Sunday, August 16, 2009

Vere Preston Marsh 1889-1925



Vere Preston Marsh was born March 21, 1889 in Langford, Marshall, South Dakota. He married Genevieve Ann DeNoble on July 31, 1916 at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Virginia, Minnesota. On Vere's 1917 Draft Registration Card his occupation is listed as Game Warden. In the 1920 U. S. Census Record, Vere's occupation is listed as a lumber cruiser. He worked for a lumber company in International Falls, Minnesota and would go out into the forest and mark trees to be harvested.

Vere died March 20, 1925 in Virginia leaving behind his wife Genevieve and three children, John, William and Mary Jeanne. His cause of death is listed as peritonitis following rupture of his duodenal ulcer. Vere was buried on March 23, 1925 at Greenwood Cemetery, Virginia, St. Louis, Minnesota.

My Sources are from my database, U.S. Census Records, birth, marriage and death certificates.

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