Information on Martin True and Family

 

In January 1829 Martin True bought 90 acres of land on Leipers Lick Creek in Maury Cnty, TN. This land was part of a tract granted to Nimrod Porter by the state. When Martin died in 1845 he willed this land to the last six [6] children of his son, David Hamilton True.

 

In Maury Cnty, TN The True’s lived in the vicinity of Columbia, Santa Fe and Williamsport [ in early times, Benton was an old name for the hamlet of Santa Fe. It was also called Pin Hook at one time]

 

David Hamilton True was an active man in the county. In 1830 a letter was being held for him in Columbia Post Office. On Friday, 11 Feb 1837 he attended a Democratic meeting in Columbia from District 17.He also attended a meeting of Mr Keeley’s Magnetic Physiological Society of Columbia. In 1838 he petioned the Gran Jury to make a change in the Judicial System. In 1839 he was elected Constable. He was elected as a delegate to attend a convention in Lawrencburg, TN. In 1852 he was again a Constable in Maury Cnty. And posted bond of $800.

 

The above information came from letters and personal interviews with Dr B. H. Webster in May 1982.

It is from Genealogy of True-Beaver Family by Odessa Isbell [Book in TN State Archives]

 

Recorder of Deeds, Columbia, Maury Cnty, TN –Vol 1 Bk N. pg 250  90acres

Portion of deed—Martin True, conveyed by James Parker, 30 Jan 1829 Maury Cnty, TN on the waters of Leipers Creek and the north side of Duck River and on east side of said creek---

 

Obituary of Martin True fom Tennesse Democrat March 27 1845 [TN Library & State Archives]

Another Revolutionary Soldier Gone [from a certified copy of the Maury Cnty, Columbia,TN newspaper]

Died in this county on the 14^th inst., MARTIN True, age 84 years. He was a soldier of the Revolution, and served faithfully and gallantly through that arduous struggle in the 2^nd Regiment in the Virginia line under Capt.James Porter.

He was one of the few who remain  of that noble band ,that endured all-risked all for freedom and law. He lived to see his country prosperous in all that constitutes the greatness of a nation—the pride of its own citizens and the admiration of the world.

Through the war of the revolution, every pulsation of his heart struck true to the minutest duty, to which he had sworn fidelity to his country- up to the hour of his death, he never swerved from his constancy to the principles of virtue.

Though no gorgeous monument may mark the spot that contains the ashes of those who have thus served and honored their country, yet they have an immortality in the grateful recollections of their countrymen.