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Descendant Families: John Marshall & Catharina Truby Rohrer
Updated November 3, 2007
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My research focuses on Descendant Families of JOHN MARSHALL (about 1761 to 1806) and his wife CATHARINA TRUBY ROHRER MARSHALL (about 1763 to 1806), and of her children by her first marriage to FREDERICK ROHRER, JR. (1766/7-1794).
Marshall was (perhaps) born in Ireland. He seems to appear suddenly in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in the late 1790s, when he married Catharina Truby Rohrer. She was the widow of Col. Frederick Rohrer, Jr. The first Marshall son, Andrew, was born in 1800. Catharina Marshall was the daughter of Christopher Truby, a descendant of French Huguenots, a soldier and an early settler in Westmoreland County. The Trubys moved to the near vicinity of present-day Greensburg from eastern Pennsylvania in 1771. There he took his place in the civil and military life of the Pennsylvania frontier. Truby's wife was Sybilla Bauman, and the family found itself part of the growing German-speaking community of this region. Truby died on 20 February 1802 in the tavern-home of the Marshalls in Greensburg. John Marshall was one of the administrators of his estate.
Catharina's children to her first husband were Elizabeth “Betsy” Rohrer (1792-1881, married Elisha Robinson) and Frederick Augustus Rohrer (1794-1882, married first Sarah (Sallie) Frains/Frame; and second, Eliza Ulam Wolf). The children of John and Catharina Marshall were Andrew Marshall (1800-1832, married Barbara McQuiston of Butler, PA); Samuel Marshall (1801-1835, married Phebe Perry of Scrubgrass Township, Venango County, PA); John Marshall (1803-1889, married Charlotte Kelker of Butler); and Mary Ann Marshall (1804-1895, married Elisha H. Bailey, who was born in Centre County, Pennsylvania).
This blended Marshall-Rohrer family moved from Greensburg in late 1805 to the Ohio frontier village of New Lancaster, Fairfield County. Tragedy struck them in the summer of 1806 when both parents died of a fever. The six orphaned children seem to have found new homes as follows: Catharina's sister, Mary Ann "Polly" Truby Hovey, wife of Dr. Simeon Hovey, brought back to western Pennsylvania the baby, Mary Ann Marshall, and the two, older Rohrer children. Her husband became Betsy’s guardian. Catharina’s brother, Christopher Truby, became Frederick’s initial guardian; eventually Greensburg attorney George Armstrong was appointed his guardian, and he spent the rest of his long life in Greensburg. Joseph Marshall and John Patterson of St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio, became guardians for the three young Marshall boys. Indirect evidence indicates that Samuel, at least, was reared by the Hoveys (along with his sisters) on the west bank of the Allegheny River in Perry Township, northwestern Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
The story of Marshalls, Trubys, Hoveys, Rohrers, Robinsons, Baileys, Coopers and Turks in this region is tightly interwoven. If you are a member of this interesting family, please contact me! I’m eager to exchange information.
NOTE: I’m at the very beginning (August 2007) of exploring the incredible, new discovery concerning the guardianship of the Marshall boys by a Joseph Marshall (their uncle?) in Belmont County, Ohio. See in the Related Files section, below, a file entitled "A 2007 UPDATE: OUR MYSTERY ANCESTOR JOHN MARSHALL."
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- Henry Turk (1859-1941) (47 KB)
Henry Marshall Turk was the great-grandson of John Marshall and Catharina Truby Rohrer; the grandson of John Marshall and Charlotte Kelker; and the son of John Turk and Mary Ann Marshall. He was named for his Uncle Henry Marshall, who died a prisoner of war at Andersonville. Henry Turk married Nancy Anna "Annie" Allison of Indiana, Pennsylvania, in 1888. He was a noted citizen of Parker, Pennsylvania, and served as an elder in his Presbyterian Church for more than 50 years. He worked as a telegraph operator for Western Union for over 70 years and for more than 60 years recorded the stages of the Allegheny at Parker's Landing. He “was acknowledged to be one of the most competent river observers in the Allegheny valley.” Mr. Turk died tragically at age 83 from being struck by a hit and run driver on a Sunday morning, after he just had checked the river stage at the government station. He was the father of seven children, four of whom survived him.
- Staff Stg. Justin Marshall and His Dog (30 KB)
Justin (Jay) Marshall, who until recently was deployed with U. S. forces in Iraq, is the son of Frank Marshall and Robin Pearce of Kylertown, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. Jay’s wife, Jen Cronin Marshall, is with the Air Force Security Forces. A first child, baby boy Dillon Marshall, arrived on April 28, 2006. SEE RELATED ARTICLE on this website about Jay and his military service.
- First Family Grave: Presbyterian Cemetery, Parker (96 KB)
“Simeon Hovey Robinson / Lies Here / Who died July 10 1822 / Aged 5 yers & 4 months.”
