Jane ROPER

Notes:

!Marshall 0144, p. 41

Jane married Stephen FOUNTAIN about 1772. Stephen (son of Nicholas FOUNTAIN) was born before 1755; died before 1810. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!Marshall 0144, p. 41

Notes:

!Marshall 0144, p. 41

James married Elizabeth RING on 21 Feb 1804. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!Marshall 0144, p. 41

Notes:

!Marshall 0117, p. 1
!A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.
!Marshall 0144, p. 1 - This source gives her marriage date as 1799.

Mary married Richard MARSHALL, Sr. in 1796 in Stokes County, North Carolina. Richard (son of William MARSHALL, Sr. and Eleanor AUSTIN) was born about 1771 in Calvert County, Maryland; died after 1837 in Stokes County, North Carolina; was buried in Stokes County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!Marshall 0128, pp. 2, 3; Marshall 0118B, p. 6
!A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.

Henry married Nancy Ann REED on 2 Oct 1823 in Stokes County, North Carolina. Nancy (daughter of John REED and Suzanna) was born about 1803 in Stokes County, North Carolina; died about 1800 in Shelby County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Elizabeth GIBSON after 1850 in Shelby County, Indiana. Elizabeth was born in 1805 in Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!Marshall 0117, p. 1; Marshall 0118B, p. 7
!A GEDCON file from Gordon Marshall.
!Marshall 0144, p. 17 - This source has his birth year as 1799.
!Marshall 0244 - Gives birth and death years. (1801 - 1827)
!Marshall 0341 - Gives different birth and death years. (1802 - 1874) - From Gordon Marshall) This one seems more likely according to the birth dates of his children.

Fountain married Anna CLARK on 23 Nov 1822 in Sauratown, Stokes County, North Carolina. Anna (daughter of Samuel CLARK and Nancy REDDICK) was born in 1802 in Sauratown, Stokes County, North Carolina; died in Oct 1850 in Sauratown, Stokes County, North Carolina; was buried in Oct 1850 in Sauratown, Stokes County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Fountain married Ailey Ann (Hala) WINFREY on 26 Apr 1859 in Sauratown, Stokes County, North Carolina. Ailey (daughter of Harden Frank WINFREY, Sr. and Alcey) was born about 1834 in North Carolina; died after 1888 in Granville County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!Marshall 0129, p. 2b
!A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.

Eleanor married Joab BRANSOM on 13 Jul 1822 in Stokes County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!Marshall 0117, p. 1
!A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.

Richard married Sibetha (Sibba) SULLIVAN on 29 Jul 1828 in Stokes County, North Carolina. Sibetha was born about 1810 in Stokes County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marshall 0117, p. 1
A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.
Marshall 0144, p. 16 - This source says that Thomas never married.

Thomas married Jane LINVELLE on 31 Oct 1839 in Stokes County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!Marshall 0117, p. 1
!A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.

Amos married Mary HAM on 4 Oct 1838 in Stokes County, North Carolina. Mary was born in 1821 in Stokes County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!Marshall 0117, p. 1

Notes:

!Marshall 0128, pp. 3, 4; Marshall 0118B, p. 6
!GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.
!Marshall 0144, p. 22 - He was buried in Fairview Cemetery beside his second wife, Mary Fitzgerald.

Amos married Lucinda Jane PARKER on 18 Aug 1853 in Bartholomew County, Indiana. Lucinda (daughter of James Mooney PARKER) was born on 3 Sep 1836 in Shelby County, Indiana; died after 1870. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Amos married Mary FITZGERALD about 1874. Mary died on 28 May 1902 in Linton, Greene County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Amos married Celestia CLARK on 23 Aug 1902. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!Marshall 0129, p. 3

Notes:

!Marshall 0129, p. 3

Family/Spouse: Ann Elizabeth. Ann was born about 1841. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.
!Marshall 0144, p. 20

Henry married Polly in 1854 in Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!BIRTH-ADOPTION: David was born David W. Gibson and was adopted by Henry
Marshall upon his marriage to 2nd wife Elizabeth.
!A GEDCOM file fron Gordon Marshall.

Notes:

!Marshall 0118B, p. 7; A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall
!Marshall 0259, p. 12 - Forsyth County marriage records

Abraham married Elmina E. WHICKER on 4 Oct 1849 in Forsyth County, North Carolina. Elmina was born about 1825 in North Carolina; died in Illinois; was buried in Johnson Twp., Christian County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!Marshall 0118B, p. 7
!Marshall 0144, p. 18

James married Sarah MARSHALL on 16 Apr 1847. Sarah (daughter of William MARSHALL, Sr. and Sally REED) was born in 1828 in Stokes County, North Carolina; died in 1908 in North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!Marshall 0118B, p. 7
!A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.

