1885 Paxton Wheel
Genealogical chart of the descendants of John Marshall and Elizabeth Markham, his wife
This chart accompanied a single volume with Sketches of Individuals and Notices of Families connected with them, which was prepared by William M. Paxton. When published by Robert Clarke & Company of Cincinnati in 1885, the book could be purchased for $2.50, and this chart for $0.25
The wheel displays about eleven hundred names arranged in six concentric circles, representing different generations. Each individual is numbered and indexed for easy reference. It includes the entire Marshall family, except those who were infants or born after 1885. This organization facilatates tracing the ancestry or descendants, of a person on the chart and provides easy access to that persons listing in the 415 page volume. volume.
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.
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