The Presbyterian Cemetery of Parker, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, is our family's historic burying ground from the 19th and early 20th centuries. This gravestone marks the first family grave of record there. Simeon Hovey Robinson was the first son of Elizabeth (Betsy) Rohrer Robinson (1792-1881) and her husband Elisha Robinson (1791-1874). This child was named after Dr. Simeon Hovey, Elizabeth’s guardian and her uncle—the husband of Mary Ann Truby Hovey. Betsy's "Aunt Hovey" was the sister of her deceased mother, Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall. Simeon Hovey was Elisha Robinson’s uncle, the brother of his mother Olive Hovey Robinson. Elizabeth Robinson’s half-brother, Samuel Marshall (1801-1835) named his first son Simeon Hovey Marshall. Her half-sister, Mary Ann Marshall Bailey (1804-1895) named her first son Simeon Hovey Bailey.
- Dr. Jennifer A. Marshall (1 KB)
Jennifer A. Marshall is a member of our extended Family's up-and-coming-generation. “As a child, Jennifer traveled with me throughout Jefferson, Clearfield, and Armstrong Counties as I visited courthouses, libraries, cemeteries and assorted elderly cousins for clues to the story of our Marshall Family. She was ever curious and perceptive, blessed with a remarkable memory for details, and gifted with the ability to make connections. For better or worse, I like to think those early forays into family documents, dates, names and places laid the foundation for her life’s work in the field of archival studies and preservation administration. Jennifer is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. A 1994 graduate of Georgetown University with a degree in Russian (major) and theology (minor), Jennifer spent a semester studying in Russia shortly after the break-up of the Soviet Union. In December 2006, upon successfully defending her dissertation, she was awarded her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, where she had taught while pursuing her graduate degree. Jennifer has published multiple articles in her field and presents papers at archival and preservation conferences several times a year. She shares her life with many friends and colleagues, her family near and far, and her three cats.” (Jennifer’s story is shared by her proud Dad, Kelly Marshall.) Jennifer Alycen Marshall was born 13 March 1970 in Greenville, South Carolina. She is a fifth great-granddaughter of John Marshall and Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall, descending through their son John Marshall (wife, Charlotte Kelker), and his son William Kelker Marshall (wife, Anna Mary Rumbarger). Jennifer is the daughter of Gordon Kelly Marshall and Janice Wolfe Beaty, the granddaughter of P. J. Marshall (born 1921) and Betty Shankle (born 1922); and the great-granddaughter of Clifford William Marshall (1897
- LOVE POEM -- Charlotte Kelker and John Marshall (44 KB)
John Marshall (1803-1889) and his bride Charlotte Kelker (1800-1854) were married in Butler, Butler County, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, 01 February 1827. The marriage was blessed by the Rev. Isaac Niblock, the Presbyterian clergyman who would officiate also at the marriage of John’s brother Andrew and Barbara McQuiston in July of the same year. Two days later—Saturday, 03 February--the "Butler Sentinel" recorded the marriage on page three. Unique to this wedding announcement is the appearance of the following love poem, penned by Scots poet Robert Burns. I’ve surveyed marriage announcements in the "Sentinel" for the years immediately prior to and following this announcement, and its presence is unparalleled in this newspaper. At the least, it points to the fact that John (since we can assume he placed this poem) not only was literate, but also that the Marshalls and/or the Hoveys and/or Trubys had made sure this orphaned child received a very good education under their tutelage. At the most, it marks a tenderness unseen in any other extant records of this couple. The particular choice of this poem may reflect the fact that the newlyweds were married at a bit of an older age for their era—Charlotte was 26 and John, 24 on the day of their marriage. Had they waited for each other a long time?
"All hail! ye tender feelings dear! / The smile of love, the friendly tear, / The sympathetic glow; / Long since, this world’s thorny ways / Had number’d out my weary days / Had it not been for you!” Robert Burns
- Marshall Cousins (74 KB)
March 2006 brought together cousins Jack Marshall, Bob Marshall with wife Donna, and Kelly Marshall at Kelly’s home in Boardman, Ohio. Jackson M. Marshall of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, is the son of Lloyd London Marshall, Jr. and Florence George, the grandson of Lloyd L. Marshall and Ethel Richards, and the great-grandson of William Frederick Marshall and Narcissus (Perk) London. Kelly Marshall is the son of Percy J. Marshall and Betty Shankle, the grandson of Clifford William Marshall and Florence Williams, and the great-grandson of Earl Jay Marshall and Rose B. Haugh. Jack and Kelly are third cousins. Robert W. Marshall of Hesston, Pennsylvania, is the son of Ralph William Marshall and Katherine Reed and the grandson of Guy Ralph Marshall and Bessie White. He is the second cousin of Jack’s and Kelly’s fathers. Brothers William F. Marshall, Earl J. Marshall and Guy R. Marshall are three of the twelve children of William K. Marshall and Anna Mary Rumbarger of Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania. W. K. Marshall is the grandson of our emigrant ancestor, John Marshall (1761-1806). From left to right: Jack, Kelly, Bob.
