Ancestors with Profile

The Wanzenried family tree I have compiled includes over 16,000 names.

One of them is Mary Marshall Tabb (1737-1814). In 1758, she married Robert Bolling III (1730-1775). Their marriage is significant in that it served to connect two families and, in the process, to connect a remarkable number of historic figures with the Wanzenrieds.

The connections are very, very indirect.

But, they are connections nonetheless.

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First, we need to connect the Wanzenried family with Mary.

The great-great-great-great grandparents of our grandmother, Louise Baker Tabb (1883-1937), were named John Thomas Tabb (1676-179) and Martha Purefoy Hand (1676-1739).

Louise’s branch of the Tabb family descends from their son named William Henry Tabb (1701-1765).

William had a younger brother named Thomas Tabb (1718-1769). Mary Marshall was his daughter. 

Connection #1

A great Granddaughter of Mary and Robert, Mary Tabb Bolling (1846-1924), married William Fitzhugh Henry Lee (1837-1931).

William was a son of Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) and Mary Anna Randolph Custis (1808-1873).

Robert E Lee was the commander of the Confederate Army.

Connection #2

Mary Anna Custis had great grandfather named Daniel Parke Custis (1711 -1757), the first husband of Martha Dandridge (1731-1802). You likely know Martha better by her second husband, George Washington (1732-1799), the first President of the United States.

Here is an interesting story about how Daniel and Martha met, courted and married.

Martha and George had no children together, but raised Martha’s two surviving children, including John Parke Custis through whom the lineage extends to Mary Anna Randolph Custis. (See above.)

Conection #3

Mary Tabb Bolling’s great-great-great Grandfather was Robert Bolling (1646-1709).

Robert was married two times. Mary’s (and our) lineage descends from Robert Bolling’s second marriage: Anne Stith (1646-1710).

Robert’s first wife was named Jane Rolfe (1655-1676), a Granddaughter of John Rolfe and Pocahontas. (1596-1617).

Pocahontas accomplished a great deal for a 21 year-old

Connection #4

Jane and Robert Bolling had only one son, John Fairfax Bolling (1676-1729), before she died.

John’s great-great-great-great granddaughter was Edith Bolling (1872-1961). She married Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), the 28^th President of the United States, afterhis first spouse, Ann Axson (1860-1914), died. Some historians suggest that following Wilson’s stroke, Edith was the de facto President for the balance of his term.

Pocahontas was her great-great-great-great-great Grandmother.

Connection #5

Finally, Martha Jefferson (1747-1811), a younger sister of Thomas Jeffferson, the 3^rd President of the United States, married James Thomas Bolling (1735-1804), a Grandson of John Fairfax Bolling (see above) and a great Grandson of Robert Bolling (1730-1745). Another one of Robert’s grandson was Robert Bolling (1730-1775), the Robert Bolling who married Mary Marshall Tabb.

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