THE MARSHALL FAMILY
William M. Paxton’s volume contains sketches of the descendants of John Marshall and his wife, Elizabeth Markham, along with information on related families. An accompanying chart features around eleven hundred names arranged in six concentric circles to represent different generations, covering only those born before 1885.
The work extends beyond the Marshalls, involving many prominent families from Kentucky and Virginia that have intermarried with them. Notable families include the Adams, Alexander, and Amble. Armstrong, Ballow, Barnes, Barton, Bell, Birney, Blackburn, Breckenridge, Braxton, Brent, Brockenbrough, Brooke, Browning, Buford, Burnley, Bullett, Burwell, Butler, Byrd, Carrington, Chesley, Clarkson, Coleman, Colston, Cooke, Currie, Custis, Doniphan, Douthat, Duke, Fishback, Fisher, Fleming, Forman, Fry, Greenlee, Hackett, Harbeson, Harvie, Jolliffe, Jones, Keith, Green, Key, Kennan, Langhorn, Lewis, Logan, McClanahan, McClung, McDowell, McGuire, McMurran, Madison, Maltby, Marbury, Morris, Neil, Newton, Paxton, Pickett, Poindexter, Preston, Randolph, Robinson, Royall, Slaughter, Smede, Smith, Starling, Stribling, Soward, Strother, Taliaferro, Taylor, Tebbs, Thomas, Warfield, Warner, Washington, Willford, Willis, and Woolfolk, besides many others.
When published by Robert Clarke & Company of Cincinnati in 1885, the book could be purchased for $2.50, and this chart for $0.25.