His uncle Joseph Marsh
Photo of Joseph Marsh used with permission of Atlanta Bible College Library and Archives. “The picture came from the family of G. E. Marsh, who was related to Joseph as a great nephew and was a member of the Church of God Abrahamic Faith, the denomination that Joseph Marsh inadvertently helped to begin with his teachings of the Age to Come, a prophetic system that explained the second coming of Christ and the millennium to follow.” Furnished through the research of Jan Stilson, Church of God historian and writer.
"Marsh Bible record - Joseph Marsh was born in St. Albans, Franklin, Vermont, December 6, 1802. Sarah Mariah Adams was born in Sennett, N.Y., November 27, 1808. They were married in Sennett August 4, 1830, by Elder Joseph Badger and their children were: Sarah Eliza Marsh was born in Clay, Onondaga County, N.Y., 13 August 1832. Mary Maria Marsh was born in Sennett, Cayuga County, N.Y., June 11, 1834. Permelia Jane Marsh was born in Milan, Duchess County, N.Y., June 16, 1836."[i]
Lemuel's recording of his first nine children in St. Albans showed that Joseph was born December 6, 1801.[ii] It is not known where the mistake was made, whether it was the clerk in St. Albans, the copy of the Bible record, or Lemuel himself, as remembering nine children's birthdays all at once is quite a trick! Church of God records show the date as 1802.[iii]
An internet article by Mark M. Mattison about Joseph says he was born in Vermont in 1802, and after his family moved to western New York, they were disfellowshipped by the Methodist Episcopal Church for rejecting the Trinity.[iv]
Joseph’s daughter, Jane Marsh Parker, wrote this small history of her father.
"When Joseph was about 16, his father moved with his large family from Vermont to the Genesee Country and settled in LeRoy. His mother died in 1824, aged 47. Joseph tells the story of his life in the autobiography written when he lived in Milan, Duchess County. Pastor of the Christian Church about 1835 to 1838. When 19 his father ‘gave him his time’. With his brother, Josiah, settled in a little cabin on new land in Ashtabula Co. Ohio (Monroe). Sold out for fifty acres of good land in Springfield, Erie Co. Bad title. Lost everything. 1823 joined his brother James in Rochester. ‘Converted’ to the faith of the "Christians". Baptized ‘in the Genesee River, a little above the falls’. Worked as a carpenter to supplement his income.
“Went forth as a preacher in 1825. One of the ‘pilgrims’ of the sect traveling on foot ‘without script’, walking in mid-winter to Susquehanna in the Wyoming Valley, Kingston, Lewisburg, Plymouth...then along Lake Erie, always on foot often without shelter and penniless, hungry and cold, and "persecuted" by the religious bodies already in possession of the field, and who looked upon the "Christians" as dangerous. He must have had a persuasive eloquence and winning personality for he founded churches at a great rate, and was known as ‘the boy preacher’ of a wide circuit - Pittsburg, Zanisville, Columbus, Ohio. He spent eight months in Kentucky, settling for a season in Flemingsburg where he bought a horse. 1829 he travels to Randolph, NY to see his father settling after much success, pilgriming again in Rochester. He is very popular among the Christians. He is ordained, acts as secretary at their conferences, goes to New York as a delegate to a Conference, brings up at Sennett NY in 1830. Meets Sally Adams and they are married within four months, with about as little to live on as a loving pair ever had. Matters were showered with the young preacher until 1839, when he ‘went to the top’ as Editor of the Palladium. The organ of the Christians and head of their publication house in Union Mills, Fulton Co., NY where he was also pastor of the church. In 1843 he became a convert to Millerism, he broke with the Christians, went to Rochester and opened a publishing office in the Arcads for the weekly paper. In 1860 he moved to Milby, Canada. In the same year to Oshawa, Canada. He returned to the ‘Christians’ shortly before his death in 1863."[v]
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Joseph’s Milan home from the back and the well where he watered his horse. Photos courtesy of Sheron Long.
