MARQUESS Charles - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

THE DELPHI TIMES

DELPHI, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1894

Charles Marquess, one of the oldest citizens in Carroll county, died at the home of his son, Issac Marquess, near Patton in Jefferson township last Saturday at the age of eighty-three, eleven months and four days.

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The following in quotations was written by the deceased before his death:

"Charles Marquess was born April 27, 1810, in the state of Virginia, one mile south of Sniker's Gap on the Blueridge, in Clark county. Moved with my father, brother and two sisters to Montgomery county, Ohio, in the fall of 1830, and went to work at my trade, which was coopering, and was married to Elizabeth Ann Holmes in the fall of 1832, in Montgomery county, Ohio, and in the fall of 1833 moved to Carroll county, Indiana, and in the winter of 1835 moved to Robroy, Fountain county, Indiana, and in the spring of 1838 moved about four miles north of the Tippecanoe battle ground in the edge of White county; in the fall of the same year moved to Delphi and commenced working at coopering and made the first pork barrel ever made in Delphi. I carried on coopering there until September, 1854, and then moved up in Jefferson township near Tippecanoe where I resided until the spring of 1889. I then sold my farm and made my home with my two sons."

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Copied as written from the original by Joanne Marcus Britcher.