Samuel married Elizabeth WATSON on 5 Feb 1851 in Forsyth County, North Carolina. Elizabeth was born about 1829 in North Carolina; died in 1900 in Forsyth County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!MARRIAGE BOND: Stokes Co. NC; 16 Nov 1851., J.M. Linville (Bondsman), Jno.
Hill, C.C.C., witness.

!LAND-DEED-RELATIONSHIP: Deed Book 17, pg 587. 5 MARCH 1852, Deeded land by
father, Fountain Marshall.

!NAME: Fewels name is spelled as indicated in many court records in N.C.. It is recorded in Illinois as Fuel and also on one document as Fawl. He signed his name Fuel.

!RESIDENCE: Book; " History of Christian Co. IL." on pg. 84, Fewel (Fuel)
and wife are recorded living in Johnson Twp., Sec. 23, (Clarksdale P.O.). Also shows they settled there in 1853. His occupation is listed as; Farmer, Stock Raiser & TpCol.(?) (unknown, Township clerk or Township collector, tip coaler?)

!CEMETARY-DEATH-BURIAL: Anderson Cemetary, Johnson Twp., Christian Co. IL.
Grave marker inscribed; F & M Marshall. Grave marker is a very large vertical
redish colored stone. The family probably spent a large sum for this monument
!Marshall 0118B, p. 7
!A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall

Fewel married Martha W. ANGEL on 16 Nov 1851 in Sauratown Twp., Stokes County, North Carolina. Martha was born on 27 Jun 1828 in Sauratown Twp., Stokes County, North Carolina; died on 26 Jun 1913 in Johnson Twp., Christian County, Illinois; was buried on 30 Jun 1913 in Johnson Twp., Christian County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.

Tandy married Martha Jane YOUNG on 20 Nov 1856 in Sauratown Twp., Stokes County, North Carolina. Martha (daughter of George YOUNG and Nancy CLARK) was born about 1831 in Sauratown Twp., Stokes County, North Carolina; died in Forsyth County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!MARRIAGE-BOND: On File, Forsyth Co. NC. Lucy E. Whicker. Bond recorded
5 January 1853. United in marriage 6 January 1853.
!LAND-DEED-RELATIONSHIP: Reg. of Deeds, 1 Dec 1853, Deed Book 18, pg 256: Deeded 51 acres of land, father Fountain Marshall grantor.
!MILITARY: American Civil War. Enlisted 6 Aug. 1862, Private in D Co., 57th
N.C. Infantry Regiment. Copy of his military records from U.S.National Archives in posession of 2nd Great Grandson, Gordon Eldon Marshall. Listed as missing, presumed captured, 17 July 1863, near Hagerstown Maryland. Name is on Honor Roll of State Troops, State of North Carolina.

!A GEDCON file from Gordon Marshall.

!Marshall 0244 - this source gives his birth as September 25, 1827 and his death as 1879.

Emanuel married Lucy Emeline WHICKER on 6 Jan 1853 in Salem Chapel Twp, Forsyth County, North Carolina. Lucy (daughter of John WHICKER and Polly PERKINS) was born on 28 Oct 1826 in Stokes County, North Carolina; died on 25 Apr 1878 in Johnson Twp., Christian County, Illinois; was buried on 29 Apr 1878 in Johnson Twp., Christian County, Illinois, Mound Chapel Cem. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!Marshall 0118B, p. 7
!Marshall 0144, p. 18

Notes:

!A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.

Sarah married Harden Frank WINFREY, Jr. on 18 Sep 1860 in Sauratown Twp., Stokes County, North Carolina. Harden (son of Harden Frank WINFREY, Sr. and Alcey) was born in Aug 1838 in Stokes County, North Carolina; died before 1883. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!MARRIAGE-BOND: Stokes Co. NC; Nancy Caroline Marshall, 11 September 1858,
William O. Marshall, Bondsman. Married 12 September 1858 by N.B. Gibson. J.P.
First name may have been Fountain, after his father, but he always went by
Josephus.
!CEMETARY-DEATH-BURIAL: Mound Chapel Cemetary, Lot 70, No's 1 & 2 Johnson Twp.,
Christian Co. IL. Next to wife Nancy C. Marshall RIN NO. 59. Grave marker gives
DOB and DOD but is to badly weathered to photograph well.
!A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.

