Thomas Marshall died shortly after taking shelter from a summer storm in the Baltimore County Courthouse then under repair in
Baltimore, Maryland. He and Dr. John Hanson Thomas were en route to Philadelphia to see their ailing father when lightning hit the chimney and a dislodged brick fell and fractured Thomas' skull. Thomas Marshall died without regaining consciousness a week later, on June 29, 1835, but that was withheld from his father. Although Fauquier County voters elected no Marshall to succeed him in the next election, in the following election they elected his brother
Edward Carrington Marshall as one of their two delegates, and would later elect another younger brother,
James Keith Marshall. Although this Thomas Marshall did not survive his father, he had outlived both his wife and his eldest son, and left seven orphaned children. His youngest son and namesake, Lt. Col. Thomas C. Marshall Jr., would buy Oak Hill from his elder brother John (who died in 1854), then volunteered to fight with the
Confederate States Army. Initially commissioned as a captain with the
7th Virginia Cavalry, the junior Thomas Marshall initially trained and fought in a local militia company led by
Turner Ashby, had become an aide to General
Stonewall Jackson at the
First Battle of Manassas (which Col. Ashby missed), and would earn the rank of Col. as well as have six horses shot from under him and be wounded twice before dying in a skirmish in November 1864. His death (and postwar economic turmoil) caused Oak Hill to be sold out of the family. The middle son, Fielding L. Marshall, who had participated in the Virginia militia under
Turner Ashby including after John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry survived the war, as did his brother-in-law Col. Alexander Galt Taliaferro of the
13th Virginia Infantry and
Gloucester County, Virginia. ==References==