Nancy Louise Martin

Nancy Louise Martin

TennesseeConfirmed

Louise's mother · 1878–1967

Born

5 November 1878, Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee

Died

17 May 1967, at 811 Garner, Pasadena, Harris County, Texas

Sources

9

Life in the order the records give it

Census1930

1930 census, Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee

"Timberman, Nancy, 52, widowed, head, high-school teacher," with her daughter Louise M., 13 S27

Birth1878

Born 5 November 1878, Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee Probable

age 52 in the 1930 census is consistent S27S30

Death1967

Died 17 May 1967, at 811 Garner, Pasadena, Harris County, Texas Confirmed

Texas death certificate 31838; she had lived there ten years, and was taken home to Gallatin Cemetery, Tennessee S262. The FamilySearch tree had placed her death in California S30

That 1930 household is the single best document of the run that found it. One page puts Louise, her widowed mother, her mother's unmarried Martin sister and a Chenault relative under one roof — and in doing so it named two generations that had been blank.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Marriage1915

Nancy L. Martin on the 1915 marriage record S29

Names—

Her maiden name Martin is proved from that same page rather than from a tree: her own unmarried sister, "Martin, Emma, 59, single, teacher," is enumerated in the household S27

Parents1832

Her parents, Joseph Daniel Martin (1832–1899) and Nannie Chenault (1844–1915), married 10 January 1866 at Castalian Springs, Sumner County, are Probable

but corroborated sideways by the boarder in her 1930 household, "Chenault, Ermin, 28", a woman, a saleslady in dry goods: a Chenault living with the family S27S30

Parents2026

🆕 Her grandparents are now named too, 18 September 2026

and on 22 September Peter Hines Martin's own will names Joseph in the children's division S172, so that link no longer rests on a census household (the will does not write son; the bequest's structure carries it): Joseph Daniel Martin's own parents were Peter Hines Martin (4 Nov 1793 – 4 July 1849, Gallatin, Sumner Co., TN) S105 and Jane Bell, married 2 July 1818 in Davidson County S106. Two pencilled boxes on Robert William Coffman's pedigree chart S103 gave the names; the records confirmed the man, the marriage and the widow's household S98

