Robert Kossuth MARSHALL

Notes:

The message below from Millie Barnhart is the response to my message below hers.

From: Millie Barnhart [mailto:mdbarnhart@earthlink.net]
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 9:31 PM
To: 'David Marshall'
Subject: RE: Robert Kossuth Marshall

Hello David,

I have found some info on your cousin, Robert K Marshall. I haven't been able to find any children yet & have talked to folks who knew them & they don't believe there were any children born to this marriage. His wife, Kathryn, was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Columbus & my guess was that he is also buried there. I have copied his obit from the newspaper & will also get hers if you want it - his doesn't tell where he was buried.

They were very prominent people and entertained famous people from all over; they lived in a beautiful large brick home that even had an elevator in it. The outside walls and the inside partitions were "three bicks thick". I have a picture of it for you; along with a couple of pages from a history book, his obit in Delaware & Columbus newspapers; a few newspaper articles that mention his first book, parties he attended for Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowden, and where he bequeshed money to one of the colleges he attended. This week I will see if we have the 1925 Ohio Wesleyan yearbook since he was said to have graduated that year. Might be fun to find a college picture of him, right?

Millie
Corresponding Secretary/Researcher


From: David Marshall [mailto:dmarshall3@sc.rr.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 9:34 PM
To: genie@delawareohiohistory.com
Subject: Robert Kossuth Marshall

I found my cousin, Robert Kossuth Marshall in your death and burial list, (April 8, 1996) but there was not a cemetery listed. Can you direct me to sources that will give me that information as well as information about his wife and children? He married Katherine Comstock. I Have a genealogy web site www.marshallgenealogy.org but I have not been able to find information about Robert K.

Thank you.


David Marshall



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Obituary - Publication: Columbus Dispatch Date: Sunday, April 14, 1996 Page: 6 B
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The information below about Robert's death comes from http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohdchs/cemetery/m.txt

BURIALS DELAWARE COUNTY CEMETERIES Delaware, Ohio

Marshall Robert Kossuth - Birth 10/31/1901 - Death 04/08/1996 - Father Marshall, Richard - Cemetery NONE LISTED
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!He was a professor of English and Advanced Writing at Ohio Wesleyan College.
This information and the spelling of his middle name comes from a newspaper
article in "The Mount Airy News", May 18, 1990, page 7-A
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The article below is from the "Guilford Collece Magazine," Fall 2002, page 41.

Robert Marshall Makes Bequest of $65,000
The Guilford Fund, continued from page 37
Robert K. Marshall '25 of Delaware, Ohio, a professor emeritus of English and creative writing at Ohio Wesleyan University, has left a bequest of $65,000 to establish a scholarship in his name at Guilford College.

The bequest, made through Guilford's Our Time in History campaign, has established the Robert Kossuth Marshall Scholarship Fund. Income from the fund will be used to provide need-based scholarships to students.

In announcing the gift, Guilford President Kent Chabotar said, Guilford College is, indeed, appreciative of this bequest by Robert Marshall. It is particularly significant that Mr. Marshall remembered his alma mater with this gift at the end of his life after achieving distinction as a faculty member at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Such endowed scholarship gifts are very important to Guilford in that they help other students receive an education here, and they also help us in recruiting in a very competitive higher education market.

After graduating from Guilford, Marshall received his Master of Arts degree from Haverford College. He also studied at the University of North Carolina, Harvard University, Northwestern University and Iowa State University. From 1937 until his retirement in 1969, he was a member of the faculty at Ohio Wesleyan University. From 1937-39, Marshall was a visiting assistant professor at Guilford College. He was married to the former Kathryn Combstock of Columbus, Ohio.

Marshall died several years ago, but college officials said the bequest could not be announced until details of his estate were settled.

As a student at Guilford, Marshall was president of the sophomore class, first president of the Men's Student Council, editor in chief of the student newspaper, secretary of the Dramatic Council, and secretary to Guilford College President Raymond Binford. He also was an actor in several theatre productions at Guilford.

An author as well as an educator, Marshall wrote several published novels. In 1949, he received the Ohioanna Medal for the most distinguished novel by an Ohioan that year. In 1953, he received a citation from the Friends of American Authors for the most distinguished novel by a midwesterner that year. He also was president of the Ohio Poetry Association from 1955-57.

