Martin Beatty Travis

BEYER, FORESMAN, FOSTER, SCHOENENBERGER, TRAVIS

Posted By: Kent Transier (email)
Date: 1/17/2010 at 17:16:23

“History of Madison County Iowa and Its People”
Herman A. Mueller, Supervising Editor
Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1915

Martin Beatty Travis was born in Indiana County, Pennsylvania on the 1st of November, 1816 and the Lovina Catherine Beyer’s birth occurred in Huntingdon County, that state, on the 3d of July, 1827. Their marriage was celebrated on the 20th of January, 1847, and in 1855 they removed to Madison county, Iowa. They went by water to Keokuk and drove from there to Winterset in a buggy. Their household goods were brought to this county from Keokuk by team. After living in Winterset for a year they settled on a farm in Walnut township, which comprised eighty acres. The first buildings were merely a log shanty and a log stable but in later years more commodious structures were erected, Martin also added eighty acres to his holdings and found that the cultivation of his quarter section demanded his whole time and undivided attention. He passed away on the 1st of April, 1879, and after his death his widow lived with their son Thomas H. in Peru for two years. At the end of that time she purchased property in that village and resided there until her death, which occurred on the 22d of June, 1903. Mr. Travis was a Republican and at one time was assessor of his township. Both he and his wife held membership in the Methodist Episcopal church and took a helpful interest in its work.

They were the parents of nine children, as follows: Sylvester, who was born in Pennsylvania on the 31st of October, 1847, and resides on a farm in Walnut township; Leander Lynch, who was born in the Keystone state on the 14th of December, 1848, and died on the 18th of May, 1852; Mary E., born July 7, 1851, the widow of James Foresman and a resident of Winterset; William M., of Winterset, born in Pennsylvania on the 28th of December, 1852; John Beyer a native of the Keystone state, born May 5, 1854, who is now a farmer of Walnut township; Lovina Caroline, who was born May 31, 1856, in this county, and is now the wife of John Schoenenberger, of Walnut township; Thomas Hamlin; Samuel Clarke, who was born May 16, 1860, and is residing in Dodge City, Kansas; and Eva May, born October 11 1864, who married Albert F. Foster, of Great Bend, Barton county, Kansas.

Transcriber's note: This biography was extracted from the biography of son Thomas Travis from the aforementioned source. It has been edited for clarity.

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