"Unless one marries one's cousin, it is impossible to marry one's equal."--Elizabeth Branch Isbell (1823-1907).
She was the daughter of John Archibald Branch and his first wife, Eliza Anderson Isbell. She was the granddaughter of William and Ann Murray (Walton) Isbell of "Rose Hill" Plantation, Buckingham County, Virginia; great-granddaughter of John Lewis Isbell and Ann Hannah (Anderson) Isbell of Cumberland; great-great-granddaughter of William and Ann (Dillard) Isbell of Goochland; third-great-granddaughter of Henry Isbell of Orange and Caroline; fourth-great-granddaughter of William Isbell of King William, James and Elizabeth Cox of Orange, Virginia.
She married Sept. 4, 1840, her cousin James Bates Isbell and moved to a plantation in Sumter County, Alabama near Gainesville. He was the son of her second cousin George B. Isbell Jr. and Frances Pryor (Bates) Isbell, grandson of George B. Isbell Sr. and Susanna/Susanne (Eubank) Smith, great-grandson of William and Ann (Dillard) Isbell.
Widowed at age 34 when her husband and 15-year-old son died of typhoid in 1857, she forbade her 17-year-old son James from joining the Confederate Army during the Civil War. James ran away from home and joined the War anyway. She later received word that he was stationed in Mobile and that he was sick with typhoid. She immediately went to Mobile, where her cousin Octavia Walton LeVert lived. She paid for a substitute soldier to take her son's place in the Army, arranged to have him discharged from the Army and the hospital, and took him back home to Gainesville where she nursed him back to health himself. When he got well, she bought him a new horse. He promptly "ran away on the horse," as James B. Isbell III said, "and rejoined the Confederate Army." He survived the war and was promoted to Captain.
Capt. James B. Isbell was the father of Francis whose son Dr. Harris Isbell (1910-1994) performed medical drug experiments for the CIA. Another son of James B. was James Branch Isbell, the father of Katherine Isbell Murphy and grandfather of Harriet Ann Murphy Auchincloss whose father-in-law Reginald L. Auchincloss was a first cousin of Hugh D. Auchincloss Jr., the stepfather of novelist Gore Vidal as well as former First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
She was the daughter of John Archibald Branch and his first wife, Eliza Anderson Isbell. She was the granddaughter of William and Ann Murray (Walton) Isbell of "Rose Hill" Plantation, Buckingham County, Virginia; great-granddaughter of John Lewis Isbell and Ann Hannah (Anderson) Isbell of Cumberland; great-great-granddaughter of William and Ann (Dillard) Isbell of Goochland; third-great-granddaughter of Henry Isbell of Orange and Caroline; fourth-great-granddaughter of William Isbell of King William, James and Elizabeth Cox of Orange, Virginia.
She married Sept. 4, 1840, her cousin James Bates Isbell and moved to a plantation in Sumter County, Alabama near Gainesville. He was the son of her second cousin George B. Isbell Jr. and Frances Pryor (Bates) Isbell, grandson of George B. Isbell Sr. and Susanna/Susanne (Eubank) Smith, great-grandson of William and Ann (Dillard) Isbell.
Widowed at age 34 when her husband and 15-year-old son died of typhoid in 1857, she forbade her 17-year-old son James from joining the Confederate Army during the Civil War. James ran away from home and joined the War anyway. She later received word that he was stationed in Mobile and that he was sick with typhoid. She immediately went to Mobile, where her cousin Octavia Walton LeVert lived. She paid for a substitute soldier to take her son's place in the Army, arranged to have him discharged from the Army and the hospital, and took him back home to Gainesville where she nursed him back to health himself. When he got well, she bought him a new horse. He promptly "ran away on the horse," as James B. Isbell III said, "and rejoined the Confederate Army." He survived the war and was promoted to Captain.
Capt. James B. Isbell was the father of Francis whose son Dr. Harris Isbell (1910-1994) performed medical drug experiments for the CIA. Another son of James B. was James Branch Isbell, the father of Katherine Isbell Murphy and grandfather of Harriet Ann Murphy Auchincloss whose father-in-law Reginald L. Auchincloss was a first cousin of Hugh D. Auchincloss Jr., the stepfather of novelist Gore Vidal as well as former First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
"Unless one marries one's cousin, it is impossible to marry one's equal."--Elizabeth Branch Isbell (1823-1907).
