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Person · Emma Lee Martin
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationEmma Lee Martin
- LLines13 surname pages
The evidence
- DDocuments896 thumbnails, filterable
- SSourcesS1–S1207, with where each is cited
The findings
- How the wall came downProeger line
- The glass patentsProeger line
- How the Caffey half was closedCaffey line
- What the DNA saysits own page
- Four routesMigration
- The asymmetryLines
- Open questions20 questions
- Add to this recorda form, read by Earl
How to read this record
Every claim is tagged
Most family trees flatten everything into the same confident typeface. This one does not.
The three research tags below are the whole point of the exercise: they say what a document
proves, what the weight of evidence suggests, and what nobody has found yet. A fourth marks
what the family stated directly, where no document has been retrieved at all — it is kept
separate on purpose and is never quietly promoted to confirmed. A fifth, added on
13 September 2026, marks biological evidence: a DNA result is not a document, and it is not
testimony either. Two further labels mark where this page withholds information
rather than lacking it.
ConfirmedAttested by a document that was actually retrieved and read — a census sheet, a
government index, a grave marker, a family-written obituary.
ProbableStrongly supported but not nailed down: a user-contributed tree, a masked index field,
or a chain of consistent circumstances. Believable, not proven.
Not foundSearched for and not located. This is a statement about the search, not about the
person — the record may well exist somewhere unsearched.
Family testimonySupplied by the family and recorded on their word — no document has been retrieved for
it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands
apart from the three record tags above S24.
DNA evidenceBiological evidence consistent with a claim. It corroborates origins; it does
not by itself establish a person or a link. Note the bar rather than a dot or a diamond:
no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
was read for it S46.
Living — withheldThe person is living. By the privacy rule for this page, name and relationship are
shown, and at most a year the family has already published. Full dates of birth, ages,
places of residence and record identifiers are held back.
Research in progressA branch that is actively being worked on. The node exists in the structure so the
shape of the family is honest; the detail is simply not in yet.
- Born
- 10 March 1870
- Died
- 11 December 1934
- Parents
- Joseph Daniel Martin & Nannie Chenault
- Sources
- 2
Research status
Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
Life in the order the records give it
Birth1870
Born
10 March 1870, Tennessee; Emma, 10, in the 1880 census
S207Death1934
Died 11 December 1934, Nashville, Tennessee
Record1934
🆕 She left a will. Letters testamentary on the estate of
Emma L. Martin, late of Sumner County, were issued on
15 December 1934 by Hub Perdue, clerk, to
Nancy M. Timberman as executrix
Confirmed S1019. added 29 September 2026
Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
In the record
Generation 4 — Earl's great-grandparents and their siblings
- S2071880 U.S. Federal Census — Martin household, 10th Civil District, Sumner County, Tennessee. Ancestry record 16828687; ED 214, page 32. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Martin [given name left blank], 47, farming; Nannie, 36, parents both born Kentucky; children Luisa B. 13, Mary 11, Emma 10, Kate 7, Mattie 5, Joe 3 and Nannie 1. 🔑 Two children not otherwise on this record: Kate (c.1873) and a son Joe (c.1877). Mattie is Martha Martin McConnell [S203]; Nannie, 1, is Nancy Louise (Martin) Timberman.
- S1019Sumner County, Tennessee, Executors’ Bonds and Letters, page 58. Ancestry record 3616701. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Emma L. Martin, late of Sumner County, dead, having left a will; Nancy M. Timberman, executrix. Letters testamentary issued 15 December 1934 by Hub Perdue, clerk. The will itself has not been read.