ALSO KNOWN AS - Gloria Cotton Marshall; Mrs. Henry Clough-Leighter; Grace Marschal-Loepke.
[Middle name of "Zilla" often used - from her maternal grandmother, Zillah Coppock, #150343074 ]

The Birmingham News, Mon. July 12, 1976 – pg 30
MRS. GRACE MARSHALL LOEPKE, 91, of 1701 Princeton Ave, S.W., died Monday. Funeral will be Tuesday afternoon with further arrangements to be announced by Johns-Ridout’s. Survivors include a granddaughter, Mrs. Charlotte Thompson and a grandson, Malcolm Loepke, both of Birmingham.
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Alabama Death Certificate records Grace Marshall Loepke, a 91 year old widowed white female, author/composer, died of terminal pneumonia due to cerebral thrombosis at Livingston Nursing Home.
Parents - ____Marshall and ___ Cotton [sic-Coppock. Great-Grandmother was a Cotton]
Cremation.
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BIRTH -
Indiana, WPA Birth Index, 1880-1920
Name: Marshall, female - Parents - Almon Marshall and Mary Copock
Born Johnson Co Indiana, 20 Aug 1884

1st MARRIAGE -
Indiana, Select Marriages Index, 1748-1993
Name: Fred C. Leibke [SIC-LOEPKE]; b. 1877 Illinois; 25 years old; Father: Fred Leibke [sic] and ___ Brasa.
MARRIED - Grace Marshall, b. 1883, 19 years of age; Parents: A. Marshall and Coppock on 1 OCT 1902, MARION CO Indiana
[NOTE - No Census record of this marriage as it was after 1900 and divorced by 1910. Date and location of Fred Loepke's death could not be located as of this date. Name misspelled in most records]

2nd MARRIAGE -
Maine Marriage Records 1713-1922
Grace Zills Marshall, 27, b. abt 1883 Nineveh Ind.; Parents - Almon Marshall and Mary Coppock;
MARRIED - Henry Clough-Leighter on 6 Sep 1910 in Portland, Cumberland, Maine

Grace was on the 1920 Census two times:
1920 U.S. Census of Quincy Ward 5, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Grace C. Leighter, married, 35, musician teacher; Malcolm F. Loepke 15
[NOTE - Malcolm was her only known child]

Also on this 1920 census same location:
HENRY CLOUGH-LEITER 45
GRACE “ 37
Sarah C. “ 69
[NOTE - By 1930 Henry was still living in Quincy but was divorced, composer-organist. 55 years old.]

1940 U.S. Census of Ravenna, Portage, Ohio
Institution - Ravenna Hotel - Ravenson M. Hosp.
Grace Marshall, 55, b. IN, divorced, Guest of Head of Household.

U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Grace Loepke
Last Residence: 35211 Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, USA
Born: 20 Aug 1884
Died: Jul 1976
State (Year) SSN issued: Indiana (Before 1951)
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The Boston Globe (Boston Massachusetts), 16 Feb 1910, Wed, pg 1
OLD STORY IN A NEW DRESS
Odd One Tells Tale of Soul-Mating.
Mrs. Cough-Leighter Granted Divorce Upon It.
One More Wife Who Could Not Understand.

