DAVID MARSHALL, post office Cotton Hill was born November 6, 1843. His parents, Stephen and Amada (Smalley) Marshall, were natives of New Jersey, and came to this State and settled in Macoupin county in 1845. His father was a miller, also farming to some extent. They had nine children - two died in childhood, and seven grew to maturity. David was the seventh child and came to this county about 1857. On October 27, 1864, he married Emily C. Spicer, born August 13, 1843; they had four children, two died in infancy and two are living, Mary F., born November 3, 1867, and Louisa, born May 27, 1875. Mrs. Marshall's parents, U. D. and Nancy Clifton Spicer, were natives of Delaware. He was born September 24, 1793, and died February 15, 1855; the mother born October 30, 1800; and the father, Mr. Marshall owns one hundred and ten acres of land valued at $50 per acre; makes a specialty of cattle and hogs for market. He had limited advantages for early education, and always worked hard; he used to work sixteen days for a hog, and worked all summer for five acres of corn. He bought a colt, and the next year worked for six acres of corn, and in the winter worked for his board. When he was sixteen years old he worked for seven acres, and when he was seventeen, herded cattle for $30 a month; bought calves and run them with the herd, then sold out and had about $400, with which he bought forty acres of land, cut the wood off and sold it in Springfield; from that time he continued to prosper as a speculator. They are Democrats politically.