Biography of Marshal M. Mashburn, Saline Co, AR

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Submitted by: Leon Rowland Moore <moorelrm@swbell.net>
        Date: 5 Nov 2002
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Source: Goodspeed's History of Saline County

Marshal M. Mashburn, the father of J. Y. Mashburn, is an old resident of Saline
County, and well known throughout the surrounding country as an upright and
conscientious man in all his dealings. He was born in Abbeville District, S.C.,
in 1817, and is a son of Daniel and Dorinda (Hughes) Mashburn, of North
Carolina and South Carolina, respectively. The mother was married three times,
Daniel Mashburn being her second husband. When Marshal was twelve years old
they moved to Alabama, where the father died, and before the war the mother was
married to John Harris, her third husband. In 1876 they came to Saline County,
where the mother died on November 5, 1882, at the age of eighty-six years, a
devout member of the Baptist Church. She was a daughter of Moses Hughes, of
South Carolina, who afterward moved to Alabama, where he became a well-known
farmer, but fell a victim to intemperance. His father was Nathaniel Wells, of
Pennsylvania, and of Welsh origin, who fought in the Revolutionary War. Moses
was a little boy with his father in that war. Daniel Mashburn was a farmer all
his life and an honest man. He was a Baptist in religious faith and liberal in
his contributions to charities that came under his notice. He was a son of Matt
Mashburn, who died in North Carolina, and after his father's decease went to
South Carolina, then to Alabama, where he resided until his death. Marshal M.
was the oldest child of his mother's second marriage and received a fair
education in his native place. In 1838 he was married in Talladega County,
Ala., to Martha J., a daughter of John Moore, of that State, and became the
father of twelve children of whom nine are yet living. Mrs. Mashburn was born
in South Carolina and died in Saline County, Ark, on June 6, 1875. Those of
their children who are living are: Jane H. (wife of Allen Adams), J. Yancy,
Susan A. (wife of Jonathan Adams), Daniel H., Nancy E. (wife of Asa Baxley),
Rufus C., on daughter the wife of Vesta Carmichael, Frances a. (wife of
Nicholas Briggs), and Virginia P. (wife of Rufus C. Morgan.) They are all
married, and Mr. Mashburn can boast of having forty grandchildren, besides a
number of great-grandchildren. His second marriage occurred in 1876 to Mrs.
Olive A. Ball, an estimable widow and a daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth Moore,
of North and South Carolina, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Were married in the
latter State but moved from there to Morgan County, Ga. The father is residing
now in Coweta County, at the age of ninety-one years. He is a prominent farmer
and member of the Methodist Church, as was also his wife, who died in 1838.