STANLY COUNTY, NC - HOFFMAN - Marshall Home and Cemetery
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From the Notebook of Lilly Carter Hoffman:
 
When I was a child, my mother use to take me there. Then the cemetery was very 
beautiful with the white grave stones dotted here and there among the cedar 
trees. A white fence surrounded the cemetery carpeted with purple blooming 
periwinkle. As the years passed, it was destroyed by cows being tied to the 
gravestones and monuments used for pillars of garages, etc. Finally the 
Wiscassett Mill Co. cleaned up the cemetery by hauling off all the broken 
stones and debris. In 1955,the descendants made an effort to restore it by 
placing a monument there with the names of Henry Marshall and his two wives, 
Susanna Hines Tomlinson and Mary Hayes Barker.
On Jan 14, 1955 Mrs. Lizzie Parker Reynolds, president of the Stanly County 
Historical Society published an article in the Stanly News and Press about the 
Marshall family.
"...were living on a plantation on the Old Salisbury Road, near the ford of 
the Little Long Creek, later known as Town Creek. The property after several 
changes became the Cannon Mill holdings about 50 years ago. The house site is 
now owned by Freeman Calloway......A committee from the Stanly County 
Historical Society has been instrumental in securing title to this 45 by 80 ft 
plot that the relatives may be able to make here a sacred shrine....
The old Marshall home, a two story frame structure, four rooms down stairs and 
two above, was rebuilt into a home now owned by Freeman Calloway of Graham 
Street, who lives on the same lot.  Mr. Calloway says that the home was built 
of good material. The upstairs floor was hand dressed on both sides and served 
as a ceiling for downstair rooms. The exposed joists or overhead beams were 
carefully finished with a hand cut groove of heading. The board paneling now 
serves as a wall finishing in the re-built home which has the old doors from 
the first courthouse, built in the middle of the square and later moved by 
John R. Myers to the north west corner (Note from LCH: This old Marshall house 
was the home of the Myers family when they came here from Chicago in 1868. 
Their daughter, Laura married Mr. Green Dry and their children Dera, Chester, 
Grace and Helen live there-,except Grace who lives in Greensboro)
Henry Marshall built the Marshall Hotel in Albemarle which was the first hotel 
between Salisbury and Wadesboro. He gave it to his son Joseph Marshall who 
kept it until his death. After that it was kept by Nora, his widow. Henry 
Marshall played an important part in the early history of Stanly County and 
his last resting place deserves permanet care by his descendants."
 
Mrs. Reynolds asked me to give the Marshall history on March 27,1955 at the 
Marshall reunion when the monument would be unveiled. I was happy to do so 
....March 27,1955 was my 67th birthday, it was a very cold day.