History of Coosa County: Robert Lumpkin Martin and Elizabeth Robbins, an early Coosa marriage licence, and their son Rev. Darius Martin

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Page 55, from the early county records:

The first marriage license issued in Coosa was by A. C. Mahan, County Clerk, December 8th, 1834, authorizing the marriage of William Stringfellow to Louveancy Ellington.

The second was issued by Mahan, January 7th, 1835, in favor of Isom Edwards to Mary Fletcher.

The third was by Mahan, September 4th, 1835, to John M. Byers and Theresa Fitzgerald.

The fourth has not the day of the month but was in 1835, and the parties were William C. Bulger and Nancy Berry Donald.

The fifth was March 2nd, 1836, and the parties were Robert Lumpkin Martin and Elizabeth Robbins.

Pages 221–222, among Coosa's Baptist ministers:

Rev. DARIUS MARTIN

He was a son of Lumkin Martin, an early settler in the county, and whose mother was the eldest daughter of Solomon Robbins, the first white settler, and prominent pioneer. The license for this marriage was the first one issued in the county on record, and bears date in 1835. Darius still lives near the place where he was born, and where he has ever lived. He is now a grandfather, so that four generations have lived and are working out their destiny on the ground occupied by the Indians with them. While Martin would not be called a great preacher he is a good one and above the average—a most excellent, lovable, and pious one, commanding the confidence, esteem, and love of all. He has been clerk of the Central Association for about a third of a century […]

Citation: George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly 4, no. 1 (Spring 1942): 55, the county's first marriage licences, and no. 2 (Summer 1942): 221–222, "Rev. Darius Martin"; Internet Archive item histcoosacobrew, scans n114, n448 and n450, https://archive.org/details/histcoosacobrew/page/n114/mode/1up?q=Martin.