"Marble, in the township of that name, is situated upon Section 7, township 17, and Range 24. A post-office of this name was established during pioneer times by Jacob Owens, at his store a short distance above the present location of the village. The first predecessor of Mr. Owens was Gabriel Hudson, who kept the office at his house. The village has been built since the war. Its first merchant was William Wilson. Owens & Williams, Sanders & Wann, ---- Owens, Owen Boydston, Boydston & Wall and E. O. Wall have successively been engaged in business, Howard Bros. & Co., Walter Schubert & Co. and H. F. Schubert being the genealogy of the rival establishment since 1885. W. N. Rutledge, postmaster, carries a line of hardware. The local blacksmith is W. S. Ross. A building used for school, church and society purposes was built in 1876. The lodges that meet here are as follows:

  Madison Lodge No. 335, F. & A. M., instituted in 1876, with a membership of eleven, among whom were R. J. Taylor, W. A. Gage, Jacob Owens, R. I. Marshall, Hosea Paiher, Henry Ray, Dallas Coker, J. P. Boatright and Riley Williams.