1857 Rev William Kidd Marquess Sr. died on November 9 and was buried at Parent Cemetery, Union City, Darke County, Ohio. Rev William Kidd Marquess Sr. was born on December 6, 1795. [1]
Research Notes:
A biosketch reports [2]:
Dr. William K. Marquis is a son of William and Polly Marquis, and was born in Darke County, Ohio, on the 9th day of April, 1832. His parents were natives of Hardy County, Va., and the mother is yet living at the age of eighly-seven years. He was brought up on a farm, received his education in the common schools, and read medicine with Dr. Enos Williams, of Darke County, beginning the practice of his profession in 1808. In 1853, he married Miss Mary Bennett, by whom he had nine children. She died in October, 1875, and in March, 1877, he married Miss Fannie Coats, by whom he has two children. For seventeen years he has been a minister of the German Baptist Church; at present lives on his own farm of fifty-five acres in southwest part of Wayne Township, this county, and is engaged in the practice of his profession.
c 1850 Among early settlers of Union City was "Kidd" Marquis, on the Parent farm, south of town. [3]
1891 Mary Polly Marquess died 29 March and was reported buried at Parent Cemetery, Darke County, Ohio. An obituary for "Mary (Stingley) Marquis "Polly" reports [4]:
Polly Marquis's grandmother on her father's side was Elizabeth Bussard, Her first marriage was to Mr. Overholtzer, they were living in Germany at this time, After their marriage they united with church; they were then driven from their native land and home by the cruel religious persecutions which arose, turning their faces toward the then inviting peaceful shores of the new world, America. While they were on their long tedious journey of months duration which sailing vessels then had to make, Mr. Overholtzer and their only child died. Upon the arrival of the vessel in America, Elizabeth Overholtzer was sold by the ship captain as a slave for three years to pay tor their transportation, and was sent into the fields to cultivate corn and tobacco, but by diligence and industry her master set her free, at the expiration of one year. After regaining her freedom, she married John Stingley, a Swede by birth. This union was blessed with seven children. He died leaving her to again fight the battles of Iife in a new, mountainous wilderness home in Virginia. Wm. Stingley, one of their sons, Polly Marquis's father, was born in 1764. After his father's death, when seven years of age, he was bound out to Col. Welton, remaining with him until he was twenty-one years old. Then in company with several other young adventurers, he went to Kentucky, but remained only a few months on account of Indian hostilities. Returning to Virginia, he married Charity Roby, in 1791. Charity's mother's maiden name was Shaw. The Robys and Shaws were a long lived people, living 80, 90, 100 years. Wm. and Charity Stingley were the parents of six children. Wm. Stingley died at the advanced age of 91 years. Polly Marquis, nee Stingley, their second child, was born Oct. 19th, 1794, in the valley between the Allegheny and New Creek mountains, Hardy County, Virginia, and was married to Wm. K. Marquis Sept. 8th, 1816, by Elder Samuel Arnold. They moved from Virginia to Ross County, Ohio, in 1818, settling on Paint Creek. Lived there 8 years, then moved to the Darby Plains in Union county, Ohio, in 1826, lived there 4 years; then, in March, 1830, they came to Darke County, Ohio, settling in the woods on the farm now owned by Samuel Parent, adjoining Union City on the southeast, where they resided until the death of Wm. K. Marquis, which occurred Nov. 9th, 1857, after which the old homestead was sold and grandmother made her home with her children, peacefully and patiently passing her days until death came and called her away to that home on the other shore which she has been longing to enter, to enjoy that "rest that remaineth for the people of God." Grandmother died March 29th, at the extreme age of 96 years, 5 months and 10 days. She lived to see her fourth generation. She was the mother of 9 children. The first death of her children occurred seven years ago. Two weeks before her death, March 15th, her son Wm. K. Marquis, Jr, who resided in Quinter, Kansas, died. The other children are yet living. One son, Geo. W. Marquis lives in Cedar County, MO; one daughter resides in Marion, Grant County, IN., another son and the youngest daughter live in Wabash County, IN.; another daughter lives near Jaysvllle, Darke County, Ohio. The other son and daughter lives near Union City, IN. The following is the record of her descendants at her death: Her own children 9, 2 are dead; grandchildren, 63, 21 are dead; great-grandchildren, 103, 22 are dead; great-great-grandchildren, 17, 1 is dead. Grandmother was a zealous, faithful member of the Dunkard church for 60 years. Her husband, W. K. Marquis. was a minister of the same church for about 25 years. Funeral services at the home of her son, James Marquis; sermon by Silas Gilbert, from Rev., 14 chap., 13 vs., after which her remains were interred in the Marquis cemetery on the old homestead farm.May we ever cherish in our memories the loved one now gone. W.K.S. -Union City Eagle, April 9, 1891 Note: The obituary was written by her grandson, the Rev. Wm. K. Simmons.
