His uncle William Marsh
William Marsh was born about 1814 in Vermont.[i] Dawn Hance told me she knew why Lemuel named this son William. When the flu plague went through Vermont in 1813, it took the life of William Marsh, Lemuel's brother, who lived in Shrewsbury. After Lemuel got word that his brother was dead, he named his next son after his brother.
It became apparent from the 1820 census that Lemuel had more children than he got around to recording in St. Albans. I did what I thought to be some "crazy" searches over Ancestry; I typed in only the name of Marsh and birth years in Vermont and then later New York according to where the family lived before and after 1817. I was drawn quickly to Berrien County in Michigan because there were three men there that could have been Lemuel's sons. But I could not have been more surprised when I found "Lemmul" alive and living with his apparent son, William, in Michigan![ii] Lemuel's age in the census was wrong. But then to find out that William married Roxanna Barmore, 20th January, 1834, in Cattaraugus, New York,[iii] that she and their three little girls were the right ages to be the ones living in Lemuel's home in the 1840 census of Randolph,[iv] and that William and Roxanna sold land to Nathan and Polly Sears (Polly being the widow of William's brother, Hollis) before leaving for Michigan,[v] there really could be no question. Later finds among the writings of William’s brother, Joseph, confirmed all that had been found.
Please see the section for Lemuel Marsh for the possibility that Roxanna's mother and William's father married each other after the death of their spouses. It appears that William and Roxanna could have been sweethearts from their childhood. It is also interesting that at least six of Roxanna's siblings also went to Berrien, Michigan. It was later found that William's sister, Amanda Jane Marsh White, was living right next door to William in the 1850 census of Berrien County, Michigan.[vi]
Nathan Sears gave William $300.00 for the land in Cattaraugus,[vii] and William paid Asa Egbert of St. Joseph $102.00 for his land in Michigan.[viii]
It appears from the maps involved in the sale of the Cattaraugus property that when William sold part of lot 33, described as “part of lot number thirty-three in the third township and ninth range of the Holland Land Company purchase”, he was selling his father's land. How and when William obtained the property to sell is not known as no earlier deed exists for it. The Cattaraugus land record office said it was not against the law at the time to leave your deeds unrecorded. When Nathan Sears sold the lot in 1849 that William sold to him in the end of 1843, there was reference to a mortgage on the property still owed by William Marsh.[ix] The mortgage records showed that on 1 November 1839, William took a mortgage from the Farmer's Loan and Trust Company for "a part" of lot 33. There was a map on it showing the land deeded to executors, Polly Sears, and her father, Joel Scudder, from the will of Hollis Marsh, William's brother.[x] A map of the same land appeared on the deed of the sale of part of lot 33 to Nathan Sears in 1843.[xi] There was also a map found on the deed when Nathan sold that land (50 acres named as the amount).[xii] Hollis must have gotten half of his father's land in lot 33, and William got the other half. The map was included on the legal documents as Hollis' land was tied up in probate to young Hollis Marsh Jr., who was born after the death of his father.
This same lot is mentioned in a history of Hollis Marsh Jr. in Randolph, not by number, but by a description of its location. (See notes for Hollis.) Lemuel Marsh gave right-of-way to the railroad in 1839, and he could not have done that if he did not own the property.[xiii] The right-of-way records are too light to read, but the railroad did run north, then turn, and go west across lot 33 on the plat map.
I lost William after 1850 for some time, and Deanna West, President and Webmaster of the LaPorte County Cemetery Association took interest in my story. She found William living over the border from Berrien in 1860 in Hudson, LaPorte, Indiana.[xiv] The census taker wrote William's name as MARCH, but his son's name is written clearly as Marsh. William and Roxanna were there, along with Benjamin Franklin Marsh, a son, and Benjamin Franklin Day, the school teacher that was with them in the 1850 census. No family connection has been found. An Esther Lamb was also in the home; she was likely hired help.
