Wm Anderson McCoy Genealogy

Based upon census records, there two possibilities for the Tandy Marshall to whom Gabriel Finn was said by Caleb Wilson to be indebted circa 1840. Those were Tandy Marshall (born 1812, son of Thomas Riley Marshall, in Stokes County) and Tandy Marshall (born 1808 in Stokes County). There were two other persons by that name, one 12 years old in 1840 and the other whose full name was Matthew Tandy Marshall and who went by Matthew.

This Tandy Marshall (son of Thomas Riley Marshall) was later involved in a land transaction with Joseph William Marshall, a grand-nephew of Gabriel Finn, and also named one of his sons Joseph William Marshall. Circumstances suggest this Tandy Marshall as the more likely to have known Gabriel Finn.

Regarding the naming of Tandy's son, it should be noted that Tandy was born in 1812 and that his son Joseph William Marshall was born in 1854, two years after Joseph Marshall's boy Joseph William was born in Danville VA. So Tandy should be view more as a contemporary of the elder Joseph Marshall than of Joseph William (born 1852). Also, it is quite possible that the naming of Tandy's son is a clue to the "W" in Joseph W. Marshall's (1802-1870) name. Although it would make perfect sense for his name, too, to be Joseph William Marshall (named for his grandfather, William Marshall, of Brunswick County VA. But there was the other example of his brother Edward Wilson Marshall.

This Tandy Marshall (and his uncle Matthew Tandy Marshall) are of the same Marshall line as Michael L. Marshall. That line is not thought to intersect with the line of William, Zachariah and Joseph Marshall in this genealogy. Nevertheless, the two lines are very frequently in close proximity and sometimes dealing in land and in other ways with each other, so the suspicion lingers that they are connected by blood in some way.