Some of the hundreds of descendants of William Kelker Marshall (1829-1911) and his wife, Anna Mary Rumbarger (1838-1924) of Reynoldsville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. This gathering was the annual Marshall Family Picnic near Kittanning, Pennsylvania, in about 1978. Descendants of siblings Earl Jay Marshall and Kate Marshall Heffner (children of William and Anna Mary Marshall) are present in this photo.
The 2006 annual Family Picnic near Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. These are some of the descendants of William Kelker Marshall (1829-1911) and his wife, Anna Mary Rumbarger (1838-1924) of Reynoldsville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania; represented are descendants of three of their twelve children--William F. Marshall, Earl J. Marshall and Guy R. Marshall.
William Kelker Marshall (1829-1911), son of John Marshall (1803-1889) and Charlotte Kelker (1800-1854) of Parker, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Marshall was a lumberman and farmer in Washington Township, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, from the mid-1850s through the late 1870s; and from about 1878 until his death, lived on East Main Street in Reynoldsville. His wife was Anna Mary Rumbarger, and they were the parents of twelve children.
An elderly William K. Marshall; this photograph was kept by the family of his son Frank Marshall (1867-1922), who moved to Washington in the first decade of the 1900s. Of the many male descendants of John Marshall (about 1761-1806) and his three sons, only his grandson William K. Marshall has living male descendants in 2007 who have the name Marshall.
Anna Mary Rumbarger Marshall (1838-1924) in the late 1850s. She was a daughter of John Rumbarger (1810-1889), founder of the city of DuBois; and of Elizabeth Leathers (1818-1844). Note that she is pregnant in this picture. The photograph came from the family of her brother, lumberman Jacob Leathers Rumbarger.
Anna Mary Rumbarger Marshall, taken at a Reynoldsville studio.
Anna Mary Rumbarger Marshall, 1921, in the back yard of their home at East Main and Beech Street in Reynoldsville. The occasion for this professionally-made photograph was the visit from Kansas of her granddaughter, Evangeline Seeley, daughter of Charlotte Elizabeth (Lib) Marshall Seeley. For a good story related to his picture, see http://www.one-huge-family.com/id48.html
An elderly Anna Mary Rumbarger Marshall in about 1917, with granddaughter Zella Hartman Sprankle and great-grandchildren Charlesene Sprankle (Zella's daughter) and Lester Hartman (Zella's nephew, the son of Glenn M. Hartman).
The site (2006) of the property which was the William and Anna Mary Marshall Homestead in Reynoldsville, on the north side of East Main at Beech Street. The house in which they lived stood here until the 1990s. The place was called Cool Spring Hollow. A school was nearby--perhaps the school in which daughter Laura Eva Marshall taught. The Londons lived a few doors away. Chances are good that the stone wall you see came from foundation stones of the house.
George Kelker Marshall (1856-1941), the first child of William and Anna Mary Marshall. He was born in Butler, Butler County, Pennsylvania, before the Marshalls moved to Jefferson County. This photo is most likely his 1874 wedding picture.
George Kelker Marshall (1856-1941) married Susie Stewart (1855-1917). They were the parents of Howard Orton Marshall (1875-1948) of El Paso, Texas, and of Carl Burton Marshall (1879-1921) of San Francisco. The Marshalls made their home in Rathmel, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. Note the first signs of that balding pattern many Marshall men experience!
Susan "Susie" Strewart Marshall (1855-1917), wife of George K. Marshall. She was the daughter of William Findley Stewart and Sarah Jane Goodrich and the mother of two sons, Howard Orton Marshall and Carl Burton Marshall.
John Leathers Marshall
Charlotte Elizabeth (Lib) Marshall Seeley (1860 to about 1922) was the third child and oldest daughter of William and Anna Mary Rumbarger. She was named for her grandmothers, Charlotte Kelker Marshall (1800-1854) and Elizabeth Leathers Rumbarger (1818-1844). Libby married Charles Seeley (1857-?) and they were the parents of three children: Cary, Olive and Evangeline. The family moved to Kansas before 1900. At present, we're not in touch with any descendants of this line of the Marshall Family.
An unidentified Marshall Daughter. Does this look to you like the identified picture (previous) of Aunt Lib Marshall Seeley? Or is it (see next photo) Aunt Love Marshall Hartman?
Mary Lovina (Love) Marshall Hartman (1862-1892) was the fourth child and second daughter of William and Anna Mary Marshall. Born in the Beechwoods Settlement of Jefferson County, she married Clinton Samuel Hartman. They were the parents of three children: Zella, Glenn and Lester. Love died in Reynoldsville at the age of thirty and was buried in the Beulah Land Cemetery, up the hill on Beech Street from the Marshall home. To the best of my knowledge, her grave is unmarked, as is that of her young son Lester Marshall Hartman.
