Her birth entry in the Washington County Register of Births (stitched view: the left page's name, sex and father beside the right page's occupation, mother and informant): “Martha J. Wyatt,” born 7 December, in Washington Co., VA; father Pinkney W. Wyatt, a laborer; mother Margaret Wyatt; the informant was her father. The year isn't written on her line; the page is headed 1855, and entries within a year's register aren't in date order, so the heading is the year — 7 December 1855, a year earlier than the register report's 1856. Virginia, Births and Christenings, 1584–1917. See Sources.
