John Nash Read and his third wife (married 1810), Mary Barksdale, had ten children:
Sarah Wimbish Garden Read (Allen)(1811-__) ;
Anne Elizabeth Margaret Read (Norfleet);
William Harrison Read (1814-1834);
Nathaniel Barksdale Read (1815-1861);
Edmund Randolph Read (b. 1816 died young);
Susan Katherine Read (Askew) (1818-___);
Nancy Garden Read (Wilson) (1820-__);
Martha Newell Read (1821-1823);
Peter Finis Armistead Read (b. 1823 died young); and
Mary Sydnor Read (1825-1826).