Martin Kendrick Clopton of Georgia

Martin Kendrick Clopton was the son of (Dr.) Alford Clopton and Sarah "Sallie" Kendrick Clopton. He was born in Putnam County (Eatonton) Georgia in 1819. His family moved to Montgomery, Alabama in 1843. Martin married a young widow, Sara Elizabeth "Sallie" (Greathouse) Dallas on September 16, 1856 in Tallapoosa County (Dadeville) Alabama. Sallie was born in Newton County, Georgia in 1832. Martin is a direct descendant of the first William Clopton, Gentleman, and his wife, Ann (Booth) Dennett Clopton.

Martin enlisted in the Confederate Army on August 1, 1863, where he served in Company D, 61st Regiment, Alabama Infantry. He died of typhoid fever in a Confederate hospital in Greenville, North Carolina on August 10, 1864, leaving Sallie with three daughters, Sarah "Sallie" Kendrick Clopton, Susan F. Clopton, and Mattie Lee Clopton, and the son from her first marriage, Alonzo C. Dallas. Sallie died in 1915 and is buried in the Greathouse Cemetery, Bell County, Texas.

Very little is known about Martin, but some interesting details have come down to us about Sallie. She was the daughter of Early Greathouse and Susan Talley. Her first marriage was to William Dallas in 1851, in Troup County, Georgia. She had one son, Alonzo C. Dallas. Her family moved from Georgia to Alabama in 1852, and Sallie went with them. Early Greathouse was a Baptist minister, a wealthy planter, and a leading politician who served two terms in the legislature from Dadeville. He was on the committee that wrote a new State Constitution when Alabama was re-admitted to the Union after the Civil War. Some time before 1870, her parents moved to Texas, and widowed once again, Sallie, and her four children, went with them.

Contributed by :

Alonzo D. Hudson
and Suellen Clopton Blanton, bblanton@fast.net