Benjamin Marshall and Margaret Duncan

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Husband Benjamin Marshall ¹

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           Born: 6 Nov 1830 - near Clarksburg, Indiana Co, PA 2
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         Father: Walter Marshall (1794-1863) 3
         Mother: Mary Purnell (1808-      ) 4

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       Marriage: 15 Apr 1852 2

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Wife Margaret Duncan ²

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Children

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1 F Cordella Marshall ⁵

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           Born: 14 Feb 1853 5
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         Spouse: Johnston Bates (      -      ) 5

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2 F Louisa Marshall ⁵

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           Born: 20 Jan 1855 - Indiana Co, PA 5
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3 M William Henry Marshall ⁵

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           Born: 2 Oct 1858 - Fulton Co, IL 5
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4 M Scott Marshall ⁵

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           Born: 24 Feb 1861 5
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5 M Stewart Marshall ⁵

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           Born: 7 Feb 1862 - Fulton Co, IL 5
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6 F Mary A. Marshall ⁵

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           Born: 24 Nov 1865 - Fulton Co, IL 5
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7 F Emma Marshall ⁵

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           Born: 1 Aug 1869 - Fulton Co, IL 5
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General Notes: Husband - Benjamin Marshall

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He was born on the farm of James Marshall, near Clarksburg, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. He lived with his parents through all of their moves. The first school he attended was taught by Christy McNeal in a log cabin near Belknap, Pennsylvania. They had three months' school in winter, and sometimes two in summer. He attended church at Glade Run. Mr. Barrett preached. He was raised a Presbyterian. He went to mill on horse back; sometimes to Hasting's mill on Glade Run, but when it stopped in summer for want of water, to Putney's or Beck's on Mahoning creek. He gathered chestnuts and huckleberries, hunted the cows, etc. Children didn't get tired, they say long ago, but he used to say that he did once, when he walked with his father to Kittanning and back in the same day. He went to work for his uncle, Samuel S. Marshall, on March 21, 1848, and worked for him one year. He then hired with Mr. John Hart for $10 per month, but his father wanted him at home. He went home and remained until the spring of 1852. During this time he was engaged in lumbering. He married and farmed the first year, and worked for his brother-in-law, William Duncan. The next year he was farming and lumbering. On the 12th of April, 1855, he, together with his father and mother, sisters Violet and Rebecca, and his wife and children started for Illinois. They stopped first in Marshall County, next in La Salle County, and reached Fulton County May 31, 1855. He was engaged the first summer at various employments and in the fall he purchased a farm, one-fourth mile from Vermont, Fulton county, Illinois, on which he and his family then lived. His business was farming and raising fruit. His orchard contained 800 trees and was one of the best in that section of country.

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

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

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

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

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