William purchased his land in LaPorte County from Benjamin F. Day the 18th of November 1855 for $200.00.[xv] I had previously looked up through 1865 for the sale of land in Berrien, but I did not find it. I am wondering if William farmed both pieces, it being about a day's drive by wagon between Hudson and Buchanan. But William must have been living and working in LaPorte by 1849 when his son was born, and also in 1851, when William's brother, Joseph Marsh, visited him and his sister, Amanda, in the Hudson area.[xvi] According to Joseph, William took care of his father and step-mother in their older years.[xvii]
William was still in Hudson, LaPorte, Indiana in 1870, this time enumerated as a Marsh, but Roxanna must have died, as William had a wife listed as Anna, and they had a small son, under a year old, named Barton W.[xviii] There were also two step-daughters in the home named Flora and Carrie Edgerton. William married, 4 Jul 1867 in Berrien, Francis Morris Lowell.[xix] The family moved from the LaPorte area before 1874, as a plat map dated in that year does not show land for William Marsh.
William moved his family to Lafayette, Clinton, Missouri. He was likely lured to that area by his nephews, Hollis M. White, Emerson D. White, and Corydon White. He purchased his land in Lafayette in 1873 from his nephew, Emerson.[xx]
He must have died in Clinton as "Francis Marsh" was found in the 1880 census for the area as a widow with her daughter, Carrie Edgerton, and her three children by William Marsh, Barton W., born 14 Feb 1870 in IN., Ida, born Feb 1872 in IN., and Clarence, born Aug 1875 in MO, all living next door to the nephew, Emerson White.[xxi] I did not find William in the cemetery records over the web for that area.
In 1882, Frances petitioned Clinton County for what was leftover of William's estate after the sale of his 73 acres.[xxii] It seems he died without a will, and his property was sold to pay debts. Frances asked for what little remained. The document says that William died in Aug 1875. Census records showed Frances had a child the same month. Also, an answer was sent to Frances in Stewartsville, Missouri. This is where her daughter, Flora, was living. There is no probate document for Frances in Clinton County, and neither person was in their death records.
Thanks to David Graham for sending a copy of a "funeral sermon" for William, given by A.F. Dugger and printed 12 January 1876 in Plymouth, Indiana. Only a small part is quoted here.
"This grim monster, death, has taken from our fond embrace our much loved and aged brother, Wm. Marsh, a respected citizen, a (?) companion, a loving parent, and a devoted follower of Christ. Though some months have passed since we laid our brother away to rest in quiet sleep in the dark, silent tomb, until the light of the glorious dawn of resurrection (?) so long foretold by holy seers of old, still melancholy effects linger in our memory. Such afflictions are not soon forgotten. Deceased was a brother to the late and much lamented, Joseph Marsh, of Rochester, N.Y., editor of the Bible Expositor, devoted to the great cardinal truths of Christianity."[xxiii]
William's three youngest children were all in Colorado by the 1900 census.[xxiv] It appears from his daughter's obituary there, that they traveled to Colorado about 1890, and they were with children of their step sister's, Flora Ann Edgerton Auginbaugh.[xxv] It now appears that some of the White cousins may have also gone to Colorado with them, particularly Hollis Clinton White, who wrote that he went to Fort Lupton, but returned to Missouri.[xxvi] Also, there is a picture in the White family of Frances and Clarence Marsh taken in Denver, Colorado, so Frances must have gone there for at least a time.[xxvii] It is also interesting that the White family knew that Amanda had a brother named William, and that he had sons named Barton and Clarence.[xxviii]
It became apparent from the 1820 census that Lemuel had more children than he got around to recording in St. Albans. I did what I thought to be some "crazy" searches over Ancestry; I typed in only the name of Marsh and birth years in Vermont and then later New York according to where the family lived before and after 1817. I was drawn quickly to Berrien County in Michigan because there were three men there that could have been Lemuel's sons. But I could not have been more surprised when I found "Lemmul" alive and living with his apparent son, William, in Michigan![ii] Lemuel's age in the census was wrong. But then to find out that William married Roxanna Barmore, 20th January, 1834, in Cattaraugus, New York,[iii] that she and their three little girls were the right ages to be the ones living in Lemuel's home in the 1840 census of Randolph,[iv] and that William and Roxanna sold land to Nathan and Polly Sears (Polly being the widow of William's brother, Hollis) before leaving for Michigan,[v] there really could be no question. Later finds among the writings of William’s brother, Joseph, confirmed all that had been found.
