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Simeon Hovey Marshall (1824-1912)

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.

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