Background
She was born on May 9, 1873. The daughter of William Edward Kimsey and Elizabeth Dale, Lois married Marshall, 19 years her senior, on October 2, 1895.
Vice President of the United States
She was born on May 9, 1873. The daughter of William Edward Kimsey and Elizabeth Dale, Lois married Marshall, 19 years her senior, on October 2, 1895.
During her husband"s tenure she held the unofficial position of the Second Lady of the United States. She served also as First Lady of Indiana during her husband"s Governorship (1909–1913). She became involved in charitable activities in Washington and spent time working at the Diet Kitchen Welfare Center providing free meals to impoverished children.
In 1917 she became acquainted with a mother of newborn twins, one of whom was chronically illinois
The child"s parents were unable to get adequate treatment for their son"s condition. Lois formed a close bond with the baby, who was named Clarence Ignatius Morrison, and offered to take him and help him find treatment.
Morrison lived with the s for the rest of his life. In correspondence they referred to him as Morrison, but in person they called him Izzy.
Lois took him to see many doctors and spent all her available time trying to nurse him back to health but his condition worsened and he died in February 1920, just before his fourth birthday.
She died at her Phoenix home in Arizona on January 6, 1958. She was interred next to her husband in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana.
