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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Nevada County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Willam E. Marsh, brother of Dr. George O. Marsh, whose sketch appears in this history, is a prominent farmer, and born in Ouachita County, Ark., on July 15, 1855, and in the year 1876 married Miss Alice E. Gladden, a native of Chester County, S. C., and a daughter of Edwin and Mary Blake Gladden. Her parents were natives of that State and married there in 1851, and to them were born six children—four sons and two daughters—and four of these children are living at the present date, viz.: William S., Edwin J. and Hellen R. (the wife of John Marsh). Her father is numbered among the brave soldiers who gave his life for the welfare of his country, and her mother emigrated from South Carolina to Arkansas after his death, settling in Ouachita County, where she passed to her heavenly home on August 20, 1885. To Mr. and Mrs. William E. Marsh have been born seven children, viz.: Edwin R., Maud E., William J., Mary R., James E., Jeffie R. and Lula B. The subject of this sketch and his wife are both faithful and devout members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and their estate is valuable and cultivated in an admirable manner. Mr. Marsh is an advocate of progress in ideas and plans, adapting them to the improvement of his handsome property.

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This family biography is one of 96 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Nevada County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Nevada County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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