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John Wesley Marshall Family

Missouri, Kansas, Texas,
Oklahoma & Washington

John Wesley Marshall
b. 5 Sept 1843 Greene Co., Missouri
d. 13 Nov 1904 Tacoma, WA of pneumonia

m. Sarah Elizabeth Gower 28 Feb 1867 Bourbon Co., Kansas
b. 7 Apr 1852 Wright Co., Mo
d 17 Jun 1918 Tacoma, Pierce Co., WA
married by Rev. Elias Marshall, John W. Marshall's brother
her father: Zacheous Gower
mother: Polly Amanda Stewart
his father: John Marshall
his mother: Elizabeth Potter
Children
Thomas Homer Marshall b. 22 July 1868 KS d. 27 Feb 1904 Tacoma, WA m. Ida Oppie Jones
John Gower Marshall b. 26 Dec 1871 KS d. 19 May 1959 Tacoma, WA m. Laura Josephine Wilson
Alice "Allie" May Marshall b. 9 May 1885 Sunset, TX d. 1 Apr 1935 Seattle, WA 1m. Alonza Sheridan Wilkins (div.)
2m. Francis Killduff
3m. Thomas Lane
4m. ? Frazier

1843, 5 Sept - J. W. Marshall is born in Greene Co., Missouri, documented by the family Bible of Wm. Jasper Marshall's Family Bible in possession of Virginia England.

1850 - US Census, Jackson, Greene Co., Missouri.
John Wesley Marshall shows in the census next door to Thomas and Rachael Potter as a child with his mother, Elizabeth Popejoy. Elizabeth Potter had been previously married to John Marshall who died in January of 1845. She remarries very quickly and has two children by John Popejoy also listed here. He dies very soon before this census so she is shown here as a widow.

1852, November 1 - "John Wesley Marshall of Macon Co., Missouri" files a land patent #983 for "the South East quarter of the South East quarter of Section eighteen, in Township fifty-six, of Range fifteen, in the district of lands subject to sale at Milan, Missouri, containing forty acres.  [BLM patent records. Acession #MO4880_.397 BLM Serial# MO NO S/N]
This record can't be for this John W. Marshall. He would only be nine years old.  I'm sure he would have to have been legal age to register this land.  There were several records within a year or two of other patents with the same name but for similar reasons they are unlikely.  So I feel that he didn't get any land and this would have made the decision to leave the area much easier. 

1860 - US Census, Jackson Twp, Greene Co., Missouri.  M653  Roll: 621  Page: 67
Rachel Potter             52 f                               farming           /$800                 NC.
Andrew   "                19 m                                                                               MO
Thomas    "               17m                                                                                MO
Mary         "              14 f                                                                                 MO
Lewis        "              11 m                                                                               MO
     (next door)
Benj Potter                27 m                           farmer      $3400/500                  MO
Martha   "                  27 f                                                                                VA
Nancy    "                   5 f                                                                                 MO
Leticia    "                   3 f                                                                                 MO
     (next door)
Elizabeth Popejoy   47  f                            farming      $1400 / 500              Tenn
John Marshall           16 m                                                                                MO
Lucretia        "           13 f                                                                                 MO
Layfayette    "           11 m                                                                               MO
     (next door)
William Marshall     25 m                       farmer/ laborer         / 200                MO
Elizabeth    "              17 f                                                                                 MO


 The Marshall family had lived in Green and Wright Co., Missouri just prior to the Civil War. The family moved to Ft. Scott, Kansas in 1861.

1861- He was in Bourbon County, Kansas from 1861. Here he enlisted during the Civil War in the Kansas Reg. KS 6L. His three brothers - Elias, James, and Washington Popejoy Marshall also enlisted.

1865-70 The family moved to Crawford County, Kansas

1870 - US Census, Kansas, Crawford Co., Girard. Series: M593  Roll: 431  Page: 365

Marshall, John W.     25 m w    farmer                   $2000 / $300           Kentucky
"              , Sarah  E.    17  f w     keeping house                                           "
"              , Homer         1 m w                                                                        Kansas

1880- He is in Sunset, Montague County, Texas census. We have not been able to ascertain why he came here from Kansas. page10-442A

1890-1 He moves with his family from Texas to Tacoma by covered wagon.

1904, Nov 13  - John W. Marshall dies of pneumonia in Tacoma, WA. His oldest son had died the previous February also of pneumonia.

On John W. Marshall's Death Certificate in Tacoma, Washington his mother was listed as from Tennessee. This differs with what is listed on her chart.[Death Certificate]

1918, June 17 - Sarah Gower Marshall dies at the Tacoma General Hospital, Tacoma, Pierce Co., WA of chronic bronchitis at the age of 66 years, 2 months and 9 days. [Death Certificate]

Sources:

Marshall Family Index | Ancestoral Chart #1

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