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

    Person Info
  • Name: James SAWHILL
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 25 Feb 1807 in West Finley Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania b
  • Death: 18 Jun 1876 in Cambridge, Ohio d
  • Burial: Old South Cemetery, Ninth St, Cambridge, Ohio u


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Alexander SAWHILL Birth: 1777 in Ireland Death: 19 Sep 1837 in East Finley Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania
    • Mother:
  • Mary NEELY Birth: 1776 in Tyrone Co, Ireland Death: 9 Aug 1854 in Finley Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania

Family:
Marriage:
  • Mary TODD on 8 Sep 1830 at Ohio Co, Virginia .m1
  • Mary TODD Birth: 25 Sep 1807 in Ohio Co, Virginia Death: 31 Oct 1857 in Gibson Station, Guernsey Co, Ohio
Children:
  1. Dorcas SAWHILL Birth: 28 Jul 1831 in West Alexander, Washington Co, Pennsylvania Death: 28 Aug 1831 in West Alexander, Washington Co, Pennsylvania
  2. William Todd SAWHILL Birth: 24 Feb 1833 in West Alexander, Washington Co, Pennsylvania Death: 21 Jul 1863
  3. Mary Elizabeth SAWHILL Birth: 18 Jan 1835 in Gibson Station, Guernsey Co, Ohio Death: 8 Sep 1835 in Gibson Station, Guernsey Co, Ohio
  4. James Alexander SAWHILL Birth: 16 Aug 1836 in Gibson Station, Guernsey Co, Ohio Death: 24 Dec 1884 in Holton, Jackson Co, Kansas
  5. Samuel Hare SAWHILL Birth: 2 Dec 1838 in Gibson Station, Guernsey Co, Ohio Death: 22 Jul 1876
  6. John McCurdy SAWHILL Birth: 11 Feb 1841 in Gibson Station, Guernsey Co, Ohio Death: 19 Jun 1925 in Ontario, Richland Co, Ohio
  7. Mary Jane SAWHILL Birth: 27 Feb 1843 in Gibson Station, Guernsey Co, Ohio Death: 24 Feb 1844 in Gibson Station, Guernsey Co, Ohio
  8. Sarah Narcissa SAWHILL Birth: 7 Feb 1845 in Gibson Station, Guernsey Co, Ohio Death: 22 Sep 1933 in Zanesville, Ohio
  9. Susan Valissa SAWHILL Birth: 22 Jul 1847 in Gibson Station, Guernsey Co, Ohio Death: 6 Sep 1922
  10. Joseph Todd SAWHILL Birth: 17 Jul 1850 in Gibson Station, Guernsey Co, Ohio Death: 1913 in Missoula, Montana

