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| From the John and Mary Ann Marshall Turk Family Bible -- click to enlarge |
Locating the family pages from the Turk Family Bible in
2006 was a genealogical boon, because the names of some of the Turk babies who died young had been forgotten by the oldest
family members. The above Bible page records the deaths of these children; we do not have identified photographs for
any of them.
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John Marshall Turk (1851-1854)
(Remembered as "Marshall" in the family)
Charlotte Elizabeth Turk (1853-1854)
James Coulter Turk (23 March 1855)
Lincoln Turk (1861-1862)
John Turk (1866-1869)
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The older two children died in the November 1854 Tragedy
which struck the Marshall and Turk Families of Lawrenceburg. Their Grandmother Marshall (Charlotte Kelker Marshall)
and their young Uncle Freddie (Frederick Augustus Marshall) and they all died within a few weeks of each other. They
were the first burials in the John Marshall Plot of the Parker Presbyterian Cemetery. Click here for a link to learn more about this family event.
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The child Lincoln Turk was born on the day Abraham
Lincoln was inaugurated President. This name may signal a shift from the traditional Jacksonian Democratic allegiance
of the Marshalls and Robinsons, to what became a strong Republican Party alignment which lasted well in to the 20th century
among many family members.
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Only two of the five children's graves are marked today.
Charlotte Turk Dean told me in the 1970s that some of the stones for the Turk children had disappeared over the years. Turk and Marshall
family members cleaned and reset the gravestones of Marshall Turk and his sister Charlotte Elizabeth in the fall
of 2007. See the photo below.
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| Sam Turk, with the newly reset gravestones of his grandfather's siblings, 2007 |
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| A Possible Photograph of LEILA GERTRUDE MARSHALL |
Lester Marshall Hartman, son of Mary Lovina
"Love" Marshall Hartman and Clinton Samuel Hartman, was born between 1889 and 1892; and he died before 1900 . . .
[add more].
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| Awaiting a Photograph of EDNA MAY MARSHALL (1899-1904) |
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| The Gravestlone of Edna May Marshall in the Bayard Cemetery, Bayard, Grant County West Virginia |
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| Martha Charlesene Sprankle (1912-1921) |
Charlesene Sprankle was the daughter of Charles Fair Sprankle
(1880-1955) and Zella Beatrice Hartman (1883-1972) of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
Thanks to Sprankle Family researcher Don Ludwig for sharing
her obituary with us.
CHARLESENE
SPRANKLE DIED AFTER LONG ILLNESS THURSDAY
Child had been Ill for Nearly a Year
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Survived
by Parents and Three Sisters
Charlesene,
9-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sprankle, of Pine street, died at the home of her parents yesterday
afternoon at 2 o'clock, after a lingering illness. The little girl had been ill
for almost a year and finally succumbed to tuberculosis after having successfully fought measles and pneumonia. She is survived by her parents and three sisters, namely, Helen, Florence and Dorothy.
Funeral services will be held Sunday beginning at 2:30 and interment made in Circle Hill
cemetery. Rev. E. C. Good will officiate. Her sister Helen graduated last night from the local high school.
Source: "The Punxsutawney Spirit" (Punxsutawney, PA), undated, "2 June 1921" handwritten on obituary
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| FRANK JAY MCCLURE, called "Jay" |
Jay McClure, son of Ethel Marshall McClure and Frank McClure, was born . . .
Pictured here with her mother Kathryn--most
likely, in Altoona--Shirley lived from 1926 to 1935. She was the daughter of Milton Curt John
(1900-1959) and Kathryn Julia Marshall (1904-1979); the granddaughter of Ed
and Carolyn Graffius Marshall of Altoona; and the great-granddaughter of John Leathers and Julia Miles Marshall of
Jefferson County.
Shirley died of scarlet
fever and strep throat in the decade before the wide-spread use of penicillin would have prevented her death. He Family members
in 2008 remember the story that her doctor had a new medication shipped to Altoona, and was on the way to the John home with
it when Shireley died. She is buried with her Marshall kin in the Rose Hill Cemetery, Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Patricia "Patty" Marshall was the
daughter of Leslie Ray Marshall (1908-1992) and his wife Bea . . . [finish this].
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| Leslie and Patty at the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington |
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