Joseph Marshall - Mary T Vass Marriage Bond

Marshall, Joseph W 1a

Birth Name Marshall, Joseph W 2a 3a 4a 5 6a 7a 8a 9a 1b 10a 11a 12a 13
Also Known As Marshall, Joseph
Also Known As Marshal, Joseph
Gender male
Age at Death 68 years, 8 months, 4 days
Birth date 20 March 1802 (North Carolina, United States of America)
Death date 24 November 1870 (Winston, Forsyth, North Carolina, USA)

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  1. Ancestry.com: North Carolina, Deaths, 1906-1930
      • North Carolina, Deaths, 1906-1930
      • North Carolina, Deaths, 1906-1930
      • North Carolina, Deaths, 1906-1930
  2. Ancestry.com: 1860 United States Federal Census
  3. Ancestry.com: 1840 United States Federal Census
  4. Ancestry.com: 1850 United States Federal Census
  5. Ancestry.com: Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940
  6. Ancestry.com: North Carolina, Marriage Index, 1741-2004
  7. Marriage and Death Notices in Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette, 1826-1845
  8. Ancestry.com: North Carolina, Index to Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868
  9. Ancestry.com: 1830 United States Federal Census
  10. Ancestry.com: U.S., Selected Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, 1850-1880
  11. Year: 1870; Census Place: Winston, Forsyth, North Carolina; Roll: M593_1137; Page: 465; Image: 339.
  12. Ancestry.com: 1850 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules
  13. Ancestry.com: U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
  14. Forsyth County NC Deed Books
      • Page: Book 3, Page 670-1
  15. Letters - Joseph Marshall to Jane Virginia Hoylman
      • Page: Letters from 1863 and 1865 sent by Joseph Marshall in NC to his daughter in Greenbriar County, VA (later WV). They seem to have been returned to him unreceived.
      • Source text:

        Letters of Joseph Marshall to Jane Virginia Marshall
        1863 and 1865

        Joseph Marshall, a cabinetmaker then living in Germanton, North Carolina, wrote the following letters to his daughter, Jane Virginia Marshall Hoylman, who resided with her husband and children in what what had been Virginia but, as of April 20, 1863 had become the new state of West Virginia. Written in the middle of the war and immediately following Lee’s surrender to Grant, the letters show the stress of a parent whose child is beyond his reach.

        Joseph’s first letter mentions having received one from Jane [May 1863]. Judging by his final letter, he had heard no more from her and was in hope that, the war being over, they would be free to communicate once again. Unfortunately, at the time of his writing in 1865, Jane was several months dead at age 34, having caught pneumonia after hiding with her children in the woods near their home on Lick Creek in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, when a band of “bushwhackers” raided the house.

        The text is a transcription of scanned images of copies of the original letters. Those copies have lain in a shoebox in either Virginia or North Carolina for an unknown period of time, and the location of the originals, if they still exist, is also unknown at present. The copies were “blown up” in size to make them more readable by a person whose sight was evidently too poor to decipher the actual letters. We have the scans thanks to a member of a Marshall family study group in North Carolina who recognized their significance upon communicating with me about the family tree placed on a genealogy web site.

        Because the letters remained with a descendant of Joseph Marshall’s second family, all of whom remained with him in the Germanton area throughout the war, it is all but certain that they were never received by his daughter or her family in West Virginia. In fact it appears that all contact between the two families was lost because of the war, Jane Virignia’s death and the movements of the families after the start of the war. It was not until 1891 that Joseph Marshall’s youngest daughter by his second marriage, Mary Letitia Marshall, made contact with a Hoylman still living in West Virginia to discover that her half-sister’s family had long before moved to central Nebraska.

        Joseph’s words are transcribed as he wrote them, including some interesting spellings.

        For those also having the scanned documents in PDF form, their correct order is:

        1863 letter: Page 4A (right); Page 1A (left); Page 1A (right); Page 4A (left)
        1865 letter: Page 2A (right); Page 3A (left); Page 3A (right); Page 2A (left)

        MP
        10 July 2012

        Germanton N.C. May 31st, 1863

        My Dear Daughter

        Your letter of the 19th Inst [instant; i.e. 19 May] came and by due course of mail and as I have not had a line or heard a word from you since the War broke out, you can't imagine how mutch I was delighted to know once again that you are not only alive but that you were all in good health. I had written so often and rec no answer that I took for granted that you must be in that part of Virginia that ceceeds and that it was not worth while you wright as I was informed that a letter can not pass the line between the ceceeded and Union States during the War. But if one only of your letters has reached me since before the war broke out it encourages me to hope that this and others may pass from each of us to the other. At any rate I will wright frequently and hope that you will not be disheartened whether you receive my letters or not.

        As the war is the all absorbing subject both North and South and as you are living nearer the seat of the war than I am I deign it unne[ce]ssary to say much if anything about it as I have no doubt you receive news quicker and more correct than we do here for we but seldom hear of a fight but Rumer reports that the Confederates [are] badly whiped but when the official report comes Madame Rumer is proven to be a lyar and every Southern patriots heart is gladdened with the report of glorious Confederate Victory. These false reports are generally started about Salem where they are nearly all Torys or Union men as they call themselves. There is a great deal of distress in this part of the Country from an apprehension of sufferings if not from actual want of provisions. Thoe there is not sutch a scarcity of the staff of life as would alarm the people if it was not for the unprincipled speculators that have bought up the surplus provisions and refused to sell at at [sic] prices that poor people can possibly pay much longer. Corn is $5 per bushel flour $.30 per lb Bacon $[?] to $[?] per lb lard the same coffe $4 to $4-50 for sugar $1-00 Mollasses $11-00 per gallon and every thing else about in proportion, salt is from 40 to 50 cents per lb. Manufactured Tobacco is from $1- to $4- per lb. From these figures you may see that it very hard [for] a laboring man to support a family by working a trade, I could not support by the cabinet business and have quit that and have been making shoe pegs fore more than 12 months by which I have made out to live. I commenced selling them at $5 per Bushel and have had to raise the price from time to time and am now selling at $8- per Bushel and unless provisions should come down in price I shall soon have to raise the [price] to $10- or more.