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From: David Marshall [mailto:dmarshall3@sc.rr.com]
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 3:02 PM
To: 'Millie Barnhart'
Subject: RE: Robert Kossuth Marshall
147 West Idlewood Circle
West Columbia, SC 29170

Thanks.

David

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From: Millie Barnhart [mailto:mdbarnhart@earthlink.net]
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 3:00 PM
To: 'David Marshall'
Subject: RE: Robert Kossuth Marshall

Your address is?

You need not send a donation until you receive the info. Thanks for understanding.

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From: David Marshall [mailto:dmarshall3@sc.rr.com]
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 2:55 PM
To: 'Millie Barnhart'
Subject: RE: Robert Kossuth Marshall
Millie,

I am truly sorry about your brother. SO far all five of the children in my family and all five of the children in my wife?s family are still living. But we are all moving along in years.

I didn?t mean to sound disinterested in your information. In fact I am very interested in nailing down that part of my family and I would be glad to make a donation for that. Let me know how much and I will forward it. I was hoping to find children of theirs and try to contact them, but since they didn?t have any children that?s not possible.

Thank you for your kindness. I look forward to hearing from you again.


David Marshall

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From: Millie Barnhart [mailto:mdbarnhart@earthlink.net]
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 2:31 PM
To: 'David Marshall'
Subject: RE: Robert Kossuth Marshall

David,

I'm sorry that I haven't gotten back to you but my brother passed away on Monday & this has been a very stressful week for my family.

I have gathered quite a bit of info that I mentioned in my emails to you & you didn't seem interested in it, so I didn't know what to make of your request. Our society does research for a donation plus copy & postage costs. I cannot scan the info to you, but could mail it if that's what you want. I didn't find a copy of the 1925 OWU yearbook to find his picture in it though. We only had the 1926 yearbook in our collections.

Please advise.
Millie

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From: David Marshall [mailto:dmarshall3@sc.rr.com]
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 12:18 PM
To: 'Millie Barnhart'
Subject: RE: Robert Kossuth Marshall
Millie,

DO you have Robert?s and Katherine?s obits that you can scan and send to me>

Thanks.


David Marshall

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From: Millie Barnhart [mailto:mdbarnhart@earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 8:03 AM
To: 'David Marshall'
Subject: RE: Robert Kossuth Marshall

I found Katherine Comstock, b. Sep 1899, with her mother, Adeline Comstock, in the 1900C, Hamilton, Butler Co OH - living with the Young family.... pg 195.
1910C, Columbus, Franklin Co OH, widowed Adeline Comstock & daughter, Katherine, 10, are on pg 8 with father, Irving R Earhart, living with them.
1920C, Adeline Comstock & daughter, Katherine, 20, are living in Columbus, Franklin Co OH - pg 256.
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From: David Marshall [mailto:dmarshall3@sc.rr.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 11:27 PM
To: 'Millie Barnhart'
Subject: RE: Robert Kossuth Marshall
Millie,

I went to the Franklin County GenWeb page and looked at the list of cemeteries. Woodlawn is not listed there. What county is it in?


David Marshall
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From: Millie Barnhart [mailto:mdbarnhart@earthlink.net]
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 9:31 PM
To: 'David Marshall'
Subject: RE: Robert Kossuth Marshall

Hello David,

I have found some info on your cousin, Robert K Marshall. I haven't been able to find any children yet & have talked to folks who knew them & they don't believe there were any children born to this marriage. His wife, Kathryn, was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Columbus & my guess was that he is also buried there. I have copied his obit from the newspaper & will also get hers if you want it - his doesn't tell where he was buried.

They were very prominent people and entertained famous people from all over; they lived in a beautiful large brick home that even had an elevator in it. The outside walls and the inside partitions were "three bicks thick". I have a picture of it for you; along with a couple of pages from a history book, his obit in Delaware & Columbus newspapers; a few newspaper articles that mention his first book, parties he attended for Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowden, and where he bequeshed money to one of the colleges he attended. This week I will see if we have the 1925 Ohio Wesleyan yearbook since he was said to have graduated that year. Might be fun to find a college picture of him, right?

