The Ancestors and Descendants of
Albert Martin (1855-1923)
Sixth Generation

FRANCIS6 MARTIN (Albert5, Mary Gochenauer4) was born at Pequea Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on August 1883[1] a son of Albert Martin and his wife Elizabeth Groff, and died on 1944.[2] He married at Lancaster, Lancaster County, on 21 January 1905 FLORA MAE ADAMS.[3] She was born at Cecil County, Maryland, on 8 August 1885, a daughter of Jacob C. Adams and his wife Louisa Miney. She died at East Drumore Township, Lancaster County, on 1 May 1934.[4]

Francis "Frank" Martin was one year and nine months old when his mother committed suicide. I do not have information regarding where he was placed for the next several years. The 1900 Census reported Frank Martin, age 16, boarding in the home of Henry and Emma Andrew ar New Providence, Providence Township, Lancasater County. He was attending school.[5]

Frank and Flora married at the ages of 21 and 19, respectively. They soon had a family, and were reported in the 1910 Census in East Drumore Township as follows:[6]

Line Name Related Sex Race Age MS B FB MB Occupation
97. Martin, Frank head M W 26 M1 PA PA PA painter, carriage factory
98. Martin, Flora M. wife F W 24 M1 MD MD MD none
99. Martin, Ida B. daughter F W 4 S PA PA MD none
100. Martin, Barba L. daughter F W 1 6/12 S PA PA MD none

The 1920 Census reported Frank and Flora still at East Drumore Township, Frank still a painter at a carriage works. The family consisted of Frank, 36, Flora, 34, Blanche, 14, Barbara, 11, Albert L., 9, and Mildred F., 7. All four children were attending school.[7]

The 1930 Census reported the family in the same township, with all five children at home:[8]

Line Name Related Sex Race Age MS B FB MB Occupation
15. Martin, Frank head M W 46 M PA PA PA painter, automobile
16. Martin, Flora M. wife F W 44 M MD MD MD none
17. Martin, J. Blanche daughter F W 24 S PA PA MD teacher, public school
18. Martin, Barbara L. daughter F W 21 S PA PA MD training, nurse
19. Martin, A. Lloyd son M W 19 S PA PA MD laborer
20. Martin, Mildred F. daughter F W 17 S PA PA MD none
21. Martin, Wilda M. daughter F W 9 S PA PA MD none

The two youngest daughters were attending school. Frank owned his own home, valued at $1500. They had a radio.

Flora (Adams) Martin died in 1934, at the age of 48, from carcinoma of both ovaries, with other complications.[9] By 1940 the family had dispersed. I have not found Barbara in the census of that year. Frank was living alone in East Drumore Township, age 57, a painter of automobiles.[10] Blanche was reported at Quarryville as follows:[11]

Line Name Related Sex Race Age MS Ed B 1935 Residence Occupation
42. Eshleman, J. Musser head M W 35 M H4 PA same place mechanic, garage
43. Eshleman, Blanche M.* wife F W 34 M H4 PA same place homemaker
44. Eshleman, Miriam M. daughter F W 3 S PA

The household also included a lodger, J. Milton Briolies, 48, bookkeeper for a stone quarry, and his son, Ray, 22, in his third year of college. The Eshlemans rented their home for $25/month.

Lloyd was reported in Providence Township:[12]

Line Name Related Sex Race Age MS Ed B 1935 Residence Occupation
56. Martin, Lloyd head M W 29 S 8th PA Quarryville, Lancaster Co., PA lineman, utility co.

Lloyd was working full time and earned $1500/year.

Mildred and her husband were at Holtwood, in Martic Township, Lancaster County, the location of an electric power plant on the Susquehanna River:[13]

Line Name Related Sex Race Age MS Ed B 1935 Residence Occupation
73. Todd, Eugene N. head M W 25 M H4 PA Lancaster, PA electrician, elec. power plant
74. Todd, Mildred F.* wife F W 27 M H4 PA rural Lancaster Co homemaker

The Todds rented their home for $15/month. Eugene worked full time for $1400/year.