Please see the section for Lemuel Marsh for the possibility that Roxanna's mother and William's father married each other after the death of their spouses. It appears that William and Roxanna could have been sweethearts from their childhood. It is also interesting that at least six of Roxanna's siblings also went to Berrien, Michigan. It was later found that William's sister, Amanda Jane Marsh White, was living right next door to William in the 1850 census of Berrien County, Michigan.[vi]
Nathan Sears gave William $300.00 for the land in Cattaraugus,[vii] and William paid Asa Egbert of St. Joseph $102.00 for his land in Michigan.[viii]
It appears from the maps involved in the sale of the Cattaraugus property that when William sold part of lot 33, described as “part of lot number thirty-three in the third township and ninth range of the Holland Land Company purchase”, he was selling his father's land. How and when William obtained the property to sell is not known as no earlier deed exists for it. The Cattaraugus land record office said it was not against the law at the time to leave your deeds unrecorded. When Nathan Sears sold the lot in 1849 that William sold to him in the end of 1843, there was reference to a mortgage on the property still owed by William Marsh.[ix] The mortgage records showed that on 1 November 1839, William took a mortgage from the Farmer's Loan and Trust Company for "a part" of lot 33. There was a map on it showing the land deeded to executors, Polly Sears, and her father, Joel Scudder, from the will of Hollis Marsh, William's brother.[x] A map of the same land appeared on the deed of the sale of part of lot 33 to Nathan Sears in 1843.[xi] There was also a map found on the deed when Nathan sold that land (50 acres named as the amount).[xii] Hollis must have gotten half of his father's land in lot 33, and William got the other half. The map was included on the legal documents as Hollis' land was tied up in probate to young Hollis Marsh Jr., who was born after the death of his father.
This same lot is mentioned in a history of Hollis Marsh Jr. in Randolph, not by number, but by a description of its location. (See notes for Hollis.) Lemuel Marsh gave right-of-way to the railroad in 1839, and he could not have done that if he did not own the property.[xiii] The right-of-way records are too light to read, but the railroad did run north, then turn, and go west across lot 33 on the plat map.
I lost William after 1850 for some time, and Deanna West, President and Webmaster of the LaPorte County Cemetery Association took interest in my story. She found William living over the border from Berrien in 1860 in Hudson, LaPorte, Indiana.[xiv] The census taker wrote William's name as MARCH, but his son's name is written clearly as Marsh. William and Roxanna were there, along with Benjamin Franklin Marsh, a son, and Benjamin Franklin Day, the school teacher that was with them in the 1850 census. No family connection has been found. An Esther Lamb was also in the home; she was likely hired help.
William purchased his land in LaPorte County from Benjamin F. Day the 18th of November 1855 for $200.00.[xv] I had previously looked up through 1865 for the sale of land in Berrien, but I did not find it. I am wondering if William farmed both pieces, it being about a day's drive by wagon between Hudson and Buchanan. But William must have been living and working in LaPorte by 1849 when his son was born, and also in 1851, when William's brother, Joseph Marsh, visited him and his sister, Amanda, in the Hudson area.[xvi] According to Joseph, William took care of his father and step-mother in their older years.[xvii]
William was still in Hudson, LaPorte, Indiana in 1870, this time enumerated as a Marsh, but Roxanna must have died, as William had a wife listed as Anna, and they had a small son, under a year old, named Barton W.[xviii] There were also two step-daughters in the home named Flora and Carrie Edgerton. William married, 4 Jul 1867 in Berrien, Francis Morris Lowell.[xix] The family moved from the LaPorte area before 1874, as a plat map dated in that year does not show land for William Marsh.
