21. William B. Marquis was born in Aug 1850 in Smith Township, Posey County, Indiana. William's birthplace is recorded as Indiana in the Hamilton County, Illinois census of 1860, but is recorded as Illinois in the same county census of 1870. William was listed as 20 years old in that same census of 1870. The definitive answer is that William B. Marquis is found listed in the 1850 census of Posey County, Indiana. He is listed as one month old on the census record that was taken on September 11, 1850. He was a Farm Laborer in 1870 in Hamilton County, Illinois. This was recorded in the 1870 census for Hamilton County, Illinois. He died before 1907 in Hamilton County, Illinois. According to The Leader, McLeansboro, Hamilton County, Illinois, William B. Marquis died before 1907 since he was listed as deceased in the obituary of his father, Perry Green Marquis.
He was married
to Margaret A. Frank on Dec 8 1873 in Hamilton County, Illinois. William and
Margaret were married on a Monday by R.M. Harrelson, Justice of the Peace. Hamilton
County, Illinois Marriage Records, Book C-3786.
Margaret A. Frank was born in 1860 in Missouri.
This is according to the 1880 census of Knights Prairie Precinct, Hamilton County,
Illinois taken June 18th, 1880. William B. Marquis and Margaret A. Frank had
the following children:
42 i.
Emma E. Marquis was born in 1879 in Knights Prairie, Hamilton County, Illinois.
Emma is listed in the 1880 census of Knights Prairie Precinct, Hamilton County,
Illinois, taken June 18th, 1880.
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