MARSHALL P. BARRETT.

Marshall P. Barrett, was born in Kittaning, Pa., March 14, 1827. When he was a child his father moved to Grenville, Ohio, where he was a minister in the Presbyterian church and in which faith his children were raised.

 

In 1852 he was united in marriage to Elizabeth Harriett Barrett of Smicksburg, Pa., and to this union seven children were born, four of whom are still, living: Mrs. W. J. Nornausser, Mrs. J. G. Munson and Eugene Barrett of this city and Mrs. Perry Duffield of Gardner.

 

In 1860 his father was appointed missionary to the Dakota Indians with headquarters at Yankton, N.D. and Mr. Barrett and his wife moved to VanBuren County, Iowa, where he served through the war with the Iowa National Guard.

 

After the war he moved to Montezuma, Iowa where he farmed until 1896, when he came overland to Kansas and took up a claim near what is now Wamego, Kansas where he lived until 1896, when he moved to Tonganoxie, Kansas and went into the cattle business for four years, coming to Gardner in 1899. He lived at Gardner until his wife died in 1905, when he sold out and came to Olathe where he has since resided with his daughter, Mrs. J. G. Munson.

 

Mr. Barrett had always been a staunch Christian and his relatives while missing him greatly rejoice in the knowledge that he lived a good life and was at peace with his Maker

 

The Olathe Mirror
October 23, 1913

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