In the 1850 census, Joseph's age shows he was born in 1802, his wife in 1808, Sarah E., 17, Mary M., 16, and Parmelia J., 14. Joseph had an O. R. L. Crosier (Owen Russell Loomis Crosier) living with him at the time who was also involved in writing for the Millerite movement.[vi]
The census also shows Frederick Douglass and his family living next door to the Marshes. Joseph helped Frederick acquire his home.[vii] Jane Marsh Parker’s biographer, Marcelle LeMenager Lane, said the Marsh home was also involved in the Underground Railroad network. She wrote, "When the little Marsh girls were sent to bed early and told they must keep quiet, they knew there was a runaway slave in the cellar." She added, "So far, at least, as their relations with the Douglass family were concerned, no color line was drawn by the Marshes. Even for the northern city of Rochester, in that day such an attitude was unusual. When Douglass' daughter, Rosa, sought admission as a pupil to one of the private schools of Rochester, she was not welcomed in the classroom, and it was Jenny [Jane Marsh] who volunteered to share her desk with the little girl, an action that was recognized by one of the equal rights societies of England. At another time, the home of Frederick Douglass being overcrowded with visitors, Rosa was taken into Jenny's own room and bed."[viii] The friendship between the two families lasted for years. It is also widely known that Jane Marsh Parker provided most of the material describing the personal side of Frederick Douglass and his family that is treasured today.[ix]
Joseph did business with his brother, Lorenzo, who lived in Jo Daviess County, Illinois.[x]
There are numerous references to Joseph's work and writings across the internet, and they are still studied and quoted among religious groups today. His most famous work is "The Age To Come", outlining the second coming of Christ.[xi]
The Marsh family was still in Rochester for the 1860 census.[xii] Sometime shortly after, they moved to Milby, Canada and then on to Oshawa.[xiii] Joseph had just been appointed state evangelist at a conference in Jeffersonville, Indiana, when he took sick and somehow made it up the state to his daughter's home in Tecumseh, Michigan, where he died 13 Sep 1863 of typhoid fever.[xiv] The cemetery record says "Elder Joseph Marsh 61 years old died 9-13-1863 section M lot 26." The lot was purchased by Emory A. Morehouse.[xv]
Mary Marsh Moorhouse and her husband, Emory, were found in the 1860 census for Tecumseh, Lenawee, Michigan, and they had a daughter, Jennie (1), who was likely named for her aunt, as Jane Marsh Parker was called Jennie by her family.[xvi] Another cemetery record there shows "Emory A. Morehouse born LeRoy, New York late residence Sturgis age 35 died 12-15-1867 of lung fever.[xvii] Emory and Mary must have moved to Sturgis in 1867 after selling their land in Tecumseh that same year,[xviii] and Emory died shortly after. Mary must have returned to Brookside Cemetery to bury her husband. In the same lot was a child for Emory and Mary, "William Almy 8 years old died 1-29-1865 infant of E.A. Morehouse." As William was not in the 1860 census and the record calls him an infant, it is likely the 8 years was in error. The cemetery record is rounded out with another unnamed child of Emory and Mary, shown numerically five burials before William Almy.[xix]
Jane Marsh Parker wrote about her sister, Mary:
Mary Maria Marsh - "Married Emory A. Moorhouse 15 Jul 1858 Tecumseh, Michigan. A light brunet, dark eyes, a little below medium height, bright, vivacious, fond of music, decidedly pretty. Not fond of deep study, but a wide and intelligent reader of popular literature. Witty, impulsive, possessing a keen sense of the ludicrous. She married in 1858 in Tecumseh, Michigan where she was visiting her Uncle Hyrum Adams, to Emory A. Moorhouse by whom she had five children. She had a slight stroke of paralysis in 1896 - was unable to support herself. She was admitted to the Masonic Home, Grand Rapids, Michigan in the summer of 1897. She died of spinal meningitis Jan. 14, 1900, and is buried in the home cemetery.
“Children: Jane, Hanna Frances, Carrie, and Emily. Hanna Frances died in St. Luke’s Hospital, NY City, May 1874. Buried in Astoria. She was suffering from a severe spinal disorder and was under treatment at St. Luke's when she died. At the time of their father's death in 1867, she was adopted by her Aunt Jenny , whose boy George was but a fortnight older. Her mother afterwards claimed her, but subsequently consented because of her poorly and affectious (?) to give her up to the care of the Leake and Watt Orphanage with her sister, Jenny. A fall from a swing while at the orphanage is thought to have been the cause of her spinal trouble. She was a beautiful child and was baptized by Bishop Neely in Christ Church Rochester, Mrs. Neely standing for her Godmother.
“Carrie died in infancy, buried in Tecumseh, Michigan. Emily, born after her father's death, was a poor, sickly child, whose feeble life happily ended in Rochester in 1868. Buried in Tecumseh, Michigan.
