As all things begin, so then must they end. On March 10, 1837, Job Calloway, of the Western part of Montgomery County, North Carolina, knew his days were numbered. He was weak of body, and ill of health, and knew it was nigh time to get his affairs in order. Only 47 years old, only 3 of his 10 children had reached adulthood. His loving and dutiful wife drew near, knowing widowhood was upon her and most likely filled with sorrow and fear. But faith would hold her, her two married daughters, Mary Calloway McLester, and Vashita Calloway Morton, lived near and would provide emotional support and help with the younger children. She had 4 strong sons in their teens and early twenties to work the farm and help provide for the family, and a fifth not close behind; Isaac 23, Elmore, named for her mother, Leticia "Lettie" Elmore Randle, 20, John C. 18, Arippa 14 and Alfred 10. The family was completed by three little girls, Cassie (Cassandra) 9, Sallie (Sarah) 8 and Tishie (Martisha) 3.
Job called two of his trusted friends and neighbors, Nelson Pennington amd Joseph Clayton, to witnesses the act of his writing of his will. He named his son-in-law, Samuel P. Morton, a godly and well-studied man, to be his Executor. His life should not have been but half over at least, yet, his wordly vessel was giving way, there was not time to wait. So he began:
"In the name of God amen, I Job Calloway of the County of Montgomery and State of North Carolina being weak in body and low in health but of my right mind knowing shortness of life and certainty of death make this my last will and testament and + desire my wordly goods to be disposed of in the following manner.
1st I recommend my spirti into the hands of him who first gave it + my body to the earth from whence it was first taken to be buried after a Christian manner at the descretion of my Executor.
2nd I give and bequeth to my beloved wife after my debts are satisfied or paid all the balance of my property to her to use for the use of raising the little ones of her body, the same property (if any) and love to her during her widowhood + after her death or end of her widowhood the property to be divided equally between my children.
3rd I give to my eldest daughter Mary McLester property to the amount of $70 which property she has got.
4th I give to my second eldest daughter Vashti Morton property to the amount of $70 which property she has got.
5th I give to my eldest son Isaac Calloway property to the amount of $70 which property he has got. the above mentioned children having their property now in hand are not to recieve anything more until all the rest of the children recieve $70 each if there be not that much, if not the three oldest above mentioned to pay over to the rest unitl all are equal.
6th I divide in this that 20 acres of land lying on the Yadkin River be sold.
7th I direct in my will that 400 acres of land at home be priced at $2 per acre + my 4 boys younger than lsaac buy the same + pay into the estate the amount thereof + as they come to the age of 21 they are at liberty to build, settle, + clear said land outside of the old premises so that there shall be no improvement on the widows peaceable possession + if they choose not to take their place in this land the said when called for by the 1st oldest or by any of the 4 when 21 to laid off equally + value accordingly to division + the drawed for by them four boys, viz, Elmore, John, Agrippa + Alfred.
8th I also choose for the Executor of this my last will + testament Samuel P. Morton as my Executor.
Signed on the 10th day of March AD 1837
Job Calloway
Witnesses:
Nelson Pennington
Joseph Calloway
The document was filed in May of 1838
Job Calloway and his wife, Susannah Randle Calloway were my 5th Great Grandparents.
Job was the son of Isaac Calloway (Sr) and Elizabeth Arnold. The family originated in Maryland.
Susannah was the daughter of Colby Randle and Leticia Elmore. The family originated in Virginia.
I felt it important to reiterate his will, given the fact that I've seen Vashti given as the daughter of Isaac Calloway in so many lists, reports and family trees. Isaac was her grandfather, and she had a brother named Isaac. She also had an Aunt named Vashita for who she was obviously named, but the Vashti who married Samuel P. Morton was the daughter of Job Calloway.
Job was buried in the Calloway Family Cemetery with his parents, Isaac and Elizabeth Arnold Calloway. The cemetery expanded to include others in the community and became the Palestine Community Cemetery, located centrally between Badin and Albemarle. Susanna Randle Calloway would outlive Job by nearly 40 years. She died April 18, 1870 and was buried with her husband. The couple were the parents of 10 children, 5 sons and 5 daughters, beginning with two daughters, followed by 5 sons in a row and ended with 3 more daughters. He lost 2 sons in the Civil War, and 3 children migrated away, while the remainder stayed behind. They were:
1) Mary M. Calloway 1810-1870. Married Daniel McLester
2) Vashita Calloway 1812-1846. Married Samuel P. Morton
3) Isaac Calloway 1814- 1898. Married 3 times; Mary Kendall, Betsy Mann and Mary Linda Carter.
4) Elmore W. Calloway 1816 - 1898. Married Samantha Mariah Hodges. Moved to Tatnall, Georgia.
5) John C.Calloway 1819-1862. Married Mary Clay. 5 children, died Petersburg, VA. Civil War.
6) King Agrippa Gamaliel Calloway 1823-1890 Married Eliza Elliott.
7) Alfred S. Calloway 1827-1863. Married Mary Jane Marks, 1 child. Died Lynchburg, Va, Civil War.
8) Cassandra Calloway 1828 - Unknown. Married 1st W. D. Kendall, 2nd Nathaniel Wallace.
9) Sarah Calloway 1829-1894 Married James M. Clay. Moved to Grayson County, Texas.