William moved his family to Lafayette, Clinton, Missouri. He was likely lured to that area by his nephews, Hollis M. White, Emerson D. White, and Corydon White. He purchased his land in Lafayette in 1873 from his nephew, Emerson.[xx]
He must have died in Clinton as "Francis Marsh" was found in the 1880 census for the area as a widow with her daughter, Carrie Edgerton, and her three children by William Marsh, Barton W., born 14 Feb 1870 in IN., Ida, born Feb 1872 in IN., and Clarence, born Aug 1875 in MO, all living next door to the nephew, Emerson White.[xxi] I did not find William in the cemetery records over the web for that area.
In 1882, Frances petitioned Clinton County for what was leftover of William's estate after the sale of his 73 acres.[xxii] It seems he died without a will, and his property was sold to pay debts. Frances asked for what little remained. The document says that William died in Aug 1875. Census records showed Frances had a child the same month. Also, an answer was sent to Frances in Stewartsville, Missouri. This is where her daughter, Flora, was living. There is no probate document for Frances in Clinton County, and neither person was in their death records.
Thanks to David Graham for sending a copy of a "funeral sermon" for William, given by A.F. Dugger and printed 12 January 1876 in Plymouth, Indiana. Only a small part is quoted here.
"This grim monster, death, has taken from our fond embrace our much loved and aged brother, Wm. Marsh, a respected citizen, a (?) companion, a loving parent, and a devoted follower of Christ. Though some months have passed since we laid our brother away to rest in quiet sleep in the dark, silent tomb, until the light of the glorious dawn of resurrection (?) so long foretold by holy seers of old, still melancholy effects linger in our memory. Such afflictions are not soon forgotten. Deceased was a brother to the late and much lamented, Joseph Marsh, of Rochester, N.Y., editor of the Bible Expositor, devoted to the great cardinal truths of Christianity."[xxiii]
William's three youngest children were all in Colorado by the 1900 census.[xxiv] It appears from his daughter's obituary there, that they traveled to Colorado about 1890, and they were with children of their step sister's, Flora Ann Edgerton Auginbaugh.[xxv] It now appears that some of the White cousins may have also gone to Colorado with them, particularly Hollis Clinton White, who wrote that he went to Fort Lupton, but returned to Missouri.[xxvi] Also, there is a picture in the White family of Frances and Clarence Marsh taken in Denver, Colorado, so Frances must have gone there for at least a time.[xxvii] It is also interesting that the White family knew that Amanda had a brother named William, and that he had sons named Barton and Clarence.[xxviii]
Children of William Marsh and Roxanna Barmore
I. Phidelia Marsh April 1835 in Cattaraugus County, New York married N.J. Slater 15 October 1853. He was a wagon maker, and the couple lived for many years in Berrien County, Michigan. Phidelia's name was found as a witness on the marriage certificate of her cousin, Hollis M. White. In the 1900 census, is says that Phidelia had five children, only two of them were living.
A. George L. Slater November 1855 Michigan
B. William Slater named for his Grandfather Marsh c. 1857 Michigan
C. Joseph Slater c. 1860 Michigan
D. Nellie M. Slater March 1865 Michigan
E. Jennie E. Slater c. 1868 Michigan. She married 21 Nov 1888 in Buchanan, Berrien, Michigan, Stephen A. Wood, born 13 Oct 1851 in Michigan to Alfred Wood and Mary M. Monger. Stephen and Jennie had: George A. Wood, 30 Dec 1889; Fredrick S. Wood 1893; Ralph Jennings Wood 9 Jan 1901; all in Michigan.
II. Amila Marsh c. 1837
III. Amanda Marsh (after her aunt) May 1839 in Cattaraugus County, New York, married Charles Bulhand (also a wagon maker) 25 Jul 1858 in Berrien. The couple was near Phidelia in 1860, but they later moved down into St. Joseph County, Indiana. In the 1900 census, it says she had two children, only one of them living, and that child and his family was with her in that census.