“Jane born 1859 Michigan, died 15 Feb 1919 in Rochester, New York. Graduated at St. Mary's, New York City. Slight in figure, small in stature. Pretty but broken in health when little more than twenty. She had serious attacks of something similar to paralysis, leaving her hands trembling like palsy. In 1888 she was living with her mother at the Neil House Columbus Ohio. Had been there about three years. In 1900 she was housekeeper at Holis Powers, Rochester, New York."[xx]
An obituary was found over the internet for Mary. "Moorhouse - At Grand Rapids, Michigan, Sunday 14 January, 1900, Mary M. Moorhouse, widow of the late Emory A. Moorhouse and sister of Mrs. Jane Marsh Parker, of this city", from the Democrat and Chronicle. [xxi]
Mary's death certificate said she had two children, one living; no next of kin was listed. It also says Mary was buried in the Fulton Street Cemetery in Grand Rapids.[xxii] If that was so, there was no stone, and the cemetery records have burned since her death, so the exact location of her grave is not known.[xxiii] Mary's sister, Jane, said there were five Moorhouse children, but she only named the four girls. William Almy must have been the fifth child. Also, Hannah and Jenny Moorhouse were found in the 1870 census in the Leake and Watt Orphanage in New York City. Their mother, Mary, was living not far from there in some kind of school where she was a seamstress.[xxiv] In 1880, Jenny was teaching in a school in New York City that may have been the St. Mary's she graduated from.[xxv]
Jane Marsh Parker also wrote about her other sister. "Sarah Eliza Marsh - Afflicted with nervous spasms from early childhood, which at the age of about fourteen developed into epilepsy. In 1871 after the death of her father and mother she became an inmate of Saint Mary’s Hospital (Roman Catholic) in Rochester. She became a convert to Catholicism and was most happy in her faith during her years of afflictions.
“She was small in stature and very dark in complexion, sharp black eyes, black hair, and a most amiable disposition. Epilepsy gradually affected her mind and at the age of 55, she is now wearing spectacles.
“She is happy at Saint Mary’s, devoted to the Sisters, and knows little of the world outside the hospital. She thinks she has no cause for discontent if "Jenny" will visit her weekly. Her mind gone in 1900. Died in a state asylum in Rochester, New York, buried in the lot of Geo. T. Parker, Mount Hope, age 68."[xxvi]
Jane also wrote of her mother -
"She wrote children's stories, had a logical mind, would have been a good writer. A critic rather than a poet. She wrote long letters that took the most average information and presented it in a most interesting manner."[xxvii]
A notice from Sarah appeared in Joseph’s former newspaper after his death. "My P.O. address will in future be Rochester, New York. I desire to say to my friends that I should be happy to hear from them. Also, if any who are indebted to my late husband, (Eld. J. Marsh), for books, or on account, will pay the amount due, no matter how trifling the sum, it will be most gladly and gratefully received. Sarah M. Marsh.”[xxviii]
In the 1870 census, Sarah, was working in the medical facility in Rochester where her daughter, Sarah, was living.[xxix]
Sarah M. Marsh died 31 December 1870 at St. Mary's Hospital of tuberculosis, and Sarah, the daughter, died 2 August 1900 in the State Hospital; her cause of death was listed as senility. Both were buried in the lot owned by Joseph's son-in-law, George T. Parker.[xxx]
The census also shows Frederick Douglass and his family living next door to the Marshes. Joseph helped Frederick acquire his home.[vii] Jane Marsh Parker’s biographer, Marcelle LeMenager Lane, said the Marsh home was also involved in the Underground Railroad network. She wrote, "When the little Marsh girls were sent to bed early and told they must keep quiet, they knew there was a runaway slave in the cellar." She added, "So far, at least, as their relations with the Douglass family were concerned, no color line was drawn by the Marshes. Even for the northern city of Rochester, in that day such an attitude was unusual. When Douglass' daughter, Rosa, sought admission as a pupil to one of the private schools of Rochester, she was not welcomed in the classroom, and it was Jenny [Jane Marsh] who volunteered to share her desk with the little girl, an action that was recognized by one of the equal rights societies of England. At another time, the home of Frederick Douglass being overcrowded with visitors, Rosa was taken into Jenny's own room and bed."[viii] The friendship between the two families lasted for years. It is also widely known that Jane Marsh Parker provided most of the material describing the personal side of Frederick Douglass and his family that is treasured today.[ix]
Joseph did business with his brother, Lorenzo, who lived in Jo Daviess County, Illinois.[x]
There are numerous references to Joseph's work and writings across the internet, and they are still studied and quoted among religious groups today. His most famous work is "The Age To Come", outlining the second coming of Christ.[xi]
