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Henry Frank Marshall (1867-1922)

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.

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