Mary E. MARSHALL

Notes:

Marshall 0401, pg. 5

Notes:

GEDCOM from Sandy Kaye Boyer.

Marshall 0322, p. 13

Marshall 0401, pg 6

The 1880 census of Carroll County Virginia shows:

Marshall, Marion (white, male, 26), farmer

Wife: Lucinda

Children: Cora (white, female, 3)
L. Jane (white, female, 2)
Viola M (white, female, 11 months, 12 days)

Marion owned a store, which sold dry goods, groceries, etc. We have a ledger book that shows some of his credit transactions. In that ledger book is a letter to his daughter, LeRosa Jane. It reads:

Carroll Co, VA

March 15, 1911

Mrs. L. Jane Horton
Mount View, WV

Dear daughter,
I will drop you a few lines in answer to yours of recent date. Hope this may find you all well. This leaves us about as usual. Me nor Mary are ever well anymore. Was sorry to hear that you was not well. Willie ??to me last night that you had wrote him that you had not moved yet and that was bad cut Wes had cut his foot very bad. I am (The letter ends there but has enclosed a lock of hair, presumably Jane?s fathers hair. It is reddish brown and very fine)

The ledger book contains many IOU?s from people for goods or groceries. Names on them are Worhall, A K Sruilts, W C Marshall, Wm Marshall, Thornton Bowman, Armstred Marshall, D M Horton,

There are also some receipts. These receipts indicate the name of the store was Marion Marshall & Co, Dealers in General Merchandise, buyers and Shippers of Country Produce. It shows the address as , P O, Gladesboro, VA and is dated 4/23/1900.

There is a flyer for Liquid Electricity saying it is fast superseding all other articles for the Relief of Pain and Cure of Painful Diseases. The price is 25cnets, 50 cents and $1 per bottle according to size.

There is a receipt for train fare for 85 cents for travel on train #q47 from Danville, issued by the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway.

There is a note dated 3/26/1900 and says:

Mr. M. Marshall,
Please come out to night. I have a very important letter which is a good proposition for us to make some money without any investment on our part. I have also some money for you. Com if you possible can.
Respectfully,
J.P. Worrell

Marion married Lucinda C. HENDRICK on 5 Nov 1874. Lucinda was born on 12 Oct 1855; died on 31 Aug 1888. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

GEDCOM from Sandy Kaye Boyer.

Marshall 0322, p. 13

Marshall 0401, pg. 5

Notes:

!GEDCOM from Sandy Kaye Boyer.
!Marshall 0322, p. 13 - Buried in the William J. Marshall cemetery, north side of Rt. 654.

William married Rosemond LaRauise PUCKETT on 7 Nov 1853. Rosemond (daughter of Grand Sir and Sarah (Sally) PUCKETT) was born in 1824; died in Feb 1894. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

GEDCOM from Sandy Kaye Boyer.; Marshall 0310, p. 1

Marshall 0322, p. 13 - Her father was a Cherokee Indian.

Marshall 0401, pg.4

Notes:

Marshall 0043, pg. 4

GEDCOM from Sandy Kaye Boyer.

Buried in Marshall/Mcgrady Cemetery.

Carroll County, Genealogy Club Newsletter, December, 1998 - PO Box 395, Hillsville, VA, 24343, p. 33.

Marshall 0310, p. 1 - This source gives his birth year as 1805.

Elijah was a blacksmith, the trade he learned from his father.

The census of 1860 in Carroll County, VA shows:

Elijah Marshall (b 1807 or 1808), blacksmith. His real estate was valued at $1000 and his personal property at $225.

Elijah married Susannah (Susan) STANDLEY on 23 Jul 1826 in Grayson County, Virginia. Susannah (daughter of Zacharia STANLEY and Naomi JONES) was born on 13 Mar 1808 in Grayson County, Virginia; was christened in Belspur Primitive Baptist Church; died on 6 Jul 1870 in Carroll County, Virginia; was buried in Carroll County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marshall 0043, pg. 4

GEDCOM from Sandy Kaye Boyer.

Buried in Belspur Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery.

Carroll County, Genealogy Club Newsletter, December, 1998 - PO Box 395, Hillsville, VA, 24343, p. 33.

Marshall 0310, p. 1; Marshall 0322, p. 9, 10 - Buried in the Marshall/McGrady Cemetery

Marshall 0401, pg. 3 - This source gives their marriage date as 7/13/1826.

Notes:

!Marshall 0310, p. 1 - He was a full blooded Cherokee Indian.

Grand married Sarah (Sally) PUCKETT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!Marshall 0310, p. 1