Marshall wrote a biography of her husband, A Man Called Peter, published in 1951. He later also became a minister and author. Her husband died in 1949 of a heart attack, leaving her to care for their 9-year-old son, Peter John Marshall. She spent nearly three years recovering from the illness. In 1940, Marshall contracted tuberculosis, for which at that time there was no antibiotic treatment. The couple moved to Washington, DC, where her husband served as pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church and Chaplain of the United States Senate. While a junior at Agnes Scott College, she met Peter Marshall, marrying him in 1936. From the age of nine until her graduation from high school, Marshall was raised in Keyser, West Virginia, where her father served as pastor of a Presbyterian church from 1924 to 1942. She was the daughter of the Reverend John Ambrose Wood and Leonora Whitaker Wood. Marshall was born in Johnson City, Tennessee.
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