Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly Vol. 28, Number 4

Merriman Sullivan (later called “Marmion” Sullivan)

b. 1792 Stafford County, d. 17 Aug. 1863 Spotsylvania County, m. (1) by 1813 Virginia “Jane” Payne of Orange County, granddaughter of William Sullivan (d. by 1822) and his wife, Lucy. Virginia Payne was said to have been a cousin of Merriman Sullivan and her family had a close association with the families of White Oak, Stafford County. She had brothers, Thomas Payne and Thornton Payne, and sisters, Lucy Payne, who married Dawson Sullivan; Sarah Payne who married Benjamin Reed; and Delilah Payne who married Berryman Cox (son of Presley Cox and Sarah Jett, a Porch descendant). Merriman Sullivan m. (2) 19 Jan 1843 Susan Howard (d. 1889), a first cousin of his first wife and daughter of Richard Howard and Margaret Sullivan daughter of William Sullivan (d. by 1822).