- Carolyn Graffius Marshall & Arthur Crawford Schunk (62 KB)
Carolyn Graffius Marshall (1883-1963) with her son-in-law Arthur Crawford Schunk (1921-1986), during his service in the United States Navy in World War II. They are sitting on the porch of the Marshall home at 611 23rd Street, Altoona, Pennsylvania. Carolyn's husband was Ed (William Edward) Marshall (1878-1956), a son of John Leathers Marshall and Julia Miles; and a grandson of William K. Marshall and Anna Mary Rumbarger of Reynoldsville. Arthur's wife was Betty Louise Marshall (born 1919). SEE RELATED FILE ON THIS SITE for more about Arthur Schunk's military service.
- Guy R. Marshall, Musician (60 KB)
Guy Ralph Marshall (1884-1965) was the twelfth and youngest child of William Kelker Marshall (1829-1911) and Anna Mary Rumbarger (1838-1924) of Reynoldsville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. This photograph was taken when he was a young man and, obviously, the member of a band. In 2006, his grandson Bob Marshall researched the instrument he is holding and has learned that it is a tenor valve trombone. Guy married Bessie White (1886-1933) and they were the parents of seven children. In time, they made their home in Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. This photograph was passed down through the family of Guy's sister, Mary Lovina "Love" Marshall Hartman (1862-1892).
- Schunk--Marshall Cousins (38 KB)
Brothers Richard Schunk (Tallmadge, Ohio) and Steve Schunk (Pittsburgh) with wives Susan and Debbie joined third cousin Kelly Marshall at the rectory in Boardman, Ohio, in early March 2006 for dinner and a “getting to know you” first visit. Dick and Steve are sons of Betty Louise Marshall and Arthur C. Schunk; grandsons of William Edward Marshall and Carolyn Meredith Graffius of Altoona, Pennsylvania; and great-grandsons of John Leathers Marshall and Julia Henderson Miles of Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania. Kelly Marshall is the son of Percy J. Marshall and Betty Shankle, the grandson of Clifford William Marshall and Florence Williams, and the great-grandson of Earl Jay Marshall and Rose B. Haugh. Brothers John L. Marshall and Earl J. Marshall were two of the twelve children of William K. Marshall and Anna Mary Rumbarger of Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania. W. K. Marshall is the grandson of our emigrant ancestor, John Marshall (1761-1806). From left to right: Dick, Steve, Kelly.
- Gravestone: Henry Marks Marshall (1840-1864) (21 KB)
This gravestone marks the burial place of Civil War soldier Henry Marks Marshall at Andersonville, Georgia. He died there on 08 June 1864 while being held by the Confederates as a Union prisoner of war. Marshall was the son of John Marshall (1803-1889) and Charlotte Kelker (1800-1854) of Lawrenceburg, (now Parker) Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, where he was born on 02 April 1840. He was the grandson of John Marshall (1761-1806) and Catharina Truby Rohrer (1763-1806); and of Jacob Kelker (1775-?) and Rebecca Thome (1773-1824). Marshall was captured near Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, in September 1863. See the LINK, below, to the website on the 78th PA Regiment.
- Drs. Marvin & Sandra Marshall Clark-- Indonesia (76 KB)
Dr. Sandra Marshall Clark and husband, Dr. Marvin Clark, in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, where they spent 1988-1996 working for Freeport Indonesia, Inc., and organizing a program for malaria control and public health. Here, they are “making house calls” in a boat carved out for them by local Irianese people. See articles about their work under "Related Files" on this website, as well as another photo in this section. The Clarks are the parents of four children--Lynn, Mark, Laurie and Scott--and the grandparents of twelve.
- Charlotte Kelker Marshall (1800-1854) (71 KB)
A painting of Charlotte Kelker Marshall, wife of John Marshall (1803-1889), of Lawrenceburg—later Parker—Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Charlotte was the daughter of Jacob Kelker, an innkeeper in Zelienople, Butler County, PA, and Rebecca Thome. She died on 5 November 1854, two days after the death of her young grandson John Marshall Turk. On 11 November, granddaughter and namesake Charlotte Elizabeth Turk died; and the 14th brought the death of her eleven year-old son Frederick Augustus Marshall (Freddie). All died of dysentery and are buried side by side in the Marshall-Turk burying place in Parker’s Presbyterian Cemetery. This painting came through the family of Charlotte’s daughter Mary Ann Marshall Turk. Charlotte Turk Dean, Charlotte's great-granddaughter, gave it to me in 1978. It was identified as “Grandmother Marshall.” Charlotte Marshall seems to be the only likely candidate—although an expert in dating such folk art could tell us whether there’s any chance this could be Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall.
