Marsh property recognized as Pioneer Farm by Aksarben Foundation
Three generations of the Marsh family were on hand to receive the Arsarben Pioneer Farm award presented by Hamilton County Ag Society president Justin Hermanson (right). From left are Matthew Marsh, his father Gayle (who currently operates the farm) and Gayle’s father, Ivan. Also pictured (back right) is Ag Society board member Jeremy Brandt.
Gayle Marsh, who farms his family’s long-held acreage in the southwestern corner of Hamilton County, says he knows his Marsh ancestor came over from the Old Country to America just 17 years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. He doesn’t know that man’s name yet, but he does know name of the ancestor who was the first to become a Nebraskan. That was Eldoras Lane, the father of…