DEDHAM, Feb 15 – The trouble between the Clough-Leighter’s of Brookline, as it appeared in the wife’s uncontested libel for divorce in Norfolk superior court here today, was that Mr. Cough-Leighter found a soulmate, and that that soulmate was not his wife.
The old saying runs, “Marry in haste and repent at leisure.” The newer one might be phrased, “Marry in haste, then look around for a soulmate.”
That is what Mrs. Charlotte Grant Clough-Leighter told Judge Stevens her husband, Henry Clough-Leighter did, and the telling so impressed the judge that a decree nisi was ordered. [A decree nisi is a document that says that the court does not see any reason why you cannot divorce. If your husband or wife does not agree to the divorce, you can still apply for a decree nisi.]
Of course in such a story the name of the soulmate has to be brought in, and Mrs. Clough-Leighter gave it as Mary Loipoke [sic-Loepke -throughout] of Thorndike st, Brookline, and later referred to her as Mrs. Loipoke.
What served to distinguish the Clough-Leighter story of soulmates from other stories of soulmates was that it all seemed to be admitted and that the husband and Mrs. Loipoke were satisfied to let the deserted wife tell it, for neither appeared in court.
When these soulmate matrimonial troubles first were aired in divorce courts they were seized upon public estimation as something super-romantic and above ordinary old-fashioned comprehension. Today they were made to appear the most matter-of-fact and prosaic of happenings.
Mrs. Clough-Leighter quietly and modestly made short work of telling her story to the court.
“It was a runaway match,” she said. “We were married at Providence, July 3, 1900, living first in Brookline and later at Forest Hills. We have two children, a boy, eight years old, who is with his father’s parents in Washington, and a little girl of seven years who is in my charge and now is in a boarding school in Boston. My husband is an editor and a composer of music. While we were living together he earned about $100 a month.”
“In April, 1908, my husband left me, going to Brookline to live with the Loipoke woman, as I learned later. I knew her slightly, as my husband had introduced her to me in Boston. She was musical and she and my husband became acquainted through music.”
So much of the Mrs. Clough-Leighter’s story might have been copied out of the records of soul mates on file in divorce courts, but she went into untrodden paths when she told of her visit, by invitation, to the home which the soul mates had set up, and their explanation of the conditions in which her husband and Mrs. Loipoke were living.
The real trouble began right there, for the wife who was not the mate was old-fashioned enough not to wholly approve the arrangement. Still the episode was passed off as pleasantly as could be expected, and it was at a later time that she began to suspect that the visit by invitation was not just what it seemed at the time, but rather planned with a view of allowing her to see things that any wife would have to object to.
Of this unusual visit, Mrs. Clough-Leighter said yesterday in court:
“I received a telephone from Mrs. Loipoke, inviting me to call upon her in an apartment house in Brookline. I went there, and Mrs. Loipoke first showed me her room and then one across the hall, which she said was my husband’s. She said, “I know he’s your husband legally, but he’s mine spiritually.” She then went on to tell me how they ate breakfast in her room and how she played the piano in his. She said they were just spiritual mates and that was all.
“At that moment my husband came in and agreed with what the woman had said. He had nothing against me, except on the score of soul mating. He said he could never live with me again on that account.”
If she was half persuaded against her will at first, Mrs. Clough-Leighter came in time to thoroughly misunderstand the soul-mating proposition, as thoroughly, in fact, as did a man in charge of the apartments, who later visited the rooms of the husband Mrs. Loipoke and yesterday told what he saw in court. He didn’t think the two-room layout was enough for the soul mates. Judge Stevens was not called upon to express any opinion on this phase of the case, but he did agree that the petitioner was entitled not to be mixed up in it further, and so ordered a decree in her favor, after she had done her husband the credit of saying that he had given her $35 a month for the support of their children. This, she said, she expended for the girl in school and had taken up nursing for her own support.

The Indianapolis News, 19 Apr 1913, Sat. pg 2
…..Mrs. Morris is to sing two songs, “Spring is Here” and “I Did Not Know,” by Marschal-Loepke. The composer is in reality Mrs. Clough-Leighter, who was a talented pupil at the Metropolitan school years ago. She was the wife of Fred Loepke of the faculty of the school. She met Mr. Clough-Leighter as a pupil in his harmony class in Boston. She has shown talent in her recent compositions, both vocal and instrumental…..

