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Gabriel Marion, the eldest son of Benjamin, married a young woman, also of Huguenot blood, Charlotte Cordes or Corday, said to have been a relative of the other Charlotte Corday, the heroine of the French Revolution.
To this couple were born six children, the eldest being Esther, our mother's great-grandmother, the youngest, Francis, who was to become the “Swamp fox” of Revolutionary days.
Esther Marion has been called the “Queen Bee” of the Marion hive; she had fifteen children, and her descendants have multiplied and spread in every direction.
She was twice married, first to John Allston, of Georgetown, or Waccamaw, secondly to Thomas Mitchell, of Georgetown.
The only one of the fifteen children with whom we have concern is Sarah Mitchell, the “Grandma Cutler” of Julia Ward's childhood.
This lady was married at fourteen to Dr. Hyrne, an officer of Washington's army.
Julia well remembered her saying that after her engagement, she wept on being told that she must give up her dolls.
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York. 1916.
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