Josephus married Nancy Caroline MARSHALL on 12 Sep 1858 in Stokes County, North Carolina. Nancy (daughter of Richard MARSHALL, Jr. and Sibetha (Sibba) SULLIVAN) was born on 19 Jul 1843 in Stokes County, North Carolina; died on 8 Apr 1880 in Johnson, Christian County, Illinois; was buried on 11 Apr 1880 in Johnson, Christian County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!Marshall 0118B, p. 7
!Marshall 0144, p. 18
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See the document in the email folder titled "Cvwrjohn" for more information.

JOHN H. MARSHALL, CONFEDERATE SEAMAN
OF THE C.S. DIXIE

John Henry Marshall was the 7th son of Fountain and Anna (Clark) Marshall. It is not known (at this writing) if he was married or not. He was born in 1835 at his fathers farm on Belews Creek, Belews Creek District, Stokes Co., North Carolina.

There is some confusion about how exactly John Marshall a farmer from N.Central North Carolina, found his way to being crew on a Confederate "pirate" vessel. There was apparently some confusion in the family also at that time, because we have a copy of a "Request For Information About Prisoners" form, filed by his father Fountain and listing John H. Marshall as being a member of K Co., 21st Regiment N.C. but no such person is in the roster of that company. The records show that John H. Marshall was a prisoner at Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor from August to October 1861 and that he was "Sent to the Tombs" which at first lead us to believe he died. He did, later, but not at Fort Lafayette nor at *"The Tombs". (The New York City Main Jail is still referred to as "The Tombs" and is now used for records storage. )

The schooner DIXIE, built in Baltimore in 1855 as the H & J NEILD, was sold to Captain Thomas J. Moore in 1860. Moore was, by all accounts, something of a "wheeler-dealer". At the commencement of the war, Moore changed the ships name to DIXIE, and ran the blockade into Charleston. There he organized a stock company, sold the schooner to said stock company for $5,500 and then the company applied for and received a *"Letter of Marque'" from the Confederate Government on June 26th. The application stated that the armament would consist of 3 guns, and a ships company of 35, with Captain Moore commanding.

(Letters of Marque) (Mark) were used by countries to encourage private ship owners to become "privateers" and raid enemy commercial shipping which they were then allowed to sell with the sponsoring government generally taking a share of the proceeds. Thus benefiting in two ways. The gain in funds and the augmentation of a small Navy. )

On 23 July 1861, four days at sea, the DIXIE took (captured) the bark GLEN out of Portland Maine with a load of coal which netted the owners and crew of the DIXIE more than $10,000 in "prize" money when it was sold. Two days later at Lat. 29o N., Long. 77o 10', the DIXIE took the schooner MARY ALICE with a cargo of sugar bound for New York. Not wishing to return to port yet, Capt. Moore placed a "prize crew" aboard the MARY ALICE and continued on his way. However.... The MARY ALICE was retaken by the U.S.Navy Frigate WABASH later that same day and the prize crew from the DIXIE were sent to Fort Lafayette and charged with piracy along with crews of other Southern privateer vessels. This is how John H. Marshall became a prisoner of war.

The documents below (copied from originals) show an outline of the imprisonment of John H. Marshall. But, there is more to events than that. The Union Government fully intended to charge and try all the Confederate sailors as pirates which always meant a sentence of hanging. But far from discouraging Southern ship owners from applying for Letters of Marque', it merely added to the numbers (300 reported at the time). In fact a proposal was made from Liverpool England to outfit an iron clad and use it to set fire to New York City.

President Jefferson Davis had written a fiery letter of protest to President Lincoln on July 6, 1861, stating that for every Confederate sailor charged and executed as a pirate, a Union prisoner of war would be dealt "the same treatment and the same fate as shall be experienced by those captured on the Savannah". He soon had to repeat this threat of retaliation for the crews of the Dixie, York and others. An equal number of high ranking Union officers, held as prisoners by the South, were selected by lottery to be executed should any privateers be executed. This raised a great deal of outcry in both the North and the South, but it worked. Not one Confederate privateer was executed and all were removed to military prisons from the common jails they had been held in and received better treatment, eventually were exchanged as POWs. Thus John Henry Marshall was repatriated back to North Carolina.

The Marshall family branch in Illinois has no oral history about anyone other than Johns older brother Emanuel being lost in the War Between the States. We can only assume that John did eventually return home. Finding information on this son of Fountain and Anna has been a great deal of fun but it has also left some questions. Was John Elias Marshall named after this Great uncle by his father Elias Yancy? How did John wind up on the ship when he was supposed to have been in the Infantry? And....