Wilda lived in Lancaster, in the same dwelling, but a separate household from her husband's parents:[14]

Line Name Related Sex Race Age MS Ed B 1935 Residence Occupation
19. Kendig, John R. , Jr. head M W 22 M H3 PA same house electrician, house wiring
20. Kendig, Wilda M. wife F W 19 M H4 PA rural Lancaster Co. homemaker
21. Kendig, John R., III son M W 1 S PA

The Kendigs paid $12/month for rent.

The obituaries of some of the children of Frank and Flora, and their children's spouses, reveal more of the story of this family.

Blanche Eshleman, 95, Retired Teacher[15]

Blanche Eshleman, 95, of Quarryville Presbyterian Retirement Community, died of natural causes Friday at home.

She was a second grade teacher in a one romm school in East Drumore Township.

She was a graduate of the former Quarryville high School, the former Millersville Normal School, and Elizabethtown College.

She was a member since 1923 of St. Paul's United Church of Christ, where she sang in the choir for 40 years.

She volunteered for Meals on Wheels and Southern Lancaster County Library Center.

She was a member of the ladies auxiliary to Quarryville Fire Company and Solanco Senior Citizens. Born in Providence township, she was the daughter of of the late Frank and Flora Mae Adams Martin.

Her husband, Jay M. Eshleman, died in 1988.

Surviving are three grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Miriam Bloom, and a sister, Barbara Hodgins.
Jay Eshleman[16]

Jay M. Eshleman, 83, a retired auto company service manager and former Quarryville Borough councilman, died Thursday at 10:40 a.m. at Lancaster General Hospital after an 11-week illness.

A resident of 5 W. Fourth St., Quarryville, he was the husband of Blanche Martin Eshleman.

Eshleman had been the service manager at the former H. H. Wiggins Chevrolet Co. in Quarryville. After retiring, he worked as a Burns Agency security officer at the Philadelphia Electric Co.'s Muddy Run plant.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Eshleman served two terms on the Quarryville Borough Council.

He was a member of Washington Lodge 156, Free and Accepted Masons, Quarryville. The lodge awarded him a 50-year pin in 1986.

Eshleman was also a member of the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge of Quarryville and the Solanco Senior Citizens.

A member of St. Paul's United Church of Christ in Quarryville, he served several terms as a church elder and deacon.

Born in East Drumore Township, he was the son of the late Ezra M. and Adeline Warfel Eshleman.

Surviving besides his wife are three grandchildren.

Lloyd A. Martin Dies While Fishing[17]

Lloyd A. Martin, 67, of 126 N. Mulberry St., died of an apparent heart attack Thursday while on a fishing trip at Indian River in Delaware. He had been under the care of a physician.

Martin was born in Quarryville and was the son of the late Frank and Flora Mae Adams Martin.

In 1976, he retired after 40 years with Pennsylvania Power and Light Co., where he had been an equipment operator.

Martin served with the U.S. Air Force during War War II's Pacific Theater. He was a member of free and Accepted Masons Lodge No. 156 of Quarryville, Tall Cedars of Lebanon, Scottish Rites and the Royal Arch. Martin was also a member of the American Legion post in Lancaster. He attended the Catholic church.

Surviving are his wife, Catherine Jean Kemoe Martin, and three sisters, Blanche, wife of Jay Eshlkeman, Quarryville, Barbara Evans, Cleveland, Ohio, and Wilda, wife of John Kendig of Lancaster.
Mrs. Eugene Todd Succumbs in Fla.[18]

Mrs. Mildred F. Todd, 65, Clermont, Fla., formerly of Quarryville, died April 29 at Clermont Memorial Hospital after a lengthy illness.

Born in East Drumore Township, she was a daughter of the late Frank and Flora Mae Adams Martin. She was the wife of Eugene M. Todd, Clermont.

She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Clermont.

