Marshall--Rohrer Family Research 2004

2004 RESEARCH ADVANCES

A Brief Summary of 2004 Marshall/Rohrer Family Research

Kelly Marshall

WEBSITE: http://www.genealogy.com/users/m/a/r/Kelly-Marshall/

SOURCE: This article appeared in the December 2004 edition of Family!--an occasional newsletter for descendants of Catharina Truby Marshall Rohrer and her husbands, Frederick Rohrer, Jr., and John Marshall. If you would like to receive a copy of this newsletter, please email me at marshallfamily@zoominternet.net.

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My new home in Boardman, Ohio, places me geographically in an ideal place for family research. The year 2004 brought the following new information, connections and projects.

♦ Locating the probate files of Andrew Marshall (1800-1832). These records are from Wheeling, Virginia, and are located in the West Virginia History Center at WVU in Morgantown. Although I’ve not yet made my way through all the data, of key importance is the information that Marshall was lost on the Ohio River, south of Wheeling, in or after January 1832. The records also seem to indicate that the home of his widow, Barbara McQuiston Marshall and their four-year-old son, Andrew E. Marshall, was destroyed in the Great Flood of February 1832—just the next month. The sad story of early deaths and orphaned children follows this line of our family for four generations.

♦ Annotating the written recollections of my great-great uncle John Leathers Marshall (1857-1937) and posting them online—see the website information above. This project entailed learning something of the geography of Washington Township, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania—the site of lumber camps in which the William K. Marshall family made a home in the 1850s and 1860s.

♦ The great fun of discovering the identity of one of the six orphans brought back to Pennsylvania from the Ohio frontier in 1806 by Mary Ann Hovey—the sister of their mother Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall. Other family researchers and I have been flummoxed by the seeming “disappearance” of Frederick Rohrer, born 17 July 1794, from the records. Locating his 1882 obituary in the Greensburg Evening Press showed that he lived a long and productive life right where he had been born—Greensburg. He was Colonel Frederick Augustus Rohrer, brother of Elizabeth Rohrer Robinson and half-brother of the four Marshall siblings.

♦ Surfing online genealogical sites and finding the accurate name of my great-great uncle Frank Marshall, who moved with his family to the state of Washington in the early years of the 20th century and kept apple orchards near Carson. Misidentified in my early research as “Frank Clinton Marshall”, he is Henry Frank Marshall (1867-1922), the son of William K. Marshall and Anna Mary Rumbarger—and is named after a Civil War brother of each of his parents. I hope to connect soon with his descendants—our distant cousins in the Northwest.

♦ Connecting with Sue McGough Veal of Lubbock, Texas. Sue is a descendant of Samuel Marshall (1802-1835). Sue’s son, Edward Marshall Veal, is an avid genealogist and has given one of his sons the name Marshall. Sue’s husband David is a retired Episcopal priest, having served as Canon to the Ordinary for the Diocese of Northwest Texas.

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Contact Information

Kelly Marshall

788 Wildwood Drive

Boardman OH 44512-3241

marshallfamily@zoominternet.net