Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Marbry, Louis N. 1838 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  LOUIS N. MARBRY, farmer, P. O. Robinson, was born in Calloway County, Ky.,
April 11, 1838. His father, Alfred Marbry, was a native of Virginia. He was
raised there and removed into Tennessee, and there married Martha Freeman, a
native of Virginia. In a short time after marriage, they removed into Calloway
County, Ky., at which place he died in March, 1849, leaving a wife and nine
children to mourn his loss. Four of his children are now living, three are
residents of this county, namely: Martha, wife of John McGrue, deceased; Garret,
farming; Louis N., our subject; Mary, wife of John Wagner, living in Union
County, Ill. Their mother died here March 21, 1876. Our subject was brought by
his mother to this county in 1849, and here was raised on a farm, and his
education was limited to the common schools of the country what time he
attended. As early as 1851, when but thirteen years of age, he commenced working
out by the month, in order to help support himself, his mother and family. In
1854, when sixteen years of age, he engaged in farming for himself, in this
county, and successfully continued in agricultural pursuits until 1861, at which
time, April 13, he enlisted in Company I, Twenty-first Illinois Volunteer
Infantry. He was in several battles, namely: Fredericktown, Mo., Perryville,
Liberty Gap, Stone River, Chickamauga, Dallas, Resaca and Kenesaw. He was
mustered out at Chattanooga, July 5, 1864, at which time he came back to this
county and engaged in farming. He made his first purchase of land in Hutsonville
Township, south of Hutsonville; on selling out there he bought land northwest of
Palestine; on selling out there he bought land in Licking Township. He sold his
farm in Licking Township and bought property in Robinson, and after traded it
for land in Richmond County, Ill., and after traded it for 80 acres of land
adjoining his farm of 100 acres, since purchased. It is all in cultivation, and
he is successfully engaged in the raising of grain and stock. Previous to his
engaging in farming, in 1864 and 1865, he took a contract on the building of the
P. & D., now the Wabash & Southeastern Railroad. In 1866, November 1, he was
married to Sarah E. Walters, a native of Crawford County, born November 28,
1848. They have three children, living, namely: Charles, John and Medford, and
two dead, namely: William and Maud. Our subject, beginning in 1873, run a livery
stable in Robinson until 1875, at which time sold out and removed to his farm,
where he is now engaged in agricultural pursuits. He is a member of the Knights
of Honor, Robinson Lodge.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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