Charles Albert was fluent in the Lakota (Sioux) language. He knew Sitting Bull, Rain-In-The-Face and Calamity Jane Marshall

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    Charles Albert Marshall (b. April 27, 1848 at JoDaviess County, IL) married Lovedy Ann Stephens (b. July 8, 1847 at Scalesmound Township, Illinois) at Nora, Illinois on July 19 1868. Charles was a private in Company B of the 142 Illinois Infantry during the Civil War, and was a 'crack shot' with the old Sharps rifle. After the Civil War he became an expert carpenter. He constructed many of the buildings on the Santee Sioux Indian Reservation, the Yankton Sioux Indian Reservation and the Ponca Reservation. Charles Albert Marshall was fluent in the Lakota (Sioux) language. He knew Sitting Bull, Rain-In-The-Face and Calamity Jane. Charles and Lovedy Ann moved to Rapid City, South Dakota in 1876 and homesteaded in what is now known as Rapid Valley. (Rapid City wasn't incorporated as a town until 1882) In 1883 he helped establish a Brick Business in Rapid City. Charles died at the Old Soldiers Home in Hot Springs, SD at the age of 58 from tuberculosis on May 7, 1906. Lovedy Ann Marshall died at the age of 88 on June 29, 1936 at the Old Soldiers Home in Hot Springs, SD. Charles and Lovedy Ann had nine children.