A. Charles Adelbert Bulhand February of 1859 Berrien County, Michigan
B. ?
IV. Rosanna Marsh c. 1841 Cattaraugus County, New York. She was named for her grandmother.
V. Benjamin Franklin Marsh c. 1849 in Indiana. I thought he married and then joined the Civil War, but the age info is not adding up.
The step-daughter, Flora Edgerton, married Henry Clay Aughinbaugh, 18 Oct 1874 in Stewartsville, Clinton, Missouri. This couple later moved south into Missouri, and then west to Greenwood, Kansas.
The step-daughter, Carrie Amanda Edgerton married Thomas J. Porter 13 Jul 1882 in Clinton, MO. She later lived in Greenwood, Kansas next to her sister, Flora, and then in Pike, Fulton, Ohio where she died.
A. George L. Slater November 1855 Michigan
B. William Slater named for his Grandfather Marsh c. 1857 Michigan
C. Joseph Slater c. 1860 Michigan
D. Nellie M. Slater March 1865 Michigan
E. Jennie E. Slater c. 1868 Michigan. She married 21 Nov 1888 in Buchanan, Berrien, Michigan, Stephen A. Wood, born 13 Oct 1851 in Michigan to Alfred Wood and Mary M. Monger. Stephen and Jennie had: George A. Wood, 30 Dec 1889; Fredrick S. Wood 1893; Ralph Jennings Wood 9 Jan 1901; all in Michigan.
II. Amila Marsh c. 1837
III. Amanda Marsh (after her aunt) May 1839 in Cattaraugus County, New York, married Charles Bulhand (also a wagon maker) 25 Jul 1858 in Berrien. The couple was near Phidelia in 1860, but they later moved down into St. Joseph County, Indiana. In the 1900 census, it says she had two children, only one of them living, and that child and his family was with her in that census.
A. Charles Adelbert Bulhand February of 1859 Berrien County, Michigan
B. ?
IV. Rosanna Marsh c. 1841 Cattaraugus County, New York. She was named for her grandmother.
V. Benjamin Franklin Marsh c. 1849 in Indiana. I thought he married and then joined the Civil War, but the age info is not adding up.
The step-daughter, Flora Edgerton, married Henry Clay Aughinbaugh, 18 Oct 1874 in Stewartsville, Clinton, Missouri. This couple later moved south into Missouri, and then west to Greenwood, Kansas.
The step-daughter, Carrie Amanda Edgerton married Thomas J. Porter 13 Jul 1882 in Clinton, MO. She later lived in Greenwood, Kansas next to her sister, Flora, and then in Pike, Fulton, Ohio where she died.
Children of William Marsh and Francis Morris Lowell
I. Barton W. Marsh 14 February 1870 Hudson, LaPorte, Indiana, married Francis B. Bay 7 Jun 1898 in Montrose County, CO. He later moved to Wyoming, then to Oregon, and then to California where he died in the 1960's.
II. Idaleine Belle Marsh 28 February 1873 Hudson, LaPorte, Indiana, married Charles H. Sells 16 Dec 1891 in Weld County, Colorado. Charles Sells was the Mayor of Fort Lupton for many years. Ida's death certificate there shows her father to have been William Marsh, and her mother to have been Francis Morris Lowell. Her obituary also says that the above mentioned group made the trip to Colorado about 1890. (Thanks to a descendant of Francis' for that info.) Ida died 21 December 1938 buried in Hillsdale Cemetery in Fort Lupton.
III. Clarence Marsh August of 1875 in Lafayette, Clinton, Michigan, the same month his father died. Clarence was living in Denver in the late 1930's when his sister, Ida, died. The White family also has reference to a picture that was taken in Denver of Clarence and his mother and sent to Emerson White, Clarence's cousin.