- "Aunt Hovey" - - Mary Ann "Polly" Truby Hovey (72 KB)
Mary Ann "Polly" Truby Britzious Hovey (1775-1868) and her second husband, Dr. Simeon Hovey, brought back to Western Pennsylvania the baby Mary Ann Marshall and her older Rohrer half-siblings, Betsy and Frederick. Indirect evidence indicates that they also made a home for the child Samuel Marshall. All this, after her sister, Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall (1763-1806) and husband, John Marshall (about 1761-1806) died suddenly of a fever in New Lancaster, Ohio. The Hoveys made a home for the children at Happy Retreat in the extreme northwestern tip of Armstrong County, in what is today Hovey Township. "Aunt Hovey" died at age 93, having lived through both the Revolution and the Civil War. She survived being captured by Native Americans as a child, the deaths of two husbands, and the early, hard years of life in the wilderness along the Allegheny River. Although she bore no children of her own, she truly is MOTHER to many descendants of Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall. She lies buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery of Parker, Pennsylvania, in the Hovey-Robinson Plot, near four of the six children: Elizabeth Rohrer Robinson, Samuel Marshall, and John Marshall. Mary Ann Marshall Bailey, her godchild whom she reared from age two, is buried across the street in the GAR (the Old United Presbyterian) Cemetery.
- Simeon Hovey Marshall (1824-1912) (42 KB)
The son of Samuel Marshall (1801-1835) and Phebe Perry (1803-1885), "Sim" Hovey was a merchant and hotel-keeper, a farmer, and a citzen who was active in the communites where he made his home: Lisbon and Franklin, in Venango County, Pennsylvania; and from the 1870s until his death, Simeon (near Charlottesville), Virginia. He was named for his "grandfather"--Dr. Simeon Hovey of Happy Retreat, Hovey Twp., Armstrong County, PA. Dr. Hovey and his wife Mary Ann "Polly" Truby had provided a home for Simeon's father Samuel after Samuel's parents died in 1806 on the Ohio frontier. Simeon Marshall married Mary Jane Hoover (1829-1886), and they were parents of seven children: Mary Bailey Marshall Fletcher, Elizabeth Hoover Marshall Behrendt, Alpheus Hoover Marshall, Samuel M. Marshall, Jennie Marshall Souder, Sadie Marshall, and Lyda Marshall MacConnell. Thanks to his great-granddaughter, Elizabeth Behrendt Gleason, of Charlottesville, Virginia, for sharing this image.
- Marshall Women with 1855 Wedding Cape (117 KB)
This shawl is the wedding cape of Anna Mary Rumbarger Marshall (1838-1924). She was married two days after her 17th birthday, on 09 February 1855, to William Kelker Marshall (1829-1911) in Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. Her parents were John Rumbarger (1810-1889) and Elizabeth Leathers (1818-1844). Mary Marshall was the mother of 12 children--6 boys and 6 girls. For our Grandmother to have kept and treasured this unusual piece of cloth after her wedding is, I believe, a sign of its great importance to her. In time, it came to her granddaughter Zella Hartman Sprankle. Zella was the daughter of Mary Lovina "Love" Marshall Hartman--Mary Marshall's namesake and daughter who died at age 30 in 1892. Zella passed it to her daughter, Helen Sprankle Sheffler; and Helen gave it to her daughter Sue Sheffler Yokim of DuBois, Pennsylvania. In the summer of 2006, Sue Yokim sent the wedding shawl home with Kelly Marshall, with an expressed desire that it be kept in the Marshall family. The cape is about four yards long, has a fringe, and is entirely black.
This photograph shows women of the Marshall family inspecting this remarkable garment on 12 August 2006 at the annual Marshall Family Reunion near Kittanning, Pennsylvania. Pictured are either descendants or spouses of descendants of Mary Marshall’s sons William Frederick Marshall (1864-1945), Earl Jay Marshall (1878-1941), and Guy Ralph Marshall (1884-1965).
From left to right: Connie [Marshall] Tataseo Mondok, a great-great granddaughter; Betty Shankle Marshall, wife of Percy`J. Marshall, a great-grandson; Jean Marshall Mohan, a great-granddaughter; Sandra Marshall Clark, a great-great granddaughter; Donna Telford Marshall, wife of Bob Marshall, a great-grandson; and Eva Bradley Marshall Tataseo, wife of Twyde Earl Marshall, a great-grandson. Connie, Jean and Sandra were born to the Marshall family; and Betty, Donna and Eva married into the family.
- Sam Turk and Kelly Marshall (50 KB)
Cousins Sam Turk and Kelly Marshall, at the home of Sam and Donna Turk in Emlenton, Clarion County, Pennsylvania, in June 2005. Walter Sam Turk is the son of Walter Riddle Turk and Kathryn E. Church, the grandson of Samuel Marshall Turk and Marie Riddle, and the great-grandson of Mary Ann Marshall Turk (1827-1915) and John Turk (1824-1899) of Parker, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Kelly Marshall is the son of Percy J. Marshall and Betty Shankle, the grandson of Clifford William Marshall and Florence Williams, the great-grandson of Earl Jay Marshall and Rose B. Haugh, and the great-great grandson of William Kelker Marshall and Anna Mary Rumbarger. Mary Ann Marshall Turk and William Kelker Marshall were siblings—the children of John Marshall (1803-1889) and Charlotte Kelker (1800-1854). And that makes Sam and Kelly third cousins, once removed! In the photo, Sam is on the right and Kelly on the left. Sam and Donna are the parents of two daughters (Amy and Anita) and the grandparents of Levi, Alexis, Rebekah and Emily.
