STANLY COUNTY, NC - HOFFMAN - James Marshall
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From the notebook of Lilly B. Carter:
 
James Marshall born about 1735 and married about 1768 a widow Ann Harrison 
Williams, daughter of William Harrison. They moved to NC about 1784 and 
settled in the "Upper Anson". The first deed recorded in Anson County to James 
Marshall was from Walter Gibson, dated 1784. James Marshall was in the NC 
General Assembly as a Senator from Anson County.
His will mentions grandson James Turner, grandson Robert Marshall, and 
grandson William Maske. His daughter Sally married Matt Threadgill, Mary 
married Edmund Lilly Jr., Lucy married first James Turner and married second 
R.B. Smith, and then third Edmund Waddell Jr., Elizabeth married Matthew 
Waddell, Judith married Thomas Tomlinson, son William married Sally Lanier d/o 
Burwell. Son Henry Marshall married Rachel Maske.
 
Letter July 15,1938 from Kate Shankle Curtis 
"Mrs. Curtis whom I remember as Miss Kate Shankle of Albemarle, NC wrote the 
following to Miss Carrie Lilly: It seems as though William Allen was the 
founder of the Allen family of North Carolina and that he came from Virginia. 
My records show that he married Rachel Maske and that she was born in 1777, 
daughter of William Maske. ...Mother often spoke of Uncle Gooden Maske who 
taught their school year in and year out with one week off for Christmas. 
Uncle Gooden and his wife Aunt Betsy had no children.... William Allen, my 
great grandfather , built the red house, and since it was large-large basement 
and two stories above and also painted, it was considered a very nice place.
You know it was very unhealthful at Allenton when this ancestor lived as the 
malaria seemed to be a real plague. Great grandfather didn't live long and I 
haven't the date of his death, but I have the records which show that his 
widow, Rachel Allen, married again in 1804 to Henry Marshall who was the 
brother of great grandma Mary Marshall Lilly....
Rachel had two sons- James and John. The latter was my great grandfather. I 
haven't the dates of their birth, but they must have been quite small when 
their mother married Henry Marshall in 1804. There were two Marshall sons, but 
one died in infancy and the other Robert Marshall had tuberculosis and died 
young. They sent him to Florida for the winter and while on his way home he 
became very ill in Charleston and died. Grandpa and his mother went to him and 
buried him in Charleston and erected a tombstone to his grave. Henry Marshall 
died Novemeber 23, 1807. John Allen lived on in the Red House with his mother 
and married Patsy Lilly and took her there to live. He was sheriff of the 
county for a while and had a store. I think the store was at Norwood, though 
there may have been one at Allenton previous to this. There were a few hundred 
acres of fertile land and plenty of slaves to work the land. I think the Old 
Red House became known as the Inn. I suppose the land was a royal grant, but I 
am not sure. The Old Red House which was thought to be haunted, stood for many 
years in its stately grandeur, all unoccupied. Allenton, it seems, was 
ambitious to become one of the leading towns around there. It was a kind of 
mecca for the scattered settlers. People came for miles around to shop-from 
the Fork, from across the river and from Anson. They thought the river could 
be made navigable by means of locks."
Your cousin
Kate S. Curtis
 
Note: Later a dam was built and the waters of the Yadkin River covered 
Allenton, the lake which was formed is now known Lake Tillery.