Marsh, Ella E. 1848-1934

MARSH, GOULD

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 12/12/2010 at 11:04:54

The Grinnell (IA) Herald; July 6, 1934

SERVICES OF MISS ELLA MARSH SATURDAY, 2 P.M.

Funeral services for Miss Ella Marsh who passed away Monday, in *Montour, Mo., will be held Saturday afternoon in the Congregational church at 2:30 o'clock. Burial will be in Hazelwood.

Miss Ella E. Marsh came to Grinnell with her parents in October, 1854. She passed away at *Montier, Mo., on July 2. She would have been 86 in September. While much of her life was spent in Grinnell, she was active and successful in many places. Graduated from college in 1868, she went that fall to Greenville, S.C., where she taught the freedmen. Later she taught two years in Mobile, Ala. She taught in Moline, in the Soldier's Orphan's Home at Davenport, and was principal of the city schools at West Liberty, Iowa.

She became state secretary of the Woman's Home Missionary of Iowa. In this work she traveled much and was an able speaker. For some years she took care of her aged mother; then lived at Mr. Gould's near Montier, Mo. Mrs. Gould had been a friend from her college days.

For some years she lived with her brother in Wichita but returned to Montier some three years ago.

Miss Marsh was always interested in church and W.C.T.U. work, and that interest continued to the end.

*Transcriber Note: She died in Monteer, Shannon Co. MO Source: MO Death Index