She was the daughter of John Archibald Branch and his first wife, Eliza Anderson Isbell. She was the granddaughter of William and Ann Murray (Walton) Isbell of "Rose Hill" Plantation, Buckingham County, Virginia; great-granddaughter of John Lewis Isbell and Ann Hannah (Anderson) Isbell of Cumberland; great-great-granddaughter of William and Ann (Dillard) Isbell of Goochland; third-great-granddaughter of Henry Isbell of Orange and Caroline; fourth-great-granddaughter of William Isbell of King William, James and Elizabeth Cox of Orange, Virginia.
She married Sept. 4, 1840, her cousin James Bates Isbell and moved to a plantation in Sumter County, Alabama near Gainesville. He was the son of her second cousin George B. Isbell Jr. and Frances Pryor (Bates) Isbell, grandson of George B. Isbell Sr. and Susanna/Susanne (Eubank) Smith, great-grandson of William and Ann (Dillard) Isbell.
Widowed at age 34 when her husband and 15-year-old son died of typhoid in 1857, she forbade her 17-year-old son James from joining the Confederate Army during the Civil War. James ran away from home and joined the War anyway. She later received word that he was stationed in Mobile and that he was sick with typhoid. She immediately went to Mobile, where her cousin Octavia Walton LeVert lived. She paid for a substitute soldier to take her son's place in the Army, arranged to have him discharged from the Army and the hospital, and took him back home to Gainesville where she nursed him back to health himself. When he got well, she bought him a new horse. He promptly "ran away on the horse," as James B. Isbell III said, "and rejoined the Confederate Army." He survived the war and was promoted to Captain.
Capt. James B. Isbell was the father of Francis whose son Dr. Harris Isbell (1910-1994) performed medical drug experiments for the CIA. Another son of James B. was James Branch Isbell, the father of Katherine Isbell Murphy and grandfather of Harriet Ann Murphy Auchincloss whose father-in-law Reginald L. Auchincloss was a first cousin of Hugh D. Auchincloss Jr., the stepfather of novelist Gore Vidal as well as former First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
She was the daughter of John Archibald Branch and his first wife, Eliza Anderson Isbell. She was the granddaughter of William and Ann Murray (Walton) Isbell of "Rose Hill" Plantation, Buckingham County, Virginia; great-granddaughter of John Lewis Isbell and Ann Hannah (Anderson) Isbell of Cumberland; great-great-granddaughter of William and Ann (Dillard) Isbell of Goochland; third-great-granddaughter of Henry Isbell of Orange and Caroline; fourth-great-granddaughter of William Isbell of King William, James and Elizabeth Cox of Orange, Virginia.
She married Sept. 4, 1840, her cousin James Bates Isbell and moved to a plantation in Sumter County, Alabama near Gainesville. He was the son of her second cousin George B. Isbell Jr. and Frances Pryor (Bates) Isbell, grandson of George B. Isbell Sr. and Susanna/Susanne (Eubank) Smith, great-grandson of William and Ann (Dillard) Isbell.
Widowed at age 34 when her husband and 15-year-old son died of typhoid in 1857, she forbade her 17-year-old son James from joining the Confederate Army during the Civil War. James ran away from home and joined the War anyway. She later received word that he was stationed in Mobile and that he was sick with typhoid. She immediately went to Mobile, where her cousin Octavia Walton LeVert lived. She paid for a substitute soldier to take her son's place in the Army, arranged to have him discharged from the Army and the hospital, and took him back home to Gainesville where she nursed him back to health himself. When he got well, she bought him a new horse. He promptly "ran away on the horse," as James B. Isbell III said, "and rejoined the Confederate Army." He survived the war and was promoted to Captain.
Capt. James B. Isbell was the father of Francis whose son Dr. Harris Isbell (1910-1994) performed medical drug experiments for the CIA. Another son of James B. was James Branch Isbell, the father of Katherine Isbell Murphy and grandfather of Harriet Ann Murphy Auchincloss whose father-in-law Reginald L. Auchincloss was a first cousin of Hugh D. Auchincloss Jr., the stepfather of novelist Gore Vidal as well as former First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
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