Saturday, November 29, 2025

Our Daughter

Floyd Rockwell Uhl was born August 24, 1887 in Killbuck, Ohio to Bigham and Hannah Uhl. They made their way to the Rossville-Silver Lake area of Shawnee County, Kansas. They settled in the Grove neighborhood where Bigham constructed and ran a grain elevator.

Their oldest child, Floyd, married Ethel Maude Marsh on November 14, 1910 in Mercer County, Missouri. Ethel was born September 5, 1882 in Fort Scott, Kansas. Her father was Judge John R. Marsh, a Jackson County judge. Judge Marsh would pass away in 1903 after being kicked by a horse. Ethel's mother, Elizabeth Marsh, would pass away in 1912 after a dress she was wearing caught on fire as she was burning trash.

Floyd and Ethel had three daughters. Thelma Nell was born December 15, 1913. She died in 1963 in Cerritos, California. Their third daughter, Eula Belle, was born in 1925. Their middle daughter, Elizabeth, was born January 17, 1917 but died of convulsions on May 2, 1919. She was buried in Silver Lake Cemetery.

A weather-worn gravestone with a little lamb on top marks Elizabeth's burial. Buried next to Elizabeth is her father, Floyd. Floyd died in 1966. Ethel would pass away in 1962 in El Sereno, California and is buried with Thelma in Cerritos.