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History of Cass County, Iowa
Continental Historical Company
Springfield, ILL; 1884

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                                CHAPTER XXVII
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                             BEAR GROVE TOWNSHIP
                               Early Settlement

          JESSE A. MARSH is a native of Grant county, Indiana, born August
       8, 1844.  He is a son of BENJAMIN and MARY MARSH, both of whom died
       in Grant county.  JESSE A. MARSH and MARGARET S. HOWARD were married
       November 6, 1868. She is a native of the same county, born March 2,
       1846, and is a daughter of WILLIAM and RUTH HOWARD. The former is
       now living with Mr. and Mrs. MARSH. The latter died in Grant county
       in 1875.  MR. MARSH came to Cass county in 1876, and purchased
       eighty acres of improved land in section 15, of Bear Grove township,
       where they now live. He enlisted February 1, 1865, in company D, of
       the One Hundred and Fifiy-third Indiana Infantry, and served until
       the regiment was mustered out of the service.  Mr. and Mrs. MARSH
       have no children of their own, but are bringing up a child, DELILA
       J. MOREHEAD, born July 22, 1868.

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