In the record Generation 4 — Earl's great-grandparents

1. S271930 US Census, Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee, lines 97–100 — Timberman, Nancy (52, widowed, head, high-school teacher); Timberman, Louise M. (13, daughter); Martin, Emma (59, sister, public-school teacher); Chenault, Ermin (28, female, boarder, saleslady in dry goods). FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:SP7V-TVZ. Page image read directly. The single page that proves the Martin maiden name from a record rather than a tree. Corrected 26 September 2026: the boarder was first read as a man, “Ernest Chernault”, as FamilySearch indexed him. A second scan of the same sheet, Ancestry record 66161418 (1930 census, ED 83-3, sheet 29B, line 100, image 4547930_00097), set beside it reads Chenault, Ermin, sex F, a sales lady in dry goods. The Chenault link to the family is unchanged.
2. S29Marriage record, Sumner County, Tennessee, p. 398 — "Gallatin, Tenn., June 15th 1915. This day issued to J. H. Timberman, Jr. to marry Nancy L. Martin. [A.] H. Moon, Clerk." Return: solemnised 17 June 1915 by H. L. Olmstead. Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790–1959; FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:QKH3-ZG5P / …QKH3-ZG5G. Page image read directly. Corrected 26 September 2026: this page was first read as the 10th and the 11th, with the clerk as “Groves”. A second scan of the same page, Ancestry record 1619878 (Tennessee, U.S., Marriage Records, 1780–2002, image VRMUSATN1780_047344-00268), was set beside the FamilySearch image: both read June 15th and the 17th, the clerk signs “Moon” on every entry, the next licence on the page is dated June 16th, and the marriage bond is dated 15 June S261. FamilySearch's 15 June was right.
3. S30FamilySearch Tree — Coffman, Timberman and Martin persons: Louise Martin Timberman LYBS-P4G, Robert William Coffman LDS1-NHV, James Harris Timberman Jr 9W7S-C6X, Nancy Louise Martin KHK5-FCL, Joseph Daniel Martin KG8Y-MV3, Nannie Chenault KZZ7-P9F. Community-curated, not a record — the counterpart of S12 on the maternal side. Event lists and dates drawn from it are tagged Probable throughout. Cited here for Robert William Coffman's sibling list, which independently matches S16.
4. S981850 US Federal Census — Jane Martin household, District 12, Sumner County, Tennessee. Jane Martin, 56, Head (b. ~1794); David, 19; Joseph, 18; Martha, 16; Louisa, 14; Mary McMurry, 7; William Bell, 65. NARA M432, Roll 897, Page 286a. Ancestry collection 8054, records 6921047 / 6921049. Re-read in full on 18 September 2026, and it carries two names this entry had left off. Jane heads the household with no husband present because Peter Hines Martin died 4 July 1849, the year before [S105]. And William Bell, aged 65 — a man of her parents' generation, living under her roof — is her maiden name walking into the record on its own legs, independent of the marriage index [S106] and of the family chart [S103] that first supplied it. ⚠️ This household is still what makes Joseph Probable rather than Confirmed as Peter's son: right name, right age, right county, in the widow's house the year after the father died — but a census names a household, not a parentage. Peter's 1849 Sumner County probate file was what would close it [S107] — and it has: his holographic will of 30 June 1849 [S172] names Joseph D Martin in the children's division, and calls William Bell Jane's brother.
5. S103Robert William Coffman — four pedigree sheets, Genealogical Society of Utah forms (copyright 1936). Compiled by Robert William Coffman (1906–1990), Earl's maternal grandfather; kept after his death by his son David Coffman, who photographed and sent all four to Earl on 18 September 2026. Blue-ink cursive throughout, with a later layer of pencil block capitals on the right-hand column of Chart 1 and red annotations in a third hand. All four images are on this page. FAMILY TESTIMONY, and graded as such — a pedigree chart is not a record. Its value here is that it is testimony from inside the family, written down by a careful man with the 1940 Kauffman-Coffman book open beside him, and it carried two facts nothing else on this page had: the names PETER H MARTIN and JANE BELL [S105][S106], and the wedding date 5 Mar 1799 [S104]. ⚠️ Where the sheets disagree with a record, the record wins on this page, and three such places are printed rather than hidden: the chart's 1888 birth and "Columbus" for James Harris Timberman Jr. against his Ohio certificate's 23 Oct 1886 and Cambridge [S79]; its "Martin Coffman d. 1809" against the county's 1805 will; and its Martin against the 1799 bond's "Geo." ⚠️ Chart 3 (the Swiss Kauffman generations) and the surname-study sheet are published as documents and NOT as descent. The Swiss chain carries no citation of any kind, and the surname sheet — Kauffmans on the councils of Berne, Zurich, Solothurn and Lucerne, 1303–1582 — has nothing on it connecting any of those men to this family. ⚠️ The sheets arrived through a phone and cap at 720 × 1280 pixels; a chart field is 12–20 pixels tall at that size, which is why several readings are graded Probable. A re-photograph at full resolution would close about a dozen of them.
