{"id":157,"date":"2010-10-01T07:33:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T11:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iredellmorrison.com\/wp\/?p=157"},"modified":"2013-05-09T08:11:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T12:11:01","slug":"morrison-history-1700-to-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Morrison History 1700 to 1953"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morrison History 1700 to 1953<\/p>\n

by Sudie Morrison Hood<\/p>\n

The following History was written in 1953 by Sudie Morrison Hood, a direct descendant of John Morrison and Margaret Erwin of Burke and Rutherford Counties in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Its importance lies in providing clues to the ancestors of John Morrison and their possible connection to the Morrison\u2019s of Iredell County, North Carolina.\u00a0 That there is such a connection has already been scientifically suggested by y-DNA tests that link John A. Morrison, M-194 in Group Q of the Morrison DNA Project to several others in Group Q.\u00a0 What has been lacking is any documentary evidence of such a connection.\u00a0 As the reader of this History will see, documentary evidence is still lacking, but Sudie Morrison Hood provides useful information that must have been told to her by her elders, and thus has passed from her to us as family tradition.<\/p>\n

Much of the History is of\u00a0 little importance to the members of Group Q, but Sudie\u2019s statements about John Morrison, his wife Margaret Erwin, and their possible links to Iredell County are useful.\u00a0 Further, since Sudie has no way of proving her veracity to today\u2019s readers, I have written a companion Commentary, based on my own research, that attempts to determine whether Sudie knew what she was talking about, that is, whether she was telling a tall tale or one which would stand up under critical scrutiny.<\/p>\n

I have in my possession another document attributable to Sudie Morrison Hood.\u00a0 It is a family tree prepared by Earline Morrison Hunter about 1948; according to Earline, Sudie provided all the information in the tree.\u00a0 The document consists of a literal \u201ctree\u201d, drawn from roots through trunk to main and subordinate branches.\u00a0 John Morrison and Margaret Erwin\u2019s names are inscribed upon the main trunk, and their descendant\u2019s names have been placed on the main and subordinate branches.\u00a0 In addition, there is a \u201clegend\u201d in the lower right hand corner of the document that describes the origins of John\u2019s family.\u00a0 The Commentary makes use of the \u201ctree\u201d to compare with and elaborate on the \u201cHistory\u201d; once again the purpose is to try to determine whether Sudie is a reliable witness to the history of the family and forebears of John Morrison and Margaret Erwin.<\/p>\n

The Commentary provides my opinion of Sudie\u2019s reliability, based on knowledge gleaned from my independent research into the family over the past twenty-five years of study.<\/p>\n

John A. Morrison\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 M-194, Group Q<\/p>\n

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Morrison History 1700 to 1953<\/p>\n

by Sudie Morrison Hood<\/p>\n

Tradition says that once upon a time there was a family named \u201cMorrison\u201d from Ireland who settled in Ireland County, North Carolina, sometime prior to the Revolutionary War.\u00a0 Two of the sons engaged in the battle of King\u2019s Mountain, North Carolina, between the Americans and the British October 7, 1780, the most fierce battle of the war.\u00a0 The British were defeated.\u00a0 John, the younger son, celebrated his 16th<\/sup> birthday by engaging in this battle.\u00a0 Afterward, he married Miss Margaret Erwin.\u00a0 To them were born eleven children.\u00a0 The first were twin sisters.\u00a0 James, Andrew, and Joe, along with their three sisters, moved to Georgia sometime prior to 1848 and located in Pickens County.<\/p>\n

James was born in North Carolina on November 11, 1796.\u00a0 He married Miss Rachael Patton, who was born in 1801, in North Carolina in 1820.\u00a0 He died in September 1874 in Pickens County, Georgia.\u00a0 She died in December 1867.\u00a0 To this union were born five children: John, Elijah, Margaret, Catherine, and Elizabeth.\u00a0 John, my grandfather, was born in North Carolina in January 1824.\u00a0 He married Miss Susan Jordan in Pickens County, Georgia, March 31, 1849.\u00a0 She was born in North Carolina October 14, 1827.\u00a0 He died May 20, 1870, in Colorado, having gone there in search of gold in the West. \u00a0He fell sick on returning home and died, and his body is buried in Clear Creek County, Colorado.\u00a0 She died in Bosque County, Texas, January 31, 1901.\u00a0 To this union were born six children: James (my father), Alonzo, Gussie (drowned in a well at three years of age), Bennie (lived 27 days), Charley, and Chookey Arabella (died at one year of age).<\/p>\n

