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These people are related to Chester Martin, an important POV character in Southern Victory.

Otis Blake[]

See Otis Blake.

Susan Blake[]

See Susan Blake.

Peter Blake[]

Peter Blake (b. 1928) was the son of Otis and Susan Blake, and the nephew of Chester Martin. He and his family re-located to Los Angeles, California after his father lost his job in Toledo, Ohio.

Joe Habicht[]

Joe "Ed"[1] Habicht was the first husband of Rita Martin. He was killed during the Great War on the Roanoke Front.[2] His wife remarried in the 1920s. When she learned her second husband Chester Martin, also a veteran of the Roanoke Front, intended to re-enlist when the Second Great War began, she remembered her first husband.[3]

Habicht and Rita had one child who died at the age of two from diphtheria.

Carl Martin[]

See Carl Martin.

Chester Martin[]

See Chester Martin.

Gramps Martin[]

"Gramps" Martin (d. 1904) was the father of Stephen Douglas Martin. With his peg leg (a result of the War of Secession), Grandpa liked to pretend he was a pirate, to amuse Stephen's children Henry, Chester, and Sue. He would tell graphic war stories to the boys (including how he lost his leg), but not to Sue. He also talked nostalgically about the level of personal freedom in pre-Second Mexican War America, before the Germanization of the American system, where boards and other institutions were introduced to regulate everyone's efficiency[4]

Henry Martin[]

Henry "Hank" Martin (1890-1904) was the older brother of Chester and Sue Martin. His death from scarlet fever traumatized his younger siblings. Chester and Sue were sure that a surviving Hank would have made a fine Great War officer.[5]

Louisa Martin[]

Louisa Martin was the wife of Stephen Douglas Martin and the mother of Henry, Chester, and Susan.

Rita Martin[]

See Rita Martin.

Stephen Douglas Martin[]

See Stephen Douglas Martin.

References[]

  1. See Inconsistencies (Southern Victory).
  2. The Center Cannot Hold, pg. 110.
  3. Return Engagement, pg. 253.
  4. Walk in Hell, pgs. 429-430, HC.
  5. Ibid., p. 429, HC.
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