The Marsh family was still in Rochester for the 1860 census.[xii] Sometime shortly after, they moved to Milby, Canada and then on to Oshawa.[xiii] Joseph had just been appointed state evangelist at a conference in Jeffersonville, Indiana, when he took sick and somehow made it up the state to his daughter's home in Tecumseh, Michigan, where he died 13 Sep 1863 of typhoid fever.[xiv] The cemetery record says "Elder Joseph Marsh 61 years old died 9-13-1863 section M lot 26." The lot was purchased by Emory A. Morehouse.[xv]
Mary Marsh Moorhouse and her husband, Emory, were found in the 1860 census for Tecumseh, Lenawee, Michigan, and they had a daughter, Jennie (1), who was likely named for her aunt, as Jane Marsh Parker was called Jennie by her family.[xvi] Another cemetery record there shows "Emory A. Morehouse born LeRoy, New York late residence Sturgis age 35 died 12-15-1867 of lung fever.[xvii] Emory and Mary must have moved to Sturgis in 1867 after selling their land in Tecumseh that same year,[xviii] and Emory died shortly after. Mary must have returned to Brookside Cemetery to bury her husband. In the same lot was a child for Emory and Mary, "William Almy 8 years old died 1-29-1865 infant of E.A. Morehouse." As William was not in the 1860 census and the record calls him an infant, it is likely the 8 years was in error. The cemetery record is rounded out with another unnamed child of Emory and Mary, shown numerically five burials before William Almy.[xix]
Jane Marsh Parker wrote about her sister, Mary:
Mary Maria Marsh - "Married Emory A. Moorhouse 15 Jul 1858 Tecumseh, Michigan. A light brunet, dark eyes, a little below medium height, bright, vivacious, fond of music, decidedly pretty. Not fond of deep study, but a wide and intelligent reader of popular literature. Witty, impulsive, possessing a keen sense of the ludicrous. She married in 1858 in Tecumseh, Michigan where she was visiting her Uncle Hyrum Adams, to Emory A. Moorhouse by whom she had five children. She had a slight stroke of paralysis in 1896 - was unable to support herself. She was admitted to the Masonic Home, Grand Rapids, Michigan in the summer of 1897. She died of spinal meningitis Jan. 14, 1900, and is buried in the home cemetery.
“Children: Jane, Hanna Frances, Carrie, and Emily. Hanna Frances died in St. Luke’s Hospital, NY City, May 1874. Buried in Astoria. She was suffering from a severe spinal disorder and was under treatment at St. Luke's when she died. At the time of their father's death in 1867, she was adopted by her Aunt Jenny , whose boy George was but a fortnight older. Her mother afterwards claimed her, but subsequently consented because of her poorly and affectious (?) to give her up to the care of the Leake and Watt Orphanage with her sister, Jenny. A fall from a swing while at the orphanage is thought to have been the cause of her spinal trouble. She was a beautiful child and was baptized by Bishop Neely in Christ Church Rochester, Mrs. Neely standing for her Godmother.
“Carrie died in infancy, buried in Tecumseh, Michigan. Emily, born after her father's death, was a poor, sickly child, whose feeble life happily ended in Rochester in 1868. Buried in Tecumseh, Michigan.
“Jane born 1859 Michigan, died 15 Feb 1919 in Rochester, New York. Graduated at St. Mary's, New York City. Slight in figure, small in stature. Pretty but broken in health when little more than twenty. She had serious attacks of something similar to paralysis, leaving her hands trembling like palsy. In 1888 she was living with her mother at the Neil House Columbus Ohio. Had been there about three years. In 1900 she was housekeeper at Holis Powers, Rochester, New York."[xx]
An obituary was found over the internet for Mary. "Moorhouse - At Grand Rapids, Michigan, Sunday 14 January, 1900, Mary M. Moorhouse, widow of the late Emory A. Moorhouse and sister of Mrs. Jane Marsh Parker, of this city", from the Democrat and Chronicle. [xxi]
Mary's death certificate said she had two children, one living; no next of kin was listed. It also says Mary was buried in the Fulton Street Cemetery in Grand Rapids.[xxii] If that was so, there was no stone, and the cemetery records have burned since her death, so the exact location of her grave is not known.[xxiii] Mary's sister, Jane, said there were five Moorhouse children, but she only named the four girls. William Almy must have been the fifth child. Also, Hannah and Jenny Moorhouse were found in the 1870 census in the Leake and Watt Orphanage in New York City. Their mother, Mary, was living not far from there in some kind of school where she was a seamstress.[xxiv] In 1880, Jenny was teaching in a school in New York City that may have been the St. Mary's she graduated from.[xxv]
Jane Marsh Parker also wrote about her other sister. "Sarah Eliza Marsh - Afflicted with nervous spasms from early childhood, which at the age of about fourteen developed into epilepsy. In 1871 after the death of her father and mother she became an inmate of Saint Mary’s Hospital (Roman Catholic) in Rochester. She became a convert to Catholicism and was most happy in her faith during her years of afflictions.
