 Marshall lived with his parents into his thirties . His father died in the late 1880s and his mother died in 1894 , leaving him with the family estate and business . In 1895 , while working on a case , Marshall met Lois Kimsey who was working as a clerk in her father 's law firm . Despite their nineteen @-@ year age difference , the couple fell in love and married on October 2 . The Marshalls had a close marriage and were nearly inseparable , and spent only two nights apart during their nearly thirty @-@ year marriage . 
