• My source [for his birthdate] is a piece of paper without sources referenced that my Great Aunts left to my Grandfather.1414

• The following year [1838] brought Moses Nettleton, Richard Martin...[from Canada to the area.]1328, p 365

• Said to be a Methodist minister.1397

• There has always been a story that Richard Martin was a Methodist preacher. The description of this man as a “shouting Methodist” has survived. In W. L. Tolstead’s words, “Dad said that Grandmother Tolstedt’s maiden name was Martin, and that he was a Methodist minister, and a shouting one at that; the kind that shouts ‘Hallelujah’, ‘Amen’, etc. There was a peculiar religious fanatical trend in the family that might be best called ‘Puritanism’.” Eliza [daughter] apparently raised the children as Methodists despite their father’s atheism. We have no real evidence that Richard was a minister. We did find one reference in the centennial history of the Lighthouse Methodist Church in Daysville, Illinois, Light House Religious History 1836-1936 to “Richard Martin, later a local minister”. In the United States Census of 1850 and again in 1860, Richard is listed as a farmer.1411, p 25

• 1806 Census: Augusta, Grenville, Ontario, Canada.1341
• 1813 Census: Augusta, Grenville, Ontario, Canada. Unmarried, age 16-50.1342
• 1850 Census: Lafayette, Ogle, Illinois. Age 54, b Canada. Farmer. $1500.1415,1416
• 1860 Census: Lafayette, Ogle, Illinois. Age 63, b W. Canada. Farmer. $2,000; $8001417

• 14 children.1414