“She was small in stature and very dark in complexion, sharp black eyes, black hair, and a most amiable disposition. Epilepsy gradually affected her mind and at the age of 55, she is now wearing spectacles.
“She is happy at Saint Mary’s, devoted to the Sisters, and knows little of the world outside the hospital. She thinks she has no cause for discontent if "Jenny" will visit her weekly. Her mind gone in 1900. Died in a state asylum in Rochester, New York, buried in the lot of Geo. T. Parker, Mount Hope, age 68."[xxvi]
Jane also wrote of her mother -
"She wrote children's stories, had a logical mind, would have been a good writer. A critic rather than a poet. She wrote long letters that took the most average information and presented it in a most interesting manner."[xxvii]
A notice from Sarah appeared in Joseph’s former newspaper after his death. "My P.O. address will in future be Rochester, New York. I desire to say to my friends that I should be happy to hear from them. Also, if any who are indebted to my late husband, (Eld. J. Marsh), for books, or on account, will pay the amount due, no matter how trifling the sum, it will be most gladly and gratefully received. Sarah M. Marsh.”[xxviii]
In the 1870 census, Sarah, was working in the medical facility in Rochester where her daughter, Sarah, was living.[xxix]
Sarah M. Marsh died 31 December 1870 at St. Mary's Hospital of tuberculosis, and Sarah, the daughter, died 2 August 1900 in the State Hospital; her cause of death was listed as senility. Both were buried in the lot owned by Joseph's son-in-law, George T. Parker.[xxx]
Joseph’s girls – photo courtesy of Sheron Long
Joseph's daughter, Permelia Jane, was likely named for two of Joseph's sisters. She came to be known as Jane Marsh Parker, a successful journalist, fiction writer, and a prominent person in social reform. Jane's history can be read at “The History of Rochester NY at Mount Hope Cemetery”. She married George Tann Parker, a prominent lawyer in Rochester. He died in 1895, buried in Mount Hope Cemetery. (It appears George purchased a lot there before his parents, Richard and Hannah T. Parker, died, and they are buried in George's lot along with their probable daughter, Mary.)[xxxi] Jane died 13 March 1913 at the age of 76 in Los Angeles, California, of bronchial pneumonia. Her body was cremated 26 April 1913, and the remains were buried in lot 82 Range 2 of Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester in the lot purchased by her husband.[xxxii]
Jane Marsh Parker.
Photo courtesy of Ellen Parker.
Photo courtesy of Ellen Parker.
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Jane Marsh and George Tann Parker – Photos courtesy of Ellen Parker
Photo special courtesy of Frank Gillespie
The Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery
The Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery
The Parker children (taken from the above mentioned history of Jane Marsh Parker and Mount Hope Cemetery records) were:
A. Richard Marsh Parker born 19 March 1859 died 17 September 1934 in New York City from the history, although the Mount Hope Cemetery record says he died in Wyckoff, New Jersey. His obituary in the "Syracuse Herald", 20 Sep, 1934, says he died in Midland, New Jersey. "Richard Marsh Parker, 75, former resident of Syracuse, who died at Midland, New Jersey, was buried at Rochester this morning. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Helen Rulison Parker; three sons, Rulison G. Parker, Richard M. Jr., and William Parker, all of New York City; a brother, George F. Parker, and a sister, Miss Margaret M. Parker, both of Los Angeles, California." Richard married Helen Rulison born 1878 in New York; died 12 Jul 1943 in Foxboro, Massachusetts, buried in Mount Hope Cemetery along with Richard in the George Parker lot. In 1900 Richard and Helen were living in Buffalo Ward 24, Erie, New York, 1910 in Fort Dodge Ward 2, Webster, Iowa, in 1920 and 1930, they were in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York. Thanks to Ellen Parker for the info that Richard graduated from Chicago College of Law in June 1891 and was an accountant for a large company; his wife, Helen, graduated from Oswego in 1885 with her Normal School certificate, and she taught school.
1. Rulison George Parker born 13 Sep 1895 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; he served in the First World War and then worked for the Red Cross in the Second World War. He died 10 Feb 1945 from cancer, buried in Arlington National Cemetery. In 1930 he had been living in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey with a wife named Evalyn and a daughter named Angela.