- Col. Frederick A. Rohrer Birth/Baptismal Fraktur (106 KB)
This early Westmoreland County Birth and Baptism Certificate for Frederick Rohrer (born 17 July 1794) is a rare example of the early Western Pennsylvana German folk art known as "fraktur". It most likely made its way from Greensburg to New Lancaster, Ohio, with the blended Marshall-Rohrer family in late 1805; and then to Happy Retreat (northwestern Armstrong County) with the orphaned Rohrer siblings when their Aunt Hovey retrieved them from the Ohio frontier and brought them to her new home on the Allegheny River frontier, just north of present-day Parker, Armstrong County. The fraktur remained on the Hovey-Robinson lands until Charles S. L. Robinson mailed them to his son Sam Robinson in New England in about 1990. Our cousin Sam Robinson now is taking steps to preserve this important piece of family history, along with the similar fraktur for his own ancestor, Elizabeth Rohrer Robinson. This fraktur was created by early Westmoreland County schoolmaster Johann Karl Scheibeler. See similar items through mid-October 2007 at the outstanding exhibit entitled "MADE IN PENNSYLVANIA: A FOLK ART TRADITION" at the Westmoreland Museum of Art in Greensburg; see LINKS for more on the Museum.
- 33rd Annual Marshall Family Picnic -- 2006 (72 KB)
More than 40 members of descendant families of William Kelker Marshall (1829-1911) and his wife Anna Mary Rumbarger (1838-1924) gathered in rural Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (not far from Kittanning) for the 33rd annual Family Reunion. This year, descendants of Earl J. Marshall and Rose Haugh, William F. Marshall and Narcissus London, and Guy R. Marshall and Bessie White were present. The event is held annually on the second Saturday in August. [Several family members who were present at the picnic are absent from the photo, including Eva Tataseo, Karen and Russ Hawk, and Donna Marshall--who was taking the picture.]
- Elizabeth "Betsy" Rohrer Robinson (1792-1881) (35 KB)
Elizabeth Rohrer Robinson was the matriarch of the Robinson Family of Hovey Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Born in Greensburg, Westmoreland County in 1792, Betsy was the daughter of Frederick Rohrer, Junior (1767-1794) and Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall (about 1763-1806). After her mother’s death in Ohio, she, her brother Frederick Augustus Rohrer, and some of her four Marshall half-siblings were brought back to the area of present-day Parker by her Aunt Hovey (Mary Ann Truby Hovey) and reared in the home of her uncle, Dr. Simeon Hovey. She married Hovey’s nephew, Elisha Robinson (1791-1874), of Windham, Connecticut. They were the parents of ten children. She and her husband are buried in the Hovey-Robinson plot of the Parker Presbyterian Cemetery. This is the only photogrpah which we can certainly identify as one of the six children of Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall.
- The Psalter of John Marshall (1803-1889) (73 KB)
The Psalter of John Marshall (1803-1889) of Parker City, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Marshall was a member of the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceburg--the congregation which became in time the Presbyterian Church of Parker. This is the only known example of his bookplate. He is buried beside his wife Charlotte Kelker Marshall (1800-1854) in the Marshall plot of the church's cemetery. The Psalter has come through the family of his daughter, Mary Ann Marshall Turk.
- Henry Frank Marshall (1867-1922) (56 KB)
Henry Frank Marshall (1867-1922) was the son of William Kelker Marshall (1829-1911) and Anna Mary Rumbarger (1838-1924) of Reynoldsville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. He was born on Christmas Day 1867 in Washington Township, where his father was a lumberman in what were still the virgin forests of Pennsylvania. As a young man, Frank Marshall went to West Virginia to live and work with his uncle, Jacob Leathers Rumbarger in Rumbarger’s lumbering business near Dobbin, Grant County, WV. There he met Sarah Jane Wilkins, daughter of Joseph Henry Wilkins and Irena Strawderman of Hardy County. They were married in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland, on 23 January 1893. The family moved West and lived from 1908 to 1910 in Hood River, Oregon, where they kept apple orchards. By 1910, the Marshalls had purchased a farm near Carson, Skamania County, Washington. Frank died on 9 November 1922 at the age of 54 and was buried in what is now called the Old Carson Cemetery. Sarah lived until 13 October 1944, and lies buried beside him. In January 2007, their great-granddaughter, Sarah Ann Tebbs, contacted me through an internet posting, and our Marshall Family branches were reunited after many decades. This photograph was shared by Sarah’s mother (Frank’s granddaughter) Judith Ingram Tebbs.
- Sarah Isabella Bailey Cooper (1847-1910) (30 KB)
Sarah Belle Cooper was a daughter of Mary Ann Marshall Bailey (1804-1895) and Elisha Hope Bailey (1805-1883) and a granddaughter of John Marshall and Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall. She married John Thomas Cooper (1837-1883), who was born in County Wicklow, Ireland. They were the parents of seven children. Sarah Belle is pictured here in her "widow's weeds" after the untimely death of her husband at age 46. The Cooper mansion in Parker, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, was a local landmark and in time served as a public school in that town.
