Personal Life and Death
Marshall was married three times. He had seven children in all, including Jed, Sarah, Jill, Degen, and Sam. He died of lung cancer in Bedford, New York, on August 24, 1998. His grave is in the Middle Patent Rural Cemetery, located in the hamlet of Banksville, a part of the town of North Castle, New York.
As a member of the Committee for National Health Insurance, E. G. Marshall was a long-time advocate for government-provided health care in the United States. During the 1968 US presidential campaign, he filmed and narrated a political ad endorsing Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey.
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