Ronald Martin was born in Michigan Valley, Kansas, in 1939. He was raised in Polk and Orange County, Florida, and attended Fern Creek Elementary School, Memorial and Howard Middle Schools, and Edgewater High School.

Martin graduated from Rollins College with a BS in General Studies, in and Regis University with an MBA in Business. He worked for thirty-eight years at Martin Marietta, now Lockheed Martin, eight years with IBM, and seven years as a private consultant with Technigraphics.

The author wrote these chronicles to preserve some of the events of his early life and the oral lore shared by his mother and father and uncles. He wanted future generations to have a glimpse of how his family lived in the earlier years of their existence.