The Indianapolis News, 13 Feb 1915, Sat. pg 17
OF INTEREST IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC –
FORMER INDIANAPOLIS GIRL WINS A PLACE AS COMPOSER
Mrs. Clough-Leighter, of Boston, formerly Grace Marschal Loepke, of Indianapolis, where she studied music before going to Boston, seven years ago, has been visiting her mother in Nineveh and friends at the Metropolitan School of Music this week, and expects to return to her home within a short time. Mrs. Clough-Leighter is a composer and she writes under the name of Grace Marschal-Lopeke, with which she began her career as a composer of music. She has written songs, teaching pieces, piano pieces and numbers of more pretentious works, one being an Easter cantata, “The Prince of Life,” for solo, mixed voices and organ. She has appeared before numbers of eastern musical societies and organizations. In Boston she appeared before the Bach-Brahms Club as a composer-pianist and before the American Music Society she sang some of her own compositions.
She has played for Mme. Theresa Carreno, the famous pianist, who spoke of her as “A most promising young composer.” Mrs. Marschal-Loepke won the $100 prize for writing the musical setting for “The Empire State.” She has received special praise from such well known musicians as Olga Samaroff, the pianist, who is the wife of Stokovaki, director of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra; from David Bispham, the famous basso; from D. A. Clippinger, of Chicago, of the Madrigal Club, and from Adolph Wiedig, the Chicago critic.
Mrs. Marschal-Loepke has written the libretto for an opera, with the piano and voice score, but the orchestration is not yet finished. She has also had reviews of her work in the London Telegraph. Mr. Clough-Leighter, is a well- known composer, as well as an editor and organist.
Two distinguished admirers of Grace Marschal-Loepke’s songs are Edmond Clemont, the French tenor, and Mrs. Hall McAllister, a noted vocal teacher, who is a coach for the Metropolitan opera singers. Her teaching pieces are favorites in the Cathedral school at Washington, D. C., of which Miss Jessie McDonald, a grand-daughter of former Senator Joseph E. McDonald, of Indianapolis, is the principal. Mrs. Clough-Leighter, who is still in her twenties, is a descendant of John Cotton, of early New England fame and family.

The Indianapolis News, 1 Nov 1916, Wed. pg 28 EXCERPT
WOMEN IN INDIANA MUSICAL LIFE
......Women composers are few in this country, but our own Grace Marshall Loepke (Mrs. Clough-Leighter) is mentioned among the great composers of today. Her song, entitled, “There is a River Singing,” composed for our centennial and set to the “Wabash” by Maurice Thompson, is delightful and should become popular this year.

The Miami News, 16 July 1926, Fri., pg 17
Thumb-Nail Sketches American Musicians
BY MIAMI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE GREATER MIAMI COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION
"United Strength is Stronger"
Gloria Cotton Marshall, born in Indiana. Known in private life as Mrs. Henry Clough-Leighter. She has appeared as composer, pianist, in concerts and recitals of her own compositions. She has published over 650 pages of music. Abroad her compositions are well received, being sung by Gadski, McCormick and other celebrities. "Away to the Woodlands, Away," "Little Starlight," are popular choruses for women's voices.

The Indianapolis Star – 5 Aug 1934, pg 46
HOOSIER COMPOSERS MAKE THEMSELVES HEARD WORLD OVER –
Many Compositions Published by Gloria Cotton-Marshall.
.....Gloria Cotton-Marshall, who grew up in Indianapolis and was first known as Grace Marshall, a brilliant young pianist, student and graduate of Oliver Willard Pierce at the Metropolitan School of Music, has resided in Boston for some years and has published many compositions in all lines of musical expression, first under the name of G. Marshal-Loepke and later as Gloria Cotton-Marshall. She is the wife of Clough-Leighter, well-known American composer. A prize award was given her for musical settings of the “Empire State.” Among notable compositions is an Easter cantata.

The Franklin Evening Star, 26 Jan 1944, Wed. pg 5
NINEVEH – Mrs. Grace Marshall Loepke has made an apartment out of the old Marshall house and has seven soldiers and their wives living in the home.

The Franklin Evening Star, 17 Aug 1949, Wed. pg 2
NINEVEH – Mrs. Grace Marshall Loepke, who has been furthering her career as a composer-pianist at Chicago College of Music, returned home last Friday. She was coached by Hans Barth, eminent German-American pianist and composer. Mr. Barth is Dean of Judges, National Guild of Piano Teachers. Mrs. Loepke also took the entire refresher course for piano teachers.