        I have nothing more that I can think of that would be of mutch interest to you more than that we are all well as usual. Mary is very often complaining but keeps up. Nannie is very mutch delighted with the .little keepsake you sent her and says she will send you something when I wright again. We have another little girl 18 months old the 19th of this month. We have named her Mary Laticie. Be sure to wright to us soon as you receive this and let us know how many children you have if any and their names. Since you sent their names in a former letter our little Betty continues to have fits. They have seriously injured her mind. Your uncle Edward's family were all tolerable well a few days ago. Mary and the children all join me in sending their best love to you and all yours. Give my bes[t] love to Mr Hoylman and [accept?] the largest portion from your affectionate father, Joseph Marshall

        Germanton N.C. Dec 18th,1865

        My dear Daughter

        The war is ended and peace is made and as the males [mails] are started to a very limited extent I have concluded once more to wright you a few lines with some little hope that they may reach you. You can't imagine how anxious I am to hear from you and [illegible] since soon after the war commenced. [JM seems to indicate by that line that he has not heard from JVM since much earlier in the war.] We have had an exceeding hard time of it during the war. Provisions being scare and so extremely high that it was impossible for many families to get enough to keep them from suffering seriously for the necessarys of life. Since the surrender of the confederate army the prices of provisions has come down to a more moderate price but the scarcity of Money makes it nearly as hard for the buyers of Provisions to get them as it it was before the surrender. Corn is said to be scarce but it can yet be had for $1-00 per bushel. Wheat is very scarce. There was but very little made this year and a large portion of it is of very inferior quality. Good wheat sells at $4-00 per Bl. Pork is offered for $15-00 in specie or $21-00 in greenbacks.

        Three Stores have been opened in this place within the last four weeks but their goods are so high that but few persons are able to buy common domestic cloth that could be bought before the war at from 8 to 12 1/2 cents per yd. now sells from 50 to 75 cents and other staple and dry goods at about the same rate. Groceries are also about the same rate. We have made out to weather the storm are all alive and as well as usual, but we have had a hard time of it as well as many others in this part of the country. We had a very destructive Rade of a Yankey army through this place about the 10th of April last. They said there was 15 thousand all Cavalry. They took nearly all the corn, wheat, Bacon, and other provisions, and Horses and mules through this part of the country for a space of 10 or 15 miles wide, but they behaved better than they did in many other parts of the country through which they passed. They burnt no houses nor insulted no person male or female that I have heard of. They took all the silver plate they could find and some articles of clothing, some ladies dresses and many Boots, shoes, coats hats etc.

        I could relate many other circumstances of the war but let what I have said sufise for the present. I have not much in my mind at present that I think would be interesting to you. I am still living in this place, but I am still as mutch dissatisfied as ever I was, and am determined to leave it as soon as I can get away. I have been trying for 2 or three months past to collect money enough to pay expenses to Yanceyvill and back with the object of making arrangements to move to that place if I can but have as yet failed to get any; money is so scarce that some can't get it and the most of those that can pay won't pay because the Judiciary power of the state are not yet [?arrived] and they know that I can't make them pay. If I fail to make arrangements to move to Yanceyville I will try other places until I find some place that I think will soot me better than this Den of Villains does. Your uncle Edward was conscripted and was in the army several months, was in one prety sharp battle but did not get hurt. He was at home on a sick furlow when the confederate gen'ls surrendered and was very feeble for several months. He is now as well as usual. The rest of his family are all well, his oldest daughter has been married nearly two years to a gentleman by the name of Pinkney Oliver, a very promising young Baptist Preacher. They have one fine daughter some 10 months old. They have named her Maria Ella. Your Uncle Edward would be very much pleased to receive a letter from you. He is frequently enquiring after you and has said that he would wright to you some time soon -- If you should receive this I know you will wright to me as soon as you may. Three of our children are going to school they are learning very well. Nanie says she will wright to you if letters can pass between us she has learnt to read and wright very well and has become so fond of Novels that I very much fear it will be a vey great injury to her. Our Daughter Betty gets no better of her fits, she has frequent spells of them that she has no sense at all. I have nearly dispared of her ever being cured of them when she escapes them for 3 or 4 weeks, as she sometimes does her mind partially returns. The smallness of my sheet compels me to close. When you receive this wright to me and you shall hear from us again. Mary and all the children join me in love to you and Mr Hoylman and all your children. Give my love and best wishes to Mr Hoylman and [?] for yourself. Jos. Marshall

         

  16. The People's Press - Winston-Salem NC
      • Date: 2 December 1870
      • Page: Friday, Dec 2, 1870
      • Confidence: Very High
      • Source text:

        DIED, In Winston, on Thursday the 24th of November, 1870, after a protracted illness, Joseph Marshall, formerly of Danville, Va., aged 68 7years and 8 months. The deceased had been a consistent member of the Baptist Church at Red Bank for more than 37 years.

  17. Raleigh Register, Raleigh NC