HomeMy WebLinkAboutMarshall, Lavina (Horton)Lavina (Horton) Marshall
Lavina Horton was born about 1819 in Westchester County, New York of unknown parents. By
1847 she was married to Moses H. Marshall and living on a farm in Enfield Township. By June
1850 at the age of 29 (Moses was 31) they had two children: Cornelia Lavina (2, born in Enfield)
and Sarah (3 months).
By 1854, baby Sarah had died, and the family had sold their farm and moved to Allen Township
in Allegany County, New York. Over the following ten years, Lavina and Moses would have two
more children: Frederica (b. 1856) and Edward H. (b. 1859)
Sometime between 1863 and 1865, Moses gave up farming and the family moved to Angelica,
Allegany County where he opened a Shoe Shop. It is in Angelica where Lavina died in August
1869 at the age of 48 because of “Paralysis of the Lungs”. She is buried in United the Day Dawn
Cemetery in Angelica.
About Moses H. Marshall, Jr. Moses was the son of Moses, Sr and Lavina Marshall. He was
born in Westchester County 14 July 1819 and came to Enfield in 1833 [source: Ithaca Journal,
29 Aug 1906] with his parents and siblings. Moses, Sr. was a well-known farmer in the
Township and in 1844 he was Vice President of the Tompkins County Fair (representing Enfield)
[source: Ithaca Journal, 29 Sep 1915].
There are two records post-1870 of Moses, Jr.—a gravestone in Enfield Village Cemetery
showing his dates of birth and death (14 Jul 1819 and 5 April 1887) and the New York Death
Index that shows a Moses Marshall died in Willard, New York on 5 April 1889. Both are
inconclusive as there is no verifiable source to confirm either date of death. The Cemetery
gravestone lists the parents and their sons—as if they would all be buried in that cemetery. If
Moses, Jr. died at Willard, that implies he was either an employee at the Willard Insane Asylum
or a patient. If the latter, there would be no record of burial in that facility’s graveyard as most
if not all patients were buried in unmarked graves.