Frederic Eli Joseph MARSHALL

                   Many memories come to mind today as I hear that he has developed shingles. This
is a signal of a failing immune system as of this 10th day of October, 1992. On
21 Mar 1994 he was in a nursing facility being visited by his daughter Orcelia,
when he seemed to have avery lucid conversation.  He stated that that was to be
his last day here.  She thought he meant his last day in the nursing facility.
He lapsed into a coma after this conversation and died two days later.
                  

                   He was a city policeman in the city of Detroit for thirty years. He was
single during his later years and died in his home. He had built the home with
wood cut off the farm property. Subsequently a grand nephew has purchased the
farm and lives in the home which is next to his grandfather's home and farm[Lee
Marshall]. He was a graduate of Hillsdale High School and had attended the
University of Michigan and Hillsdale College. Funeral services were in
Litchfield, Michigan.
                  

                   Married 2 times and no children.   Married first Henry Hilborn and was divorced

in 1933 having been married in 1922. She died in a nursing home in Litchfield.
                  

                   I remember; 1 Getting up at 4 a.m. and being picked up at my home in
Jonesvuille by Uncle Bill to go to Allen or outside of Allen at White Marble
Springs to help mix cement for the foundation of the house he was building.
This would be on Sunday morning. He was sheriff of the county and this was one
of those times when he could take time off to do the work. We would work till
noon and then he would return to Hillsdale and drop me off on his way.  They
lived in the jail building itself. I stayed over-nite there a few times as I
was growing up. Later he was elected to the state legislature representing
Branch and Hillsdale counties. He remained in the legislature until his death
of cancer of the lung.
                  

                   1992 Living with his son on their farm in Allen, Michigan.  His last years were
complicated by severe arthritis and disceminated cancer thru the abdomen. He
received chemotherapy, colostomy, etc.. A farmer all his life, he was a good
man. His farm was my second home as I grew up. I am deeply saddened on this
10th of  Oct. l992.  He died at 5:30 p.m. at the hospital in Coldwater,
Michigan having been admitted on 4 Oct, 1992.