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Monday, October 17, 2016

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Robert Marsh: Member Grant High School (Portland, Ore.) Class of 1926, first graduating class of the school

Graduation was held at Portland's Lincoln High School on June 15, 1926. Article from a 1986 edition of the Oregon and from 1926 editions of the Oregonian.


  • Article headlined STUDENTS GRADUATE AT 7 HIGH SCHOOLS dated June 13, 1928.  The names of grads included with this article.
  • Article headlined GRANT GRADUATION HELD dated June 16, 1926.
  • Article headlined ‘First graduates of Grant High dust off their old ‘Memoirs’ and take a look back 60 years.’ Dated Sept. 10, 1986

























Monday, October 3, 2016

John Joseph Marsh: Born 1869. Died 1918


















Feb. 12, 1869 -- John Joseph Marsh born in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland. See map.

June 1, 1918 -- John Joseph Marsh dies at age 49 of influenza in Bellingham, Wash. He is buried at Bayview Cemetery, Bellingham, Wash., next to his first wife, Mary Earley Marsh, and his second wife, Margaret Ella Earley Marsh Kees, who were sisters.

Oct. 3, 1918 -- Influenza epidemic hits Seattle:

















Photo taken June 12, 2012, shows John Joseph Marsh’s gravestone at Bayview Cemetery in Bellingham, Wash., with hands of his grandchildren (left to right), Timothy John Marsh and Mayo Emily Marsh.

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Marsh graves in Bellingham, Wash.