Millie
Corresponding Secretary/Researcher

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From: David Marshall [mailto:dmarshall3@sc.rr.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 9:34 PM
To: genie@delawareohiohistory.com
Subject: Robert Kossuth Marshall
I found my cousin, Robert Kossuth Marshall in your death and burial list, (April 8, 1996) but there was not a cemetery listed. Can you direct me to sources that will give me that information as well as information about his wife and children? He married Katherine Comstock. I Have a genealogy web site www.marshallgenealogy.org but I have not been able to find information about Robert K.

Thank you.


David Marshall

Family/Spouse: Katherine COMSTOCK. Katherine (daughter of John Caldwell COMSTOCK and Adeline Leonore EARHART) was born on 13 Sep 1899; died on 24 Mar 1986 in Columbus, Deleware County, Ohio; was buried in Columbus, Deleware County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!Marshall 0005; Marshall 0006
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Marshall 0382, pg. 16 - He donated the land on which the Friends (Quaker) Church was built in White Plains, North Carolina.

Find A Grave Memorial# 64743162

Richard married Minnie Isabel JONES on 24 Sep 1887 in Winston Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. Minnie (daughter of Jackson Madison JONES and Martha Elizabeth CLINARD) was born on 8 Apr 1869 in Davidson County, North Carolina; died on 15 Dec 1955 in Pleasant Garden, Guilford County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was from Davidson County, North Carolina. She was Richard's first wife's sister. All of his children are by this woman.




https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/K88Y-SGV - 4/15/2020 - DWM

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 48

Notes:

Marshall 0001; Marshall 0004; Marshall 0005; Marshall 0017, Pg. 136, Marshall
0022 - John Marion Marshall had twelve children by his wife, Christina Sparger. Then he left his family and went to Texas with another Frankie Pate. There it is reported that he raised another family of twelve children. I have no information about his death or where he is buried.
!Marshall 0241, pp. 1, 9 - This source, a letter from Robert K. Marshall to Gurney Robertson, dated 9/17/1925, sheds some light on John's second wife, Frankie Pate. It says that John wrote a letter to "Uncle Sam" (Samuel Edward Marshall?) and a letter to Martha Eleanor (Marshall) Saunders asking if he could return to Surry County with his "second wife." I am not sure that either letter exists now, or maybe they never did.

More information - Apparently he and Frankie went to Indianapolis, Indiana. There he met a man who owned a ranch in the area of San Antonio, Texas. The man hired John to go to Texas and look after his ranch. While John was in route to Texas, the man died in Indianapolis.

The census data below places him firmly in San Antonio, Texas in 1880. Apparently, Frankie had died.



1880 United States CensusCensus Place: San Antonio, Bexar, TexasSource: FHL Film 1255291 National Archives Film T9-1291, Page 79B 
Rel Sex Marr Race Age Birth Occupation
John M. Marshall Self M W W 55 NC Wheel Wright
Elizabeth Marshall Dau F S W 9 NC
Wm Marshall Son M S W 7 NC
Minnie D. Marshall Dau F S W 3 IN
Maria Garera Other F W W 35 NM House Keeper


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Below is more information from Gilmer Robertson. He sent it to me January 5, 2002 in response to a message I broadcast to my distribution list offering a $100 reward for anyone who could find John.

Dear David,It is nice to get your emails although I seldom respond. I'm not sure if I ever told you this or not (I probably did, but it's been too many years to know) but my Aunt Bettye Marshall Robertson told me that her husband Merlin actually went to John Marion's grave in Texas. Merlin and Bettye lived in Waco for many years and my recollection is that she said Merlin set out to track his down and met one of John's sons or grandsons-she couldn't remember what town the grave was located in. Merlin and Bettye were cousins-Merlin's grandfather was John Marion and I believe that Bettye was John Marion's great-granddaughter. Bettye died in 1976 and I had talked with her about this probably in the early 70's so I am fuzzy on this one but it seems that John changed his name. I'm pretty sure she said he became just John Marion and dropped the Marshall completely. Well, that should be enough to confuse all of us- perhaps someday all of this will be discovered. Keep up the good work-I could use the $100 to pay for Xmas but I don't think I have the time to do any research. Perhaps we could check all of the death records in the Texas counties. Best regards for the new year, Gil

John married Christina SPARGER on 4 Dec 1844 in Surry County, North Carolina, and was divorced. Christina (daughter of John W. SPARGER, (4) and Sarah LYON) was born on 26 Dec 1822 in White Plains, Surry County, North Carolina; died on 23 Feb 1904 in White Plains, Surry County, North Carolina; was buried in Feb 1904 in White Plains, Surry County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 49

Notes:

Marshall 0001; Marshall 0005; Marshall 0006; Marshall 0017, Pg. 136 - Christina is buried in the Friends Church Cemetery, White Plains, North Carolina.