2. Force R. Parker born abt. 1898 in Pennsylvania, died 26 Sep 1899 in Cincinnati, Ohio of acute pneumonia. This child was buried in the lot owned by George Tann Parker in the Mount Hope Cemetery, and as Helen said in the 1900 census that she had 2 children, only one living, I am assuming he belongs to Richard and Helen. The children of this family were later confirmed by writings of Jane Marsh Parker shared by Sheron Long.
3. Marion Parker abt. 1901 died 21 Apr 1909 in Fort Dodge, Iowa of heart trouble. She was buried in the lot owned by George Tann Parker.
4. Richard Marsh Parker Jr. born abt 1904 in New York. In 1930, he was living in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, with a wife named Pauline (20 from New York) and a son named Richard, 2, born in Pennsylvania. He married (2) Lillian Trafton.
5. William Van Antwerp Parker born abt. 1910 in Iowa
A. Richard Marsh Parker born 19 March 1859 died 17 September 1934 in New York City from the history, although the Mount Hope Cemetery record says he died in Wyckoff, New Jersey. His obituary in the "Syracuse Herald", 20 Sep, 1934, says he died in Midland, New Jersey. "Richard Marsh Parker, 75, former resident of Syracuse, who died at Midland, New Jersey, was buried at Rochester this morning. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Helen Rulison Parker; three sons, Rulison G. Parker, Richard M. Jr., and William Parker, all of New York City; a brother, George F. Parker, and a sister, Miss Margaret M. Parker, both of Los Angeles, California." Richard married Helen Rulison born 1878 in New York; died 12 Jul 1943 in Foxboro, Massachusetts, buried in Mount Hope Cemetery along with Richard in the George Parker lot. In 1900 Richard and Helen were living in Buffalo Ward 24, Erie, New York, 1910 in Fort Dodge Ward 2, Webster, Iowa, in 1920 and 1930, they were in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York. Thanks to Ellen Parker for the info that Richard graduated from Chicago College of Law in June 1891 and was an accountant for a large company; his wife, Helen, graduated from Oswego in 1885 with her Normal School certificate, and she taught school.
1. Rulison George Parker born 13 Sep 1895 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; he served in the First World War and then worked for the Red Cross in the Second World War. He died 10 Feb 1945 from cancer, buried in Arlington National Cemetery. In 1930 he had been living in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey with a wife named Evalyn and a daughter named Angela.
2. Force R. Parker born abt. 1898 in Pennsylvania, died 26 Sep 1899 in Cincinnati, Ohio of acute pneumonia. This child was buried in the lot owned by George Tann Parker in the Mount Hope Cemetery, and as Helen said in the 1900 census that she had 2 children, only one living, I am assuming he belongs to Richard and Helen. The children of this family were later confirmed by writings of Jane Marsh Parker shared by Sheron Long.
3. Marion Parker abt. 1901 died 21 Apr 1909 in Fort Dodge, Iowa of heart trouble. She was buried in the lot owned by George Tann Parker.
4. Richard Marsh Parker Jr. born abt 1904 in New York. In 1930, he was living in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, with a wife named Pauline (20 from New York) and a son named Richard, 2, born in Pennsylvania. He married (2) Lillian Trafton.
5. William Van Antwerp Parker born abt. 1910 in Iowa
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Richard Marsh Parker with daughter, Marion, and Helen Rulison Parker
Photos courtesy of Ellen Parker
Photos courtesy of Ellen Parker
Rulison George
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Richard Jr.
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William Van Antwerp
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Photos courtesy of Ellen Parker
B. George Force Parker born 31 January 1866 died 6 March 1946 in Los Angeles. Rochester marriages on the web show that he married 22 June 1893 Maud Warner (adopted -1880 census) daughter of Hulburt H. Warner and Olive E. Stoddard, born 1874 in Rochester. The couple had a son named Warner Force Parker after which time, Maud died 16 November 1897. George married 28th November 1899 Margaret Paxton Christian. She and their baby girl died 24 July 1900. George married 1901 Frances Tappan born abt. 1872 in New York to Wallace and Frances McMackan Tappan. The marriage announcement of Force and Frances was printed in the Los Angeles Times 2 Feb 1901. “Force Parker, aged 35, a native of New York, and Frances Tappan, aged 29, a native of New York; both residents of Pasadena.” George Force attended Columbia Law University and practiced law as well as being a prominent judge in Los Angeles
George Force Parker
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Maud W. Parker
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Frances T. Parker
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Photos courtesy of Sheron Long
C. Henry Neely Parker born 5 September 1869, died at the age of six months of pneumonia, buried 8 March 1870.
D. Margaret Marsh Parker born 7 August 1870 died in 1951 in San Diego, California. She taught kindergarten and later became a counselor. Her body was also cremated, and she and her mother share a common grave.
