Knox County TN Archives Biographies.....Marshall, Thomas December 8, 1811 - 
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Source: Inter-state Publishing Company (Chicago, Ill.). History of Wayne County, Indiana Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns ... and Biographies of Representative Citizens : History of Indiana and Northwest Territory. Chicago: Inter-state Pub. Co, 1884.
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Thomas Marshall was born in Knox County, Tenn., Dec. 8, 1811, a son of Hon. 
Miles and Martha (Jones) Marshall, natives of North Carolina, his father born in 
1789, and his mother in 1792.  His parents came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1812, 
and located on Green's Fork, near where Washington is now located, but a few 
months later returned to Tennessee and remained until the fall of 1813, when 
they came again to Wayne County, and located on Elkhorn Creek, in what is now 
Boston Township.  In 1816 they removed to Green Township and the following fall 
bought eighty acres of land in Perry Township.  Mr. Marshall held many offices 
of trust in the township, and served two years in the Legislature.  He was 
Magistrate fifteen consecutive years. Both he and his wife were members of the 
Society of Friends.  Mrs. Marshall died in 1854, and in 1855 Mr. Marshall moved 
to Dallas County, Iowa, where he died in 1868.  To them were born ten children, 
nine of whom grew to maturity.  Our subject was reared on a pioneer farm and 
received but a limited education in the subscriptions schools. He remained at 
home till twenty-two years of age.  Nov. 3, 1833, he was married to Cynthia, 
daughter of Sylvanus and Rhoda (Worth) Swain, who came to Wayne County from 
North Carolina in 1824.  To them were born five children -- Clayton, Rhoda, 
Swain, Alonzo and Orlando.  Mrs. Marshall died Dec. 31, 1851.  March 19, 1854, 
Mr. Marshall married Elvira, daughter of Isaac and Eleanor (Thornburgh) Macy.  
They have two children -- Cynthia, Ellen and Elmer Ellsworth.  Of a family of 
seven children and twenty-four grandchildren, all are living.  Mr. Marshall has 
given his children fair educations and is now enjoying the fruits of his labor 
in early life.  He has been a prominent man in his township and has held the 
office of Trustee twenty-two years.

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