Hugh Marshall

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Husband Hugh Marshall ¹

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           Born: 28 Mar 1840 - Hendersonville, Worth Twp, Mercer Co, PA 2
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           Died: 14 Jun 1917 - Los Angeles, CA
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         Father: Hugh Marshall (1800-1877) 1
         Mother: Nancy Henderson (1803/1804-1871) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Hugh Marshall

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It is known that he removed to Colorado before 1861, as he enlisted in Co. B. 2nd Colorado Cavalry at Fairplay, CO. November 8, 1861, and was discharged as a private at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, December 19, 1864. He lived at various times in the Colorado Soldiers' Home. He entered the Pacific Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteers at Los Angeles, Calif., in 1916, where he died June 14, 1917. An article concerning Hugh was published in a Columbus, Kan., paper in 1916 is quoted below:

THEY MEET AGAIN
James Marshall Meets Brother-First Time in 42 Years
James Marshall, a retired carpenter, was working in the yard at his home 401 S. Delaware Ave., yesterday. A stranger approached and with an air of acquaintance held out his hand. Mr. Marshall shook it, but after eyeing the stranger a minute, had to tell him that he must be mistaken. "Oh, I guess not," said the stranger smiling. "Well, you've got the best of me because I don't know you," said Mr. Marshall, as he turned to resume his work.
"So you don't know me, eh! well, I'm Hugh Marshall, your brother." The two men both quite aged, again clasped hands, because it was the first meeting of the brothers in 42 years and each had supposed the other was dead. And now such a visit!
The brothers were born and raised in Pennsylvania. In 1857 Hugh left home and went to Colorado to seek a fortune in the mining game. Two or three years later when the war broke out he enlisted with a Company from that state while James joined a Pennsylvania Company. Both served throughout the war but did not see each other until the close of the contest in 1865 after which, James returned to Pennsylvania and Hugh back to Colorado. The two brothers did not see each other again until 1875 when they met at the old family home in Pennsylvania, but that was the last meeting till the one in Columbus, Kan., yesterday.
"After our visit together at the old home in Pennsylvania in 1875 I went to Arizona and Jim came west and we immediately lost track of each other," said Hugh Marshall while at the Advocate Office this afternoon. "I worked at the mining game in Arizona, Colorado, California, Idaho and nearly every place else. The only place I didn't go was Alaksa. I knew Jim was in West but I didn't know where and I supposed he was dead and I guess he thought the same thing about me. You see Jim is 84 years old and I am only 7 years younger. I got back to the old homestead in Pennsylvania a year ago but I could learn nothing of Jim's whereabouts. I went on to Washington where I spent the last year. The other day I dropped into the Pension Office and decided to ask them if they had my brother on the list. And there it was! His name, address, and all. I immediately took a train for Columbus, when I got here Jim didn't know me and I wouldn't have known him but I found out who he was before I walked up to him yesterday."
The brothers agree that they never would have seen each other again if it hadn't been for the pension list back in Washington. Hugh Marshall says he will remain here a few days and then go back to California with a long cherished hope realized.

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1079.

2 Oren V. Henderson, The Descendants of Robert Henderson of Hendersonville, Pennsylvania (Durham, NH: Self-Published, 1947), Pg 39.