Charles M. Marquis and Bessie D. Jeffrey

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Husband Charles M. Marquis ¹

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           Born: 3 Nov 1872 - Cross Creek Twp, Washington Co, PA 2
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         Father: Simeon Marquis (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Caroline Stevenson (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: Aug 1898 2

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Wife Bessie D. Jeffrey ⁴

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         Father: Robert Graham Jeffrey (1855-      ) 5 6 7
         Mother: Jennie E. McCalmont (      -      ) 5 6 7

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Children

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1 F Belle Marquis ²

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Margaret Marquis ²

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3 M Robert Marquis ²

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4 M Raymond Marquis ²

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5 F Mary Marquis ²

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6 F Ruth Marquis ²

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General Notes: Husband - Charles M. Marquis

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He attended the district schools, after which he was a student in the Cross Creek Academy and later attended Duff 's Business College at Pittsburgh, where he was graduated. At the age of 20 years he settled down to farming and continued for six years, when he went into the mercantile business and conducted a store at Woodrow for six years, after which he resumed his agricultural pursuits. He owned over 200 acres of valuable land, well cultivated, and he gave much care and time to raising fine stock, making sheep something of a specialty.
He and his wife were members of Mt. Prospect Presbyterian Church, of which he was a tone time a trustee. In politics he was a Democrat as was his father before him.

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General Notes: Wife - Bessie D. Jeffrey

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Cross Creek Twp, Washington Co, PA

1 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 561, 671.

2 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 672.

3 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 672, 1278.

4 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 561, 672.

5 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 936.

6 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 522.

7 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 561.