Charles Pierce Marsh and Celina Thayer Locke

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Husband Charles Pierce Marsh ^{1 2}

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           Born: 20 Jul 1820 - Rockingham, Windham Co, VT 3
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           Died: 1892 or 1900 - Belfast, Allegany Co, NY 2 4
         Buried: 

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         Father: Joseph Owen Marsh (1769-1846) 5
         Mother: Joanna Pierce (1776-1873) 3

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       Marriage: 5 Jul 1842 - Keene, Cheshire Co, NH 6

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   Other Spouse: Olive Holden (1840-1910) 4 - 1866 4

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Wife Celina Thayer Locke ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1822 7
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           Died: 17 Aug 1864 - Kane, McKean Co, PA 2 4
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         Father: Cyrus Locke (1789-      ) 7
         Mother: Randilla Thayer (1796-      ) 7

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Children

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1 F Harriet Marsh ^{2 8}

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           Born: 14 May 1842 - Rockingham, Windham Co, VT 3
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           Died: 7 Jun 1904 - Kane, McKean Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Thomas Henry Ryan (1841-Aft 1913) 3
           Marr: 3 Jun 1866 9

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2 F Abbie Louise Marsh ^{10 11}

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           Born:  - New Hudson, Columbia Co, NY
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           Died: Aft 1913
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         Spouse: William Calvin Long (1844-Aft 1913) 4 11

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3 F Mary Marsh ⁴

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           Born:  - Rockingham, Windham Co, VT
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           Died:  - Marshall, Allegany Co, NY
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4 F Mary Jane "Jennie" Marsh ^{4 12}

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           Born:  - Marshall, Allegany Co, NY
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           Died: Aft 1913
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         Spouse: William Winfield Griffith (      -1877) 4 12

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5 F Flora Marsh ⁴

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           Born:  - Marshall, Allegany Co, NY
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           Died: Bef 1913
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6 F Myra Alda Marsh ^{4 11}

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           Born:  - Marshall, Allegany Co, NY
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           Died: Aft 1913
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         Spouse: Laurence Hawes Long (      -      ) 4 11

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General Notes: Husband - Charles Pierce Marsh

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After disposing of the "Marsh Homestead" in 1850 he, with his mother, wife and two children removed to Allegany County, New York, and purchased a home in Marshall, where three older brothers (Joseph, Orlin, Otis) and one sister, (Pamelia, who married Benjamin Whipple) had previously located, having purchased their land from the "Holland Land Company" at a period when the Indians were quiet. Soon after warfare broke out, and for two years they lived in constant fear of their lives; when a treaty was made to the effect that by paying thirty silver dollars to a certain chief (who desired a necklace) future annoyances would cease. After receiving the silver the Indians left that part of the country and never returned.
Of a versatile disposition he interested himself in different lines of business, agriculture, lumbering, surveying and prospecting for coal, principally in McKean County, Pennsylvania. In 1857-58 he took his family with him and located at Howard Hill, now Mt. Jewett, remaining for a few months, when he returned with his family to Allegany County; the "call of the wild" leading him back each winter to join congenial companions in camping and hunting the wild game, which at that time was abundant. A noted "shot," he rarely failed in a "good bag;" at one time bringing down two deer with one shot. In May, 1864, he removed with his family to Lamont (Kane), Pennsylvania, where, the following September he opened its first hotel, which was the nucleus of the "Old Thomson House."
Charitable, as well as public-spirited, many of the early settlers of the place embraced him with thankful hearts. The township being without school funds, he, with William Carlyle (resident Engineer P. R. R.), organized a select school, engaging Catherine Marsh, of Marshall, New York, as teacher, they paying the greater part of her salary. The school was well attended, as all the little foreign waifs were made welcome.
His wife dying in August, 1864, he sold his hotel interests to a man by the name of Charles Jones, and again returned to Allegany County, where the following year he was one of a company formed to mine for silver and drill for oil in Marshall. The venture was not a financial success.
A few years later he removed to Belfast, Allegany County, where he lived a quiet uneventful life.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 121, 228, 235.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 229.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 121.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 236.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 121, 237.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 228, 235.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 228.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 121, 220.

9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 220.

10 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 225, 236.

11 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 228.

12 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 229, 288.