Descendants of George Morris
Generation No. 1
1. GEORGE1 MORRIS1 was born 1760, and died February 25, 1836 in Clay County, Kentucky. He married SARAH COLSTON January 8, 1782 in Wilkes County, North Carolina. She was born 1760 in Wilkes County, North Carolina, and died June 10, 1846 in Clay County, Kentucky.
Notes for GEORGE MORRIS:
Rev War, served in Col. Cleveland's dist in the militia. Was at the Battle of Kings Mountain. George also served under Lewis
Children of GEORGE MORRIS and SARAH COLSTON are:
2. ii. SUSANNAH "SUKEY" MORRIS, b. 1785, North Carolina.
3. iii. JAMES MORRIS, b. November 27, 1788, Buncombe County, North Carolina; d. 1871.
iv. ABRAHAM MORRIS, b. 1790, North Carolina.
4. v. MARK MORRIS, b. October 10, 1794, Wilkes County, North Carolina; d. Rockcastle County Kentucky.
5. vi. SARAH MORRIS, b. June 1796, Buncombe County, North Carolina.
6. vii. NANCY MORRIS, b. 1800, North Carolina.
Generation No. 2
2. SUSANNAH "SUKEY"2 MORRIS (GEORGE1) was born 1785 in North Carolina. She married ABRAHAM RUNION.
Child of SUSANNAH MORRIS and ABRAHAM RUNION is:
3. JAMES2 MORRIS (GEORGE1) was born November 27, 1788 in Buncombe County, North Carolina, and died 1871. He married LYDIA ASHER December 14, 1814 in Clay County, Kentucky. She was born February 28, 1796 in TN, and died 1871.
Children of JAMES MORRIS and LYDIA ASHER are:
ii. ABRAHAM MORRIS.
iii. JOHN MORRIS.
iv. MILLA MORRIS.
v. NANCY MORRIS.
vi. SARAH ISABELLE MORRIS.
vii. ROBERT MORRIS.
viii. JAMES MORRIS.
ix. GEORGE MORRIS.
x. CLAYBORN MORRIS.
xi. RACHEL MORRIS.
xii. PERRY MORRIS.
xiii. MARTHA A. MORRIS.
4. MARK2 MORRIS (GEORGE1) was born October 10, 1794 in Wilkes County, North Carolina2, and died in Rockcastle County Kentucky2. He married ANN MULLINS September 16, 1825 in Clay County, Kentucky, daughter of TERRY MULLINS. She was born 1805 in Kentucky, and died in Kentucky.
Notes for MARK MORRIS:
Information taken from Rockcastle County History book, census records of Rockcastle in the 1800's, and vital stats book and marriage book of Rockcastle County, Kentucky.
Children of MARK MORRIS and ANN MULLINS are:
ii. JOHN MORRIS, b. 1833.
Notes for JOHN MORRIS:
INFORMATION FROM ROCKCASTLE COUNTY HISTORY OF ITS PEOPLE FROM 1810 TO PRESENT. JOHN MORRIS DIED DURING THE CIVIL WAR.
iii. MARY MORRIS, b. 1834.
iv. BALINGER MORRIS, b. 1836.
v. ABRAHAM MORRIS, b. 1837.
vi. SARAH ANN MORRIS, b. 1840.
vii. HENRY MORRIS, b. 1843; d. DURING CIVIL WAR.
Notes for HENRY MORRIS:
INFORMATION FROM ROCKCASTLE COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE FROM 1810. HENRY MORRIS DIED DURING THE CIVIL WAR.
viii. EMILY JANE MORRIS, b. 1846.
5. SARAH2 MORRIS (GEORGE1) was born June 1796 in Buncombe County, North Carolina. She married (1) TYREE DAVIDSON August 20, 1817 in Clay County, Kentucky. He died Bef. August 1846. She married (2) JOHN BEGLEY August 4, 1846 in Clay County, Kentucky.
