Biographical Sketch of John R. Marsh, Greene County, Missouri, Boone 
Township

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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John R. Marsh was born in Greene County, East Tennessee, January 5, 
1852.  He is a son of James and Deliah Marsh, the father being a man of
considerable prominence, who was born in Tennessee in 1802, and died in
Greene County, Mo., in 1855.  John attended the schools of his native
county in boyhood, and in 1866, came out to this county, remaining the
first time but little over a year.  Returning to Tennessee, he attended
college there until the spring of 1869, when he went to Washington Co.,
same State, and engaged in farming until the fall of 1870. After Clerk-
ing awhile in a store in Tennessee, he went to Dalton, Georgia, and
there was similarly engaged.  He then returned to his native State, but
made only a short stop, when he emigrated to this county, in 1871.  The
next year he went back to Tennessee to "fetch his bride," and was marr-
ied to Annie E. Dobson, daughter of Rev. J. B. Dobson.  They are the
parents of six interesting children, four boys and two girls. Mr. Marsh
has served as constable and deputy sheriff, and still holds the latter,
having been appointed in 1878.  He was engaged for two years in the
mercantile and livery business in Ash Grove, but now, after a varied
life, has moved, in 1880, on the old homestead four miles southeast of
Ash Grove, and is engaged in farming.  He is both a Free Mason and an
Odd Fellow in good standing in each order.

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