EZRA M. MARSH
Ezra M. Marsh is a native of Grant county, Indiana, born January 16, 1840. He is a son of Enoch and Sidnie Marsh. Enoch Marsh with two of his daughters, Margaret and Minerva, came to Cass county in the fall of 1870, and bought a farm in section 22, Bear Grove township. The following spring he was joined by his wife, who was in feeble health having suffered from a paralytic stroke. She died in this township in 1876. Enoch Marsh has since his wife's death, lived a portion of the time, with his son Ezra, and the remainder of his time at Atlantic. Ezra Marsh came to Cass county in the fall of 1871. He was accompanied by his wife and two children. The first year they lived on the farm with his father, and then settled on the farm they now occupy. It contains one hundred and sixty acres, located on sections 22 and 27. His residence is on 27. He was married June 6, 1860, in Grant county, Indiana, to Mary Louisa Evans, daughter of William M. Evans. She was born January 1, 1844. Ezra Marsh enlisted in September 1863, in Company K, Fortieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, as a recruit and joined the regiment at Columbia, Tennessee. He was in the famous battle at Franklin, Tennessee, in December 1864, and later at Nashville, and with General Thomas in pursuit of Hood's army as long as that army had an existence. They were in winter quarters at Huntsville, Alabama. He was honorably discharged June 16, 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh have five children--Alice M., Rosa Belle, Joseph R., Minnie and George Leroy.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 729.