- Frank Marshall in his Oregon Apple Orchards 1909 (92 KB)
Henry Frank Marshall (1867-1922) in his apple orchards at Hood River, Oregon. The Marshalls lived at Hood River from 1908-1910, when they moved to Carson, Skamania County, Washington. Their son Leslie was born at Hood River; the older children were born in Garrett County, Maryland, and the younger children in Carson. As Frank’s siblings passed away, the branches of our family lost contact with each other. By the late 1970s, the Marshall Family back in Pennsylvania remembered that their Uncle Frank and his family had moved to Washington State and that he grew apples. In January 2007, Frank’s great-granddaughter, Sarah Ann Tebbs, contacted me through an internet posting, and our Marshall Family (east and west) finally was reunited. This wonderful photograph was shared by Sarah’s mother, Judith Ingram Tebbs, daughter of Bertha Marshall Ingram (1906-2000) and granddaughter of Frank and Sarah Jane Wilkins Marshall. See elsewhere in this section for a photograph of Frank Marshall as a young man.
- Fifth Cousins--Sue Veal and Kelly Marshall (44 KB)
The June 2006 General Convention of the Episcopal Church in Columbus, Ohio, brought the Rev. David Veal and his wife Sue McGough Veal of Lubbock, Texas, to within an easy drive of the Rev. Kelly Marshall of Boardman, Ohio. Sue and Kelly are fifth cousins, both descendants of John and Catharina Marshall—-Sue, through their second son Samuel Marshall and his wife Phebe Perry; and Kelly through their third son John Marshall and his wife Charlotte Kelker. Surely the last time descendants of these two branches of the family visited was years ago in the environs of Parker, Pennsylvania--the ancestral home region of the pioneer Hovey, Perry and Marshall families. Through the marriage of Samuel Marshall McGough (1849-1908) to Amelia Virginia Parker (1852-1936), Sue descends also from Judge John Parker, the pioneer settler after whom Parker’s Landing was named. In this photo, Kelly is on the left, with Sue in the center and David on the right.
- Family of Clifford W. Marshall -- 1930s (57 KB)
Clifford William Marshall (1897-1964) and his wife, Florence Belle Williams Marshall (1900-1989) and their family in the 1930s. Front Row, from the left: Percy J. Marshall, Richard L. Marshall, Twyde E. Marshall. Back Row, from the left: Clifford W. Marshall, Florence Williams Marshall holding Clifford C. Marshall, and Maxine R. Marshall. Taken, most likely, in Chickasaw, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. This is the only known picture of this entire family.
- An Elderly William Kelker Marshall (69 KB)
William Kelker Marshall (1829-1911) was the first son of John Marshall (1803-1889) and Charlotte Kelker (1800-1854). He was born in Butler, Butler County PA and reared in the environs of present-day Parker, Armstrong County PA. He joined his father-in-law as a lumberman in Washington Township, Jefferson County PA in about 1855. He and his wife, Anna Mary Rumbarger (1838-1924) had twelve children—six sons and six daughters. From about 1878 or so, the family made its home on East Main Street in Reynoldsville, Jefferson County. To the best of my knowledge, the only descendants of his grandparents (John Marshall and Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall) still to have the Marshall surname come through William K. Marshall’s line. This photograph of him as an old man was kept by the family of his son, Henry Frank Marshall, of Carson, Washington, and is shared by Judith Ingram Tebbs, his great-granddaughter.
- The Clarks at St. James' Church--June 2006 (44 KB)
The Feast of Pentecost 2006 brought a visit from Drs. Sandra Marshall Clark and Marvin Clark, her husband, to St. James’ Episcopal Church in Boardman, Ohio, where third cousins Sandy Clark and Kelly Marshall met for the first time. Throughout the years of their medical careers, the Clarks have served those in particular need in such far-away places as Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, West Kenya, South Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates. Sandra Marshall Clark of Tucson, Arizona, is the daughter of Alvin Richards Marshall and Martha Hindman, the granddaughter of Lloyd L. Marshall and Ethel Richards, and the great-granddaughter of William Frederick Marshall and Narcissus (Perk) London. The Rev. Kelly Marshall, Rector of St. James’ Church, is the son of Percy J. Marshall and Betty Shankle, the grandson of Clifford William Marshall and Florence Williams, and the great-grandson of Earl Jay Marshall and Rose B. Haugh. Brothers William F. Marshall and Earl J. Marshall were two of the twelve children of William K. Marshall and Anna Mary Rumbarger of Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania. W. K. Marshall is the grandson of our emigrant ancestor, John Marshall (1761-1806) and his wife Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall (1763-1806). In the photo, from the left: Marvin, Kelly, Sandy.
