His uncle, name unknown, Marsh
He was likely born between 1815 and 1820.[i] It is a little hard to sort all the different people in the Lemuel Marsh household in the 1820 census of Bergen, New York, but it appears there was a son there that was this age. Also, Joseph Marsh wrote about his siblings after the death of his sister, Pamelia, and when he said there were eight brothers that had already passed away, the count must have included this individual:
“Thus another of my father's family has fallen in death. Pamelia, our oldest sister, and dearly beloved by us all. - We resign her to Him- whom she believed, as we have previously resigned our honored parents, and eight brothers. Three brothers and two sisters yet survive of the family, and are 'looking for that blessed hope.' How soon our numbers will be again thinned by death, we know not, but it cannot be long, for the hand of disease and age approaches. - May we be ready, and may the consolation of the Gospel of life comfort the hearts of our brother Twitchell, and his dear family, under the great bereavement they have been called to sustain in the death of sister Pamelia. - Ed."[ii]
The eight brothers were Josiah, James A., Lemuel Lucius, Hollis, Orrin, Walter, Lorenzo D. and this brother.
From the names of the Marsh siblings’ children, I would not be surprised if this individual’s name was Edgar Alonzo Marsh.
He likely died before his father’s move to Cattaraugus County, New York, as he was not old enough to have been out on his own before then, and if his death occurred after the move, he would have been buried near his three brothers in the cemetery there.
“Thus another of my father's family has fallen in death. Pamelia, our oldest sister, and dearly beloved by us all. - We resign her to Him- whom she believed, as we have previously resigned our honored parents, and eight brothers. Three brothers and two sisters yet survive of the family, and are 'looking for that blessed hope.' How soon our numbers will be again thinned by death, we know not, but it cannot be long, for the hand of disease and age approaches. - May we be ready, and may the consolation of the Gospel of life comfort the hearts of our brother Twitchell, and his dear family, under the great bereavement they have been called to sustain in the death of sister Pamelia. - Ed."[ii]
The eight brothers were Josiah, James A., Lemuel Lucius, Hollis, Orrin, Walter, Lorenzo D. and this brother.
From the names of the Marsh siblings’ children, I would not be surprised if this individual’s name was Edgar Alonzo Marsh.
He likely died before his father’s move to Cattaraugus County, New York, as he was not old enough to have been out on his own before then, and if his death occurred after the move, he would have been buried near his three brothers in the cemetery there.
[i] 1820 U.S. census, Bergen, Genesee, New York, Lemuel Mash.
[ii] Marsh, Joseph, writing in his newspaper, Prophetic Expositor and Bible Advocate, 15 Oct 1857, p. 278, courtesy
of Jan Stilson, used with permission of Atlanta Bible College Library and Archives, McDonough, Ga.
[ii] Marsh, Joseph, writing in his newspaper, Prophetic Expositor and Bible Advocate, 15 Oct 1857, p. 278, courtesy
of Jan Stilson, used with permission of Atlanta Bible College Library and Archives, McDonough, Ga.