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From: "Linda Katherine Jenkins-Wensel" <>
Subject: Bio for elijah H. MARSHALL, including STRAWN, HULL, ALLEN, SAUNDERS, WHITESELL
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 21:47:03 -0700


Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.
Monroe County Biographical Sketches, Richland Township, p. 632-633

MARSHALL, STRAWN, HULL, ALLEN, SAUNDERS, WHITESELL

Elijah H. MARSHALL, stock-raiser and farmer, is a son of William G. and
Christiana (STRAWN) MARSHALL, natives of Pennsylvania, the former of Greene,
and the latter of Fayette County, and respectively
of Scotch and German extraction. William G. MARSHALL moved to Rising Sun,
Ind., in 1818, and three years later to Lawrenceburg, where he worked at his
trade of carpenter, and afterward settled on land for farming purposes. In
1865, he came to this county, where he died August 7, 1882, aged eighty-two
years. He was a pensioned soldier of the war of 1812, and with Gen. HULL.
He was a Republican and a Universalist. His wife survived and resided with
our subject at eighty-six years of age; she is a Quaker. Elijah H. MARSHALL
was born in Dear born County, Ind., November 8, 1835, and after some
preliminary education entered Moore’s Hill College, with much advantage. On
reaching his majority he began teaching in this country; continued for four
years, and then engaged at farming, which he followed until 1861, when he
enlisted in the Thirty-eighth Regimental Band. During his service, he
contracted measles, since which his health has been impaired. After his
discharge, he engaged in farming, and has so continued until the present
time, being interested in raising good horses and cattle. Mr. MARSHALL is a
fine musician, and has taught music for a number of years. He has been
thrice married; first, March, 1860, he wedded Miss Rebecca J. ALLEN, who
died July 8, 1864, leaving two children - Harland E. and Ethel (now
deceased). He next wedded, April 23, 1865, Miss Matilda J. SAUNDERS, who
died February 27, 1872, leaving five children - Zada, Eber, Dessie, Luke W.
and Sibert. November 15, 1874, he married his present wife, Miss Nancy
WHITESELL. Mr. Marshall is a member of the Baptist, and Mrs. MARSHALL of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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