Marshall Annen Zickefoose was the son of Sampson Zickefoose and Nancy Jane (Harrah) Zickefoose. He was the oldest of 9 children born to Sampson and Nancy. He saw born 10 Aug 1847 at Greenbrier County, West Virginia, at that time of his birth West Virginia, was still part of Virginia.

(Note: West Virginia, was still part of Virginia until about 1862. So if it read West Virginia before 1862 it really was Virginia).

Marshall Annen Zickefoose married Idabelle F. Burdett / Burditt on 10 Feb 1870 at Fayette, West Virginia. Marshall and Isabelle had 5 children, Nancy Hannah, Sampson Moses, Virginia R., Mary Susan "Molly", and Thomas Andrew Zickefoose. The first 4 children were born in West Virginia. Marshall and Isabelle left West Virginia by wagon train and came though Huntington, Ross, Ohio, were Thomas Andrew Zickefoose was born. They were still heading West to Kansas. They stop for awhile in Republic county in north central Kansas and later to Ness county, Kansas. They ended up in Franklin, Ness County, Kansas. On 22nd of October 1881 Isabelle passed away. She was buried somewhere around Ness County, Kansas, maybe in Franklin where they lived.

Marshall then married Mary Ellen "Molly" Culver, she was born Feb 1866 in Iowa. They married about 1885, Marshall and Molly had 10 children. Dessie Edna (twin), Bessie (twin), Ella Elizabeth, George William, Delbert Clinton, Rose, Henry, Esther Crestina, Iness May, Orville Wendell "Wren" Zickefoose. Molly died on 30 Oct 1917 in Escondido, San Diego, California, at her sister's home, Mrs. Nina Rife, she probable is buried out there in California. Her burial is not known at this time.

(Note: if anyone has info. on Molly or Isabelle, please let me know, Thank you, Dawna (Adams) Budd my email is dawna_budd @yahoo.com)

Marshall was staying with one of his grandsons Walter Mock at the time of his death. Marshall died on 28 Jan 1933 in Russell Twp., Camden, Missouri. He was buried at Little Niargua (McCain) Cemetery, Preston, Hickory, Missouri.

Story form Rachael Garcia told to the family passed down from her great grandmother (Iness May Zickefoose Burk Geiswein's sister Esther Crestina Zickefoose Walter Mock.

About the photo to the left of the sod house, would have to have been taken in Kansas not Oklahoma. The first children of Marshall and Mary were twin daughters Dessie and Bessie Zickefoose whom are in this photo. They were born about Jun 1886 around Ness county, Kansas. The first 8 children where born in Kansas.

(L to R: Probable take in 1886 or 1887 after the twins birth:

Marshall Annen Zickefoose, Mary Ellen "Molly" Culver Zickefoose, holding one of the twins Dessie or Bessie Zickefoose, Mary Susan "Mollie" Zickefoose Elliott, Virginia R. Zickefoose, Sampson Moses Zickefoose, Nancy Hannah Zickefoose Adams, hold one of the twins Bessie or Dessie Zickefoose and Thomas Andrew Zickefoose.

When Esther Crestina Zickefoose was a little girl, she and her family lived in a sod house. It was built on some land that belonged to the Indians. Her father (Marshall Annen Zickefoose) hauled freight to those little towns and settlements in Kansas and Oklahoma. He also killed Quail and shipped them back east.

Esther and her brothers and sisters were warned not to go near the Indian settlements. To make sure they didn't, their parents (Marshall and Mary) told them that the Indians would eat white children.

One day the children got bold and went spying on the Indian camp, some Indian women had a big pot cooking over an open fire. They could see a large object cooking in the pot (probably a wild goose or turkey). Of course they thought it was a baby, they went dashing home and never went back to the Indian camp ever again