- Chris Thompson -- Minor League Pitcher (67 KB)
Christopher Michael Thompson is a member of our extended Family's up-and-coming-generation. “Chris has loved and played baseball since he was seven years old. He has always said from that time on that he was going to be a professional baseball player when he grew up. He attended McGill-Toolen Catholic High School (Mobile, Alabama) where he played for all four years and lettered three of the four. For college, Chris attended Pearl River Community College in Poplarville, Mississippi (scholarship) for two years, and then Ole Miss on scholarship for his last two years. He was drafted in 2004 by the Arizona Diamondbacks. His first full year was spent at every level (A, AA, & AAA) of Diamondbacks minor leagues, but most of his time for 2005 was spent in Lancaster, California. Chris started his second year in spring training with the Diamondbacks, but he was traded to the Washington Nationals to start the 2006 season with AAA in New Orleans. That year, he was minor league pitcher of the entire Nationals minor league system for the month of July 2006. He finished his season in Woodbridge, Virginia, with a 3.00 ERA. If things go right in spring training this year, he will start out in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for the AA Senators.” (Chris’ story is shared by his proud Mom, Alma Fletcher Thompson.) Chris was born 02 January 1982 in Mobile. He is a fifth great-grandson of John Marshall and Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall, descending through their son Samuel Marshall (wife, Phebe Perry), and his son Simeon Hovey Marshall (wife, Mary Jane Hoover). Chris is the son of Alma Fletcher and Fred Thompson, the grandson of Charles Tennant Fletcher (1922-2001) and Kathryn Boone (born 1928), and the great-grandson of William Hoyt Fletcher (1888-1961) and Ethel Moore (1889-1961).
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- The Indian Adventure of Polly Truby -- 1977 Story (40 KB)
This story is about Mary Ann "Polly" Truby and her captivity in Western Pennsylvania by Native Americans during the American Revolution. According to one version of the tale, she was seven years old when this frightening adventure occurred--and my daughter Jennifer was seven when I penned this narrative for her in 1977. Polly Truby Hovey and her second husband, Dr. Simeon Hovey--as fate would have it--played the significant role of step-parents to some (all?) of John Marshall's orphaned children: Andrew Marshall, Samuel Marshall, John Marshall and Mary Ann Marshall Bailey, as well as to their half-sister Elizabeth (Betsy) Rohrer Robinson. The Hoveys brought them back from the Ohio frontier in 1806 after a fever had killed Marshall and his wife, Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall. The children were reared at or near the Hovey farm--"Happy Retreat"--in what is now Hovey Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania--on the bluff of Allegheny River's west bank, near present-day Parker. Polly Hovey, Catharina's sister, lived until 1868--age 93--and was known throughout the family as "Aunt Hovey". See other documents on this site relating to her and her family.
- 27 July 2006 --- A Letter to Mark This Day (22 KB)
A letter penned by Kelly Marshall to various Rohrer and Marshall cousins on the 200th anniversary of John Marshall's death in New Lancaster, Ohio--an event which altered the course of the lives of all his children and their descendants. His wife Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall survived him by only 13 days, and their six children--our ancestors--were left orphans on the Ohio frontier.
- From the Samuel Marshall Estate File -- 1835 (173 KB)
Samuel Marshall was the second child of John Marshall (about 1761-1806) and Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall (about 1763 to 1806). He was born in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and reared by his Aunt Mary Ann Truby Hovey after the untimely death of his parents. He married Phebe Perry (1803-1885) of Scrubgrass Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania; she was a daughter of pioneer settlers Moses Perry and Sarah Russell. Marshall died at age 33 in Perry Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, leaving his widow and four children: Simeon Hovey Marshall, Sarah L. Marshall (McGough), Isabelle Marshall (Phipps), and Martha P. Marshall (Welsh). These children in time would marry Mary Jane Hoover, Peter McGough, Jesse Phipps, and Walter Welsh.
- DIRECTIONS to Marshall Family Picnic & Reunion (16 KB)
August 11, 2007 brings the 34th Family Picnic and Reunion of Descendants of William Kelker Marshall (1829-1911) and Anna Mary Rumbarger (1838-1924). Last year, more than 40 members of their descendant family lines gathered in rural Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (not far from Kittanning) for this 33rd annual event. The picnic is held on the second Saturday in August. Any and all descendants of our ancestor Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall--Robinsons, Baileys, Turks, Coopers and others--are invited to join us.
- Chief Justice John Marshall -- Our Cousin or Not? (21 KB)
This article appeared in the June 2005 issue of "Family!" (Volume 1, Number 2). It both recounts and reflects on the widespread family tradition that our Irish ancestor John Marshall (about 1761-1806) was a cousin of the renowned John Marshall of Virginia.
