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Monticello Area Historical Society

The Naming of Marshall Bluffs

 

Since there was some interest, some time back, on how the Marshall Bluffs were named, I thought I would give the information I have.   They were named after my husbands great-grandparents as told by a daughter, Sarah Amelia Marshall-Crouch.

Josiah Hill Marshall, born Dec. 18 1818, died Dec. 20 1890, son of Zechariah and Sally Marshall of Oswego, Orleans Co., New York, and wife Elizabeth O. Wood, born May 18 1821,  died Aug. 16 1881,  came to Wisconsin via the Great Lakes then overland by covered wagon to a place near Palmyra, WI.  They later moved to the farm east of Monticello by the Marshall bluffs, hence the name.  The farm later became the Moser farm. 

The following children came with them from New York:  Sarah Amelia, who married Samuel Crouch; Mary (Ross); Adelaide (Clarke); Albert J. (Burt). Albert served in the 5^th Wis. Battery from Dec. 1863 to the end of the war then was in missionary work in India for 9 years. 

The following children were born in WI. to Josiah and Elizabeth: Lucy (Potter); Jenny (Shaw); Minnie  Estelle, also known as Little Lucy, who drown in a spring on the farm while still in her infancy; Effie (Magee); Lorraine (Brown), died in child birth at age 30.

Mr. J. H. Marshall taught music every winter but followed farming as a business.  The 20^th of Feb. 1883, he married Ella Turner.

The Marshall's are buried in the old Monticello church cemetery.