Surviving, besides her husband, are a son, Richard, Lowell, Mich.; a daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Dirego, Philadelphia; three grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Blanche Eshleman, Quarryville; Mrs. Barbara Evans, Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs. Walda Kendig, Lancaster R6, and a brother, Lloyd Martin, Lancaster.

Private memorial services were held in Quarryville, with interment in Quarryville Cermetery.

Wilda M. Kendig[19]

Wilda M. Kendig, age 92, of 2450 John Fries Highway, Rt 663, Quakertown, PA, formerly of Honeysuckle Lane, Lancaster, PA, passed away on Friday, January 4, 2013, at Life Quest Nursing Center in Quakertown.

Born in Quarryville, PA, she was the daughter of the late Frank and Flora Adams Martin. She was the wife of the late John R. Kendig, Jr., who died in August 1993.

Wilda was a 1937 graduate of East Drumore High School. She was a homemaker.

A member of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Zion Hill, PA, where she was a member of the "tie knotter" quilting group, Wilda enjoyed sewing, knitting and crocheting for her family.

A son, John R. Kendig III, of Lancaster; two daughters, Mary Lynn Shay, wife of Gary, of Coopersburg, PA; Patricia M. Shaffmaster, wife of Eric, of Greensboro, NC; eight grandchildren and fifteen great grandchildren, survive Wilda. . . .
John Kendig Jr., 75, PP&L foreman[20]

John R. Kendig, Jr., 75, of 2580 Honeysuckle Lane, died unexpectedly Tuesday at Lancaster General Hospital.

He was the husband of Wilda M. Martin Kendig.

Kendig worked for 34 years as a multiple line crew foreman for Pennsylvania Power and Light. He retired in 1980.

In 1950, Kendig received the first Good Citizenship Award presented by the Conestoga National Bank. He also was a plank owner at the U.S. Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C.

A U.S. Navy veteran, he was a quartermaster stationed in the South Pacific on the USS Fomalhaut during World War II. He received training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center.

He was a lifetime member of the Millersville Veterans of Foreign Ward Post No. 7294 and the American Legion. He was a member of Free and Accepted Masons, Lamberton Blue Lodge No. 476, the Harrisburg Consistory, Lancaster Lodge of Perfection and the Tall Cedars.

Born in Quarryville, he was a son of the late John R. Sr. and Mary Wimer Kendig. He was a lifelong resident of Lancaster County.

Besides his wife he is survived by a son, John R. III of Lancaster; two daughters, Mary Lynn, wife of Gary E. Shay of Coopersburg, and Patricia M., wife of Eric Shaffmaster of Greensboro, NC; eight grandchildren, three great grandchildren; a brother, Lynn S. of Lititz; and a sister, mary Elizabeth Baxter.

To this collection we can add the obituary of granddaughter Miriam Eshleman Bloom:

Miriam E. Bloom[21]

Miriam Martin Eshleman Bloom, 49, a registered nurse, died Friday at Paoli Memorial Hospital after a long illness.

She lived on West King Street, Malvern, and was the wife of Richard Lewis Bloom.

A 1954 graduate of Solanco High School, Mrs. Bloom graduated in 1957 from the Lancaster General Hospital School of Nursing. She worked in a physician's office in Paoli until she became ill. She was a member of Paoli United Methodist Church.

Born in Lancaster, she was the daughter of Jay Musser and Blanche Martin Eshleman, Quarryville.

Surviving besides her husband and parents are two sons, Jay Douglas, Melbourne, Fla., and James Richard, Atlanta; and a daughter, Judy Lynn, at home.


