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Source: Pea Ridge Country Times, November 12, 1980 issue
Provided by e-mail from Pat Dean (Uncle Marvin Dean’s daughter-in-law) April, 2010
Pea Ridge Country Communities-VI (Nov 1980)
CHURCH, 1850’S SETTLEMENT LEADS TO TWELVE CORNERS by Mary Margaret Webb
The Twelve Corners community is located approximately four miles northeast of Pea Ridge, near the northwest boundary of the Pea Ridge Battlefield.
The origin of Twelve Corners community is linked with the beginning of the Twelve Corner Church, organized in 1842 by J.F. Mitchell and Charles Whitely. The little congregation met first in an upstairs room of the historic Elkhorn Tavern.
Then, in about 1851 or 1852, the members of the congregation built a log structure, said to have 12 corners, on the present site. Information as to what happened to this first building is sketchy, but some say it burned.
Paschal Martin, a native of Twelve Corners Tennessee, is credited by some with naming the church for his early home town. The land for the church and cemetery was donated by John and Margaret (Peggy-Martin) Buttry, also from Tennessee.
The Buttrys lived in a house between the cemetery and the church. John Buttry fought in the Civil War, and the stage coach stop was at his home.
During the Civil War Battle of Pea Ridge, the church was used as a hospital. The dead were buried in a trench at the back of the church, but after the war they were moved to other cemeteries. The present church building is more than 84 years old.
EARLY TOWN-Before the Civil War there was a small settlement located about one mile southeast of Twelve Corners cemetery, on what is now the Pea Ridge Battlefield. It sprang up around the old Sims homeplace. There was a hotel, a nursery and greenhouse, and a grist mill. (This settlement was named Buttry, Arkansas)
After the War, there was a post office and store nearby, operated by the same Paschal Martin, and later operated by his daughter-in-law, Martha (Warren) Martin.
Later, Lucus and Luke Buttry built a store that was located a quarter mile north of present Highway 72, north of where Sherrell and Verna Dodd live now. There was a post office, general store, and blacksmith shop. Luke Buttry was postmaster there from May 5, 1897, to July 31, 1906 when the post office was discontinued, and mail service was established on a rural route out of Garfield.
At the time a school house was located just east of the church site. The earliest date I could find for the school was 1889, but children had been attending a few years before this.
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Biographical Sketch of William MARTIN (1810-1866)
( History of Benton County, Arkansas, 1991, Page 612, by Joe N. LaRUE)
Early settlers to Benton County were William MARTIN and his wife, Susan WOLF and their children. They moved from Hawkins County, Tennessee between 1848 when Eliza was born and the 1850 census taken in Sugar Creek Township, Benton County, Arkansas. Their eldest daughter, Margaret had married John BUTTRY and made the move about the same time. All of the MARTIN children’s names and birthdates are: Margaret, 14 August 1829; Mahala, 14 May 1832; Thomas J., 6 October 1834; Mary Jane (Polly), 15 October 1836; Moses, 24 September 1839; Martha (line of Joe N. LaRue), 29 July 1841; Catherine M., 10 July 1843; Alfred M. (Alford), 19 November 1845; and Eliza M., 29 May 1848. It is believed that they all were born in Hawkins County, Tennessee.
Regarding the ancestry of William MARTIN – his parents were Thomas and Elizabeth MARTIN of Hawkins County, Tennessee. Their children were: James, John, Mahala, Thomas Jr., William (born 18 March 1810), Aaron, Paschal, Absalom, Elizabeth and Abijah. Paschal and wife, Nancy COPE, followed his brother to Benton County in the early 1850’s. Most of the others remained in Tennessee. The Martins have sometimes been credited for naming the Twelve Corners Church for a similar named home town in Tennessee.
According to family tradition, William’s wife, Susan WOLF was of Cherokee heritage. I have heard many times that her parents were Dennis WOLF and Polly BEAR. However documents seem to point to a George WOLF and Polly -------.
Susan MARTIN died at age 44 on 16 July 1851 and was buried at Twelve Corners Cemetery near their son, Moses, who had died 2 days earlier. Perhaps they died of the same cause. Sometime after that William married Mary (PATTERSON?) who outlived her husband several years.
In 1860 William MARTIN was listed as clerk of the Mount Zion Association. For many years he was active in the Twelve Corners Baptist Church. On 31 July 1866 he died and is also buried in the nearby Twelve Corners Cemetery. His gravestone bears a Masonic symbol at the top.
Wheth er a Farmer or a carpenter, he was probably better known as the postmaster of Pea Ridge from June 30, 1852 to April 18, 1866. He knew his health was failing and his daughter, Miss Martha MARTIN won the appointment as postmaster from April 18, 1866 to March 21, 1867 (during which time she married Johnson C. WOOD on 8 January 1867). She gained the recognition of being the first woman postmaster in Benton County.
In terestingly, records show that William MARTIN joined the 2nd Cherokee Arkansas Infantry but there does not show any intervening postmasters or interruption during the Civil War.
Martha, the daughter that had been postmaster is my ancestor (Joe N. LaRue’s). (For more details on her life, I refer you to the story on Johnson C. WOOD elsewhere in this book.) An old shelf clock has come down through her to our family. In William’s probate inventory and sale, a clock was purchased by Martha. We believe it is the same timepiece that came down through Martha’s daughter, Martha (Mattie) Wood LaRUE who was my paternal grandmother, my Dad-Theodore Joseph LaRUE and now to me. This clock was made by Elisha HOTCHKISS and has wooden works. It is a lively reminder of my heritage that centered around the life of William MARTIN.
By Joe N. LaRUE (nix4uns)
Paschal Martin/ FindAGrave.com
Birth:
Sep. 6, 1816
Hawkins County
Tennessee, USA
Death:
Nov. 2, 1896
Benton County
Arkansas, USA
Burial:
Twelve Corners Cemetery
Pea Ridge
Benton County
Arkansas, USA