Levin R. Marshall

Levin R. Marshall was born October 10, 1800, in Alexandria, Virginia. His father, Henry Marshall, was from Maryland, and was some relation to Chief Justice John Marshall. ==Career==

Marshall was said to have come to Wilkinson County, Mississippi Territory in 1817. Marshall started his career as a banker for the United States bank in Woodville, Mississippi. Indeed, he owned five plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana which spanned 14,000 acres, and 10,000 acres in Arkansas. By the 1850s, he produced more than 4,000 bales of cotton every year. In 1860, he owned 817 African slaves. He also owned a large livestock herd. For a time, Henry Wirz worked as an overseer on one of Marshall's plantations in Louisiana; Wirz would later serve in the Confederate Army as commandant of the notorious prisoner-of-war camp known as Andersonville. ==Personal life==

In 1826, in Woodville, Mississippi, Marshall married Maria Chotard (1807–1834), the daughter of John Marie Chotard, and a cousin of William Minor. After Maria's death, Marshall remarried to Sarah E. Elliott Ross, daughter of Dr. Elliott and widow of Isaac Ross Jr., son of Isaac Ross. They had eight children. They resided at Richmond in Natchez, and also maintained Hawkswood, a residence in Pelham Bay, New York. ==Death==

Marshall died on July 24, 1870, at the age of 69. ==References==