CHARLES T. MARTIN was born in Caldwell County, on the 6th of January, 1854, and is the eldest son of Elias and Mildred (Cantrell) Martin, both parents natives of Kentucky. Subject's grandfather, Tillman Martin, moved from Virginia to Kentucky in a very early day, and located near Princeton, where he died about the year 1844. Elias Martin was born in Trigg County in the year 1814, and is still living on his farm five miles south of Princeton. The father of Mrs. Martin was James Cantrell, a native of one of the Carolinas, and an early settler of Caldwell County. Charles T. Martin is the eldest of a family of six children, and was reared on a farm, attended the common schools of the country in his youth, and commenced life for himself as a farmer, purchasing a tract of 166 acres of fine land, lying four miles west of the county seat, where he at present resides. He makes farming a specialty, but pays considerable attention to buying and selling stock, in which he has been very successful. Mr. Martin was married December 24, 1877, to Miss Eudora, daughter of Washington and Adelia (Lester) Rucker of Caldwell County. Three children have been born to this union viz.: Walter L., Bessie L., and an infant (deceased).
Source: J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin, & G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky. A History of the State. Louisville, KY, Chicago, IL: Battey, 1885. Page 708.