Brief Life History of George Williams
When George Williams Marshall was born on 26 November 1852, in Jefferson, Ohio, United States, his father, James Stewart Marshall, was 36 and his mother, Edith Anderson Bogue, was 32. He married Corilla Stafford on 30 May 1895, in Fulton, Illinois, United States. He lived in Vermont, Fulton, Illinois, United States for about 10 years and Pleasant Township, Fulton, Illinois, United States in 1910. He died on 17 December 1919, in Ipava, Fulton, Illinois, United States, at the age of 67.
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- George W Marshall, "United States Census, 1900"
- George Williams Marshall, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- George W. Marshall in entry for Corilla Marshall, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
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World Events (8)
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: usually an occupational name ‘farrier’, occasionally a status name ‘chief official of a royal household or court; a high officer of state’, from Middle English mareshal and Old French maresc(h)al. An even wider range of meanings is found in some other languages: compare for example Polish Marszałek (see Marszalek ). This name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century. It is also borne by Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Americanized form of German Marschall .
Americanized form of French Mercier .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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