Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page


Family:
Marriage:
  • Sarah ALLEN on 25 Aug 1859 .m1
  • Sarah ALLEN Birth: 25 May 1830 in Crawford Co, Pennsylvania Death: 11 Dec 1907 in Mt Vernon, Lima Co, Iowa

Bibliography
  1. Tretter, Sue, James L Patton, private email 3/22/2003. Author address: sestpcz at cox dot net Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sue Tretter 3/22/2003].
  2. Wilson, Peter Mason, Descendants of Thomas and Eleanor Wilson. In Crawford County Genealogy, vol 22 no 2, Oct 1999, and vol 23 no 1 Spring 2000. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p57],
place:
[Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p57],
parents:
[Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p57]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p57]
1890 [Ref: Sue Tretter 3/22/2003],
place:
[Ref: Sue Tretter 3/22/2003]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p57]
Sources with Information about marriage to Sarah ALLEN
date:
[Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p56]
Research Notes:
1859: AB degree, Oberlin College [Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p57]

prominently mentioned in the book _The Town that Started the Civil War_, by Nat Brandt. Book tells how Patton and others resisted the recapture and return of a slave under the Fugitive Slave Act, and of the resultant trial [Ref: Sue Tretter 3/22/2003]

taught at an academy in Richfield, while continuing theological studies at Oberlin [Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p57]

1862: AM and Seminary degrees, Oberlin College [Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p57]

1862: ordained a Presbyterian minister [Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p57]

active in Underground Railroad [Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p57]

served as Chaplain of the 127th Regiment, Ohio Vols (colored) [Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p57]

Chaplain with Fifth USCT during the war [Ref: Sue Tretter 3/22/2003]

became a preacher in Ohio and for 24 years was pastor of the First Congregational Church in Greenville, Michigan [Ref: Sue Tretter 3/22/2003]



Pedigree of James Lawrence PATTON
 /-----Joseph PATTON
James Lawrence PATTON
 \-----Anne McMULLIN



Descendants of James Lawrence PATTON
1. James Lawrence PATTON m. Sarah ALLEN
m. Sarah ALLEN father: Jeremiah W ALLEN mother: Sarah WILSON