Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-05-17
Judge T. J. Marshall Dead.

Jug L. j. MafSnall, n OF Aui
drain county's oldest and most high
ly respected citizens, died Sunday
after a long illness. Judge Marshall
was nearly "a years Of age and had
led an active and useful life. He
was a consistent member of the
Methodist Church and one of the
oldest and highest Masons in Mis-,
souri,. His funeral services took
place at the M. E. Church, South,
in this city, conducted by the Ma
sons, at 11:30 Monday, May IA,
1894. Rev. j. H. Jackson preach
ed the funeral m The pail
bearers were Sir Knights j. A.
Guthrie, J. M. Riley, Joseph Coons,
Samuel Craig, J. NJ. Marmaduke
and W. r. Rodes. The Masonic
lodge of Santa Fe escorted the re.
mains from Mr.. Smiley's, where
the Judge died, to Mexico.
His place of birth was near Gull
pepper courthouse, in the county of
Culpeper, Virginia, and on the I'd
of June, 1912, the year of the out
break of the Second War with Great
Britain, he first looked upon the
light of day. His parents were
John w. and Parmelia (Moore)
Marshall, both of old and respected
Virginia families. They were in
comfortable circumstances and be-
longed to the better class of Vir-
ginians. Judge Marshall or Thomas
j., as he was then called, was given
a good education in the local schools
and academies. In 1881 he came
to Missouri, and located in Warren
county in 1884, then being a young
man about twenty-one years of age,
The father died in Virginia five years
afterwards, but the mother survived
him until 1865. Judge Marshall
taught school in Warren county for
about six years, and became known
az v"0of tho most capable and pop
ular teachers in that county. So
enviable was his standing, indeed,
that he was elected clerk of the
county by an almost unanimous
vote, and he subsequently filled the
Office by continued reflections for
eighteen consecutive years. When
he was clerk, the duties of county
clerk, circuit clerk and recorder all
devolved upon one officer, which he
discharged with singular efficiency,
and to the great satisfaction of the
public. In 1865 Judge Marshall
moved to Audrain county and made
his home at Mexico. The qualities
that had made him esteemed by
his fellow-citizens in Warren coun-
ty, were not less appreciated by his
new neighbors and acquaintance.
Two years after his removal to this
county he vas elected a member of
the county court, and after his SER
| vice on the county bench he was
appointed treasurer of the county to
fill a vacancy in that office. He was
subsequently elected to that posi-
for four terms in succession, and at
last retired at his own pleasure in
| obedience to the demands ofold age
for rest from the laborious activities
of life. During much of all this
time Judge Marshall was engaged
in merchandising, and as a mer-
chant was entirely successful. Yet,
now several years past the allotted
age Of three-score and ten, and hay-
ing lived an industrious, economical
and we'll directed life, he was not a
rich man. Indeed, his old age was
hardly blessed with a competence OF
this worlds goods to keep him in
ease and comfort until the fading
evening of this life was illuminated
by the approaching dawn of the life
beyond the grave. AS has been
said, Judge Marshall has ever been
known among his fellow-men as a
good man. This quality, SO much
esteemed by all men, is often abused
by not a few. And here follows a
fact or two, that brings out in bold
relief the nobility of the mind and
heart of the man whose sketch we
are now giving. Honorable and
honest himself, and of a liberal and
generous disposition, he assumed,
as is often the case with good and
unsuspecting men, that others are
equally honest and honorable with
themselves. He became surety on
the paper of friends, who used theiI
friendship with him to their own adj
vantage. The result was that he
had their debts to pay; and in his
old age, broken down with rheuma
tism and paralysis, he saw the hon
est accumulations of a life time o
industry swept away to pay for wha
he, himself, had never enjoyed o
. even seen. In these circumstance
how few men are there who woul'
IL not have availed themselves OF tn
benefit invocable under our benigl
d homestead and exemption laws, an
!, thus saved for themselves a pillo,
1t wherein to rest their aged and wear
heads? But this Judge Marsha
did not and would not do; but