Francis Martin and his wife Flora Adams had the following children:

  1. BLANCHE IDA7 MARTIN b. at Providence Township on 9 July 1905; d. at Quarryville, Lancaster County, on 25 August 2000;[22] m. JAY MUSSER ESHLEMAN,[23] b. at East Drumore Township on 27 August 1904, d. on 28 April 1988,[24] child of Ezra M. and Adeline (Warfel) Eshleman. Blanche and Jay had the following child:
    1. Miriam F. Eshleman b. at Lancaster on 17 January 1937, d. at Paoli, Chester County, Pennsylvania, on 27 June 1986;[25] m. at Quarryville on 12 October 1957 Richard Lewis Bloom.[26] Miriam and Richard had the following children:
      1. James Richard Bloom b. at Lancaster on 16 September 1958.[27]
      2. Jay Douglas Bloom b. at Lancaster on 21 October 1960.[28]
      3. Judy Lynn Bloom b. at Lancaster on 20 August 1964;[29] m. ________ Harris. Child of Mrs. Judy Harris:
        1. Jack B. Harris[30]
  2. BARBARA L.7 MARTIN b. at Pennsylvania on 22 October 1908; d. on 18 October 1999;[31] m. ________ EVANS.[32]
  3. ALBERT LLOYD7 MARTIN b. at Quarryville on 11 February 1911;[33] d. at Indian River, Sussex County, Delaware, on 3 August 1978;[34] m. after 1950 CATHERINE JEAN KEMOE, b. at Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey, on 16 January 1919, d. on 15 November 1999, child of Michael and Hannah (Cheeseman) Kemoe.[35]
  4. MILDRED F.7 MARTIN b. at East Drumore Township on 2 March 1913;[36] d. at Clermont, Lake County, Florida, on 29 April 1978;[37] m. before 1940 EUGENE M. TODD, b. on 10 September 1914, d. on 27 February 2003.[38] Mildred and Eugene had the following children:[39]
    1. Richard Todd
    2. Evelyn Todd m. ________ Diego
  5. WILDA M.7 MARTIN b. at Pennsylvania on 21 May 1920; d. at Quakertown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on 4 January 2013;[40] m. before 1940 JOHN R. KENDIG Jr., b. at Quarryville on 4 January 1918, d. at Lancaster on 17 August 1993,[41] child of John R. (Sr.) and Mary (Wimer) Kendig. Wilda and John had the following children:[42]
    1. John R. Kendig III b. at Pennsylvania about 1938-9.[43]
    2. Mary Lynn Kendig m. Gary Shay.
    3. Patricia M. Kendig m. Eric Shaffmaster.