II. Idaleine Belle Marsh 28 February 1873 Hudson, LaPorte, Indiana, married Charles H. Sells 16 Dec 1891 in Weld County, Colorado. Charles Sells was the Mayor of Fort Lupton for many years. Ida's death certificate there shows her father to have been William Marsh, and her mother to have been Francis Morris Lowell. Her obituary also says that the above mentioned group made the trip to Colorado about 1890. (Thanks to a descendant of Francis' for that info.) Ida died 21 December 1938 buried in Hillsdale Cemetery in Fort Lupton.
III. Clarence Marsh August of 1875 in Lafayette, Clinton, Michigan, the same month his father died. Clarence was living in Denver in the late 1930's when his sister, Ida, died. The White family also has reference to a picture that was taken in Denver of Clarence and his mother and sent to Emerson White, Clarence's cousin.
[i] U.S. census records.
[ii] 1850 U.S. census, Berrien County, Michigan, William Marsh. Note that Ancestry.com recorded Lemuel’s
name as Samuel. The “Lemmul” name is clearly different from the neighbor, Samuel Gassett, recorded just
below him.
[iii] Barmore Family Bible, and Utermohlen, William J. article, “A Barmore Family Record”, New York Genealogical and
Biographical Record, vol. 123, pp. 157-160 (July 1992). I also had the opportunity to speak to Mr. Utermohlen
over the phone.
[iv] 1840 U.S. census, Randolph, Cattaraugus, New York for Lemuel Marsh.
[v] Cattaraugus County, New York deeds, William Marsh and wife to Nathan and Polly Sears, 1843; deeds 1842-1848
vol. 15-16, FHL #580617 vol 15. pg. 404.
[vi] 1850 U.S.census, Berrien County, Michigan.
[vii] Cattaraugus County, New York deeds, William Marsh and wife to Nathan and Polly Sears, 1843; deeds 1842-1848
vol. 15-16, FHL #580617 vol 15. pg. 404.
[viii] Berrien County deeds, Asa Egbert to William Marsh, v. M-N 1842-46, Deeds, v. O (p. 1-528) 1846-1847. Book O,
FHL #1029447, pg. 38.
[ix] Cattaraugus County, New York deeds, Nathan Sears to George Van Campan, 1849; deeds 1849-1851 vol. 24-25,
FHL #580622, vol. 24 pg. 31.
[x] Cattaraugus County, New York probate records, v. 1-3 1830-1864, v.1, pp. 26, 34 FHL #585,022.
[xi] Cattaraugus County, New York deeds, William Marsh and wife to Nathan and Polly Sears, 1843; deeds 1842-1848
vol. 15-16, FHL #580617 vol 15. pg. 404.
[xii] Cattaraugus County, New York deeds, Nathan Sears to George Van Campan, 1849; deeds 1849-1851 vol. 24-25,
FHL #580622, vol. 24 pg. 31.
[xiii] Miscellaneous records of Cattaraugus County, New York, FHL #0583803.
[xiv] 1860 U.S. census, Hudson, LaPorte, Indiana, for William March, find courtesy of Deanna West.
[xv] Benjamin F. Day to William Marsh, LaPorte County Deed record V. Z 1853-54, Deed record v. 1-2, 1855, 56, FHL
#1685486, Nov 1855, V. 1-2, 1855,1856, pg. 475.
[xvi] Info courtesy of Jan Stilson, Church of God Historian; on file with the author.
[xvii] Ibid.
[xviii] 1870 U.S. census, Hudson, LaPorte, Indiana, for William Marsh.
[xix] Michigan extracted marriages, FamilySearch.org; history of Flora Edgerton on Rootsweb.
[xx] E.D. White to William Marsh, 10 Jun 1872, rec. 22 Jul 1873; deed on file with the author; may be found through
LaFayette Deed index 1833- 1872, FHL #1005932.
[xxi] 1880 U.S. census La Fayette, Clinton, Missouri, Francis Marsh (1832, New Hampshire).
[xxii] Probate court, February term 1882, correspondence with Clinton County, Missouri.
