Lowndes-Irwin County GaArchives Biographies.....Marshall, William 1848 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 796-797

   WILLIAM MARSHALL. One of the colonial Georgia families is represented by
William Marshall, of Hahira, Lowndes county, and the name has also been closely
identified with the development and civic progress of south Georgia for a great
many years.

   Mr. Marshall was born in Lowndes county, January 13, 1848, and was a son of
Matthew and grandson of Henry Marshall. Henry Marshall, a native of Georgia and
descended from colonial settlers, moved from the northern part of the state to
Irwin county, purchasing land and settling in a district now included in Berrien
county. South Georgia was then a wilderness, most of the land in state
ownership, deer, bear and wolves roamed everywhere through the woods, many of
the Georgia Indians had not yet left and the Florida tribes were still occupying
their aboriginal homes. Hunting parties of Indians often caused alarm, and more
than once hostile raids were made from across the Florida line. A log fort
protected every settlement, and there the women and children took refuge while
the men stood guard or went in pursuit of the red foes. In this vicinity and
amid such conditions the grandfather farmed and raised stock during his active
career, and after the death of his wife spent the last years of a long life in
the home of his son Matthew. His death occurred at the age of ninety-six. His
first wife, the grandmother of William Marshall, was named Sarah McMullen, who
was of Scotch ancestry. She died young, leaving four children. There were also
several children by the grandfather's second marriage.

   Matthew Marshall, who was born in this state and was reared in Irwin county,
later came to Lowndes county and bought timbered land south of the present town
of Hahira, where for many years he was engaged in general farming and stock
raising. Railroads did not penetrate this vicinity for many years after his
settlement, and he hauled his cotton and other products away to market at the
nearest Florida ports. He was one of the successful men of his time, acquired
large landed possessions and much stock, and gave each of his children a good
start in life. Though past military age during the war, in 1864 he enlisted in
the reserves and went to the defense of Atlanta, serving until the end of the
war, escaping either wounds or capture. He then resumed fanning and continued it
until his death at the age of sixty-seven.

   Matthew Marshall married Huldah Bradford. A native of Irwin county, she was a
daughter of William and Elizabeth (Griffin) Bradford. Her father afterwards came
to Lowndes county, settling seven miles south of Hahira, where he was engaged in
farming until the death of his wife, after which he lived at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Marshall. Huldah (Bradford) Marshall died at the age of
sixty-seven. She reared ten children, whose names were William, Henry, John,
Mary, Frank, George, Matthew, Sarah F., Edward and Huldah.

   Though only his early boyhood was passed before the war, William Marshall
remembers when his old home vicinity had not yet emerged from its pioneer
conditions. Cook stoves had not been introduced when he was a boy, and the
housewives still carded and spun and wove, and his clothing as that of other
members of the family was all homespun. His early traning gave him habits of
industry, and he has never lacked that prosperity which is the reward of
progressive effort and ability. On becoming of age he was given a tract of land
which his grandfather had formerly owned and on which his uncle had built a
frame house. There he was engaged in farming until 1893, at which time he sold
out and bought an orange grove in Sumter county, Florida. He lived there until
the grove was frozen, and was then engaged in truck farming in Dade county,
Florida, until 1906, and after a year's residence in Perry, that state, he
returned to Lowndes county and bought a farm near Hahira. In 1911 he retired
from active pursuits, and has since resided in Hahira.

   Though his energies have been devoted to practical business he has not failed
to discharge the duties of good citizenship. In Lowndes and in Dade county, he
has given sixteen years of service in the office of justice of the peace. In
politics he is a Democrat. His father was a charter member of his Masonic lodge,
and Mr. Marshall is likewise a charter member of Hahira Lodge No. 346, F. & A.
M., and also became a charter member of the lodge organized at Lauderdale, Florida.

   Mr. Marshall was married in 1870 to Miss Elizabeth Powell, who was born in
Telfair county, this state, a daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth Powell. Mr.
Marshall and wife became the parents of two sons, Alexander Hitch and John W.
The first married Sally Allen. John W. married Jane A. Bellamy, and has one son
named Brandt. Mrs. Marshall died March 6, 1913.



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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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