Marshall Henry Hemphill
Birth: 8 Aug 1836 in Georgia or Tennessee
Death: 2 Jul 1897 in Wise County, Texas
Buried Lake Valley Cemetery, Montague County, Texas

The Lake Valley Cemetery is located in Montague County, Texas. That cemetery is about 3 1/2 miles southeast of the town of Sunset, Texas and is on land that is now owned by an oil company.

Marshall Hemphill lived 1 1/2 miles north of the town of Alvord, Texas, which sits in Wise County. James Oliver Hemphill (Memorial # 46452416), son of Marshall was a Sheriff of Alvord. There were other relatives that lived nearby and most of them sharecropped on lands that were on or near both sides of the Red River with relatives farming ocross from each other on the river. When Marshall Hemphill died, there were four children still living at home.

Cemetery record:
Hemphill, M.H. Aug. 8, 1836 Jul. 2, 1897

Father: William Henry Hemphill b: ABT. 1800 in NC
Mother: Elizabeth Lizzie Priestley Long b 03 Nov 1808 in North Carolina (maybe Death 05 Dec 1882 in Fannin, Georgia
or died in Arkansas)

Mother: "Elizabeth Addison, not Priestly." However, Addison was her married name, not her maiden name.

Note: in census, Marion Co, AR, living next door to Henderson, with granddaughter

Married: Mary Arnetta Glenn b: 1842 in Marion County Arkansas
Married: 1862

Children
. Amancy Adeline Hemphill b: 26 Nov 1862 in Springfield, MO c: in name also spelled: Almanice
2. John Franklin Hemphill b: 16 Mar 1865 in Missouri c: 1900 in Census, Jack County, Jacksboro
3. James Oliver Hemphill b: 17 Sep 1867 in Searcy Co, Arkansas (See memorial #46452416)
4. Arnetta Catherine Hemphill b: 11 Apr 1872
5. Martha Elmira Hemphill b: 4 Nov 1870
6. Marshall Aubrey Hemphill b: 24 Feb 1874
7. Mary Belle Hemphill b: 11 Mar 1867 in Arkansas
8. George Emory Hemphill b: 4 Jan 1879
9. Vera Susanne Hemphill b: 11 Apr 1881
10. Lillie Hemphill b: 19 Apr 1884

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Message received:

Marshall Henry Hemphill died in Wise county and is buried in Montague County.
The cemetery is almost on the county line.
Marshall Hemphill was born probably in Murray County, Georgia---Not Tennessee.
Most all documentation bears this out.
Lake Valley Cemetery is located in Montague County, Texas.
We do not know the maiden name of Marshall Hemphill's mother.
Elizabeth L. Addison, mother of Marshall H. Hemphill, died in Feb. 1891.
Elizabeth married at least three times. First was a Mr. Long, next was Henry Hemphill, and the last being Andrew Jackson "General" Addison.
There were children born to each marriage.
At the time of her death, Elizabeth was living with the family of her daughter, Martha Ann
Marshall in Boone County, Arkansas. They are both buried at Crawford Cemetery, near Everton, Arkansas.

James Oliver Hemphill, son of Marshall Henry Hemphill, and grandson of Elizabeth Addison,
married Fannie Etta " Lillie" Meek . Both are buried in the Newlin Cemetery, located in Hall County, Texas. Marshall's mother, Mary Arnetta (Glenn)Hemphill is buried next to them.
Her grave is marked "Grandma Hemphill".