A grandson moved to Cedar, Missouri about the same time that Nancy Cochran Pickett did:
A biosketch of one of Kidd Marquess' sons reports [5]:
Dr. Isaac F. Marquis, whose success as a physician and surgeon has made his name well known throughout Cedar and adjoining counties, was born in Darke County, Ohio, December 22, 1849, and is the son of George W. and Elizabeth (Miller) Marquis. George W. Marquis was born in Virginia, but when quite small went with his parents of Ohio, where he grew to manhood, and where he was twice married, his second wife being Miss Miller, mother to the subject of this sketch. In about 1858 George Marquis moved to Cedar County, Mo., where he is now living with his third wife. He is a successful tiller of the soil. His father, William Kidd Marquis, was a native of Virginia, and of French extraction. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and an early settler of Ohio, where he died about thirty years ago. Dr. Marquis, the elder of two children, received a fair education in the common schools, and began for himself in 1868, as a farm hand in St. Clair County. In about 1872 he began practicing medicine, having studied with a cousin, Dr. A. C. Marquis. He practice with success until 1884-85, and then attended the American Medical College at St. Louis, from which institution he graduated in the same year. He first commenced practicing at Osceola, was then in Bates County, after that was five years at Roscoe, and since 1890 he has resided on his present farm near Cedar Springs, where he has 200 acres of good land. He settled on the farm with the intention of retiring from practice, but has found it impossible to do. He was married, in 1874, to Miss Marila Marquis, a native of Jay County, Indiana, and the daughter of Dr. James and Mary Marquis, natives of Virginia. Her parents lived in Jay County, Indiana, but came to Missouri soon after the war, and here the father practiced his profession successfully for some time. To Dr. Isaac F. Marquis and wife were born four children, one son and two daughters now living. The Doctor was a Republican in politics until 1876, since which time he has been a Greenbacker and Prohibitionist. His first presidential vote was cast for Gen. Grant, in 1872. He is a member of the Good Templars, and is also a member of the Farmers' Alliance. Mrs. Marquis is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in good standing.
Possible Census and residence records:
1790 William Marcus is in Warren County, North Carolina
1810 Kidd Marquis is in Frederick County, Virginia. C Pickett and G Pickett are on adjacent pages.
1820 Rid (Kidd Sr?) Marcus is in Front Royal, Frederick County, Virginia. George Cochran is on an adjacent page.
1830 Mary Marquess, age 47, is in Western District of Frederick CO, Pennsylvania (widow of Kidd Sr?)
1840 William R (K?) Marquess is in Darke County, Ohio
1857 The land of WK Marquis is shown in section 16 of Jackson Twp, Darke County, Ohio in a plat atlas.
A biosketch reports [6]:
The Marquis family (name originally spelled Marquess) descends from Capt. William Kidd [I have seen no documentation for this claim] through a marriage between John Marquess of Calvert County, Maryland and Margaret Kidd, a granddaughter of the Captain. Rev. William Kidd Marquis (Marquess), who, along with numerous other family members was named in honor of the Capt., was born Jan 6 1795 in the Blue Ridge Mts. of Virginia, the son of James Marquis and Rebecca Smith. When he was 18 years old he and his brother, Smith Marquis, enlisted in the War of 1812 at Moorefield, Hardy County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in Capt. David Van Meter's 6th Regt. Virginia Militia. At one time, during his service, he was assigned by his Capt. as a spy and stationed with a magnifying glass in a tree to watch the movements of the British; but was discovered and fired on by a cannon. The tree was cut down beneath him and he narrowly escaped capture. He married Mary "Poly" Stingley Sept 8, 1816, daughter of William Stingley and Charity Robey, who were of the German Baptist (Dunkard) faith and was converted and became a Minister of the Church. In 1816, "Kidd" Marquis moved his family to Ohio, first settling in Ross Co. and then removing to Darke County, Ohio, December 1830, near Union city, where he was one of the first German Baptist Ministers and served his community for over 25 years until his death, Nov 9, 1857. William K. Marquess was buried on his homestead in the Marquis family graveyard (now called Parent Cemetery) in Darke County, Ohio, east of Union city. Children: George Washington Marquis of Darke Co. and later of Vernon Co, MO; Rebecca the wife of Aaron Simmons of Randolph County, Indiana; Charity, wife of Lewis McFarland of Darke County; Mary, wife of Isaiah Pickett, Jr. of Cedar Co, MO; James of Darke County; Louisa wife of Daniel Crumrine of Grant County, Indiana; Rev. William Kidd, Jr. of Randolph County, Indiana and later of Quinter, Kansas; John of Wabash County, Indiana; and Elizabeth, wife of Rev. Noah W. Crumrine of Wabash County, Indiana.
"When Polly Stingley married Kidd Marquis, they went to Dark County, Ohio, ... Ross County, in 1818; settling on Paint Creek, then in 1820 they moved to Union County, and in 1830 to where Dark County now stands. In 1829 she, Polly Stingley Marquis, united with the Brethren Church. Her husband was a minister in the Brethren Church for a number of years. William Kidd Marquis died in Nov. 9, 1857 and Polly died March 29, 1891." [From Rootsweb: Groves and related families VA/West Virginia and West]
[1] Find A Grave Memorial 36996210, [FindAGrave].
[2] Ebenezer Tucker, History of Randolph County, Indiana: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches (Chicago: Kingman, 1882), 432, [HathiTrust].
[3] Ebenezer Tucker, History of Randolph County, Indiana: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches (Chicago: Kingman, 1882), 170,439, [HathiTrust].
[4] Find A Grave Memorial 36996194, citing the Eagle newspaper April 9, 1891 Union City, IN. Pg 5, [FindAGrave].
[5] History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade, and Barton Counties, Missouri (Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889), 757-758, [GoogleBooks].
[6] Randolph County Historical Society, Randolph County, Indiana 1818-1990 (Indiana: Turner Publishing, 1991), 574, [GoogleBooks].