- The Fever that Killed our Marshall Ancestors (18 KB)
A memory of the death of John and Catharina Marshall in the summer of 1806 is summarized in the family Bible record of their son John Marshall [1803-1889]: they died on the dates noted, in "New" Lancaster, Ohio, and "they were supposed to be 45 years old." Sarah Cooper Avey reports in “My Pennsylvania Ancestors” (1987, page 52) a memory of the Mary Ann Marshall Bailey (1804-1895) family that John Marshall was 44 years old at the time of his death, and that Catharina was 43. Other descendants preserved the family memory that they died of a fever; see Mary Truby Graff's 1941 book entitled "Early History of Truby-Graff and Affiliated Families", page 80. In the summer of 2002, I was surveying the Thomas Ashe work quoted in this link, looking for references to his travels through Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. To my absolute surprise, I found that he had visited New Lancaster, Ohio, in July 1806--the very month that John Marshall died on July 27th, and within weeks of the 9 August death of Catharina Marshall. Ashe discussed the frontier town, defamed its German inhabitants, and mentioned the fever that killed the Marshalls. The bit of luck which brought this primary source to light provides a window into their world, that first and only summer in Ohio.
- Baptism of the Marshall Children--Greensburg 1805 (45 KB)
This article details what I had learned as of 2003 concerning the baptism on 15 September 1805 of the four young children of John Marshall and his wife, Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall, in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The children were Andrew Marshall, Samuel Marshall, John Marshall and Mary Ann Marshall--and their baptismal records are written in German. Godparents were Catharina's siblings, Christopher Truby and Mary Ann Truby Hovey. Sometime between this date and the death of the parents in July/August of the next summer (1806), the family moved from the relative security of their mother's Westmoreland County home of 30 years to New Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio--a new town in a new state. The children returned to western Pennsylvania after their parents' deaths and were reared by their Truby relatives in northern Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. At the center of this arrangement was their "Aunt Hovey"--Mary Ann "Polly" Truby Britzious Hovey. She was godmother to Mary Ann Marshall and quite possibly served as mother to all four Marshall children, as well as to their half-sister, Elizabeth (Betsy) Rohrer Robinson.
- 2007 Update: Mystery Ancestor John Marshall (35 KB)
My exciting discovery in June 2007 of a Guardianship Bond (Belmont County, Ohio) for the three orphaned sons of John Marshall and Catharina Truby Rohrer names a JOSEPH MARSHALL as one of the guarantors of the bond. This is the first real lead in 30 years to the family of the mysterious John Marshall. Are we now close to taking some of the mystery out of his story?
- 2004 Marshall--Rohrer Family Research Advances (19 KB)
A brief article from the December 2004 issue of "Family!" noting my 2004 genealogical research advances.
- THE FAMILY ONLINE (27 KB)
Find here "clickable" URLs for family photos and virtual cemeteries. Please let me know if any of the URLs aren't clickable!
- Florence Williams Marshall Interview--1981 (31 KB)
Jennifer Alycen Marshall (age 11) and Adam Michael Marshall (age 9) interview their Great-Grandmother, Florence Marshall (1900-1989) at her home on Northern Avenue in West Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 1981.
- 1935 Letter from George K. Marshall to son Howard (46 KB)
A letter from George Kelker Marshall (1856-1941) to his son Howard Orton Marshall (1876-1948). George Marshall was living at the I.O.O.F. Home in Grove City, Mercer County, Pennsylvania at the time, and his son Howard and his family were living in El Paso, Texas. Annotations by Kelly Marshall, whose great-grandfather, Earl Jay Marshall (1878-1941) was the brother of George K. Marshall.
- The Family Copes with Death on the Frontier---1806 (26 KB)
Summer 2006 marks the 200th anniversary of the deaths of John Marshall and Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall in New Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio. This article from the June 2006 edition of "Family!" notes how the Truby Family--and in particular, Mary Ann "Polly" Truby Hovey-- responded to this tragic loss.
- Recollections of John Leathers Marshall, 1857-1937 (123 KB)
This material was written by John L. Marshall, son of William Kelker Marshall (1829-1911) and Anna Mary Rumbarger Marshall (1838-1924), grandson of John Marshall (1803-1889) and Charlotte Kelker (1800-1854), and great-grandson of John Marshall (about 1761-1806) and Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall (1763-1806). His maternal grandfather, John Rumbarger (1810-1889), founded the present-day Pennsylvania city of DuBois. The name Leathers belonged to his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Leathers Rumbarger (1818-1844).
Marshall spent his earliest years in the lumber camps of Washington Township, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, and these recollections provide an invaluable source of information concerning life in those exciting days. Portions recall Civil War days in Rockdale Mills and the beginning years of DuBois--originally called Rumbarger or Rumbarger Town. Lola Marshall Farnham (1896-1979), his daughter, penned the introductory remarks. Spelling follows her typed copy of her father’s work. I have added parenthetical information and endnotes, which are under copyright.
- Staff Sergeant Justin Marshall and his Dogs (22 KB)
Justin (Jay) Marshall, who until recently was deployed with U. S. forces in Iraq, is the son of Frank Marshall and Robin Pearce of Kylertown, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. Jay’s wife, Jen Cronin Marshall, is with the Air Force Security Forces. A first child, baby boy Dillon Marshall, arrived on April 28, 2006. Dillon, born in Rapid City, South Dakota, weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces and was 19 inches long. This child is a seventh generation descendant of our ancestors John and Catharina Marshall. [Posted to the website in July 2006; SEE RELATED PICTURE picture of Jay in this website’s Photo Section]
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