10) Martisha R. Calloway 1834 - 1911. Married Benjamin L. Kendall. Moved to Tatnall, Georgia
On Setember 12, 1872, Elizabeth Mcswain Morton of Henry County, Tennessee petitioned the U. S. Government for a Widow's Pension, due to her from the benefit of her husband George's service in the War of 1812. She stated that he had served under Capt. John Garrettson in the NC Militia, as a Private, from February 1st, 1814 until July 31st, 1814.
What garnered my attention the most was the fact that Elizabeth testified that they had been married the following November, in Montgomery County, North Carolina, by Esquire Spencer in 1814.
This was not George Crogin Pemberton Morton, whom I had already blogged about, nor was it George Arnold Morton, son of Rev. Samuel Morton, as they were not yet born.
There was another Morton in the 1830 census of Montgomery County, North Carolina who didn't live near the Narrowsville Mortons, but still not so far away from them, either, and who did live nearby was a very significant fact.
The list for Page 80 of the 1830 census of Montgomery County, North Carolina begins with William Mcswain and Joseph Throgmorton, with George Morton coming in third.
In Henry County, Tennessee, George Morton is in close association with Mcswains and Throgmortons. Other names of note on this page are Kimras, John Avett, Robert G. Duke, Jacob Shoffner, Thomas Castle, Jeremiah Adderton and several Carter's, James, Nathan and George. This helps place George's location.
There is no 1820 census for Montgomery County, however, there is an 1810. In the 1810 census, from both sides of the river, we find 7 Morton households, led by Alexander, Ezekiel, George, James, Peggy, Stephen, and William. Three of these, George, Stephen and William, all served in the War of 1812. I think it important to note that my ancestor, Rev. Samuel Parsons Morton, named a son Stephen and another George. This does not mean I believe George was his father, it doesn't fit at all. However, I do feel he was a relation.
Chasing this DNA trail, I discover I share a small amount of DNA with a few, but not all, of the descendants of George Simeon Morton of Henry County, Tennessee.
At this distance, I wouldn't expect to. In this case, I share 29 centimorgans on 1 segment with a descendant of George of Henry County and also match in small degrees with other members of their nuclear family they have tested. That's why I am so interested in this other George. It is also not lost on me that there was a Simeon Morton in old Stanly County, a descendant of Ezekiel, and Simeon is an uncommon name.
The military records of George Simeon Morton does not give the names of his family, except for that of his widow, Elizabeth Mcswain Morton, but they do name witnesses to his wedding in Montgomery County, North Carolina who traveled with the couple to Henry County, Tennessee, where George was rewarded with 80 acres of land for battling the Creek tribe.
George S. Morton served 3 terms in the War of 1812, under Col. Pearson, Col. Garretson and Col. Johnson.
A register of enlistments gives more personal information on him. He was said to be 5 foot 8 inches tall, with blue eyes, dark hair and a dark complexion. The fact that got my attention most was that he stated he was born in Prince Edward, Virginia.
There was another George Morton, middle initial "V." who was a surgeon and stood 6 foot 4. Not our George.
The Creek War was a Civil War of sorts between two factions of the Creek Nation, one faction supported by the British. They were defeated by American forces in conjunction with other Indigenous nations, including the Cherokee. The link below gives an excellent summary of the war George Morton was in.
At the age of 66 and again at 69, George had submitted proof of his service to obtain his pension. These are included in the 53 page document. I have provided the link, however, one must have an account with Fold3 to open it.
Another surprising aspect of the file was the number of people who attended the wedding of George and Elizabeth 59 years prior, who were also not only alive, but had migrated with them to Henry County, Tennessee.
Bonita Mcswain (also spelled Benita), testified that she "was a small girl when George Morton wed Elizabeth Morton." The wedding was held in Montgomery County, North Carolina on November 9, 1814. Bonita was at the wedding and remembered that she "got upon the stairsteps to look over the crowd to see and hear the marriage ceremony.' She recollected that the marriage was " before the time that peace was made. "
Witness Elizabeth Matheny stated that she was at the wedding of George and Elizabeth Morton in Montgomery County, North Carolina, "about the 9th of November 1814. She remembers that old man Mcswain, the father of Elizabeth Morton was under the influence of liquor at the time of the marriage and called upon the crowd present to notice the likeness between his daughter and himself. "
She also remembered that the wedding took place a short time 'before peace was made.' Elizabeth Matheny also added that she was a year older than the petitioner, Elizabeth Morton. The pension was numbered 82826 and the statements were dated March 4, 1873.
The pension file, as with any government form, was full of red tape. Witness statements that had originally omitted the personal details, had been returned with a request to include such details that would have anchored the event to their memories, such as being 9 years old and having to climb the stairs to see, in Bonita's case, or remembering that the father of the bride was intoxicated, in the case of Elizabeth Matheny.
Another statement by the same ladies gave the date of George Simeon Morton's death. Elizabeth Matheny gave her age as 77 and 'Beanetta' Mcswain gave her age as 66. Both had resided in Henry County, Tennessee, for over 30 years and recalled the death date of George as the 15th day of May, 1865. The statement further reported that, "They were raised girls together upon friendly and intimate terms and we're both at her wedding and both notes live with her in the county of Henry 35 years." So they had grown up in Montgomery County together and now Elizabeth Morton was 75 years old. