Marcella J. Marsh

Brief Life History of Marcella J.

When Marcella J. Marsh was born on 17 March 1850, in Franklinville, Cattaraugus, New York, United States, her father, Reuben R Marsh, was 26 and her mother, Lucinda Oaks, was 18. She married Carey Trumbel Pierce on 7 September 1871, in Grundy, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Franklinville, Franklinville, Cattaraugus, New York, United States in 1865 and Lawrence, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 7 February 1905, in Dwight, Livingston, Illinois, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Verona, Grundy, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Carey Trumbel Pierce
1825–1896
Marcella J. Marsh
1850–1905
Marriage: 7 September 1871
Lillian May Pierce
1872–1934
Albert " Bert" Henry Pierce
1873–1957
Charles Taylor Pierce
1875–1964
Mercy Ellen Pierce
1876–1951
William Robert Pierce
1878–1951
Leslie Edmund Pierce
1882–1951
Lester Garfield Pierce
1883–1966
Daniel Grant Pierce
1885–1919

Sources (61)

  • Marcella Pierce, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Marsella Marsh, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
  • Utah, U.S., Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961

World Events (8)

1854

Historical Boundaries: 1854, Livingston, Illinois, United States [Spreads across Livingston and Grundy counties]

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

Name Meaning

English: topographic name for someone who lived by or in a marsh or fen, Middle English mersch (Old English mersc), or a habitational name from any of various minor places called with this word, for example in Yorkshire, Shropshire and Buckinghamshire.

Americanized form of German Marsch .

Americanized form of Slovenian Marš: unexplained. Compare Mars 7.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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