William Frederick Marshall (1864-1945), fifth child and third son of William K. Marshall and Anna Mary Rumbarger. He was born in Lanes Mills, Jefferson County, PA; and he died in Knox, Clarion Co. PA. Marshall married Narcissus "Perk" London (1865-1942) and was the father of six children, four of whom lived to be adults and have children of their own. This photograph is dated 1921.
William F. Marshall (1923), Jefferson and Clarion County businessman, at his desk in the Pennsylvania State Legislature, in which he served in the House.
Narcissus Mariah London Marshall (1865-1942), known as "Perk" or "Perky". She was the wife of WIlliam Frederick Marshall and the mother of six children. Her parents were Isaac H. London and Mary Jane Henry, of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
Henry Frank Marshall (1867-1922) was the sixth child and fourth son of William and Anna Mary Marshall. He was born on Christmas Day, 1867, and was named for his Uncle Henry Marshall, a Union soldier who died at Andersonville Prison in 1864, and for his Uncle Franklin Rumbarger, who served the Union as a sharpshooter during the Civil War. He worked for his Uncle Jacob Leathers Rumbarger, a lumberman, in West Virginia; there he met and married his wife, Sarah Jane Wilkins (1876-1944).
Henry Frank Marshall--known to his family as Frank--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.
Henry Frank Marshall
Alice Kate Marshall Heffner, called "Kate". She was born in a lumber camp on Wolf Creek, Washington Township, Jefferson County, Pennsyvania, on 20 June 1873; and she died in Monroeville, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, on 29 August 1950, while living with her daughter Laura Heffner Wilson. She had a remarkable memory for family stories, and was fondly remebered by a host of nephews and nieces as their Aunt Kate.
David Heffner (1968-1939), husband of Kate Marshall Heffner. The Heffners made their home for many years in Ridgeway, Pennsylvania.
Laura Eva Marshall (1874-1897) was the daughter of William K. and Anna Mary Rumbarger Marshall. She was born in Rathmel, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, and died in Reynoldsville at her family's home on East Main Street, at Cool Spring Hollow. She was most likely the ninth of twelve children--the fifth of six daughters born to this family. Laura was a school teacher and was active in the Epworth League of the Reynoldsville Methodist Episcopal Church. She died of "catarrh of the stomach and inflammatory rheumatism" at age 22, and lies buried near her parents in the Reynoldsville Cemetery. Her memory was kept alive by her niece and namesake, Laura Heffner Wilson, who gave me this photograph to keep for the family.
Earl Jay Marshall, aged 6, about 1884. He was the eleventh child and fifth son of William and Anna Mary Marshall, and the first to be born in Reynoldsville.
Earl Jay Marshall (1878-1941), while being treated for tuberculosis at the sanitorium in Cresson, Pennsylvania. He married Rose B. Haugh (1881-1918) and was the father of four sons and a daughter: Clifford (my grandfather), Lester, Clair, Twyde and Ethel.
A possible photograph of the child Leila Gertrude Marshall--the only one of twelve children not to live to adulthood. She is buried with her parents in the Reynoldsville Cemetery. We know neither her dates of birth and death, nor where she came in birth order among her siblings (although we know that she was one of the younger children). And her name may have been Gertrude Leila.
Guy Ralph Marshall (1884-1965) was the youngest of the twelve children of William and Anna Mary Marshall. Born in Reynoldsville, he married Bessie White (1886-1933); they were the parents of a daughter and six sons. In time, he and his family made their home in Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
Guy Marshall and his trombone. 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 learned that it is a tenor valve trombone. This photograph was passed down through the family of Guy's sister, Aunt "Love" Marshall Hartman (1862-1892).
An elderly Guy R. Marshall
A Marshall Daughter--remembered as such by a generation which had forgotten which daughter she was.
Another Marshall Daughter--remembered as such by a generation which had forgotten which daughter she was.
A Marshall Son, as yet unidentified. If the full head of hair and hair pattern is a clue, this may be Earl Jay Marshall (1878-1941). See his identified photograph elsewhere in this album.
This shawl is the wedding cape of Anna Mary Rumbarger Marshall. She was married two days after her 17th birthday, on 09 February 1855, to William K. Marshall in Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. For our Grandmother to have kept and treasured this unusual piece of cloth after her wedding is 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--Anna 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 white lace handiwork is not part of the garment; it was made by Anna Mary Marshall, and is placed here to show it well.
The 1855 wedding cape of Anna Mary Rumbarger Marshall 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 Anna 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.
