For more information on the Barmores, see William J. Utermohlen's article, "A Barmore Family Record", published in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record at vol. 123, pp.157-60 (July 1992).
Nathan Sears gave William $300.00 for the land in Cattaraugus, and William paid Asa Egbert of St. Joseph $102.00 for his land in Michigan.
It appears from the maps involved in the sale of the Cattaraugus property that when William sold lot 33, he was selling his father's land. How and when William obtained the property to sell is a mystery; no deed exists for it. The Cattaraugus land record office did say it was not against the law at the time to leave your deeds unrecorded. When Nathan Sears sold the lot in 1849 that William sold to him in the end of 1843, there was reference to a mortgage on the property still owed by William Marsh. The mortgage records showed that on 1 November 1839, William took a mortgage from the Farmer's Loan and Trust Company 6 315 p.38 3 9. It said the mortgage was for "a part" of lot 33. There was a map on it showing the land deeded to executors, Polly Sears, and her father, Joel Scudder, from the will of Hollis Marsh, William's brother. The very same map appeared on the deed of the sale of part of lot 33 to Nathan Sears. The very same map was found on the deed when Nathan sold that land. Hollis must have gotten a piece of his father's land in lot 33, and William got the other piece. The map was included on the legal documents as Hollis' land was tied up in probate to a very young and unknowing Hollis Marsh Jr., who was born after the death of his father.
This same lot is mentioned in a history of Hollis Marsh Jr. in Randolph, not by number, but by a description of its location. (See notes for Hollis.) Lemuel Marsh gave right-of-way to the railroad in 1839, and he could not have done that if he did not OWN the property. The records are hard to read, but the railroad did run north, then turn, and go west across lot 33 on the plat map.
I lost William after 1850 for some time, and Deanna West, President and Webmaster of the LaPorte County Cemetery Association took interest in my story. She found William living over the border from Berrien in 1860 in Hudson, LaPorte, Indiana, The census taker wrote William's name as MARCH, but his son's name is written clearly as Marsh. William and Roxanna were there, along with "Benjamin Franklin Marsh" and Benjamin Franklin Day. He was the school teacher that was with them in the 1850 census also. Benjamin Frankln Day was living in Cattaruagus County in 1840, and it appears he may have gone with the Marshes to Michigan for some reason. No family connection has been found. An Esther Lamb was also in the home; she was likely hired help.
William, interestingly enough, purchased his land in LaPorte County from Benjamin F. Day the 18th of November 1855 for $200.00. LaPorte deeds 1685486. I had previously looked up through 1865 for the sale of land in Berrien, but I did not find it. I am wondering if William farmed both pieces, it being about a day's drive by wagon between Hudson and Buchanan. But William must have been living and working in LaPorte by 1849 when his son was born, and also in 1851, when William's brother, Joseph Marsh, visited him and his sister, Amanda, in the Hudson area. Thanks to Jan Stilson, writer and historian for the Church of God for this information from Joseph's writings as well as the fact that Joseph wrote that his brother, William, took care of his father and step-mother in their older years.
William was still in Hudson, LaPorte, Indiana in 1870, this time enumerated as a Marsh, but Roxanna must have died, as William was remarried. His wife was listed as Anna, and they had a small son, under a year old, named Barton W. There were also two step-daughters in the home named Flora and Carrie Edgerton. William married, 4 Jul 1867 in Berrien, Francis Morris Lowell. (This is a combination of information from Michigan marriage records, and a history of Flora Edgerton over Rootsweb.) The family moved from the LaPorte area before 1874, as a plat map dated in that year does not show land for William Marsh.
William moved his family to Lafayette, Clinton, Missouri. He must have been lured to that area by his nephews, Hollis M. White, Emerson D. White, and Corydon White. He purchased his land in Lafayette in 1873 from his nephew, Emerson. He must have died in Clinton as "Francis Marsh" was found in the 1880 census for the area as a widow with her daughter, Carrie Edgerton, and her three children by William Marsh, Barton W., born 14 Feb 1870 in IN., Ida, born Feb 1872 in IN., and Clarence, born Aug 1875 in MO, all living next door to the nephew, Emerson White. I did not find William in the cemetery records over the web for that area, however.
In 1882, Frances petitioned Clinton County for what was leftover of Wiliam's estate after the sale of his 73 acres. It seems that he died without a will, and his property was sold to pay debts. Frances asked for what little remained. The document says that William died in Aug 1875. Census records showed Frances had a child the same month. Also, an answer was sent to Frances in Stewartsville, Missori. This is where her daughter, Flora, was living. There is no probate document for Frances in Clinton County, and neither person was in their death records.
Thanks to David Graham for sending a copy of a "funeral sermon" for William, given by A.F. Dugger and printed 12 January 1876 in Plymouth, Indiana. Only a small part is quoted here.
"This grim monster, death, has taken from our fond embrace our much loved and aged brother, Wm. Marsh, a respected citizen, a (?) companion, a loving parent, and a devoted follower of Christ. Though some months have passed since we laid our brother away to rest in quiet sleep in the dark, silent tomb, until the light of the glorious dawn of resurrection (?) so long foretold by holy seers of old, still melancholy effects linger in our memory. Such afflictions are not soon forgotten. Deceased was a brother to the late and much lamented, Joseph Marsh, of Rochester, N.Y., editor of the Bible Expositor, devoted to the great cardinal truths of Christianity."
William's three youngest children all wound up in Colorado by the 1900 census. It appears from his daughter's obituary there, that they traveled to Colorado about 1890, and they were with children of their step-sister's, Flora Ann Edgerton Auginbaugh. It now appears that some of the White cousins may have also gone to Colorado with them, particularly Hollis Clinton White, who wrote that he went to Fort Lupton, but returned to Missouri. Also, there is a picture in the White family of Frances and Clarence Marsh taken in Denver, Colorado, so Frances must have gone there for at least a time. It is also interesting that the White family knew that Amanda had a brother named William, and that he had sons named Barton and Clarence.
Dawn Hance told me that she knew why Lemuel named his son William. When the flu plague went through Vermont in 1813, it took the life of
William Marsh, Lemuel's brother, who lived in Shrewsbury. When Lemuel got word that his brother was dead, he named his next son after his
brother, William.
The step-daughter, Flora Edgerton, married Henry Clay Aughinbaugh, 18 Oct 1874 in Stewartsville, Clinton, Missouri. This couple later moved south into Missouri, and then west to Greenwood, Kansas.
The step-daughter, Carrie Amanda Edgerton married Thomas J. Porter 13 Jul 1882 in Clinton, MO. She later lived in Greenwood, Kansas next to
her sister, Flora, and then in Pike, Fulton, Ohio where she died.