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Sunday, one at 10.30 am and another at 7.30 pm.

Marsh passed away at the age of eighty-two on 26 September 1935. His wife, Jane Elizabeth,

inherited Roxton and remained there until her death. They had no children. Marsh had
completed fifty-six years of ministry since he had offered himself to the British Conference

for missionary work in 1879. He was a Past President (1914) of the Conference of the

Methodist Church in South Africa.

His Will was very detailed and the following, besides family relatives, were the main
beneficiaries in the form of cash (totalling £95,500):

• S.A. Wesleyan Missionary Society (£20,000), half of which was to be allocated for the
extension of work in Zululand, Maputaland and Pondoland.

• The Wesleyan Church of South Africa (£13,000), for Ministerial Students’ Fund for
both European and African students.
• Trustees of the Marsh Memorial Home (£8,500), for members of the Order of the
Sisters of the Children in times of sickness and retirement.
• Salvation Army (£10,000).
• The YMCA (£1,500).
• The YWCA (£8,500).

• The Marsh Memorial Home (£4,500) to assist with boys and girls during their first few
years of leaving the Home (where necessary.)
• The Marsh Memorial Home (£10,000), the interest thereof to be used for general
purposes.
• Wesleyan-Methodist Church of South Africa (£2,500), for Kingswood College,
Grahamstown, for bursaries for ministers’ sons, and £5,000 towards High School
education for Girls in the Cape of Good Hope.
• £2,500 as a Fund for assisting the education of ministers’ children, especially those
children who cannot claim help from the Childrens’ Education and Maintenance Fund.

• To the United Mission Institute (£2,000) for young coloured men in Cape Town.
• Sudan United Mission (S.A. Branch) (£7,500).
• The residue of the Estate after liquidation was then to be divided in equal portions
among the Marsh Memorial Home, Rondebosch and the South African Wesleyan-
Methodist Missionary Society.