How many families can actually be claim and prove (well, sort of) they have a pirate in the family?

The following letters and orders give a small look into the military during the Civil War. They are all the more interesting because they relate directly to a family member.

War of the Rebellion, Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 2, Vol. III. Prisoners of War, etc.

Page 28

US Steamer Minnesota
Hampton Roads
August 23, 1861

Lt. Col. Martin Burke, Commanding
Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor

Sir;

By dispatch from the Navy Department dated August 21, 1861, I am informed the War Department has consented to take charge of prisoners coming into the possession of naval authorities and I am directed to send any I may have, to Lt. Col. Martin Burke, Commanding as above.
In conformity therewith, I send to New York in charge of Acting Master R.O. Patterson, U.S. Navy, nine prisoners, vis; five, George C. Gladden, John H. Marshall, J.P.M. Calvo, Charles Forrester and John Gonzales, who belong to the Southern Pirate Dixie. And four;, Patrick McCarthy, John Williams, Archibald Wilson and James Riley. He (they, ed note) belonged to the Southern Pirate York. The last, J. Riley, is a deserter from the U.S. Marine Corps. He was a sergeant and deserted at Norfolk some year or so past.

Respectfully your Ob't Ser't

S.H. Stringham
Flag Officer
(ed note: Commander Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Also note his use of the word "Pirate". Bold print is mine.)

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Lt. Col. M. Burke

I have received the above named prisoners.

Charles O. Wood, 2nd Lt. Ninth Inf.
Commanding Post

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Page no. 48, Previously named vol. and source
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Fort Hamilton
October 4, 1861

Hon. William H. Seward
Secretary of State

Sir;

Pursuant to your orders handed to me by the U.S. Marshal, New York, I have the honor to report that the following named persons confined at Fort LaFayette as privateersmen now, were turned over to the care of U.S. Marshal Murray, vis; John H. Marshall, P. McCarthy, Charles Forrester, George C. Gladden, J.P.M. Calvo, John Gonzales, James Riley, John Williams, Archibald Wilson.
One of the above named was left sick at the fort by Marshal Murray who promised to come down this day and remove him to the quarantine hospital.

Very respectfully, yr. Ob't Serv't
Martin Burke, Lt. Col.
Commanding

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Page no. 611, Previously named vol. and source.
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Fort Hamilton
May 30, 1862

Adjutant General Thomas

Discharging 24 prisoners from Fort LaFayette by order of the Secretary of the Navy. Please send to Fort LaFayette, the 36 political prisoners from Fort Warren as soon as you please.
The guard has arrived and I expect to send off in the morning the 58 privateer prisoners by the steamer S.R. Spaulding.

M. Burke, Lt. Col., 3rd Artillery
Commanding

(ed. Note; There followed a list of officers and enlisted men held at Fort LaFayette, New York Harbor, who were the crews of the Confederate Privateers Savannah, York, Sumter, Jeff Davis, Dixie and Petrel. John H. Marshall was listed as being a seaman on the C.S. Dixie.)

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Page 618, previously named vol. and source
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Headquarters, EDpt. Of Virginia
Fort Monroe, Va.
June 1, 1862

Major General B. Hugger
Commanding, Petersburg Va.

General,

I send on parole, to be exchanged according to the cartel agreed upon between the United States and Great Britain in 1813, the privateersmen prisoners of war, the names and rank of whom will be found in the rolls herewith transmitted, vis; 2 Captains, 3 1st Lieutenants, 2 2nd Lieutenants, 1 Midshipman, 2 Pursers, 1 Gunner, 1 Carpenter, 1 Sail Maker, 2 Sailing Masters, 1 Steward, 69 Seamen, in all 85. Also 5 Seamen taken from merchant vessels while attempting to run the blockade. All of whom will be delivered on your delivering to Lt. Col. Whimple Aide-De-Camp and Chief of my staff, the hostages remaining in confinement in the south on account of the said privateersmen now ready for delivery.

Respectfully,
John E. Wool, Major General
Commanding, etc.,etc.

