"My grandfather, Frederick Prahl, and grandmother, Christine, came to Broken Bow, Nebraska in 1867 from Denmark. Grandpa was born in Schleswig Holstein, Denmark, and grandma in Soro, Denmark. While in Broken Bow they lived in a two room adobe house, but the snakes and Indians were so bad, they followed the railroad and came to Laramie, Wyoming, in 1869." --P. 1.

Tiemann Janssen Dudden (ca. 1820-1902) was born in Neeshusen, Germany. He married Mary Katharina Dudden in 1850. They immigrated to the United States in the 1880s and settled near Glenvil, Clay County, Nebraska. Descendants and relatives lived in Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Colorado, California and elsewhere.

George T. Marshall, son of James Albert Marshall and Ethelind McElree, was born 21 August 1913 on a farm near Silver City, Iowa. He married Anita Helen Bendt, daughter of Herman Bendt and Magdalena Johanna Hansen, 1 February 1939 in Rockport, Missouri. They had six children.