Children of SARAH MORRIS and TYREE DAVIDSON are:
ii. SILAS DAVIDSON.
iii. NANCY DAVIDSON.
iv. ELIZABETH DAVIDSON.
v. JOHN DAVIDSON.
vi. TABITHA DAVIDSON.
vii. UNKNOWN DAVIDSON.
viii. UNKNOWN DAVIDSON.
ix. UNKNOWN DAVIDSON.
x. SARAH DAVIDSON.
6. NANCY2 MORRIS (GEORGE1) was born 1800 in North Carolina. She married LEWIS HUNT May 19, 1826 in Clay County, Kentucky.
Children of NANCY MORRIS and LEWIS HUNT are:
ii. JOHN HUNT.
iii. HENRY HUNT.
iv. SARAH HUNT.
v. TABITHA HUNT.
vi. CYNTHIANNE HUNT.
Generation No. 3
7. JAMES MADISON3 MORRIS (MARK2, GEORGE1) was born December 24, 1827 in Kentucky, and died April 25, 1906 in Kentucky. He married MARTHA MARGARET HARDIN January 3, 1886, daughter of JOHN HARDIN and MARY ADAMS. She was born October 2, 1840 in Clear Creek Kentucky, and died January 30, 1924 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky.
Notes for JAMES MADISON MORRIS:
Information taken from Rockcastle County marriage book, family obits, Rockcastle cemetery book, works of MEL ALLEN HARDIN and Grace Mullins, of Kentucky, and vital stats book.
Children of JAMES MORRIS and MARTHA HARDIN are:
ii. WM. HENRY, MORRIS, b. April 27, 1864; d. August 9, 1942, Rockcastle County Kentucky; m. CELIA OWENS, January 23, 1886; b. May 7, 1866.
iii. MARY ANN MORRIS, b. 1866; d. 1959; m. FRANK POTEAT, March 21, 1884.
iv. MARK MORRIS, b. January 7, 1869, ROCKCASTLE COUNTY KENTUCKY; d. October 6, 1946, KENTUCKY; m. ARTEMISH GENTRY, April 21, 1892; b. November 5, 1871; d. November 19, 1954.
v. LUCY J. MORRIS, b. February 9, 1871; m. WILLIAM H. COTTINGIM, January 3, 1895; b. August 11, 1873; d. December 23, 1951, Kentucky..
vi. MORRIS JAMES, b. July 5, 1873, KENTUCKY; d. October 14, 1930, KENTUCKY; m. LUCY MAY, MORRIS, September 5, 1895; b. August 8, 1877; d. January 1, 1976, KENTUCKY..
vii. ELIZABETH MORRIS, b. June 1876, KENTUCKY.
viii. FANNIE MORRIS, BOND, b. November 11, 1880, KENTUCKY; d. April 7, 1918, KENTUCKY; m. LEWIS R. BOND, July 18, 1895; b. September 30, 1876; d. September 13, 1960.
Generation No. 4
8. JOHN B.4 MORRIS (JAMES MADISON3, MARK2, GEORGE1) was born July 25, 1861, and died August 29, 1920 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. He married (1) SALLY J. SOUTHARD October 11, 1886 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. He married (2) LIZZIE FRANCES PROUSE September 1, 1894 in Kentucky, Rockcastle County, daughter of JOSEPH PROWS and REBECCA TURNER. She was born October 30, 1873, and died November 25, 1935 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio.
Notes for JOHN B. MORRIS:
Information taken from Rockcastle County, Kentucky marriage book, cemetery book, census records of 1880, vital stats of 1800's and Mrs Grace Mullins who is 94 in 1994 and still mentally capable.
John B. helped build a steel bridge across Buck Creek on Route 39 in Pulaski County, Kentucky. The bridge is now a concrete bridge. His granddaughter Elizabeth said there was a date around the 1800's on the steel bridge which is now gone.
Visited a Morris family party at Cookie Morris's today, AUG 31, 1997 and learned that John B. ended up in Aransas Pass, Texas because of a family quarrel with his wife about apple trees. He wanted the trees planted in one spot and she wanted them planted in another. He left home for a while and she planted the trees where he did not want them. SO This caused him to run off to Texas where he stayed for 8 years. He came back to Kentucky and fathered three more children and then went back to Texas.
