The Marsh Infants

We have been doing research on who the Marsh infants parents were.  Well after several searches we have verified that the Marsh infants all belong the Alva A. Marsh and Mary Etta Shirley.   Alva research indicates was born in Kansas in Sep 1873. He was the son of  Albert and Amelia Marsh.  Alva was first counted in the 1880 Census living in Elk Falls, Elk, Kansas.  In the household is Albert age 32, Amelia age 24, Alva A. age 6 and Leslie E. age 1.  Both Albert and Amelia were born in Indiana.  At some point after 1880 and before 1898, Alva comes to Indiana.  He marries Mary Etta Shirley 9 Mar 1898.  Mary Etta was the daughter of Levi Shirley and his wife Nancy J.. Mary Etta is counted in the 1880 Census with her parents and siblings living in Brown Township, Hendricks, Indiana.  Levi is 36, Nancy is 29, Benjamin T. is 14, Mary E. is 8, Violet E. is 6, Charles E. is 5, and Lola E. is 1. 
After their marriage Alva and Etta start on making a family by 1900 two boys are in the family Oral C. age 5 and Roy C. is 1.  Alva  is 26 and Mary E. is 29.  Alva is a farmer and the rent their property.

By 1910 their family had doubled in size, but this growth was not without a lot of heartache.  In 1905 Etta was pregnant and expecting twins, and by the 11 of June 1905; she delivered them. But their lives were short lived and both the boy and the girl died in infancy.  On 17 Oct 1906, Etta delivered two more twin babies, a boy who died in infancy; and a little girl Violet Furn who lived until she was a little over one year of age;  she died 4 Mar 1908.   The final Marsh infant is a little girl born 22 Oct 1911.  Alva dies in 1913 and Mary Etta lives until 1933, they are both buried in Mt. Tabor Cemetery north of Fayette.

If we find any additional information we will blog it.  We would like to put names to these infants