Mother's Maiden Name: Mackenzie
Father's Surname: Macneill
Catharine MacNeill Marsh, wife of Rev. Cyrenius R. Marsh, of India, died on August 16, 1948, after a prolonged illness. She was born on June 24, 1865, at Canoe, Cove, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and grew to womanhood on the family farm not far from West River and Charlottetown, on the same island. She came of sturdy Highland Scots ancestry. In the MacMeill home, the father read the Scriptures, offered prayer, and grace before and after meals in the Gaelic tongue. There were 11 children in the family. Of the sons, 3 became physicians and one a Baptist minister. Catharine became a missionary to the Telugu people of India.
She attended Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, and for 6 years taught school. Subsequently, she attended the Acadia Lady’s Seminary Wolfville, Nova Scotia. There she came under the influence of the Student Volunteer Movement and offered herself for foreign mission work. She was appointed by the Foreign Mission Board of the Maritime Baptist Convention and sailed for India from Halifax, N.S., in the autumn of 1891. Language study was begun in Bobbili, and the first assignment to mission work was at Vizianagaram, where she had charge of the staff of Bible women and the caste girl’s school. While serving in this station, on November 8, 1894, she was married to Mr. Marsh, who had been in India since 1892, a missionary of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. During most of the years of their service abroad, Mr. and Mrs. Marsh were members of the First church, Portland, Oreg., nd were the missionary representatives of that church.
After some months of service in Secunderabad, Deccan, Mr. and Mrs. Marsh were designated to open a new station at Markapur, in the Kurnool District, India. This involved the acquisition of land, the construction of a bungalow, a chapel, a schoolhouse, boarding school dormitories, houses for teachers, and much else in building and equipping a station. Then there was the touring of the villages with the evangelists, the organization of churches, the day-by-day routines of work in the station with it boarding and day schools, its Bible women, and the sick and ailing who resort to the mission for aid. For some 26 years, the Marshes continued in Markapur, through famine and through more prosperous times, until 1920, when, owing to a decline in Mrs. Marsh’s health, they returned to Secunderabad. Here service was continued till April 1931, when Mr. and Mrs. Marsh returned to the United Stated prior to retirement, nearly 40 years from the date of her first arrival in India. Fullerton, Calif, has been her home since June 1931.
Mrs. Marsh was a women of sterling character, strong beliefs, and fine friendships. She is survived by her husband and on only daughter, Mrs. William B. Purdy, of Placentia, Calif.
Father's Surname: Macneill
Catharine MacNeill Marsh, wife of Rev. Cyrenius R. Marsh, of India, died on August 16, 1948, after a prolonged illness. She was born on June 24, 1865, at Canoe, Cove, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and grew to womanhood on the family farm not far from West River and Charlottetown, on the same island. She came of sturdy Highland Scots ancestry. In the MacMeill home, the father read the Scriptures, offered prayer, and grace before and after meals in the Gaelic tongue. There were 11 children in the family. Of the sons, 3 became physicians and one a Baptist minister. Catharine became a missionary to the Telugu people of India.
She attended Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, and for 6 years taught school. Subsequently, she attended the Acadia Lady’s Seminary Wolfville, Nova Scotia. There she came under the influence of the Student Volunteer Movement and offered herself for foreign mission work. She was appointed by the Foreign Mission Board of the Maritime Baptist Convention and sailed for India from Halifax, N.S., in the autumn of 1891. Language study was begun in Bobbili, and the first assignment to mission work was at Vizianagaram, where she had charge of the staff of Bible women and the caste girl’s school. While serving in this station, on November 8, 1894, she was married to Mr. Marsh, who had been in India since 1892, a missionary of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. During most of the years of their service abroad, Mr. and Mrs. Marsh were members of the First church, Portland, Oreg., nd were the missionary representatives of that church.
After some months of service in Secunderabad, Deccan, Mr. and Mrs. Marsh were designated to open a new station at Markapur, in the Kurnool District, India. This involved the acquisition of land, the construction of a bungalow, a chapel, a schoolhouse, boarding school dormitories, houses for teachers, and much else in building and equipping a station. Then there was the touring of the villages with the evangelists, the organization of churches, the day-by-day routines of work in the station with it boarding and day schools, its Bible women, and the sick and ailing who resort to the mission for aid. For some 26 years, the Marshes continued in Markapur, through famine and through more prosperous times, until 1920, when, owing to a decline in Mrs. Marsh’s health, they returned to Secunderabad. Here service was continued till April 1931, when Mr. and Mrs. Marsh returned to the United Stated prior to retirement, nearly 40 years from the date of her first arrival in India. Fullerton, Calif, has been her home since June 1931.
Mrs. Marsh was a women of sterling character, strong beliefs, and fine friendships. She is survived by her husband and on only daughter, Mrs. William B. Purdy, of Placentia, Calif.
