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Person · Martha "Mattie" Martin McConnell
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationMartha "Mattie" Martin McConnell
- LLines13 surname pages
The evidence
- DDocuments896 thumbnails, filterable
- SSourcesS1–S1207, with where each is cited
The findings
- How the wall came downProeger line
- The glass patentsProeger line
- How the Caffey half was closedCaffey line
- What the DNA saysits own page
- Four routesMigration
- The asymmetryLines
- Open questions20 questions
- Add to this recorda form, read by Earl
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proves, what the weight of evidence suggests, and what nobody has found yet. A fourth marks
what the family stated directly, where no document has been retrieved at all — it is kept
separate on purpose and is never quietly promoted to confirmed. A fifth, added on
13 September 2026, marks biological evidence: a DNA result is not a document, and it is not
testimony either. Two further labels mark where this page withholds information
rather than lacking it.
ConfirmedAttested by a document that was actually retrieved and read — a census sheet, a
government index, a grave marker, a family-written obituary.
ProbableStrongly supported but not nailed down: a user-contributed tree, a masked index field,
or a chain of consistent circumstances. Believable, not proven.
Not foundSearched for and not located. This is a statement about the search, not about the
person — the record may well exist somewhere unsearched.
Family testimonySupplied by the family and recorded on their word — no document has been retrieved for
it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands
apart from the three record tags above S24.
DNA evidenceBiological evidence consistent with a claim. It corroborates origins; it does
not by itself establish a person or a link. Note the bar rather than a dot or a diamond:
no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
was read for it S46.
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shown, and at most a year the family has already published. Full dates of birth, ages,
places of residence and record identifiers are held back.
Research in progressA branch that is actively being worked on. The node exists in the structure so the
shape of the family is honest; the detail is simply not in yet.
- Born
- 26 August 1874
- Died
- 12 July 1957
- Parents
- Joseph Daniel Martin & Nannie Chenault
- Married
- Arthur Harris McConnell
- Sources
- 6
Research status
Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
Life in the order the records give it
Birth1874
Born
26 August 1874, Sumner County, Tennessee; Mattie, 5, in the 1880 census
S207Death1957
Died
12 July 1957 at 406 South Water Street, Gallatin, his widow, and buried in Gallatin Cemetery; her death certificate names both parents
S203Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Marriage1911
Married Arthur Harris McConnell, 12 April 1911
Marriage1911
🆕 The marriage bond of 12 April 1911 names her
Martha Elizabeth Martin, with her brother J. D. Martin as surety
S390. In 1920 she and Arthur were farming in Drummond Precinct, Fremont County, Idaho, with William M., John M. and Margaret M.
S391; in 1930 they owned
716 Lincoln Place, Spokane, where Arthur was superintendent at a telephone company
S392; added 24 September 2026.
Marriage1872
🆕 Her husband
Arthur Harris McConnell, born at Iowa City on 25 June 1872, commercial superintendent of the Interstate Telephone Co., died at Spokane on
29 June 1938; she was the informant, “Mrs. Martha M. McConnell”
Confirmed S1044. The certificate names his parents as William C. McConnell and Cynthia Kennedy. added 29 September 2026
In the record
Generation 4 — Earl's great-grandparents and their siblings
- S203Tennessee death certificate 57-18066 — Martha Martin McConnell, Gallatin, 12 July 1957. Ancestry record 16413938. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Martha Martin McConnell, born 26 August 1874, Sumner County, died 12 July 1957 at 406 S. Water, Gallatin; widow of A. H. McConnell; parents Joseph D. Martin and Nancy Chenault; buried Gallatin Cemetery; informant Dan Martin. 🔑 A daughter of Joseph D. Martin and Nannie Chenault, sister of Nancy Louise (Martin) Timberman.
- S2071880 U.S. Federal Census — Martin household, 10th Civil District, Sumner County, Tennessee. Ancestry record 16828687; ED 214, page 32. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Martin [given name left blank], 47, farming; Nannie, 36, parents both born Kentucky; children Luisa B. 13, Mary 11, Emma 10, Kate 7, Mattie 5, Joe 3 and Nannie 1. 🔑 Two children not otherwise on this record: Kate (c.1873) and a son Joe (c.1877). Mattie is Martha Martin McConnell [S203]; Nannie, 1, is Nancy Louise (Martin) Timberman.
- S390Sumner County, Tennessee, marriage bond book, p. 135 — Arthur Harris McConnell and Martha Elizabeth Martin, 12 April 1911. Ancestry record 4873653. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Bond of Arthur Harris McConnell, of Sumner County, licensed to marry Martha Elizabeth Martin; surety J. D. Martin. The bond gives her middle name, Elizabeth. Her father died in 1899, so the surety is her brother Joseph Daniel Martin Jr. This is the licence date, not the wedding day; no return is on the page.
- S3911920 U.S. Federal Census — Arthur H. McConnell household, 8 Drummond Precinct, Fremont Co., Idaho (ED 161, sheet 3A, lines 43–47). Ancestry record 101723542. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Arthur H. McConnell, 47, born Iowa, farmer, owning a mortgaged farm; wife Martha M., 45, born Tennessee of Tennessee-born parents; children William M., 7, John M., 5, and Margaret M., 4. This sheet says the boys were born in Iowa and Margaret in Tennessee; the 1930 census (S392) says all three were born in Idaho.
- S3921930 U.S. Federal Census — Arthur McConnell household, 716 Lincoln Place, Spokane, Washington (ED 32-92, sheet 9A, lines 18–22). Ancestry record 112790686. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Arthur McConnell, 57, born Iowa, superintendent at a telephone company, owning his house ($8,000); wife Martha M., 55, born Tennessee; sons William M. and John M. and daughter Margaret.
- S1044Washington State Certificate of Death, registered no. 884 — Spokane, Spokane County. Ancestry record 52176924. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Arthur Harris McConnell, W 1107 22nd Avenue, Spokane, married, husband of Martha M.; born 25 June 1872, Iowa City, Iowa, son of William C. McConnell and Cynthia Kennedy, both born Pennsylvania; commercial superintendent, Interstate Telephone Co., 12 years; died 29 June 1938, aged 66; informant Mrs. Martha M. McConnell. Nothing on this page names Tennessee or her parents; the link to Martha Martin McConnell rests on the name chain (her 1957 certificate calls her widow of A. H. McConnell; the 1930 census has the couple at Spokane).