The Franklin Evening Star, 31 Jul 1950, Mon. pg 1
TREASURED PIANO IN GOOD CONDITION
NINEVEH – July 31 – Mrs. Grace Marshall Loepke is extremely happy over the condition of her much treasured “Jacob Doll” grand piano. Lee Alderson of Indianapolis, who was piano “trouble shooter” for the great Paderewski, recently examined her piano and pronounced in excellent condition.
Mrs. Loepke’s piano was made in 1884 and is probably the only one of its make in this part of the country. The Jacob Doll is considered one of the finest toned pianos in existence.

From Indiana authors and their books 1917-1966.
LOEPKE, GRACE MARSHALL: 1884-
Grace Marshall, who writes under the name Marshall Loepke, was born in Nineveh, Ind., on Aug. 20, 1884. She is the daughter of Owen [sic-Almon] C. and Mary Elizabeth Coppock Marshall. She attended high school and graduated from Metropolitan School of Music (now Jordan College of Music), Butler University, in 1904. She was married and is the mother of one son. A composer and pianist, Mrs. Loepke used the name Grace Marschal-Loepke during her musical career. She has performed at Carnegie Hall and the War Memorial Auditorium in Indianapolis. She has written many choral works and songs and her cantata "The Prince of Life" was first published in 1911. She also taught piano and voice for a short time. Mrs. Loepke moved to Sarasota, Fla.

The Franklin Evening Star, 14 Oct 1961, Sat. pg 1
Sale of Marshall Homestead Near Nineveh Brings Back Many Memories
The Old Marshall homestead, located one mile west of Nineveh and one of the oldest houses in Johnson county, has recently been sold to Robert Weddle Jr. of Columbus.
The house, which was the home of the Marshall family for three generations, was the first frame and plastered dwelling erected in Nineveh township. It was built in 1836 by Frank Scofield and later was owned by Abner Walker. Dr. Jacob A. Marshall, a practicing physician bought the place over a century ago.
Dr. Marshall was a pioneer physician, who by a long life of hard work and successful practice came to be known as one of the best in the county. Born in Carroll county, Ohio, he attended Hanover College and Western Reserve University in Cleveland. After practicing three years in Ohio, he came to Nineveh, then known as Williamsburg, Jan. 10, 1851.
Mrs. Grace Marshall Loepke, a granddaughter of Dr. Marshall, inherited the house after the death of her parents, Almon C. and Mary Coppock Marshall.
Of the old house Mrs. Loepke has affectionately written, “Battered and weather-beaten it still stands. It was labeled the ‘Old Brown’ by relatives and friends who frequented the place during my childhood. Mother was a wonderful cook. Those who remember the unforgettable dinners of those pioneer days know what I mean…”
A talented pianist and composer, Mrs. Loepke has given recitals of her own works, as well as the classical composers, at Jordan Conservatory of Music in Indianapolis and at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Although she has passed her seventy-seventh birthday, she retains a keen interest in life and in her music. “After all these years I have discovered the secret of happiness” she recently wrote to an old friend.
Works Published –
She studied composition under Clough-Leighter in Boston and at his suggestion adopted the professional name of Marschal-Loepke. Under this name her works were published by the house of G. Schirmer, New York, and their publication of her works introduced her to a select musical public here and abroad.
The Marshall’s were a musical family. At one time the Marshall orchestra, composed of Almon and Mary Coppock Marshall and their five children, gave concerts all over the county.
Almon Marshall played the violin. “I shall ever remember,” Mrs. Loepke has written, “how my father, exhausted from along day’s work in the fields would stroll out to the front porch and begin to play…an unmistakable melancholy note in his playing…as a child I used to wonder why a man who could draw such a beautiful tone from an old violin should have to work so hard and be so tired. He had a great heart, and I believe a great talent had the opportunity for development been possible for him.
“My mother from whom I had my first lessons in the rudiments of music was also a very talented little lady,” Mrs. Loepke continues, “with a beautiful voice and a very lively style at the organ. In the face of hardships and, at times, almost unsurmountable obstacles, she remained cheerful and optimistic….Those were really pioneer days. I drove seven miles in a buckboard to a village every Saturday to give organ lessons at 25 cents a lesson…I was 14 years old and reaching for a star…How wonderful are the dreams of youth!”
Chose Musical Career –
Henry Marshall, a son of the Almon Marshalls, at 17, decided to make music a career. Although taught to play the violin by his father, he cut cord wood and picked blackberries to pay his tuition and expenses at the old Metropolitan School of Music in Indianapolis, now the Jordan Conservatory. The other members of the family orchestra were Maud, also a violinist, Blaine and Forrest. Of the five children, only Mrs. Loepke and Blaine, now living in Anderson, remain.
Later, Henry Marshall studied under Anton Weitic, the celebrated German violinist, who was Concert Meister of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was a member of the old German House orchestra in Indianapolis and at one time organized his own concert orchestra. As a teacher, he taught music in the Indianapolis public schools for 11 years, and later was head of the violin departments at Marion teachers college and at Indiana Central.
There were nine children in the family of Dr. J. A. Marshall, the first owner of the old homestead. Among them was Dr. Frank H. Marshall, a Disciples of Christ minister, at one time a missionary in Japan, and later dean of Phillips University at Enid, Okla. A beautiful building, known as Marshall Hall, was erected on the university campus in his honor.
Mrs. Loepke, who is now living near Zionsville, is happy that the old home has passed into the hands of a young couple with five growing children. But to the people of Johnson county it will always be a reminder of a family which made a unique contribution to the life of the community in which it stands.

