Ancestry of
Sam Houston

1st President of the Republic of Texas

Mary "Polly" Blair

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• • Grandmother of Sam Houston — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7 
  • Father:
  • Robert Blair 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1726 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Aug 1821 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church, Timber Ridge, Rockbridge, Virginia 
  • Spouse Name:
  • John Paxton
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1742 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth "Betsy" Paxton (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  Mary Paxton

  • Notes: 

  • Mary Blair's given name is also seen as Martha.

• Sources for Mary "Polly" Blair

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A086705.
  • ² Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Vol. 48, January-June, 1916, New York: The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 438.
  • ³ History of Clay and Platte Counties, Missouri: Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and . . ., St. Louis: National Historical Company (1885), 963.
  • ⁴ Green, Thomas Marshall, Historic Families of Kentucky, Cincinnati: Robert Clarke and Co. (1889), 108.
  • ⁵ Paxton, William McClung, The Marshall Family: Or A Genealogical Chart of the Descendants of John Marshall and Elizabeth Markham . . ., Cincinnati: Robert Clarke and Co. (1885), 156.
  • ⁶ Paxton, William McClung, The Paxtons: Their Origin in Scotland and Their Migrations Through England and Ireland, to the Colony of . . ., Platte City, Missouri: Landmark Print (1903), 44-46.