[xxiii] Article courtesy of David R. Graham; on file with the author.
[xxiv] 1900 U.S. census for Weld, Colorado and Barton’s marriage record, FamilySearch.org.
[xxv] Obituary courtesy of an unnamed descendant; on file with the author.
[xxvi] Info courtesy of Artie Walker.
[xxvii] Ibid.
[xxviii] Ibid.
[ii] 1850 U.S. census, Berrien County, Michigan, William Marsh. Note that Ancestry.com recorded Lemuel’s
name as Samuel. The “Lemmul” name is clearly different from the neighbor, Samuel Gassett, recorded just
below him.
[iii] Barmore Family Bible, and Utermohlen, William J. article, “A Barmore Family Record”, New York Genealogical and
Biographical Record, vol. 123, pp. 157-160 (July 1992). I also had the opportunity to speak to Mr. Utermohlen
over the phone.
[iv] 1840 U.S. census, Randolph, Cattaraugus, New York for Lemuel Marsh.
[v] Cattaraugus County, New York deeds, William Marsh and wife to Nathan and Polly Sears, 1843; deeds 1842-1848
vol. 15-16, FHL #580617 vol 15. pg. 404.
[vi] 1850 U.S.census, Berrien County, Michigan.
[vii] Cattaraugus County, New York deeds, William Marsh and wife to Nathan and Polly Sears, 1843; deeds 1842-1848
vol. 15-16, FHL #580617 vol 15. pg. 404.
[viii] Berrien County deeds, Asa Egbert to William Marsh, v. M-N 1842-46, Deeds, v. O (p. 1-528) 1846-1847. Book O,
FHL #1029447, pg. 38.
[ix] Cattaraugus County, New York deeds, Nathan Sears to George Van Campan, 1849; deeds 1849-1851 vol. 24-25,
FHL #580622, vol. 24 pg. 31.
[x] Cattaraugus County, New York probate records, v. 1-3 1830-1864, v.1, pp. 26, 34 FHL #585,022.
[xi] Cattaraugus County, New York deeds, William Marsh and wife to Nathan and Polly Sears, 1843; deeds 1842-1848
vol. 15-16, FHL #580617 vol 15. pg. 404.
[xii] Cattaraugus County, New York deeds, Nathan Sears to George Van Campan, 1849; deeds 1849-1851 vol. 24-25,
FHL #580622, vol. 24 pg. 31.
[xiii] Miscellaneous records of Cattaraugus County, New York, FHL #0583803.
[xiv] 1860 U.S. census, Hudson, LaPorte, Indiana, for William March, find courtesy of Deanna West.
[xv] Benjamin F. Day to William Marsh, LaPorte County Deed record V. Z 1853-54, Deed record v. 1-2, 1855, 56, FHL
#1685486, Nov 1855, V. 1-2, 1855,1856, pg. 475.
[xvi] Info courtesy of Jan Stilson, Church of God Historian; on file with the author.
[xvii] Ibid.
[xviii] 1870 U.S. census, Hudson, LaPorte, Indiana, for William Marsh.
[xix] Michigan extracted marriages, FamilySearch.org; history of Flora Edgerton on Rootsweb.
[xx] E.D. White to William Marsh, 10 Jun 1872, rec. 22 Jul 1873; deed on file with the author; may be found through
LaFayette Deed index 1833- 1872, FHL #1005932.
[xxi] 1880 U.S. census La Fayette, Clinton, Missouri, Francis Marsh (1832, New Hampshire).
[xxii] Probate court, February term 1882, correspondence with Clinton County, Missouri.
[xxiii] Article courtesy of David R. Graham; on file with the author.
[xxiv] 1900 U.S. census for Weld, Colorado and Barton’s marriage record, FamilySearch.org.
[xxv] Obituary courtesy of an unnamed descendant; on file with the author.
[xxvi] Info courtesy of Artie Walker.
[xxvii] Ibid.
[xxviii] Ibid.