Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 495-496:
Thompson Martin (deceased) was during his lifetime one of the popular farmers of Anderdon, ...
Thompson Martin grew up on his father's farm and received a fair education in the district schools. On December 30, 1874, he married Miss Alice Fox, who was born in Colchester in January, 1850, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Lypps) Fox, a member of one of the old families of County Essex...
Jacob Fox, father of Mrs. Martin, was born in Gosfield township, County Essex, March 11, 1806, and settled in Colchester, where he died Nov. 21, 1893. His wife, born in February, 1813, lives in Harrow, aged over eighty years. They had eight children... (2) Lucinda became the wife of Nelson Papst, of Anderdon, and died leaving six children, Walter (who married Miss Carrie Gibb, of Anderdon), Ada (married to Colin Botsford, and now living in Gosfield), Albert, Bessie, Frank and Alvin...