Nancy Louise "Nanny" North Marshall was the daughter of David Franklin and Mary Elizabeth (Winter) North.
She was a school teacher all of her adult life. Her brief marriage to Harry Singleton Marshall, also a teacher, ended when he died of influenza when their only child, son, Thomas Franklin Marshall, was 6 months old.
After her husband's death, she returned home to live with her parents, teach school and raise her son. She drove to and from school in those early years in a cart pulled by a pony. Later, she would live in a boarding house in Cincinnati along with her sister Vinnie, near where they both taught school.
When her grandson, Gilbert Stivers Marshall, graduated from Navy Boot Camp, he flew her from Cincinnati to Atlanta to visit with her son's family. She told Gilbert it was very interesting, but she went home by bus!
She was known as Gonga to her grandchildren.
She is buried beside her son and daughter-in-law in Atlanta, Georgia.
She was a school teacher all of her adult life. Her brief marriage to Harry Singleton Marshall, also a teacher, ended when he died of influenza when their only child, son, Thomas Franklin Marshall, was 6 months old.
After her husband's death, she returned home to live with her parents, teach school and raise her son. She drove to and from school in those early years in a cart pulled by a pony. Later, she would live in a boarding house in Cincinnati along with her sister Vinnie, near where they both taught school.
When her grandson, Gilbert Stivers Marshall, graduated from Navy Boot Camp, he flew her from Cincinnati to Atlanta to visit with her son's family. She told Gilbert it was very interesting, but she went home by bus!
She was known as Gonga to her grandchildren.
She is buried beside her son and daughter-in-law in Atlanta, Georgia.
Nancy Louise "Nanny" North Marshall was the daughter of David Franklin and Mary Elizabeth (Winter) North.
She was a school teacher all of her adult life. Her brief marriage to Harry Singleton Marshall, also a teacher, ended when he died of influenza when their only child, son, Thomas Franklin Marshall, was 6 months old.
After her husband's death, she returned home to live with her parents, teach school and raise her son. She drove to and from school in those early years in a cart pulled by a pony. Later, she would live in a boarding house in Cincinnati along with her sister Vinnie, near where they both taught school.
When her grandson, Gilbert Stivers Marshall, graduated from Navy Boot Camp, he flew her from Cincinnati to Atlanta to visit with her son's family. She told Gilbert it was very interesting, but she went home by bus!
She was known as Gonga to her grandchildren.
She is buried beside her son and daughter-in-law in Atlanta, Georgia.
She was a school teacher all of her adult life. Her brief marriage to Harry Singleton Marshall, also a teacher, ended when he died of influenza when their only child, son, Thomas Franklin Marshall, was 6 months old.
After her husband's death, she returned home to live with her parents, teach school and raise her son. She drove to and from school in those early years in a cart pulled by a pony. Later, she would live in a boarding house in Cincinnati along with her sister Vinnie, near where they both taught school.
When her grandson, Gilbert Stivers Marshall, graduated from Navy Boot Camp, he flew her from Cincinnati to Atlanta to visit with her son's family. She told Gilbert it was very interesting, but she went home by bus!
She was known as Gonga to her grandchildren.
She is buried beside her son and daughter-in-law in Atlanta, Georgia.
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