A patchwork baby quilt made by Anna Mary Rumbarger for granddaughter Laura Heffner Wilson. Laura gave this quilt to Jennifer A. Marshall in 1978. She reported that her Grandmother Marshall had made such a quilt for each grandchild. Jennifer's great-grandmother, Florence Williams Marshall (wife of Clifford W. Marshall, Anna Mary Marshall's grandson) repaired the quilt and placed a new backing on it.
An actual Marshall Family photograph--an 1874 tin type--with a note saying that this was Grandfather's horse team recovering logs from the Allegheny River after a flood. It came to me through Laura Heffner Wilson, granddaughter of William K. Marshall and great-granddaughter of John Rumbarger. Both men were lumbermen and both came to Jefferson County from the area of Parker's Landing, on the Allegheny. We don't know which "grandfather" is referenced and possibly pictured here.
A lumbering scene. John Rumbarger (1810-1889) was the father of Anna Mary Rumbarger Marshall. He and his son-in-law, William K. Marshall, were lumbermen in the 1850s and 1860s in the virgin woodlands of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. A family story recounts how Marshall saved the life of his father-in-law by pulling him to safety when the older man had fallen into the river--caught between logs on the lumber raft--while the men were transporting the timber to Pittsburgh.
Thanks to our cousin Richard Schunk of Tallmadge, Ohio, for the lead on this classic lumbering photo. This photo and the next show scenes very familiar to lumbermen John Rumbarger (1810-1889) and William K. Marshall (1829-1911), and to their families. Our ancestors migrated from the Parker area on the Allegheny to the deep forests of Jefferson County near Reynoldsville in the 1850s. These pictures of Pennsylvania lumber camps appeared in the February 2006 issue of "The Smithsonian" magazine.
Another classic lumbering photo. See the February 2006 issue of "The Smithsonian" magazine.
A unique photo of a circus parade in Reynoldsville--a bear dancing with its trainer.
A postcard photo of the railroad station in Reynoldsville--a place which saw arrivals and departures of many family members over the decades.
A late 19th-century view of Main Street, Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania. [The number at the bottom left is 7852, not 1852.]
The Men's Bible Class of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania; W. K. Marshall is in the very center of the third row from the front--note the white beard. This photo was take in 1910, the year before Marshall died.
A close-up of William Kelker Marshall in the center of the group photograph of the Men's Bible Class, Methodist Episcopal Church, Reynoldsville.
The Methodist Episcopal Church of Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania, about 1910. Many (but not all) members of the William and Anna Mary Marshall Family were part of this congregation.
A 2006 view of the cornerstones of the First United Methodist Church in Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania.
The Baptist Church of Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania. Laura Heffner Wilson, daughter of Kate Marshall Heffner and granddaughter of William and Anna Mary Marshall, told me that some of the Marshall men were baptized as young men or adults in the Baptist Church. The grandfather of Julia Miles Marshall (wife of John Leathers Marshall) was Samuel Miles, an early Baptist preacher who traveled throughout this region. John and Julia Marshall were active members of this congregation.
From the time of our old Grandmother Marshall's death in 1924 until the summer of 2007, the William K. Marshall Family graves in the Reynoldsville Cemetery--Section A, Lot 5--were unmarked. With the 1990 death of their granddaughter, Laura Heffner Wilson, there was most likely no one living who remembered where in the cemetery they lay buried. In 2006 and 2007, 30 descendants of this couple contributed to placing a marker for them and their two unmarried daughters. Of their twelve children, nine have living descendants--and I'm in touch with descendants of eight of the nine lines. Members of seven of those eight family lines made possible the placing of this memorial stone. I like to think that our ancestors know we've done this and are happy that their family remembers them.
We remembered the Pennsylvania German family of Anna Mary Rumbarger by placing her family name below her dates of birth and death. We don't know the dates of birth and death for their only child not to live to adulthood--Leila Gertrude Marshall. Or, perhaps, Gertrude Leila. Until someone locates their family Bible, we'll not know for sure.
To find this Marshall gravestone, as you drive south from Reynoldsville on Rte. 310, turn LEFT at the second cemetery entrance--the main entrance. You can see the stone gate for this entrance in the upper left-hand side of this photo. Bear left then, and you can't miss the marker--immediately on your left. Beside these marked graves are the unmarked resting places of their son John Leathers Marshall and his wife, Julia Miles; and of their son-in-law, August Andrew Kleinhans (first husband of Aunt Maggie Marshall Kleinhans Rhoads Hildebrand--she outlived three husbands) and their young son, Arthur Marshall Kleinhans.
Bob, Donna and Kelly Marshall planting fall flowers at the newly-placed Marshall gravestone on 14 September 2007. Bob's daughter Linda is taking the photo.
