Emma Gertrude Marshall was one of five children of Herbert Lowery Marshall and Emma Ann Kennedy. She was born near Monticello, Kansas on the Swallow Farm on December 31, 1881. She was making her own dresses before she went to high school in Olathe, Johnson County, Kansas in 1898. She graduated on May 8, 1900 from Olathe High School with a teacher's certificate. After high school she took a business course in St. Joseph, Missouri. She worked several years there and in Kansas City before coming back to Fort Cobb to teach 4 years in the public schools at Lookeba and Cyril in Caddo County.
When Gertrude decided to return to the business world, she chose Cincinnati, Ohio because it was a music center. She lived there for many years in a down town apartment on Walnut Street. Her constant companion was an Angora cat named Nippee, who won a blue ribbon at one of the animal fairs. As a child Gertrude had been a member of the Methodist church, but after she moved to Cincinnati she joined the Christian Church and often sang solos with the choir. She had a beautiful contralto voice and had her own piano to practice her singing. She loved to read. Her hobbies were collecting copies of the old masters' paintings and researching the history of the Marshall family by writing letters to the older members of the family and researching records in the State Historical Societies.
Gertrude never married. She passed away on February 12, 1934 in her apartment in Cincinnati. Her brothers Walter and Conrad went there to handle the final arrangements for Gertrude. They gave her piano to her church and sent the remainder of her things to Fort Cobb. After her body was cremated, they took her ashes back with them to Fort Cobb. When her mother died in 1936, her father Herbert ordered a tombstone for the three of them to be placed in the Fort Cobb Cemetery. Gertrude's ashes were placed inside her mother's casket when Emma was buried. See their stone shown with her mother Emma Ann Kennedy Marshall's memorial.
When Gertrude decided to return to the business world, she chose Cincinnati, Ohio because it was a music center. She lived there for many years in a down town apartment on Walnut Street. Her constant companion was an Angora cat named Nippee, who won a blue ribbon at one of the animal fairs. As a child Gertrude had been a member of the Methodist church, but after she moved to Cincinnati she joined the Christian Church and often sang solos with the choir. She had a beautiful contralto voice and had her own piano to practice her singing. She loved to read. Her hobbies were collecting copies of the old masters' paintings and researching the history of the Marshall family by writing letters to the older members of the family and researching records in the State Historical Societies.
Gertrude never married. She passed away on February 12, 1934 in her apartment in Cincinnati. Her brothers Walter and Conrad went there to handle the final arrangements for Gertrude. They gave her piano to her church and sent the remainder of her things to Fort Cobb. After her body was cremated, they took her ashes back with them to Fort Cobb. When her mother died in 1936, her father Herbert ordered a tombstone for the three of them to be placed in the Fort Cobb Cemetery. Gertrude's ashes were placed inside her mother's casket when Emma was buried. See their stone shown with her mother Emma Ann Kennedy Marshall's memorial.
Emma Gertrude Marshall was one of five children of Herbert Lowery Marshall and Emma Ann Kennedy. She was born near Monticello, Kansas on the Swallow Farm on December 31, 1881. She was making her own dresses before she went to high school in Olathe, Johnson County, Kansas in 1898. She graduated on May 8, 1900 from Olathe High School with a teacher's certificate. After high school she took a business course in St. Joseph, Missouri. She worked several years there and in Kansas City before coming back to Fort Cobb to teach 4 years in the public schools at Lookeba and Cyril in Caddo County.
When Gertrude decided to return to the business world, she chose Cincinnati, Ohio because it was a music center. She lived there for many years in a down town apartment on Walnut Street. Her constant companion was an Angora cat named Nippee, who won a blue ribbon at one of the animal fairs. As a child Gertrude had been a member of the Methodist church, but after she moved to Cincinnati she joined the Christian Church and often sang solos with the choir. She had a beautiful contralto voice and had her own piano to practice her singing. She loved to read. Her hobbies were collecting copies of the old masters' paintings and researching the history of the Marshall family by writing letters to the older members of the family and researching records in the State Historical Societies.
Gertrude never married. She passed away on February 12, 1934 in her apartment in Cincinnati. Her brothers Walter and Conrad went there to handle the final arrangements for Gertrude. They gave her piano to her church and sent the remainder of her things to Fort Cobb. After her body was cremated, they took her ashes back with them to Fort Cobb. When her mother died in 1936, her father Herbert ordered a tombstone for the three of them to be placed in the Fort Cobb Cemetery. Gertrude's ashes were placed inside her mother's casket when Emma was buried. See their stone shown with her mother Emma Ann Kennedy Marshall's memorial.
When Gertrude decided to return to the business world, she chose Cincinnati, Ohio because it was a music center. She lived there for many years in a down town apartment on Walnut Street. Her constant companion was an Angora cat named Nippee, who won a blue ribbon at one of the animal fairs. As a child Gertrude had been a member of the Methodist church, but after she moved to Cincinnati she joined the Christian Church and often sang solos with the choir. She had a beautiful contralto voice and had her own piano to practice her singing. She loved to read. Her hobbies were collecting copies of the old masters' paintings and researching the history of the Marshall family by writing letters to the older members of the family and researching records in the State Historical Societies.
Gertrude never married. She passed away on February 12, 1934 in her apartment in Cincinnati. Her brothers Walter and Conrad went there to handle the final arrangements for Gertrude. They gave her piano to her church and sent the remainder of her things to Fort Cobb. After her body was cremated, they took her ashes back with them to Fort Cobb. When her mother died in 1936, her father Herbert ordered a tombstone for the three of them to be placed in the Fort Cobb Cemetery. Gertrude's ashes were placed inside her mother's casket when Emma was buried. See their stone shown with her mother Emma Ann Kennedy Marshall's memorial.
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