John Robert Donnell

Biographical Data

Occupations

• Judge, between 1819 and 1836 [1].

Relatives

• Spouse: Margaret Spaight [1]. They had one daughter, Mary Donnell [1].
• Others: Richard Dobbs Spaight, [Jr.] (father-in-law, 1796-1850) [1], Charles Biddle Shepard (son-in-law, 1808-1843) [1], Margaret Shepard  (granddaughter) [1] and Mary Shepard  (granddaughter) [1].

References

1. Mary Claire Engstrom. The Book of Burwell Students: Lives of Educated Women in the Antebellum South. (Hillsborough: Hillsborough Historic Commission, 2007).