Lorenzo D. Marsh

Lorenzo D. Marsh
After it was discovered that two of Lemuel's daughters, Amanda Jane and Rosanna, named sons Lorenzo D., a search was made of the census records, assuming that their "Lorenzo D.'s" were named for a brother. A Lorenzo D. Marsh was found in the 1850 census for Jo Daviess County, Illinois. A search was made of the deed records of Jo Daviess County, and there were five deeds of interest to look at. The deeds brought enough proof in and of themselves that Lorenzo must have been Lemuel and Rosanna's boy as the man Lorenzo did business with the most was his brother, Joseph Marsh, of Rochester, Monroe, New York.

Lorenzo took out a mortgage with Joseph Marsh of Rochester, (named as gentleman) 10 May 1847.
Lorenzo and Maria J. Marsh of Jo Daviess sold to Henry Rice (?) 5 October 1847.
The mortgage between Joseph and Lorenzo was taken care of the 6th of April 1849. The document says that Joseph appeared personally.
Joseph Marsh and Sarah Maria, his wife, of Rochester, Monroe County, New York sold to Lorenzo D. Marsh 6 April 1849. Sarah was there also.
Lorenzo and Maria sold to Joseph Backus 8 May 1849.

There were also two land patents that Lorenzo took on the 1 July 1848.

Lorenzo named his son, Joseph c.1848, after his brother, Joseph Marsh. His second son, Lorenzo Jr. c. August 1850, was named after himself.

There was more proof found for Lorenzo belonging to the Lemuel Marsh family in the "Gazeteer of the State of New York" by Frank Place, 1861, R.P. Smith. "The Randolph Herald was started at Randolph in March, 1842. It was successively issued by Wm. Mason, Lorenzo and Julius Marsh, and Fletcher and Russell until 1845, when it passed into the hands of J.J. Strong, who continued it 2 years. Strong then joined the Mormons, and removed the establishment to Nauvoo, Ill."

Thanks to Jan Stilson, Church of God historian and writer, for sharing the information from Joseph Marsh's writings that he visited his brother, Lorenzo, in Elizabeth, Jo Daviess, Illinois, and baptized him there.

Maria Jane Kellogg born 20 March 1821 in New York was the daughter of Amos and Laurana M. McIntire Kellogg. Maria died 20 June 1852 at Fort Laramie. John Cason wrote that diaries of persons on wagon trains in 1852 showed that the travelers were plagued with a cholera epidemic along the Platt River approaching Fort Laramie. Lorenzo D., Maria, and Lorenzo Jr. likely died of cholera. It appeared the Marsh family was traveling with some of the Kelloggs as Maria's mother and sister were in California for the 1860 census. Lorenzo's son, Joseph, has not been located in that census, however.

The book "The Kellogs in the Old World and the New" list Maria as the daughter of Erastus Kellogg. The marriage of Lorenzo and Maria was listed, as well as Lorenzo's name being, "Lorenzo Dewitt Marsh". The book also says that "both died on the plains near Fort Laramie, Wyoming, 1852".

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