James Keith Marshall
(1800-1862)
BIRTH
February 13, 1800
PLACE
Richmond, Virginia
DEATH
December 2, 1862
PLACE
Marshall, Virginia
FAMILY
MOTHER
Mary Willis Ambler Marshall
(1766-1831)
BROTHER
Edward Carrington Marshall
(1805-1882)
CHILDREN
John Marshall
(1755-1835)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
James Keith Marshall was a Virginia planter and politician, born in Richmond in 1800, a son of Chief Justice John Marshall and Mary Willis Ambler. He represented Fauquier County in the House of Delegates in 1839–1841 and served in the state senate from 1853 until his death in 1862. He also acted as executor of his father’s estate. His estate papers survive in the Virginia Museum of History & Culture, documenting family property and enslaved people.
EARLY LIFE
James Keith Marshall was born on Feb 13, 1800 in Richmond, Virginia. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies James Keith Marshall with work or public activity as a planter, soldier, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. James Keith Marshall died on Dec 2, 1862 in Marshall, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
In 1853, voters elected James Keith Marshall to the Virginia Senate, where he represented Fauquier and neighboring Rappahannock Counties. James Keith Marshall died on Dec 2, 1862 in Marshall, Virginia. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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