D. Margaret Marsh Parker born 7 August 1870 died in 1951 in San Diego, California. She taught kindergarten and later became a counselor. Her body was also cremated, and she and her mother share a common grave.
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Margaret Marsh Parker and Jane Marsh Parker with Margaret
Photos courtesy of Ellen Parker
Photos courtesy of Ellen Parker
There was reference made to both Joseph and Jane in a letter that was written by Eunice White Spangenberg to the war pension commission; this can be read in the information on this website for Amanda Jane Marsh and her children.
[i] New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, v. 77, 1946; info courtesy of Sandra Wheeler.
[ii] Correspondence with St. Albans record office, P.O. Box 867, St. Albans, Vermont, 05478- 0867.
[iii] Info on file with the author, courtesy of Jan Stilson, Church of God Historian.
[iv] Mattison, Mark M., “Joseph Marsh’s Doctrinal Development and Conflicts with Christadelphianism”,
http://archive.is/jAMdn.
[v] Parker, Jane Marsh, history notes on Joseph Marsh on file with the author, courtesy of Sheron Long.
[vi] 1850 U.S. census, Rochester, Monroe, New York, Joseph Marsh.
[vii] Referenced in “Rochester’s Frederick Douglas” on-line p. 20 - Amy Hamner-Croughton, “Anti-Slavery Days,”
Rochester Historical Society Publication Series, Volume 14, Rochester, 1936, p.126.
[viii] Lane, Marcelle LeMenager, “The Life and Work of Jane Marsh Parker”, Rochester Historical Society.
[ix] Parker, Jane Marsh, Reminiscences of Frederick Douglass, typescript unpublished. Howard W. Coles
Collection, RMSC.
[x] See section for Lorenzo Marsh.
[xi] Marsh, Joseph, “The Age To Come”, http://www.timberlandbiblechurch.org/AgeToCome/
[xii] 1860 U.S. census, Rochester, Monroe, New York, for Joseph Marsh.
[xiii] Parker, Jane Marsh, “History of Joseph Marsh”, on file with the author,courtesy of Sheron Long.
[xiv] Church of God records, courtesy of Jan Stilson, Church of God Historian, correspondence on file with the author.
[xv] Brookside Cemetery, Tecumseh, Michigan, Dan Righter, sexton; [email protected]; 501 N. Union St.,
Tecumseh, Michigan, 49286; (517) 423-3632. Note, if you ever want to visit Joseph’s grave, inquire about the
place ELDER Joseph Marsh is buried, or they may have trouble finding the record.
[xvi] 1860 U.S. census record, Tecumseh, Lenawee, Michigan, for Emery Morehouse.
[xvii] Brookside Cemetery, Tecumseh, Michigan, see citation 14 above.
[xviii] Tecumseh land records index, FHL #2209090, Emory Moorhouse to George Smith, Bk. 76, pg. 768.
[xix] Brookside Cemetery, Tecumseh, Michigan, William Almy Morehouse.
[xx] Parker, Jane Marsh, “Mary Maria Marsh”, history on file with the author, courtesy of Sheron Long.
[xxi] www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nymonnws/1900/jan/16th.html.
[xxii] Kent County Clerk’s Office, www.accesskent.com, bk. 5, pg. 244.
[xxiii] Telephone communicaton with Fulton Street Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Note that Jane Marsh Parker
said her sister was buried in the home cemetery, which would mean she was buried in Tecumseh. There is no
record of her there.
[xxiv] 1870 U.S. census, New York Ward 12, District 6, for Hannah (indexed as Fanny on Ancestry) 6, Michigan, and
Jenny, 10, Michigan, both in orphan’s school, or Leake Watts O. House, at 202 William Street. Mary Morehouse
1834; list copies England as the birthplace from the line above, New York Ward 12 District 6.
[xxv] 1880 U.S. census, New York City, New York, New York for J M Morehouse, aged 26 (1854 is incorrect), boarder
and teacher in some kind of school. Note that the record says she was born in Michigan, but it lists her parents
as also born in Michigan. It appears the census taker just wrote the birthplace of the person and his parents
the same all the way down the page.
[xxvi] Parker, Jane Marsh, Sarah Eliza Marsh history on file with the author, courtesy of Sheron Long.
[xxvii] Parker, Jane Marsh, about her mother, Sarah M. Adams Marsh, courtesy of Sheron Long.
[xxviii] Millenial Harbinger and Bible Expositor, 14 Oct 1863, courtesy of Jan Stilson, Church of God Historian.
