SHELBY COUNTY OHIO OBIT *********************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. *********************************************************************** File contributed for use by Sandy Newman Bubbysgal@aol.com *********************************************************************** F.J. MARSHALL Who Was Prominent Figure In Shelby County Succumbed At The Memorial Hospital In Piqua Last Tuesday Afternoon FORMER BANK PRESIDENT At Fort Loramie and Proprietor Of A Hotel in Home Village F.J. MARSHALL is dead at his home in Newport, Shelby county, and a wife and five sons are receiving messages of condolence from an untold number of persons who reside in all communities throughout this section of Ohio. He was one of the most widely known characters who had any part in the civic life during the past quarter of a century and his line of acquaintanceship reached into all channels, so that when he passed away men and woman throughout a vast area paused to contemplate. With the exception of a few months he spent all of his life in the village in the western section of Shelby county and there perhaps was no other person in the community who came into contact with as large a number of people, as they came and went, as did this man. During his entire life in Newport he was connected with a country inn where almost everybody made their headquarters while they took care of their interests in that locality. It was a popular place over a long span of time and very largely because of the fine characteristics of this man. Mr. MARSHALL was the proprietor and owner of the MARSHALL House at Newport which is situated along state route sixty-six. The building was erected by his father nearly seventy-five years ago and his son spent long years there. His early life was given to rendering such service as was possible for a boy to give at such a place and he was equipped to take over the management of the business when conditions forced him to become the head, as they did when he attained to his young manhood. Frank John MARSHALL was born on January 29, 1872, and he was the only son of Joseph and Philomena MARSHALL who located in the Newport community in their earlier years. The father erected the building in which the hotel business has been conducted in the year of 1860 and it was in this building where the subject of this narrative was born. Two sisters were also born into this family but they, as well as the parents, have been dead over a number of years. The father of John MARSHALL was born in France, while the mother was a native of Germany. They located in the Newport community when the village was a thriving center, made so because of the conveniences that were offered by the Miami and Erie canal. The early life of John MARSHALL was tempered by a very large extent by his association with the hardy men who were compelled to blaze their ways midst almost primitive conditions. Their courage made its impression on him and in his after years he too showed his metal in a very large measure. He passed away after a long and disturbing illness but he refused to be cast down by oppression and thus the element of courage that was beaten into his life by his companions of the yesteryears served him well. During his illness of many months he rested his case in the hands of experts of many schools and this courage did not fail although the situation seemed none too encouraging during many of the changes. Mr. MARSHALL’s death occurred at 4:35 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon, August 21, 1934, at the Memorial hospital in Piqua. His health began to give him concern some time during the year of 1928 and he submitted to an operation during that period. From that time on he passed through many unpleasant experiences and he was taken to the Piqua hospital on Monday afternoon. Mr. MARSHALL took an important place in the affairs of his community at an early age and his loyalty to the people who lived within the circle there was one of the oustanding attributes of his life. He wanted his neighbors and the people who ventured in the Newport community to be as happy as they would be in any other locality under the sun. Whenever some scheme was proposed that would enlarge on the conveniences of country life in his locality he offered his services to further such schemes so that his handprints can be seen in many places in and about Newport. He served the people in Cynthian township, Shelby county, as their public treasurer during a certain period but this was the extent of his ventures in public life. He affiliated with the democratic party during his life and was counseled regularly by the leaders of that party as to policies and plans. He bacame a stockholder in the Loramie bank, at Ft. Loramie, and served as the president of that institution for a time and up until the first of the current year when he refused to retain the place. On October 24, 1893, he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth MONNIER who was a member of a prominent family in the Russia community, the wedding mass being read in the St. Remy church in that village. The young people established their home in the hotel at Newport and lived there while six sons were born into the household. Because of new conditions throughout the country they left Newport and moved to Dayton several year’s ago, but they resided in the city only a short while and returned to Newport to resume their former places in the community. One son, Bryan MARSHALL, died about twenty years ago while the five now surviving are: Wilford and Oswald who are living at the parents’ home; Otto living at Piqua; Roger and Frank, the latter an attorney are living at Sidney. He was affiliated with the Elks lodge at Sidney and was a member of the SS. Peter and Paul parish at Newport. The funeral will be held at the church in Newport on Friday morning at nine o’clock and the interment will be made in the cemetery there.