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: Mary TODD
  • Sex: F
  • Birth: 25 Sep 1807 in Ohio Co, Virginia b
  • Death: 31 Oct 1857 in Gibson Station, Guernsey Co, Ohio d
  • Burial: Washington, Ohio u


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • William TODD Birth: Abt 1780 in Co Tyrone, Ireland Death: Abt Apr 1828 in Ohio Co, Virginia (Now West Virginia)
    • Mother:
  • Elizabeth NEELY Birth: 5 Mar 1782 in Tyrone Co, Ireland Death: 17 Oct 1855

Family:
Marriage:
  • James SAWHILL on 8 Sep 1830 at Ohio Co, Virginia .m1
  • James SAWHILL Birth: 25 Feb 1807 in West Finley Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania Death: 18 Jun 1876 in Cambridge, 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

Bibliography
  1. 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]*].
  2. -, "Neely notes", a typed onionskin page, original author unknown, copy obtained from Virginia Edgar Gebhardt, 9/4/94. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: NEELY Family].
  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. Lewis Publishing Co, The Bay of San Francisco, the metropolis of the Pacific Coast, and its suburban cities: a history. Chicago: Lewis Pub Co, 1892. LDS Film#468744. Available at http://archive.org/details/baysanfrancisco00compgoog. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SanFranciscoCA History p[0-9]*].
  7. 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]*].
  8. 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]*].
  9. -, "TODD Family of West Virginia", original source unknown, from Virginia Edgar Gebhardt, 9/4/94. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: TODD Family].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: SawhillDB SAWHILL p13, SawhillDB SAWHILL p7]
third child [Ref: SanFranciscoCA History p567],
place:
of Ohio Co, Virginia [Ref: SawhillDB SAWHILL p60],
parents:
[Ref: SanFranciscoCA History p567, SawhillDB SAWHILL p13, SawhillDB SAWHILL p60, SawhillDB SAWHILL p7, TODD Family],
father:
[Ref: OhioCoVA Deeds 33-505]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
date:
17 Dec 1807 [Ref: NEELY Family, Shields SAWHILL p14],
place:
West Alexander, Pennsylvania [Ref: Shields SAWHILL p6]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: SawhillDB SAWHILL p60, Shields SAWHILL p7],
place:
[Ref: SawhillDB SAWHILL p60]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: SawhillDB SAWHILL p60, Shields SAWHILL p7]
Sources with Information about marriage to James SAWHILL
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]
Research Notes:
known principally for her church work; leader in all church activities, especially teaching in the Sunday School [Ref: Shields SAWHILL p6]

invalid for five years, with cerebral paralysis [Ref: Shields SAWHILL p7]

tombstone bears the inscription "Mary Todd / wife of / James Sawhill / died / Oct 31, 1857 / in the 50th year / of her age". The white marble tombstone is carved as a scroll [Ref: Shields SAWHILL p7]



Pedigree of Mary TODD
                   /-----John TODD
          /-----John TODD
 /-----William TODD
|        |         /-----James GILLESPIE
|         \-----Mary Elizabeth GILLESPIE
|                  \-----Elizabeth RIDDLE
Mary TODD
|         /-----John NEELY
 \-----Elizabeth NEELY
          \-----Elizabeth WIGTON



Descendants of Mary TODD
1. Mary TODD m. James SAWHILL
m. James SAWHILL father: Alexander SAWHILL mother: Mary NEELY

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