[xxix] 1870 U.S. census, 8th Ward City of Rochester, Monroe, New York, St. Mary’s Hospital, for both mother (Sarah
Marsh, 64) and daughter (Sarah E. Marsh, 35) both born in New York.
[xxx] Frank R. Gillespie with The Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery.
[xxxi] Ibid.
[xxxii] Ibid.
[ii] Correspondence with St. Albans record office, P.O. Box 867, St. Albans, Vermont, 05478- 0867.
[iii] Info on file with the author, courtesy of Jan Stilson, Church of God Historian.
[iv] Mattison, Mark M., “Joseph Marsh’s Doctrinal Development and Conflicts with Christadelphianism”,
http://archive.is/jAMdn.
[v] Parker, Jane Marsh, history notes on Joseph Marsh on file with the author, courtesy of Sheron Long.
[vi] 1850 U.S. census, Rochester, Monroe, New York, Joseph Marsh.
[vii] Referenced in “Rochester’s Frederick Douglas” on-line p. 20 - Amy Hamner-Croughton, “Anti-Slavery Days,”
Rochester Historical Society Publication Series, Volume 14, Rochester, 1936, p.126.
[viii] Lane, Marcelle LeMenager, “The Life and Work of Jane Marsh Parker”, Rochester Historical Society.
[ix] Parker, Jane Marsh, Reminiscences of Frederick Douglass, typescript unpublished. Howard W. Coles
Collection, RMSC.
[x] See section for Lorenzo Marsh.
[xi] Marsh, Joseph, “The Age To Come”, http://www.timberlandbiblechurch.org/AgeToCome/
[xii] 1860 U.S. census, Rochester, Monroe, New York, for Joseph Marsh.
[xiii] Parker, Jane Marsh, “History of Joseph Marsh”, on file with the author,courtesy of Sheron Long.
[xiv] Church of God records, courtesy of Jan Stilson, Church of God Historian, correspondence on file with the author.
[xv] Brookside Cemetery, Tecumseh, Michigan, Dan Righter, sexton; [email protected]; 501 N. Union St.,
Tecumseh, Michigan, 49286; (517) 423-3632. Note, if you ever want to visit Joseph’s grave, inquire about the
place ELDER Joseph Marsh is buried, or they may have trouble finding the record.
[xvi] 1860 U.S. census record, Tecumseh, Lenawee, Michigan, for Emery Morehouse.
[xvii] Brookside Cemetery, Tecumseh, Michigan, see citation 14 above.
[xviii] Tecumseh land records index, FHL #2209090, Emory Moorhouse to George Smith, Bk. 76, pg. 768.
[xix] Brookside Cemetery, Tecumseh, Michigan, William Almy Morehouse.
[xx] Parker, Jane Marsh, “Mary Maria Marsh”, history on file with the author, courtesy of Sheron Long.
[xxi] www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nymonnws/1900/jan/16th.html.
[xxii] Kent County Clerk’s Office, www.accesskent.com, bk. 5, pg. 244.
[xxiii] Telephone communicaton with Fulton Street Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Note that Jane Marsh Parker
said her sister was buried in the home cemetery, which would mean she was buried in Tecumseh. There is no
record of her there.
[xxiv] 1870 U.S. census, New York Ward 12, District 6, for Hannah (indexed as Fanny on Ancestry) 6, Michigan, and
Jenny, 10, Michigan, both in orphan’s school, or Leake Watts O. House, at 202 William Street. Mary Morehouse
1834; list copies England as the birthplace from the line above, New York Ward 12 District 6.
[xxv] 1880 U.S. census, New York City, New York, New York for J M Morehouse, aged 26 (1854 is incorrect), boarder
and teacher in some kind of school. Note that the record says she was born in Michigan, but it lists her parents
as also born in Michigan. It appears the census taker just wrote the birthplace of the person and his parents
the same all the way down the page.
[xxvi] Parker, Jane Marsh, Sarah Eliza Marsh history on file with the author, courtesy of Sheron Long.
[xxvii] Parker, Jane Marsh, about her mother, Sarah M. Adams Marsh, courtesy of Sheron Long.
[xxviii] Millenial Harbinger and Bible Expositor, 14 Oct 1863, courtesy of Jan Stilson, Church of God Historian.
[xxix] 1870 U.S. census, 8th Ward City of Rochester, Monroe, New York, St. Mary’s Hospital, for both mother (Sarah
Marsh, 64) and daughter (Sarah E. Marsh, 35) both born in New York.
[xxx] Frank R. Gillespie with The Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery.
[xxxi] Ibid.
[xxxii] Ibid.