Greenbrier County, West Virginia         Biography of J. MARSHALL ALDERSON.

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History of Greenbrier County 
J. R. Cole 
Lewisburg, WV 1917 
p. 319-320

J. MARSHALL ALDERSON.

J.  Marshall Alderson, eldest son of Colonel George Alderson, was born the 
16th of April, 1814, and was reared in Fayette county, where as a young man 
he was employed in his father's store.

Under the old Virginia law the oldest magistrate became sheriff of the 
county. His father being sheriff, Marshall became th&acting sheriff and 
atttnded to the 'business of the office for four years, after which he and 
Colonel Launis, of Monroe county, purchased the privilege of the sheriffalty 
of Squire Keaton, in which capacity he served for four years.
After the constitution of Virginia was changed to the election of the sheriff 
by the people he was elected by the voters of Greenbrier county as sheriff 
and was serving as such when he was drowned on the 19th of July, 1862, at 
Sweet Springs.

John Marshall Alderson owned and resided on the land comprising what is now a 
part of North Alderson, extending back to Muddy Creek, on which he owned a 
large merchant's mill, which was run successfully for a number of years. (J. 
M. Alderson, Jr., has one pair of the mill stones from this mill laid in the 
cement walk at the entrance of his residence in Alderson.)

Marshall Alderson married Cornelia P. Coleman, daughter of Captain John 
Coleman, of Amherst county, Virginia, June 6, 1844. Their children are: 
Sallie, who married Captain John G. Lobban, an officer in the Confederate 
army; James P.; Joseph N. married Lille E. Putney; Mildred J. married A. L. 
Riffe; Mary Eliza died in infancy; John M. married Florence Hodges; Cornelia 
M. married T. Mann; Lucy S. married Eugene R. Lewis.

Mr. Alderson was a devoted Mason, serving several times as Worshipful Master 
of the lodge at Lewisburg. He was very popular as a citizen and especially 
loved by his neighbors.