Mary Willis Ambler Marshall
(1766-1831)
BIRTH
March 18, 1766
PLACE
NAME
Mary Willis Ambler
DEATH
December 25, 1831
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Jaquelin Ambler
(1742-1798)
MOTHER
Rebecca Burwell
(1746-1806)
HUSBAND
John Marshall
(1755-1835)
CHILDREN
Jaquelin Ambler Marshall
(1787-1852)
CHILDREN
James Keith Marshall
(1800-1862)
CHILDREN
Edward Carrington Marshall
(1805-1882)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
EPISCOPALIAN
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Mary Willis “Polly” Ambler Marshall (1766–1831) grew up in Virginia and experienced the disruption of British military operations with her family. She married John Marshall in 1783 and settled in Richmond, where he later became chief justice. Her life included repeated pregnancies and the loss of several children. Her surviving will distributed bank stock to family, remembered her housekeeper and supported a Richmond school for orphans, revealing her own financial choices.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Mary Willis Ambler Marshall’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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.
No distinct public profession or office for Mary Willis Ambler Marshall is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Mary Willis Ambler Marshall died on Dec 25, 1831. Mary Willis “Polly” Ambler Marshall grew up in Virginia and experienced the disruption of British military operations with her family. She married John Marshall in 1783 and settled in Richmond, where he later became chief justice. Her life included repeated pregnancies and the loss of several children. Her surviving will distributed bank stock to family, remembered her housekeeper and supported a Richmond school for orphans, revealing her own financial choices. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
Shockoe Hill Cemetery
1119 North 2nd Street, Richmond, Virginia, 23219, USA
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