C. C. Martin was born November 9, 1900, in Geneva County, Alabama.
He was brought up in the Methodist Protestant Church in that part of the
state and answered the call to the ministry and was admitted on trial in
the Alabama Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church and ordained
elder in 1932. Brother C. C. Martin and wife were loaned to the Florida
Conference to do home mission work in northwest Florida in 1933, and
later he became a member of the Florida Conference of the Methodist
Protestant Church. When Church Union came he and his family made a
good adjustment to this much larger fellowship.
Brother Martin's pastorates included Honeyville at Wewahitchka, New
Life Circuit, Fenholloway Mission, Leon Mission, Waldo, Cedar Key, Coleman, Garden City, Callahan, Baldwin-Briceville, and Friendship, Clearwater.
Due to the condition of his health, Brother C. C. was forced to retire in
1957, at which time he and his wife moved to Miccosukee, where they lived
at the time of his passing.
Brother C. C. was united in marriage to Miss Fannie Thomas, January
15th, 1922 in Alabama and on January 15th of this year they celebrated
their 41st Anniversary and on the night of the 16th of that month he passed
away in his sleep to the Father's house. Beside his widow he leaves three
daughters: Mrs. Neal Vause, Mrs. L. D. Davis, Mrs. E. L. Herold, and sons Reverend H. P. and Howard McDonald, and M. H. Martin. Only eternity will
reveal the total good this earnest and devoted man of God has accomplished
during the 29 years of his ministry.
After Brother Martin's passing January 16th, 1963, the Funeral Services were conducted by Dr. Shuler Peele, and Dr. R. C. Holmes, District Superintendent, and burial was in Tallahassee, Florida. Brother Martin and his
wife have long been greeted by their friends at Annual Conference time,
and they shall be greatly missed as a team who worked faithfully together,
but they shall meet again, and all those whom he has won to the Master
while faithfully performing his ministerial tasks here.
Submitted by: W. M. Irwin