NOTES

1Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Providence, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district (ED) 99, p. 1, household 4, Henry Andrew family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 October 2019); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
2Quarryville Cemetery, Quarryville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrve.com : accessed 23 October 2019), Flora-Frank Martin; Created by: Tom Donahue.
3Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, "Pennsylvania Marriages, 1709-1940.," database, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 15 October 2019), Martin-Adams, 1905, Lancaster County, no. 913.
4Pennsylvania Department of Health, Death Certificates, 1906–1967, certificate 50900, Flora Martin, 1934; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 October 2019); Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11, Series 11.90. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
51900 Census, Providence, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, ED 99, p. 1, household 4, Henry Andrew family.
6Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, East Drumore, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district (ED) 33, roll 1353, p. 2B, household 45, Frank Martin family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 October 2019); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
7Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, East Drumore, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district (ED) 33, roll 1582, p. 1A, household 2, Frank Martin family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 October 2019); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
8Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population, East Drumore, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district (ED) 28, p. 10A, household 198, Frank Martin family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 16 March 2018); NARA microfilm record group T626; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
9Pennsylvania Department of Health, Death Certificates, 1906–1967, certificate 50900, Flora Martin, 1934.
10Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, population, East Drumore, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district (ED) 36-28, roll 3529, p. 5B, household 94, Frank Martin; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 October 2019); NARA microfilm group T627.
111940 Census, Quarryville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, ED 36-137, roll 3534, p. 11B, household 232, J. Musser Eshleman family.
121940 Census, Providence, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, ED 36-136B, roll 3534, p. 8B, , Lloyd Martin.
131940 Census, Martic, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, ED 36-123, roll 3534, p. 4B, household 85, Eugene N. Todd family.
141940 Census, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, ED 36-63, roll 3530, p. 10A, household 231, John R. Kendig family.
15"Blanche Eshleman, 95, Retired Teacher," obituary, Lancaster (Pennsylvania) Intelligencer Journal, 26 August 2000; Newspapers (newspapers.com : accessed 25 October 2019).
16"Jay Eshleman," obituary, Lancaster (Pennsylvania) Intelligencer Journal, 30 April 1988; Newspapers (newspapers.com : accessed 25 October 2019). p. 4.
17"Lloyd A. Martin Dies While fishing," obituary, Lancaster (Pennsylvania) Intelligencer Journal, 5 August 1978; Newspapers (newspapers.com : accessed 25 October 2019). p. 4.
18""Mrs Eugene Todd Succumbs in Fla.," obituary, Lancaster (Pennsylvania) Intelligencer Journal, 11 May 1978; Newspapers (newspapers.com : accessed 27 October 2019). p. 4.
19Wilda M. Kendig," obituary, Lancaster (Pennsylvania) Intelligencer Journal, 5 January 2013; Newspapers (newspapers.com : accessed 15 October 2019). p. B3.
20"John Kendig Jr., 75, PP&L foreman," obituary, Lancaster (Pennsylvania) Intelligencer Journal, 18 August 1993; Newspapers (newspapers.com : accessed 15 October 2019). p. B3.
21"Miriam E. Bloom," obituary, Lancaster (Pennsylvania) Intelligencer Journal, 28 June 1986; Newspapers (newspapers.com : accessed 25 October 2019). p. 4.
22Social Security Administration, "U.S. Social Security Death Index," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 1 November 2019), Blanche M. Eshleman, 185-22-1915.
23"Blanche Eshleman, 95, Retired Teacher."
24"U.S. Social Security Death Index", J. M. Eshleman, 186-10-0450.
25"U.S. Social Security Death Index", Miriam Bloom, 204-28-8224.
26Miss Eshleman Becomes Bride of R. L. Bloom," Lancaster (Pennsylvania) Intelligencer Journal, 13 October 1957; Newspapers (newspapers.com : accessed 27 October 2019). p. 18.
27"Births," Lancaster (Pennsylvania) Intelligencer Journal, 17 September 1958; Newspapers (newspapers.com : accessed 27 October 2019). p. 2.
28"Stork News," Elizabethtown Chronicle, 27 October 1960; Newspapers (newspapers.com : accessed 27 October 2019). p. 8.
29"Stork News," Elizabethtown Chronicle, 27 August 1964; Newspapers (newspapers.com : accessed 27 October 2019). p. 12.
30Letter from Mary Elizabeth Bauer Ranck Kibler, to Charles A. Maxfield, 29 August 2000; held in 2015 by Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
31"U.S. Social Security Death Index," Barbara M. Evans, 276-28-9658.
32"Mrs Eugene Todd Succumbs in Fla."
33Quarryville Cemetery, Quarryville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Lloyd A. Martin; Created by: Tom Donahue. Leora Martin Duke. Leora Duke's "Little Red Book," privately held by Jere Duke. typed transcription.
34"Lloyd A. Martin Dies While fishing."
35United States Social Security Administration, "Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 October 2019), Catherine Jane Kemo, 40106374. Using maiden name in 1950.
36Leora Martin Duke, Leora Duke's "Little Red Book." Funeral Card for Mildred Todd, 2 May 1978, privately held by Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Pennsylvania, provided by Betty Kibler.
37"Mrs Eugene Todd Succumbs in Fla."
38"U.S. Social Security Death Index," Eugene M. Todd, 162-09-2156.
39"Mrs Eugene Todd Succumbs in Fla."
40"U.S. Social Security Death Index," Wilda M Kendig.
41"U.S. Social Security Death Index," John R. Kendig, 196-10-8421.
42"Wilda M. Kendig."
431940 Census, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, ED 36-63, roll 3530, p. 10A, household 231, John R. Kendig family.

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