MARSH - EATON - Farmers Branch, Tex.,
Nov 24. - Last night at the residence of the bride's parents Miss May Eaton and T. J. Marsh were married, Rev. G. W. Good officiating.

The Dallas Morning News - November 25, 1898
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

OBITUARY

MARSH - T. J., passed away at his home on Midway road Saturday morning. Age 75. Survived by wife, Mrs. May Marsh, one son, Tom Marsh; one daughter, Beulah May Hastings, Dallas; one sister, Mrs. Mollie Buchanan, Dallas. Funeral services at the Farmers Branch Methodist church at 3 p.m. Sunday with the Rev. L. B. Trone, Lancaster, and the Rev. N. W. Oliver, Carrollton, officiating. Pallbearers: Bill Decker, Ed Cobb, George Miller, Murrell Buckner, B. B. Hemphill, and Tom W. Fields, Arrangements with Rhoton Funeral  Home, Carrollton

The Dallas Morning News - April 3, 1938
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

OBITUARY

Pioneer Departs Life At Advanced Age

Thomas Joseph Marsh died at his home on Midway road Saturday morning, April 2, about 8:30 o'clock. Death came suddenly and quite unexpectedly as Mr. Marsh had been about the farm just as was his usual wont on friday evening. early Saturday morning he had aroused his wife and stated that he had a headache and after administering to his needs Mrs. Marsh had gone to bed again and when she arose he was seemingly at ease and breathing easily and she went about her work and did not call him for some time.  When she went to call him for breakfast he was dead.
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Methodist church at Farmers Branch, the body being brot from the home at that time attended by a large concourse of friends. Rev. L. B. Trone of Lancaster and Rev. N. W. Oliver of Carrollton, a former pastor of the church and the present pastor of the church, conducted the services. Interment was in the Marsh cemetery, a private home cemetery a couple of miles east of Farmers Branch where the members of the Marsh family who have gone on before lie buried. Rhoton's had charge of the funeral arrangements.  The Odd Fellows, of which lodge he had been a member for a great many years, had charge of the services at the grave. Pall bearers were: Bill Decker, Ed Cobb, George Miller, Murrell Buckner, B.B. Hemphill, Tom Field.
The funeral was the largest we had seen in this section of the country for our term of residence here, some eleven years. At the time we went to Farmers Branch there were approximately 250 cars already present and by the time the services were under way at least 500 cars has brot people from far and near to pay their respects to their neighbor and friend of the pioneer days and of today.
Tommy Marsh was born, on the farm on which he died on June 29, 1862. He was at death aged 75 years, nine months and 5 days. He was born in the same room in which he died and had spent the three quarters of a century on the farm which his parents had taken many years before they came to the Farmers Branch settlement as members of the Peters Colony which settled the territory way back in 1844, the family came from Independence, Missouri.
As before stated this was the most largely attended funeral we have seen in this section in our time. The church was filled with people and the number on the outside so far exceeded those who could enter the church that it took twenty-seven minutes for those on the outside who desired to do so to pass the bier following the emptying of the church. The floral offering was most profuse and very beautiful.

The Marsh family came from Independence, Missouri, in 1844 and settled east of Farmers Branch on lands adjoining the lands taken by the I. B. Webbs.  Harrison C. Marsh, and his wife had two sons and three daughters composed the family which settled there. Harrison Marsh and wife were natives of Kentucky, being born in the Paris community. Thomas C. Marsh, father of Thomas Joseph Marsh, married Hannah Helen Husted of Birdville, Tarrant county, and besides this one son had two daughters, one of whom Mrs. J. E. Buchanan lives at 3233 Cole avenue, Dallas. The other daughter, Sarah Catherine married A. W. Stalmaker and died Dec. 22, 1920.
Thomas Joseph Marsh and Mary Eaton were married and settled and have ever lived on the old home place established by the father years ago. They have two children who, with the mother, still survive. Tom J. Marsh, and Beulah Mae Hastings: the sister Mrs. Buchanan also survives. Mr. Marsh was a member of the Presbyterian church and a member of the Odd Fellows lodge.
As before stated he had spent his entire life here and was an upright law-abiding citizen, will liked by his neighbors and his associats and always did his part in caring for the civic duties which came his way. He lived along and useful life and did his part to make the world a better place in which to live and rear a family. He will be greatly missed and his memory ever revered.

The Carrollton Chronicle - Friday, April 8, 1938

COUNTRY CORRESPONDENCE
FARMERS BRANCH NEWS

Tom J. Marsh died Saturday morning suddenly. Funeral services were held at the Methodist chruch Sunday; burial in Marsh cemetery

The Carrollton Chronicle - Friday, April 8, 1938

 
THOMAS JOSEPH
MARSH
1862 - 1938

Marsh Cemetery, Farmers Branch, Dallas County, Texas