6. 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.
7. S106Peter H. Martin and Jane Bell — marriage, Davidson County, Tennessee, 2 July 1818. Tennessee, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1784–1825 (Dodd), Ancestry collection 2099, record 3593. Retrieved 18 September 2026. An actual record for a name that existed only on a family chart. Box 29 of Chart 1 reads JANE BELL in pencil and nothing more [S103]; this is the marriage behind it. ⚠️ A compiled marriage index is a transcription, not the county register, so it is corroborated rather than relied on alone: William Bell, aged 65, is enumerated in Jane's household in 1850 [S98] — a Bell of her parents' generation under the widow's roof, which reaches her maiden name from a completely different direction.
8. S172The last will and testament of Peter H. Martin — Sumner County, Tennessee, written in his own hand 30 June 1849, proved August Term 1849. Tennessee, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1779–2008; Sumner County Will Books 1789–1904; Ancestry record 3819223, image 004776071_00479. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. "I Peter H. Martin of the County of Sumner and State of Tennessee, being in my usual health and of sound and disposing mind, do make and ordain this my last will and Testament." To his wife Jane Martin, for life: the home plantation, the timbered tract bought of William Walton, the horses Charley and Rhoda and choice of three more, eight cattle, the farm gear, a year's provisions, the household furniture, twenty stock hogs, and "Choice of my Servants to the Number of three." The residue "to be sold at public sale for the benefit of my children." "My Town property to be Sold at a Credit for the benefit of my Children. Robert B. Martin has had an advance of three hundred & seventy dollars for which he will account to the other children in the division of my estate … The Shoe Store may be sold to the Crutchers & R. B. Martin and the latter allowed to retain the use of the Capital I put in." "To David B. Martin I give … a dark bay filly four years old. To Joseph D Martin I give unto a light bay filly now two years old." "To Mr. Wm Bell I leave a house and a support with his Sister as long as he Shall choose to accept it." "Witness that I have written with my own hand this 30th day of June 1849 … P. H. Martin (Seal)." Witnesses Thomas Crutcher, J. B. Wilson, W. H. Crutcher; proved in open court, Sumner County Court, August Term 1849, on the oaths of Thomas Crutcher and Wm H Crutcher; recorded by Wm S. Munday, Clerk. 🔑 This is the document the line page named as the one that would close the Joseph question [S107] — and it had never been read. 🔑 Joseph D Martin is named by his father, inside the passage disposing of the estate for the benefit of my children, in the same breath as David B. Martin and immediately after Robert B. Martin is told to account to the other children in the division of my estate. Three named Martins stand inside the class "my children" in the testator's own instrument. ⚠ The caveat travels with it: the will never writes the word son beside any of the three names. The filiation is carried by the structure of the bequest, not by a kinship term. It is far stronger than the two census households the link rested on [S98] [S161], and it is still not the word. 🔑 William Bell was Jane's BROTHER — with his Sister, in Peter's hand. S98's open brother or uncle is answered, and it explains why he was living in her house in 1850: her husband provided for it. 🔑 Peter Hines Martin kept a SHOE STORE, with capital still in it in 1849 and partners in the Crutchers, and held town property apart from the plantation. Read with Persons engaged in Manufactures: 4 at Gallatin in 1820 [S163], it is one trade across thirty years — and David, 19, "Clerk" in 1850 [S98] was clerking in his father's store. 🔑 Holographic, and four days before his death — written 30 June 1849, and his grave gives 4 July 1849 [S105]. 🔑 Nine people in an instrument Ancestry indexes under one name: Jane Martin, Robert B., David B. and Joseph D Martin, Wm Bell, William Walton, and three witnesses. ⚠ Ancestry's Probate Date 30 Jun 1849 is the date the will was written and sealed; probate is the August Term. ⚠ The will bequeaths Servants by choice of three; it names none of them.
9. S262Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903-1982 — Nancy Martin Timberman. Ancestry record 1537068. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Texas death certificate 31838: Nancy Martin Timberman, teacher, d. 17 May 1967 at 811 Garner, Pasadena, Harris Co., Texas; b. 5 Nov 1878 Tenn.; parents Joseph Martin and Nancy Chenault; informant Robert W. Coffman; removed to Gallatin Cemetery, Tenn. 🔑 Corrects this page: her death was in Pasadena, Harris County, Texas, where she had lived ten years, not in California as the FamilySearch tree S30 had it.