John\u2019s brother, Elijah, married Susan\u2019s sister, Esther Jordan, on March 31, 1849, the two brothers marrying the two sisters in a double ring ceremony.\u00a0 Then the two couples made their departure on horseback.\u00a0 To Elijah and Esther were born four children: *ia (deceased), Emma (widow in Haskell, Texas, married Bill Fouts), Montgomery (Postmaster and owned Granite Marble mines in Georgia.\u00a0 Lived all his life on the spot where he was born.\u00a0 He had eight children, six living.), and Ella.<\/p>\n

Elijah was killed as a soldier in July, 1863 at a Civil War battle in Vicksburg, Mississippi.\u00a0 Esther, his widow, finally went to Texas and lived at some time with two other widowed sisters, Susan and Lou, in a little home built especially for them on the farm of James Morrison III.\u00a0 Nancy sometimes visited them.\u00a0 At one time, there were seven widowed Jordan sisters living.<\/p>\n

Esther\u2019s and Elijah\u2019s fourth child, Ella, married Frank Gravitt and resided in Oklahoma.\u00a0 Andrew Morrison married Miss Elizabeth Wilson in North Carolina and<\/p>\n

My Aunt \u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Received from Earline Hunter<\/p>\n

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moved to Georgia in the 1840s.\u00a0 He reared two daughters and three sons.\u00a0 He died in November 1885.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The two oldest boys were killed while serving in the C. S. A. Army.\u00a0 The youngest boy, Columbus, married and lived and died in the spring of 1933 in Granbury, Texas.\u00a0 His children were Frank, Hattie, Addie, and an adopted son, who now lives in Granbury.<\/p>\n

Joseph Morrison, born in North Carolina in 1818, married Miss Dorothy Whiteside and moved to Georgia in the 1840s.\u00a0 He died in 1893, surviving all his children in Gordon County.<\/p>\n

The Morrisons and Jordans and Wests were early settlers in Pickens County, Georgia.\u00a0 Among the Jordans was a Presbyterian preacher.\u00a0 The Lebanon Presbyterian Church was organized before 1853.\u00a0 They had a library which was housed in the home of great-grandfather James II.\u00a0 These families, with the William Long\u2019s and a Mrs. Duckett, comprised a part of the membership.\u00a0 Great-grandfather James wanted a Baptist church and deeded land to a congregation for a Baptist church, and one was built of logs.\u00a0 A school was conducted in the church.\u00a0 A cemetery was located nearby.\u00a0 The Morrison home was a story-and-a-half and was built by Indians, who still populated the country.\u00a0 Apple trees had been planted by the Indians.\u00a0 In 1868, one tree was still bearing.<\/p>\n

In the 1700s, there were eight Morrison boys from Ireland, England, and Holland who came to North Carolina.\u00a0 The lineage of five of these boys are lost.\u00a0 Frank I, William I, James I, and Andrew I probably settled with three sisters between 1750-1760 in Iredell County, Virginia.\u00a0 Taking up the lineage from 1796, James Morrison II and Rachael\u2019s son, John, married Susan Jordan.\u00a0 Their first-born, James III, along with his widowed mother, Susan, and two younger brothers, Alonzo (Lon) and Charley, went to Texas and located at Steel\u2019s Creek in 1873.\u00a0 James III married Miss Ella Huffstutler October 14, 1883, in Rock Creek, Somerville County, Texas.\u00a0 To this union were born three children: Sudie, Ella, and Willie.\u00a0 Left a widower, James III married Miss Alice Huffstutler December 31, 1893, in Blountsville, Alabama.\u00a0 To this union were born six children: Joe, Earl, Homer, Howell, Reed, and an infant girl.\u00a0 Left a widower a second time, James III married Miss Ora West in December 1915.\u00a0 He died January 2, 1929, in Ft. Worth.<\/p>\n

Alonzo married Miss Rosetta Scott in Bosque County on May 15, 1887.\u00a0 To this union were born five children: Mabyn, Gladys, Ruby, Ambyr, and Clyde.\u00a0 At this writing September 1, 1953, death has not claimed any member of this happy family of seven.ow<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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