Marriage:
Bibliography
  1. Davis, Ed, Alexander Sawhill, private email, 2/16/2002. Author address: Edavis4123 at aol dot com Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Ed Davis 2/16/2002].
  2. Lignian, Marshall, and Irene, Ohio County West Virginia Marriage Records, Original located in WVa Dept of Archives of History Library, Charlestown, Ohio Co Public Library, Wheeling WVa, Wheeling, WV: author, 1987. Citizens Library (Washington, PA) 929.3 Ohi. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Lignian OhioCoWV Marriages p[0-9]*].
  3. Ohio County Virginia Recorder of Deeds, Deed books 1778-1901. SLC: GeneSocUT, 1958, Book 21, 1835-1838, LDS Film#0855530#1. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/008294087 image 186. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: OhioCoVA Deeds 21-318].
  4. Ohio County Virginia Recorder of Deeds, Deed books 1778-1901. SLC: GeneSocUT, 1958, Book 33, 1849-1850, LDS Film#0855536#1. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/008294091 images 270-1. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: OhioCoVA Deeds 33-505].
  5. Ohio County West Virginia County Clerk, Marriages 1790-1971. SLC: GeneSocUT, 1971. Volume 2, 1790-1890 Film#0863796#2. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/004230086. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: OhioCoWV Marriages 2-[0-9]*].
  6. Sawhill, Donald B, SAWHILL Family, from notes of Benjamin Wesley Sawhill, circulated privately Feb 1964. LDS Film #1454553#10. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/008129005, images 802-1013. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SawhillDB SAWHILL p[0-9]*].
  7. Shields, Jesse W and Grace Dague, Ancestors and Descendantsof James Alexander Sawhill. Grosse Pointe, MI: authors, 1958. LDS Film#0875362#7. Available at https://archive.org/details/ancestorsdescend00shie_0. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Shields SAWHILL p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: SawhillDB SAWHILL p13, SawhillDB SAWHILL p5, Shields SAWHILL p5],
place:
[Ref: SawhillDB SAWHILL p60, Shields SAWHILL p6],
parents:
[Ref: SawhillDB SAWHILL p13, SawhillDB SAWHILL p5, SawhillDB SAWHILL p60, Shields SAWHILL p5]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Ed Davis 2/16/2002, SawhillDB SAWHILL p61],
place:
[Ref: Ed Davis 2/16/2002]
Sources with Inaccurate death Information
date:
18 Jan 1875 [Ref: Shields SAWHILL p6]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: SawhillDB SAWHILL p61, Shields SAWHILL p6]
Sources with Information about marriage to Mary TODD
date:
[Ref: Lignian OhioCoWV Marriages p70, OhioCoWV Marriages 2-15, SawhillDB SAWHILL p7, Shields SAWHILL p6],
place:
[Ref: Lignian OhioCoWV Marriages p70, OhioCoWV Marriages 2-15, SawhillDB SAWHILL p60],
Rev:
John McCluskey [Ref: Lignian OhioCoWV Marriages p70],
names:
[Ref: OhioCoVA Deeds 21-318, OhioCoVA Deeds 33-505],
child:
[Ref: SawhillDB SAWHILL p60, SawhillDB SAWHILL p62, SawhillDB SAWHILL p68, SawhillDB SAWHILL p72, SawhillDB SAWHILL p73, SawhillDB SAWHILL p75, SawhillDB SAWHILL p7, Shields SAWHILL p7, Shields SAWHILL p8]
Sources with Information about marriage to Mary Agnes McCLAIM
date:
second marriage [Ref: SawhillDB SAWHILL p61]
Research Notes:
first taylor in Claysville, PA [Ref: Shields SAWHILL p6]

1834: bought a farm near Gibson Station, Guernsey Co, OH [Ref: Shields SAWHILL p6]

c1835: built a two-story brick house [Ref: Shields SAWHILL p6]

Mar 25 1836: (while living in Washington Co PA) confirmed a prior deed from William Todd (father-in-law) to James Maxwell [Ref: OhioCoVA Deeds 21-318]

Elder in Presbyterian Church [Ref: Shields SAWHILL p6]

Sep 23 1847: Heirs of William Todd (John, William, Wallace, Thomas, Joseph, James Sawhill & wife Mary, Hugh Brown & wife Jane, John Cunningham & wife Martha) sold to James Todd, for $120 each, all their interest in 118 acres of land on waters of Middle Wheeling Creek owned by William Todd at time of his death [Ref: OhioCoVA Deeds 33-505]



Pedigree of James SAWHILL
          /-----John (SAWHILL)
 /-----Alexander SAWHILL
James SAWHILL
|         /-----John NEELY
 \-----Mary NEELY
          \-----Elizabeth WIGTON



Descendants of James SAWHILL
1. James SAWHILL m1. Mary TODD m2. Mary Agnes McCLAIM
m. Mary TODD father: William TODD mother: Elizabeth NEELY
m. Mary Agnes McCLAIM

2nd generation

5. James Alexander SAWHILL m. Margaret Virginia BRUNNER
m. Margaret Virginia BRUNNER father: John BRUNER mother: Mary McQUAID
7. John McCurdy SAWHILL m1. Sarah Marie McKNIGHT m2. Mary Janette SYMON
m. Sarah Marie McKNIGHT
m. Mary Janette SYMON
10. Susan Valissa SAWHILL m. John Andrew MAGEE
m. John Andrew MAGEE
11. Joseph Todd SAWHILL m. Alice Ann McCARTHY
m. Alice Ann McCARTHY

3rd generation

18. Clarence Vinton SAWHILL m1. Bird Elizabeth WOOD m2. Lucinda Sarah WOOD
m. Bird Elizabeth WOOD
m. Lucinda Sarah WOOD
26. Aline SAWHILL m. Louis STRUTZ
m. Louis STRUTZ