I have been told that he is not buried in Kentucy but in Texas even though there is a head stone in Rockcastle County Cemetery, called Red Hill.
Children of JOHN MORRIS and LIZZIE PROUSE are:
Notes for PEARL MAE MORRIS:
When I was a young girl, granny took me bus riding once on a Sunday bus pass. She always visited on Sunday. She sang her church music and made us change our radio station from rock and roll to gospel. I can still hear her singing "LORD I'M COMING HOME". She called my dad "LINVILLE" which was his middle name.
Granny had five brothers, FRED, TOM, CLYDE, JOHN AND SHERMAN. My dad was named after her brother SHERMAN.
She was only 15 years old when she married my grandfather.
Granny Pearl's brother TOM "BIG SID" killed himself with his rifle after asking to borrow a hand gun from several and they would not loan him one. He was very ill and could not take the pain any longer so he took his own life.
Her son, Homer Lincoln took his own life with a gun in Kentucky at his daughters house. I don't suppose we will ever know why.
It is said by family members that she had a nervous breakdown at some point and was put in the Lakeland Hospital for the Insane in Kentucky. Granny Pearl, as we called her always seemed like a big woman to me. I can remember her well. She always tried to get us to pray. She always colored her bible with different colors of crayon. As most young people do, I let her get away from me before I got interested in family history. I was just too young to care much about family at the time. I don't remember her telling us any family stories but I do remember her always wanting us to pray. She would wake us up at night when she came to bed to make us get up on the cold floor in the winter to say our prayers. She usually spent the night with us when she came on Sunday's.
Notes for THOMAS JEFFERSON DURHAM:
information for this history has been taken from 1800's census books of Rockcastle County, Kentucky, History book of Rockcastle county Kentucky and Kathalene Hunt whom lives in Rockcastle County and is a Historical Researcher and helps very much with history.
Ihave been told by many family members that grandfather loved the Indians and sent most of his money to them. I also have been told that he was a preacher. Family members have stated that he had a very strong personality and was a very good musician as were all the Durham's.
July 6, 1998: Talked with Elsie Arnold. She told me just before grandfather went into the service he had sassed his mother, Sarah Jane Moore Durham, and she "slapped the fire" out of him and told him "just because he was going to be a soldier, gave him no right to sass".
Marriage Notes for PEARL MORRIS and THOMAS DURHAM:
WALTER MEECE MARRIED GRANNY PEARL AND THOMAS JEFFERSON
ii. FRED MORRIS, b. May 14, 1898; m. ELAINE BARBARA BRODERICK; b. October 28, 1914.
iii. JOHN YURAKEY MORRIS, b. June 3, 1900; d. April 25, 1978; m. DORTHY CULLUM; b. February 1, 1906; d. March 17, 1980.
iv. NETTIE MCKINLEY MORRIS, b. August 12, 1902; d. February 23, 1925.
v. JOSEPH SHERMAN MORRIS, b. February 13, 1905, ROCKCASTLE COUNTY, KENTUCKY; d. CINCINNATI, HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO; m. LUTTIE MAGDALINE LAWSON, August 29, 1929, Stanford, Kentucky, Lincoln County; b. August 22, 1911, Lincoln County, Kentucky.
vi. THOMAS ALLEN MORRIS, b. June 3, 1908; d. January 4, 1987, Mt Orab, Ohio; m. CECELIA MARGARET BROXTERMAN, April 11, 1934; b. August 23, 1918.
vii. CLYDE HENRY MORRIS, b. February 25, 1914; d. 1996, Hamilton, County Ohio; m. ZULA AGNES PING, January 8, 1938; b. October 27, 1917.
Endnotes
1. Rev War Pension Application, Book 20, page 35 and 42, Pension Application R7411, Was at Battle of Kings Mountain, served under Colonel Cleveland. Certificate of military service in Wilkes County, NC. He also served under Capt. Lewis. Service time is reported as 12 months.
2. PROWS-MORRIS BOOK DONE
3. census rcords, family members
4. death cert in KY