The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-11

II dt IACbtic SfCGh. E CDTudEy lttS, HI l August issue is list of soldiers and | sailors from Massachusetts. Their rec | ords are very valuable; they may help some women from our own State to gain admission to the Society D. A. R. Work of Chapters contains reports | from 3S. and there Is not an uninterest- 1 ing one in the number. The first is | well written and stirring report from 1 the Mobile Chapter. All these contain l 60 much that is interesting and helpful the literary as well as pat riotic worth of the various Chapters throughout the State. and the regents can find useful suggestions for their 1 chapters. One sentence in the report | of the Rainier Chapter will arrest the attention of every Daughter who reads it: "An organization that is self-cen- | tered will die" There are certain chap | ter interests we must work for, but we must not loose sight of the claims Of | the National and State organizations. | We have a general idea. of the import ance of Continental Hall. but not proper conception of its high purpose and meaning; we are to erect an edl- l flee. beautiful permanent and inde- structible. which will be forever a part of the very life of the Society D. A. R. | in all it's depth of meaning. It is to hold together the members. the chap | ters, the States. and will unite all to the National. We urge our women to read The Open Letter" This is a subject which will overshadow all l others at the next Congress- and one which is to be fully discussed at our coming State conference.
 The date for the annual conference Is first "Wednesday in November. but the place has not been decided upon. During the next few weeks this Will I be done. however. and timely notice will be given in our column.
 l &45-. Queries.
 .s104. KEITH. would like to know where I can find the family record or 1 Sir William Keith. who was Governor of Pennsylvania. It would be glad 1T some one would tell me. M. K. A.
 105. HOUGHTON.- N.-wanted inforna- ton about the genealogy. of Joshua Houghton. who settled in Greene coun- ty Ala. in its early history. He mar ried a daughter of John Crutchheld, a Revolutionary soldier. His family came from North Carolina. T. G. w.
 Answers.
 31. MARSHALL. - Many questions have recently been asked concerning the Marshall faraSy in the genealogical departments of various periodicals in- cluding The Advertiser. There are many different lines of this family dating from Colonial days. They may be found in the early records Of every Colonial State Most of these lines i the Scotch-Irish settlements there. But | came from the North of Ireland from | the Marshalls of Boston and New York l are from England and do not resemble those of Pennsylvania and Virginia and the Southern States. which nave the Scotch-Irish type strongly marked r EThere are many references to this ffamily in genealogical works and two family genealogies have been pub 4lished '"The Marshall Family of Penn tsylvania," by o. s. Marshall, and Ihe Marshall Family of Virginia by Pax ion. These two families have never in- terrnarried. but the South and West fare full of their descendants.
 There is a tradition that the Mar 1 shall family of Maryland is remotely 7 7,connected with the Virginia line, put | the relationship has not been traced | Tn the South many bearing the name claim and honestly believe that they | are related to the celebrated Chlet Jus tice. Every query mentions that the ancestor desired was near relatloh of the Chief Justice. Paxton's Mar shall Family describes the origin and history of the Virginia branch to which the Chief Justice belonged; thls iArticle is abridged from that work ana if will be an easy matter for those really belonging to this family to trace their lineage to the names mentioned here.
 Query No. 31, which desires the Revo- lutionary services of William Marshaii of Maryland, brother of John Marshall may be answered by a paragraph rom nape Il. "-- Marshall came rom Ensland and settled on the Eastern shore of Maryland. His sons were Isaac, Thomas, William and John' They were all patriot soldiers in the
 Revolutionary War" It is said that this family claimed remote relationship
 with Chief Justice Marshall. but II has never been traced. The fact that
 both William and John are mentioned in the Query would seem to indicate
 that these two brothers were the ones
 desired. The book does not treat of
 the lineage of the Maryland family
 but is especially devoted to the history
 of John Marshall of the Forest and
 Elizabeth Markham. his wife. the
 grandparents of Chief Justice Mar
 shall. There was another John Mar
 shall who settled on Allen Creek,
 Northampton County. Va. in 1885. He
 was the ancestor of Major Thomas
 John Marshall of Colonel GiSts regi- l ment Maryland Volunteers whose