The Republic (Columbus IN) 16 Sep 1970, Wed pg 23
A native of the Nineveh area in Johnson county isn’t taking it easy as most senior citizens at the age of 85 do. Now living at Sarasota, Fla., Mrs. Grace Marshall Loepke was subject of a recent article in the Sarasota Journal, which told of her activities, including writing a novel, “A Mystic’s Romance,” which was completed in August and has just been released for sale. She also recently received a diploma after completing a mail course in computer .....Other high spots in her long career were a piano recital in New York’s Carnegie Hall at the age of 70; publication of another book, “Unseen Commander,” in 1930; a trip alone in her car from Boston to California in 1927, reportedly the first woman to drive alone across the nation; a role in 1923 in D. W. Griffith’s “White Roses,” and recognition also as a composer. She was married briefly to an English artist and also lost a young son, according to the Journal’s account.

The Daily Journal (Franklin IN), 19 Sep 1970, Sat. pg 1
Says 85-year-old author
“Some of us just won’t retire”
Just ask Johnson county native Mrs. Grace Marschal Loepke of the advantages of being a senior citizen.
Accomplishments are routine for the 85-year-old authoress who was born near Nineveh, Ind. Her rigorous life is evidenced by the fact that she recently received a copy of her latest novel, “A Mystic’s Romance” from the publisher.
She also recently completed a mail course in computer programming from LaSalle Extension University.
“Some of us senior citizens just won’t retire,” the “young” octogenarian stated.
Her book, which is being published by Carlton Press of New York is a love story combined with intriguing treatment of spiritualism and the unseen mystic laws. She authored another book in 1930 entitled “Unseen Commander.”
An unquenchable thirst for life led the 85-year-old Johnson county native to play many parts during her life including that of a musician, composer, singer, actress, novelist and other titles too.
She once gave a recital at Carnegie Hall when she was 70 years old. Mrs. Loepke, who began composing for piano before she was seven, said she was without a piano for 25 years and after hearing Arthur Rubenstein play, she immediately purchased a piano. This led her to Carnegie Hall years before her Carnegie Hall performance, Mrs. Loepke was mentioned in an article in “Musical World” which termed her a “leader among women composers.”
As an actress, Mrs. Loepke appeared in D. W. Griffith’s “White Rose” but her greatest interest was in Edna Ferber’s works which eventually led her to writing.
Although Mrs. Loepke enjoys her quiet life in her mobile home in an area near Sarasota, Florida she enjoys jogging a little each day.
“I like to get up around dawn when the dew is still visible and await the world coming to life,” she concluded.

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