Family of Gabriel MARION and Esther CORDES

Husband:	Gabriel MARION ( -1750)
Wife:	Esther CORDES (1695- )
Children:	Gabriel MARION (1720-1777)
	Benjamin MARION (1720?-1778)
	Esther MARION (1728?- )
	Isaac MARION (1730-1781)
	Job MARION (1730- )
	Brig. Gen. Francis "Swamp Fox" MARION (1732-1795)
Marriage	1714

Husband: Gabriel MARION

Name:	Gabriel MARION
Sex:	Male
Father:	Benjamin MARION ( - )
Mother:	Judith BALUET ( - )
Birth	"1691/93"	France
Death	1750	St. john's Berkely Parish, SC

Wife: Esther CORDES

Name:	Esther CORDES
Sex:	Female
Father:	Anthione Dr. CORDES (1666-1712)
Mother:	Esther Madaleine BALLUET ( - )
Birth	1695

Child 1: Gabriel MARION

Name:	Gabriel MARION
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Catherine TAYLOR ( - )
Birth	1720
Death	1777 (age 56-57)

Child 2: Benjamin MARION

Name:	Benjamin MARION
Sex:	Male
Spouse 1:	Martha ALLSTON (1737?- )
Spouse 2:	Esther (Hester) (BONNEAU) SIMONS (1719-1760)
Birth	1720 (app)
Death	20 Sep 1778 (age 57-58)	Walnut Grove Plantation, SC

Child 3: Esther MARION

Name:	Esther MARION
Sex:	Female
Spouse 1:	John ALLSTON (1729- )
Spouse 2:	Thomas MITCHELL ( - )
Birth	1728 (app)

Child 4: Isaac MARION

Name:	Isaac MARION
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Rebecca ALLSTON (1722- )
Birth	1730
Death	31 May 1781 (age 50-51)	Georgetown, SC

Child 5: Job MARION

Name:	Job MARION
Sex:	Male
Spouse 1:	Elizabeth de ST. JULIEN ( - )
Spouse 2:	Elizabeth GAILLARD ( - )
Birth	Apr 1730

Child 6: Brig. Gen. Francis "Swamp Fox" MARION

Name:	Brig. Gen. Francis "Swamp Fox" MARION
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Mary Esther VIDEAU (1737-1815)
Title		Brig. Gen.
Birth	1732	St. John's Parish, Goatfield Plantation
Death	27 Feb 1795 (age 62-63)	Pond Bluff, Berkeley, SC
Burial		Belle Isle Plantation - Marion Family Cemetary near St. Stephens

Note on Wife: Esther CORDES

Registered with the DAR in Lineage Book 4-185 and 5-175.

Note on Child 2: Benjamin MARION

SERV: Maj SC

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Note on Child 4: Isaac MARION

Settled at Little River SC.

Note on Child 6: Brig. Gen. Francis "Swamp Fox" MARION

Francis and his brother Job joined the militia on 31 Jan 1756.

 

Marriage and Death Notices from the City Gazette of Thursday April 20, 1786:

Married. Brigadier-General Francis Marion who served with great reputation in

the late war, to Miss Mary-Esther Videau, of St. John's Parish.

 

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/River/1285/BELLE.htm

Belle Isle Plantation - Marion Family Cemetary

Marion, General Francis

d/27 Feb.1795 in 73rd year

Marion, Francis Oldest grave in the cemetery

To preserve to posterity this Burial place of on honored son replaces the crumbling and broken tomb nearly a century old with this enduring memorial cut from her own granite hills estaperpetua. Sacred to the memory of Gen. Francis Marion who departed this life on the 27th February 1795, in the sixty-third year of his age. Deeply regretted by all his fellow-citizens. History will record his worth and rising generations embalm his memory as one of the most distinguished patriots and heroes of the American Revolution which elevated his native Country to honor and independence and secured to her the blessings of Liberty and Peace. This tribute of veneration and gratitude is erected in commemoration of the noble and gallant exploits of the soldier who lived without fear and died without reproach.

 

From the SC Historical Society, in the Simons folder,

letters of James Simons from the Revoltionary war time

period. It said "Mary Esther Simons, (Mrs. Holmes), the

woman Gen'l Francis Marion loved and who refused him." So

now we know why Francis Marion did not marry until old.