KONDO and others seem to have tried, without success, to make Kuwajiro the head of the family and, in January 1867, his younger sister's husband, Shonosuke, succeeded to the headship.
大石家家督について近藤らが奔走した形跡があるが鍬次郎は相続せず、慶応2年12月に妹婿の荘之助が相続した。