Marshall 0007, Pg. 509 - "The Heritage of Surry County, North Carolina", Volume I, 1983 - Editor, Hester Bartlett Jackson

Marshall 0149, p. 24

Find A Grave Memorial# 48103746



Records of Moody Funeral Services, Mount Airy, North Carolina, 1903-1914, by Betty J. Camin and Ann B. Stewart, pg. 4 line 168. - This source says she died from an accident. What kind of accident was not specified.

Notes:

Marshall 0147, p. 5



From: Tammy H. Saseen
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 2:04 PM
To: David Marshall
Subject: Proposed Change: Family: JONES /

Proposed Change: Family: JONES /
Tree: Marshall and Allied Families
Link: http://marshallgenealogy.org/tng/familygroup.php?familyID=F7824&tree=Marshall

Description: This is Jackson Madison Jones born 18mar1838 died 13mar1901 father of Sarah Corenna and Minnie Isabel

Tammy h Saseen
rtsaseen@yahoo.com




Part of this information came from FamilySearch.org - 4/15/2020 - DWM

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/find/id?search=1&id=GMRS-GD4

Jackson married Martha Elizabeth CLINARD. Martha was born on 19 Feb 1844; died on 8 Jul 1934. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Information about her came from FamilySearch.org 4/15/2020 - DWM

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/GMRS-GD4

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 96

Notes:

!Marshall 0001; Marshall 0002, pg. 5; Marshall 0017, Pg. 136 - Richard and Suzannah are both buried in Salem Methodist Church Cemetery in Mount Airy, North Carolina.

Richard married Suzannah SAMUEL on 3 Oct 1821 in Stokes County, North Carolina. Suzannah (daughter of Edmund SAMUEL and Suzannah HILL) was born on 26 Apr 1803 in Stokes County, North Carolina; died on 25 Aug 1880 in Surry County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 97

Notes:

!Marshall 0001; Marshall 22, pg. 5; Marshall 0017, Pg. 136 - Suzannah is buried with her husband, Richard, in Salem Methodist Church Cemetery in Mount Airy, North Carolina.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 98

Notes:

!Marshall 0001 - The date of his death is listed as 1833. The family records
say that he was 55 at his death. That can't be correct because then he would
Have been born the same year as his brother, Ruben. According to Creasy's
Manuscript (page 2), John (4) is buried in "Taylor Grave Yard" just outside of Mount Airy, North Carolina. However, I have a letter from Gil Robertson, who lived in Mount Airy, that states he was buried with his wife in Salem Methodist Church Cemetery in Mt Airy. Friedburg, where he was born, is near Winston Salem, North Carolina.

!Sparger 0001, Pg. 15 - "Genealogy of Sparger and Allied Families", by William M. Creasy, Wilmington, North Carolina, June 6, 1936. North Carolina State Library, Raliegh, North Carolina - # GR-929.Z-S736C

!Marshall 0007, Pg. 509 - "The Heritage of Surry County, North Carolina",
Volume I, 1983 - Editor, Hester Bartlett Jackson
!Sparger 0002, p. 1
!Marshall 0322, p. 61

John married Sarah LYON in 1816 in Hillsville, Carroll County, Virginia. Sarah (daughter of William LYON) was born on 4 Feb 1791 in Hillsville, Carroll County, Virginia; died on 1 Jan 1860 in Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 99

Notes:

!Marshall 0001 - She is buried in the church yard at Salem Methodist Church. I have her birth date recorded as 1799 in one place and 1791 in another.
Obviously one of them is wrong. I need to verify that.

!Sparger 0001, Pg. 15 - "Genealogy of Sparger and Allied Families", by William M. Creasy, Wilmington, North Carolina, June 6, 1936. North Carolina State Library, Raliegh, North Carolina - # GR-929.Z-S736C

!Marshall 0007, Pg. 509 - "The Heritage of Surry County, North Carolina",
Volume I, 1983 - Editor, Hester Bartlett Jackson