Person:John Marrs (4)

Information on John Marrs

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First Generation

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1. John Marrs was born in 1724 in Scotland.

John Marrs is thought to have been married to Pulsohola Folsom, the daughter of Adam Folsom and a Choctaw woman who is unknown at this time. Source: ! Book "Jesse Shelton, Frontier Follower and Founder of FortShelton", by Sam F. McClure, 1977 Copy of book in my possession. Carolyn Shannon Genzel, 1999 Source: ! Book "Forty Seven Years", pg 77 by Skipper Steele (copy locatedat LCGS, Paris, TX)

The following was prepared by: Donald Jay Smith, St. Emporia, KS:

John Marrs, a Scotsman of Virginia, said to be the father of Hugh and William Marrs by John Pyeatt Marrs, Attorney of Wichita Falls, TX who began collection Marrs history in 1904 while a law student at U. of TX. His information came from his father, David Franklin Marrs, who was the son of Alec A. Marrs, native of Washington Co. Ark. (Alec. Marrs is brother to Andrew Jackson Marrs).

Virginia Tax list: John Marrs 200 A. in King William County 1704: John Marrs, a Scotsman, was living in Virginia in 1760. He had two sons, Hugh and William, Hugh being the older. Hugh married and reared three sons and one daughter: James, Sam, Alex, and Catherine. Hugh moved to Georgia about 1784, where Catherine was born that year. It seems that Hugh's wife was of Irish descent. I can remember Aunt Amanda commenting on the fact that Andrew Jackson Marrs, her grandfather felt that he had married a bit beneath himself by marring our wonderful grandmother Patsy Danley, an Irish woman.

Proof of kinship as brothers for James and William Marrs is the marriage for James Marrs and Anna Shannon which is found in Early Adventures onthe Western Waters by Kegley, Vol. II p. 308, 6th paragraph. It states "A letter, dated April 23, 1782, and filed with the Montgomery Countymarriage bonds, records that James Mears and Anna Shannon, daughter of Samuel Shannon, planned to be married on the following day. William Mears was to sign the bond for his brother James. All parties agreed to the wedding, but they did not wish to be married by Richard Whitt. William Christian, writer of this letter, proposed to accompany Mr. Craighead (perhaps Alexander, a Presbyterian minister) to Samuel Pepper's where the wedding party was to be on the following morning. The marriage bond was dated April 22, 1782." The same information is also found in the samebook on page 177 Marriage Bonds, 1777-1778. James Marrs is also listed inthe DAR Patriot Index Centennial Edition, Part II on page 1898, DAR records say that James Marrs was born 1762/65. I question this as his wife, Anna Shannon was born in 1753.

Alexander being the son of John has not yet been proven, it is only speculation.

He had the following children:

+ 2 M i Hugh Marrs

+ 3 M ii William Marrs

+ 4 M iii James Marrs

+ 5 M iv Alexander Marrs