Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Walter Marshall and Mary Purnell


Husband Walter Marshall 1 

           Born: 4 Nov 1794 - Indiana Co, PA 2
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           Died: 11 Jul 1863 2
         Buried: 


         Father: Samuel Marshall (      -      ) 3 4 5
         Mother: Mary Sterling (      -      ) 3 4


       Marriage: Spring, 1827 2

Wife Mary Purnell 2 

           Born: Nov 1808 2
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           Died: 
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         Father: [Father] Purnell (      -      )
         Mother:


Children
1 F Mary Ann Marshall 6 

           Born: 30 Dec 1828 - Indiana Co, PA 6
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           Died: 30 Aug 1875 7
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         Spouse: James Montgomery (      -      ) 6
           Marr: 30 Mar 1848 6

2 M Benjamin Marshall 6 

           Born: 6 Nov 1830 - near Clarksburg, Indiana Co, PA 7
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         Spouse: Margaret Duncan (      -      ) 7
           Marr: 15 Apr 1852 7

3 M Samuel S. Marshall 6 

           Born: 7 Aug 1833 - Wayne Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 8
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: Barbara Jane Burgess (      -      ) 8
           Marr: 7 Feb 1856 8

4 F Elizabeth Marshall 6 

           Born: 2 Mar 1835 - Wayne Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 9
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: Timothy Sunderlin (1830-      ) 9
           Marr: 18 Dec 1851 9

5 F Martha Jane Marshall 6 

           Born: 19 May 1837 - Wayne Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 10
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: William Duncan (      -1856) 10
           Marr: 1854 - Indiana Co, PA 10

         Spouse: Albert Easley (      -      ) 10
           Marr: Abt 1862

6 F Violet Marshall 6 

           Born: 18 Jun 1839 - Armstrong Co, PA 11
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: Joseph Purnell (      -      ) 11
           Marr: Abt 1857

7 F Rebecca Marshall 6 

           Born: 30 May 1842 - Indiana Co, PA 11
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         Spouse: [Unk] Pessegue (      -      ) 11

General Notes: Husband - Walter Marshall


He was born in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, six miles from Saltsburg, on his father's farm. He remained on the farm until his majority. He followed wagoning from Pittsburgh to Baltimore and Philadelphia, till about the year 1826. He moved to James Marshall's farm and lived there until the spring of 1831, when he moved to Armstrong county. He built a log cabin and commenced clearing out a farm adjoining his brother William's farm, about four miles from Glade Run. This farm was later known as the Armstrong farm, situated in Wayne township, near Belknap. They attended church at Glade Run. Mr. Marshall built a hewed log house in 1834. In 1835 or 36, while chopping down a tree he was struck in the eye by a chip and was blind for some time, but recovered so as to see to some extent. He could not distinguish objects farther than a few steps away from him. In 1837 he sold his farm to Joseph Logan, and in the following April he moved to his brother William's farm, into a log cabin. He lived there till the spring of 1842, when he and his family returned to the "Old Settlement" as it was called, and located on his father's old farm in Indiana County. He farmed on the farm on which he was born till the fall of 1845, when he moved to an adjoining farm called the old Samuel Barr farm. In the spring of 1846 he moved with his family to a farm which he rented, near Strongstown, Indiana County. They lived there one year. They then moved to a neighboring farm on which they lived two years. During all these years he was a farmer, and an industrious hard working man. In the spring of 1849 he moved to a farm in the Pines, which he and his brother, Joseph, had pur-chased of Judge White, of Indiana, Pennsylvania. He farmed in summer and lumbered in winter, until the spring of 1855, when he sold out and moved to Fulton County, Illinois. He stopped with his brother-in-law, Benjamin Purnell, who had removed to Illinois in 1834. Mr. Marshall soon afterward purchased furniture, procured a house to live in, and went to work at one dollar a day and board. He lived in the same neighborhood until his death. At the time of his death he was residing on the farm of his son, Benjamin.

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Sources

1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 557.

2 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 212.

3 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 8.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 301.

5 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 537, 557.

6 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 213.

7 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 214.

8 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 215.

9 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 216.

10 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 217.

11 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 218.

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