HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                      449

    Brought up on a farm, Nelson W. Marshall attended school a part of
each year until January, 1862, when he enlisted in Company F. Fifty-
ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, which was attached to the First Bri-
gade, Third Division, Fifteenth Army Corps. Going South with the
command, he was soon in the thick of the fight, and his activities were con-
tinuous, engagement following engagement. Among the more important
battles in which Mr. Marshall took part were those at New Madrid; Tip-
tonville, where the brigade captured five thousand prisoners; Shiloh;
Island No. 10; Siege of Corinth; Port Gibson; Champion Hill; Siege of
Vicksburg; Missionary Ridge; Siege of Alexandria; was with Sherman
on his march to the Sea; and on April 8, 1865, at the expiration of his
term of enlistment, was honorably discharged from the service at Golds-
boro, North Carolina, During the siege of Vicksburg, Mr. Marshall
received wounds in the leg and neck that incapacitated him for hard serv-
ice, but he continued with his company. He was in the hospital but once,
that being in Nashville, when he was vaccinated. He remained there
three days, when be secured a pass, and getting a negro to secure his
knapsack for him rejoined his command, instead of going home, as it
was expected he would do.
    Returning to Indiana after his discharge, Mr. Marshall came to Clay
county, where his parents were living, and here in Lewis township began
the battle of life on his own account. Industrious and courageous, he be-
gan working by the day at farm labor, and by dint of sturdy toil and
economy he accumulated some money, and when ready to settle in life
bought forty acres of land in section five, Lewis township. The two acres
that were cleared, and a log cabin constituted the only improvements on
the place at the time of purchase, and there he and his bride set up house-
keeping. Getting busy, he cleared a large part of the land, and at the end
of four years traded it for land in section nine, where he lived about a
year. Selling then, Mr. Marshall bought eighty acres of his present farm,
and to this has added by purchase until now his home farm contains two
hundred acres of rich and highly productive land, while in addition he has
a timber lot of twenty acres. His improvements are most excellent, his
buildings being substantial and convenient, his land in a fine state of culti-
vation, and his many fruit and shade trees are both useful and ornamental.
    Mr. Marshall married, in November, 1865, Sarah E. Chambers, who
was born in Lewis township, a daughter of Rice and Mary (Crevison)
Chambers, natives, respectively, of Knox county, Indiana, and Kentucky.
She died February 10, 1901, leaving three children, namely: Charles Clin-
ton, Ivan Riggs, and Bernice W. Charles C. Marshall, now a minister in
the Missionary Baptist Church, is a college graduate, and has been hon-
ored with the degrees of LL. D., D. D., and Ph. D. His first wife, Estella
Trinkle, died a year after their marriage, and he afterwards married Win-
nie Dautaz, by whom he has two children, Byron and Hubert. Ivan Riggs
Marshall, who conducts the management of the home farm, married Ad-
die Spear, and they are the parents of five children, Thelma Ellen, Lavere
Clinton, Mildred Madeline, George Nelson, and Oval Gerald. Mary Ellen,
who married Thomas J. Crist, died in 1901, leaving four children, Bulus
Fay, Thalus Jennings, Nova Zembla, and Naomi. Politically Mr. Mar-
shall is a steadfast Democrat, and for one term served as township
trustee. Religiously he is a member of the Missionary Baptist church,
to which his wife also belonged.