Notes:

!Marshall 0118B, p. 7
!Marshall 0144, p. 18

Notes:

!Marshall 0118B, p. 7
!Marshall 0144, p. 18

Notes:

!MARRIAGE: License #2008 Stokes Co., NC 30 Oct. 1885, lists parents as Fountain
Marshall (dec'd) and Ally Ann Marshall. Marriage performed by S. Adams,J.P.
Sauratown Twp. Stokes Co. Witnesses were, E.S. Wither, C.S. Flinn, J.W. Fulton.
!CENSUS-NAME-CHANGE: The Federal Census, Stokes Co. NC for the years 1870 and
1880 list this individual as David W. Marshall. His marriage license shows his
name as Danniel J. Marshall. There can be little doubt that this is the same
person because the names of his parents are so unusual and the stated age on
all documents is consistant.......
!A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.

Danniel married Cornelia H. DAVIS on 12 Nov 1885 in Sauratown Twp., Stokes County, North Carolina. Cornelia was born in 1867 in North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!MARRIAGE-LICENSE-CERTIFICATE: 7 May 1888; Marriage License #2369 issued by D.V. Carroll Reg. of Deeds; Certificate lists father as Fountain Marshall (dec'd) and mother as A.A. Marshall, living. Father of bride is listed as M.O. James, living and mother Lettie James, dec'd. Marriage performed 10 May 1888, in home of Elias Fulp, J.P., for Sauratown Twp., Stokes Co. NC. Witnesses were, Augusta Fare, Jane L. Fulp, Mrs, G.W. Fulp. !CEMETARY-DEATH-BURIAL: Willis Dewitt Marshall is buried at Salem Chapel Church of Christ Cemetary, Stokes Co. NC.
!NOTE: Letter from Richard D. Neal dated 16 March 1995, states that; "I have
heard my Grandfather's sister refer to Willis Dewitt Marshall as "Uncle Dee",
and said that he was a railroad man." Further letter of 4 April 1995, in which Mr. Neal states that he was told by his father's Aunt, "that Uncle Dee lived in the Dodson Hotel in Walnut Cove, and his daughter played piano there. She was very good."
!Ruth Kramer in Illinois refers to him as "Uncle Dee" also. He visited the
Marshall's in Illinois. Richard D. Neal identifies himself as the Great-grandson of Mrs. Robert Pinkney (Mollie Ann) Neal who was a sister to Etta F. (James) Marshall, wife of W. Dewitt Marshall.
!A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.
!Marshall 0322, p. 92 - Buried in Salem Chapel Cemetery, Walnut Cove, NC.
________________________________________
From:
To:
Subject: marshall of Stokes Co. NC
Date: Friday, February 21, 2003 8:16 PM

I have recentlly found some missing links in my marshall of Stokes co search.

My grandfather Carl Jones Marshall was born in Stokes Co. in 1909, died in Suffolk Va in 1966

His father is William Wortz Marshall born in Stokes Co in 1889 & died in Suffolk VA in 1945. According to his obt. his parents were William Dewitt and Florence James Marshall of Stokes Co. I saw in your website there was a Willis Dewitt and Etta Florence James Marshall could they be my g-g grandparents?

any help would be most appreciated
Thanks
Todd Marshall
__________________________________________
From:
To: "David Marshall"
Subject: Re: marshall of Stokes Co. NC
Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 1:02 AM

David,
My aunt found Willis D. Marshall's Obit. it reads as follows:

Willis D. Marshall
Petersburg, Sept 2.-Funeral services for Willis Dewitt Marshall, who died yesterday morning in Petersburg Hospital, have been arranged for 4 p.m. today in the chapel of J.T. Morriss & Son with Dr. O.B. Newton pastor of Highland Methodist Church, officiating and burial in Walnut Cove, N.C.
A native of Stokes County, N.C., Mr. Marshall was a retired Norfolk and Western Railway Section foreman.

I think that this is more than likely the same person.
Thanks for the notes,
Todd

Willis married Etta Florence JAMES on 10 May 1888 in Sauratown Twp., Stokes County, North Carolina. Etta (daughter of Martin Oliver JAMES) was born on 27 Sep 1870 in North Carolina; died on 16 Jan 1905 in Stokes County, North Carolina; was buried on 19 Jan 1905 in Stokes County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.

Notes:

!A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.
!Marshall 0169, p. 9

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.

Notes:

!A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.

Nancy married Josephus MARSHALL on 12 Sep 1858 in Stokes County, North Carolina. Josephus (son of Fountain MARSHALL and Anna CLARK) was born on 20 Jul 1834 in Sauratown Twp., Stokes County, North Carolina; died about 1897 in Taylorville, Christian County, Illinois; was buried in Johnson Twp., Christian County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.

Notes:

!A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.

Notes:

!A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.

Notes:

!A GEDCOM file from Gordon Marshall.