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Person · John Martin
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationJohn 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.
- Children
- Peter Hines Martin
- Sources
- 1
Research status
Research status: PROBABLE — the grave record S105 gives his given name only. What would confirm it: a record naming Peter Hines Martin as his son (probate, deed, or a pre-1850 census household).
Evidence: A grave record that gives his given name only. Weak or missing: Nothing yet names Peter Hines Martin as his son. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Children1793
Father of
Peter Hines Martin (4 November 1793 – 4 July 1849)
S105In the record
Generation 6 — earliest known
- S105Peter Hines Martin Sr — Find a Grave memorial 138765883, with Ancestry member documents. Born 4 November 1793, Virginia; died 4 July 1849, Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee. Parents given as John Martin and Sarah Martin; spouse Jane. Indexed on Ancestry as collection 60541, record 4605011; the exact day and month are corroborated by member-submitted documents. Retrieved 18 September 2026. This is the record that answered a question this page had been posing as unanswerable. This page had carried Joseph's father as a man who died shortly before the 1850 census and could not be named — an inference drawn from his absence from it [S98]. The inference was right to within a year. The name came from a pencilled box on his great-great-grandson's pedigree chart [S103], and the "H" is Hines. ⚠️ Find a Grave is a compiled memorial, not an original. The dates are corroborated by the chart, by the 1818 marriage [S106] and by the 1850 widow's household; his own parents, John and Sarah Martin, rest on this memorial alone and stay Probable until an original is traced.