Michael and Mary (Anderson) Marshall arrived in the United States from Ireland sometime around 1836. This is before the mass Irish exodus caused by the potato famine in the mid-1840’s. They, with their Irish-born sons, Richard, Isaiah, Joseph, and George, came to New York where they stayed long enough to have a daughter, Jane, and a son, Samuel, in 1840. By around the mid-1840’s they had moved to Byron Center and established a farm. Over the years Michael and his sons added more property to the Marshall holdings.

Samuel, the youngest of Michael’s sons, ended up with the plot that became the centennial farm. He married a neighbor, Sarah Jones, sometime around 1860.

Michael was 65 years when he died. Mary was 83.

(From the family history files at the Byron Center Historical Society)

Transcriber: Evelyn Sawyer
Created: 19 October 2002
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