackie — and her father Simon was of the Martin-Hadley line, which carried Quaker connections through the Hadley family's Deep Creek Meeting in Yadkin County.
Appears in
Vignette · in From Rowan County to the Palouse
Sent to school for one day, then sent to the fields
He was placed with a family on the understanding that they would send him to school. They sent him once.
1826–1863
Vignette · in From Rowan County to the Palouse
One log house, fifteen feet square, for a family of thirteen
They landed at Wallula in the last days of November 1873. Nine years later the homestead was engraved for a county history.
1873–1882
Vignette · in From Rowan County to the Palouse
Everything taken except one horse they kept in the brush
Order No. 11 emptied five counties. Belinda traded somehow for oxen and took the children out — three weeks on the road, two hundred and fifty miles.
1863–1873
Arc
From Rowan County to the Palouse
An orphan who got one day of school walked his family three thousand miles across America — by wagon, by riverboat, and finally by freight team — and ended it at the head of a golden-wedding table on a Washington prairie.
1826–1899Images
