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480 Mr. Keith in the garb of a soldier, and told ater of the world, is, perhaps, implanted in him of the future state. every human bosom. We delight to follow Mrs. Marshall was a woman of great force them through the various critical and peril of character and strong religious faith. She ous situations in which they may have been was pleasing in mind, person and manners, placed, to view them in the extremes of ad and her son loved her with that chivalrous, verse and prosperous fortune, to trace their tender devotion which made him gentle with progress through all the difficulties they all women throughout his life. The Judge have surmounted, and to contemplate their told Judge Story a few weeks before his whole conduct at a time when, the power and death, that he had never failed to repeat pomp of office having disappeared, it may be each night, through his long life, the little presented to us in the simple garb of truth." prayer, which begins, " Now I lay me down Like most of the young men of that day, to sleep," that he had learned, when a baby, he served a term at surveying, and Miss at his mother's knee. Martineau says she was told he discovered The Chief Justice's mother and father are that exquisitely beautiful spot, " Hawk's buried in the burial-ground known as "The Nest," near Kanawha Falls in West Virginia, Hill," outside of Washington, the first on the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio rail county seat of Mason County, Kentucky. road, while surveying in the mountains. The inscription on Col. Marshall's tomb is : It was in 1777 he first met Alexander "Thomas Marshall, to whom this memorial Hamilton; from the first moment he admired is inscribed, was born the 2d of April, 1730, him, and that admiration soon grew into love. intermarried with Mary Keith, in her 17th It was one of the strongest evidences of the year, by whom he had fifteen children, who extreme justice of his character that he attained maturity, and after distinguishing could so fairly and honestly sit in judgment himself by the performance of his duties as upon Aaron Burr, the murderer of this a husband, father, citizen and soldier, died cherished friend, that his detractors said he on the 22d of June, 1802, aged 72 years, showed every partiality to Burr. 2 months and 20 days." His will was exe A sister of his thus describes a visit he cuted June 20, 1798, in Woodford County, made to his home near the close of the Kentucky, the county which he had caused Revolutionary War : " He was then an offi to be named for his old commander in the cer in the American army, and he came Revolutionary War, Gen. Woodford. He home for a visit, accompanied by some of left the Chief Justice an estate in Fauquier his brother officers, some young French County, Virginia, called "The Oaks," and gentlemen. When supper time arrived, mother had the meal prepared for them, and two tracts of land on the Licking River. John Marshall "was taught nothing in the had made into bread a little flour, the last cradle he had to unlearn in riper years." she had, which had been saved for such an Both father and mother were well fitted to occasion. The little ones cried for some, and train him, by precept and example, so day brother John inquired into matters. He by day he learned that love and respect for would eat no more of the bread which could the laws of God and man which in after not be shared with us. He was greatly dis tressed at the straits to which ' the fortunes years made him so faithfully obey them him self and so skillfully expound them to others. of war' had reduced us, and mother had not The Chief Justice says, in his " Life of intended him to know our condition." On the 3d of January, 1783, he married Washington " : "A desire to know intimately Mary Willis Ambler. She was a lovely wo those illustrious personages who have per man, and belonged to a family so noted for formed a conspicuous part in the great the