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Widely-Known Newport Woman Claimed in Death

Elizabeth MARSHALL Passes In Sidney Hospital From Effects Of Stroke

SERVICES HELD MONDAY

Widow Of F.J. MARSHALL Had Operated Pioneer Business After His Death

Residents of Newport and community paused this week before the memory of a 
woman whose name long had been linked with the life and activities of that once 
thriving village and of a wide surrounding area of Shelby County.

Associated with her husband for many years in operating probably the oldest 
business of the village, and after his death becoming its active manager,  Mrs. 
Elizabeth MARSHALL, the widow of F.J. MARSHALL, was known to hundreds of 
residents of surrounding counties.

The aged woman, who was in her 70th year, succumbed in the Wilson Memorial 
hospital at Sidney from the effects of a stroke, at 9:30 p.m. last Thursday.  
She had suffered the stroke 11 days before, lapsing into unconciousness from 
which she failed to emerge.

Eighty-one years ago the building which to this day houses the MARSHALL House 
was built by the father of F.J. MARSHALL, along what is now known as State 
Route 66, and along the Miami and Erie canal, which in that year, 1860, was a 
thriving water shipping route.  F.J. MARSHALL became associated with his father 
in business in his boyhood, and after his father’s death, and his marriage, 
continued the hostelry with his wife.  After his death Mrs. MARSHALL continued 
in the business, assisted by her sons, until the time of her passing.

Elizabeth (MONNIER) MARSHALL was born in Loramie Township, Shelby County, 
near the village of Russia, the daughter of the late George and Julia MONNIER, on 
April 7, 1872.  She grew to womanhood in the community of her birth, and on 
October 24, 1893 was married to Mr.  MARSHALL, the wedding mass having been 
read in the St. Remy Catholic Church at Russia.

The young couple then established their residence in the hotel at Newport, 
and during their life there six sons were born into the household.  Their entire 
married life was spent at Newport, with the exception of a short while during 
which they resided at Dayton.

F.J. MARSHALL as a young man became a leading figure in political activities 
of the community and Shelby county.  He bacame a member of the board of 
directors of the Loramie Banking Co. of Ft. Loramie, and for a number of years was 
president of the institution.

Failing health caused Mr. MARSHALL to curtail many of his activities.  He 
bagan ailing in the year 1928, and his death occurred, after a long and 
disturbing illness, at the PIqua Memorial hospital, on Aug. 21, 1934.