Histories

David Darius Bruton (20 August 1814, Smith County, Tennessee, to 18 January 1890, Bryson, Jack County, Texas) arrived in Texas from Arkansas about 1832-34 accompanied by Benjamin Bruton (20 June 1788, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, to 1863, Van Zandt County, Texas). Researchers are divided on the father of David Darius Bruton. Some believe it is Benjamin; others believe Benjamin was an uncle and the father was Enoch Bruton (1794, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, to 1840, Red River County, Texas)

David and Benjamin joined Captain William Becknell's Company of Mounted Volunteer Rangers called the Red River Blues and arrived at San Jacinto after the battle. For their military service (28 April 1836 - 28 May 1836 and 14 July 1836 - 31 August 1836) they were awarded 1/3 league and 1 league of land in Texas, respectively.  

David married Martha Cherry Patsy Roberts (18 November 1826, Kentucky, to 19 May 1910, Jack County, Texas) in 1843, probably in Red River County, Texas.  She had apparently immigrated with her parents, Aaron Roberts and Sally Tart Roberts, in 1840-1842.  According to the 1850 US Census, Aaron and Sally had one likely son (Richard M.) born in January 1840 in Arkansas and another (Edwin) born in Texas in 1842.  David and Martha’s third child, Elias James Bruton (18 December 1848, Texas, to 13 March 1915, Cleveland County, Oklahoma), married Margaret Catherine Pate (16 April 1858, Arkansas, to 2 January 1944, Walters, Cotton County, Oklahoma) on 25 January 1874 in Parker County, Texas.  

Elias won land in the 1889 land opening in Oklahoma Territory the same year (6 June 1889) their first child, Lucinda Ellen, married Edward Bunion Martin (20 October 1871, Dallas County, Texas, to 15 October 1933, Cotton County, Oklahoma).  Edward and Lucinda followed her parents to Oklahoma Territory. Later they moved near Ada, Indian Territory, subsequently returned to Oklahoma Territory, and eventually to Comanche County, Oklahoma, after the last land opening of Oklahoma in 1906.  Edward and Lucinda finally settled (about 1909) on land west of Walters, Oklahoma, in what became Cotton County in 1912. According to family records, a son, Richard was born in 13 August 1907 at Lawton, Oklahoma Territory, and another, Hughie, 20 October 1909 at Walters, Comanche County, Oklahoma.

Claude Allen Martin (2 January 1913 Cotton County, Oklahoma, to 21 September 2000 Comanche, Stephens County, Oklahoma) was the twelfth of fifteen children born to Edward and Lucinda Martin.  He married Carrie Mae Wallace (2 October 1920 Cotton County, Oklahoma, to 23 August 1994 Walters, Cotton County, Oklahoma) on 8 October 1938.  Ronald Allen Martin, the first of three children, was born 30 September 1941 in Cotton County, Oklahoma.

See also sources attached to the each person in the lineage. 

Elias Bruton, History of Cotton County: Family and Area Stories, Cotton County Historical Society: Walters, Oklahoma 1979, pp 81-82.