Mother's Maiden Name: Mackenzie
Father's Surname: Macneill
Catharine MacNeill Marsh, wife of Rev. Cyrenius R. Marsh, of India, died on August 16, 1948, after a prolonged illness. She was born on June 24, 1865, at Canoe, Cove, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and grew to womanhood on the family farm not far from West River and Charlottetown, on the same island. She came of sturdy Highland Scots ancestry. In the MacMeill home, the father read the Scriptures, offered prayer, and grace before and after meals in the Gaelic tongue. There were 11 children in the family. Of the sons, 3 became physicians and one a Baptist minister. Catharine became a missionary to the Telugu people of India.
She attended Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, and for 6 years taught school. Subsequently, she attended the Acadia Lady’s Seminary Wolfville, Nova Scotia. There she came under the influence of the Student Volunteer Movement and offered herself for foreign mission work. She was appointed by the Foreign Mission Board of the Maritime Baptist Convention and sailed for India from Halifax, N.S., in the autumn of 1891. Language study was begun in Bobbili, and the first assignment to mission work was at Vizianagaram, where she had charge of the staff of Bible women and the caste girl’s school. While serving in this station, on November 8, 1894, she was married to Mr. Marsh, who had been in India since 1892, a missionary of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. During most of the years of their service abroad, Mr. and Mrs. Marsh were members of the First church, Portland, Oreg., nd were the missionary representatives of that church.
After some months of service in Secunderabad, Deccan, Mr. and Mrs. Marsh were designated to open a new station at Markapur, in the Kurnool District, India. This involved the acquisition of land, the construction of a bungalow, a chapel, a schoolhouse, boarding school dormitories, houses for teachers, and much else in building and equipping a station. Then there was the touring of the villages with the evangelists, the organization of churches, the day-by-day routines of work in the station with it boarding and day schools, its Bible women, and the sick and ailing who resort to the mission for aid. For some 26 years, the Marshes continued in Markapur, through famine and through more prosperous times, until 1920, when, owing to a decline in Mrs. Marsh’s health, they returned to Secunderabad. Here service was continued till April 1931, when Mr. and Mrs. Marsh returned to the United Stated prior to retirement, nearly 40 years from the date of her first arrival in India. Fullerton, Calif, has been her home since June 1931.
Mrs. Marsh was a women of sterling character, strong beliefs, and fine friendships. She is survived by her husband and on only daughter, Mrs. William B. Purdy, of Placentia, Calif.
Father's Surname: Macneill
Catharine MacNeill Marsh, wife of Rev. Cyrenius R. Marsh, of India, died on August 16, 1948, after a prolonged illness. She was born on June 24, 1865, at Canoe, Cove, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and grew to womanhood on the family farm not far from West River and Charlottetown, on the same island. She came of sturdy Highland Scots ancestry. In the MacMeill home, the father read the Scriptures, offered prayer, and grace before and after meals in the Gaelic tongue. There were 11 children in the family. Of the sons, 3 became physicians and one a Baptist minister. Catharine became a missionary to the Telugu people of India.
She attended Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, and for 6 years taught school. Subsequently, she attended the Acadia Lady’s Seminary Wolfville, Nova Scotia. There she came under the influence of the Student Volunteer Movement and offered herself for foreign mission work. She was appointed by the Foreign Mission Board of the Maritime Baptist Convention and sailed for India from Halifax, N.S., in the autumn of 1891. Language study was begun in Bobbili, and the first assignment to mission work was at Vizianagaram, where she had charge of the staff of Bible women and the caste girl’s school. While serving in this station, on November 8, 1894, she was married to Mr. Marsh, who had been in India since 1892, a missionary of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. During most of the years of their service abroad, Mr. and Mrs. Marsh were members of the First church, Portland, Oreg., nd were the missionary representatives of that church.
After some months of service in Secunderabad, Deccan, Mr. and Mrs. Marsh were designated to open a new station at Markapur, in the Kurnool District, India. This involved the acquisition of land, the construction of a bungalow, a chapel, a schoolhouse, boarding school dormitories, houses for teachers, and much else in building and equipping a station. Then there was the touring of the villages with the evangelists, the organization of churches, the day-by-day routines of work in the station with it boarding and day schools, its Bible women, and the sick and ailing who resort to the mission for aid. For some 26 years, the Marshes continued in Markapur, through famine and through more prosperous times, until 1920, when, owing to a decline in Mrs. Marsh’s health, they returned to Secunderabad. Here service was continued till April 1931, when Mr. and Mrs. Marsh returned to the United Stated prior to retirement, nearly 40 years from the date of her first arrival in India. Fullerton, Calif, has been her home since June 1931.
Mrs. Marsh was a women of sterling character, strong beliefs, and fine friendships. She is survived by her husband and on only daughter, Mrs. William B. Purdy, of Placentia, Calif.
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