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Surnames: McNees, Arthur, Marker
Classification: Query
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Hi, Charles McNees is my 3rd Cousin 3x removed, I would like any information you are
willing to share.
My line is Joab / John M. / Andrew Jackson / Moses Lynly / Clifton Barnum / Richard L.
If I am correct Charles Line is: Joseph (brother of my Joab) / John / Joseph William
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Below are the articles I found on the death of Charles daughter Ellen, just in case you
haven't seen them.
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Union City Evening Times, Tuesday, February 12, 1935
Tragedy takes place in a home at Parker, Ind. - Wm. H Marker, wounds his wife and kills
himself.
Parker, Ind. --- Wm. H. Marker, 37, formerly an employe of the Indiana Wire Mill of
Muncie, shot and seriously wounded his wife, Ellen, 27, about 5 o'clock this afternoon
and then committed suicide with a shot gun at their garage home here in a fit of
despondency over ill health.
His wife was taken to the Randolph County Hospital at Winchester, where her condition was
reported as critical.
Several years of misfortune preceded the tragedy, friends said.
Mr. Marker had been worrying over his condition, which prevented him from working but
little this winter, and the condition of a daughter, Evelyn, 11, who is confined to her
bed with a heart affliction. He was suffering from stomach ulcers.
Their home burned three years ago and the family, which includes five other small
children, had since lived in the garage on the property. It was said that the family was
on relief here.
The children were the only witnesses to the shooting, and they summoned the aid of
neighbors for their mother. They said that their mother was standing on a small porch when
shot and that their father went out to the orchard, where he shot himself. His body was
found there and the coroner was called to investigate.
They also said that their father had threatened to kill their mother just recently.
Neighbors said the couple did not quarrel and that Mr. Marker seemed in his usual spirits
when carrying home groceries about a half hour earlier.
The charge from the shotgun struck Mrs. Marker in the right side and arm. She was still
conscious when the ambulance reached the hospital, but had lost considerable blood.
The couple had been married about eight years and most of that time had been spent in
Parker. Their children are Ulla Ann, Evelyn, Sylvia, Lillie Mae, Doris and a baby. The
oldest is seven years of age. They were taken to the home of Mrs. Marker's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles McNees.
Funeral arrangements have not been made for Mr. Marker. His relatives were not known by
neighbors.
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Union City Evening Times, Wednesday, February 13, 1935
Wounds received by Parker woman proves fatal. - She died at the Winchester Hospital and
leaves six children.
Winchester, Ind. --- Mrs. Ellen Marker, 27, of Parker, died in the Randolph County
Hospital here at midnight of shot gun wounds suffered Monday when her husband, William,
turned the gun on her in their home during a fit of despondency. Marker committed suicide
in the yard of their home after sounding her. Six children were left orphans by the
tragedy.
Mrs. Marker was shot through the abdomen and in the shoulder, the abdominal wounds causing
her death. Relatives had not taken charge of the body at 1:30 o'clock this morning but
it was expected that it would be taken to a Farmland mortuary. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles McNees, who reside in Farmland, took the children home Monday night.
[Double funeral services were held on Thursday at the Parker Methodist church for Mr. and
Mrs. William H. Marker. Rev. Harvey Thornburg, assisted by Rev. N. E. Smith of Parker, had
charge of the service. Mrs. Marker was buried in Maxville cemetery. There was no mention
where Mr. Marker was buried.]