Mary Willis "Polly" Ambler Marshall (1766–1831)
Mary Willis Ambler was born on 13 March 1766 to a prominent Yorktown, Virginia, family. Known as Polly, she married John Marshall at the age of sixteen. They had six children who reached adulthood. Ambler, who was often in poor health, passed away in Richmond on Christmas Day 1831. She is buried next to Marshall in Richmond's Shockoe Hill Cemetery.
Frances Norton Mason, My Dearest Polly; Letters of Chief Justice John Marshall to His Wife, with Their Background, Political and Domestic, 1779–1831 (Richmond: Garrett & Massie, 1961), 1–12.
Louise Pecquet du Bellet, Martha Cary Jaquelin, and Edward Jaquelin, Some Prominent Virginia Families (Lynchburg, VA: J.P. Bell Company, c. 1907), Volume I, 47.
Mary Willis "Polly" Ambler Marshall at Find a Grave.
Mary Willis Polly Ambler at FamilySearch.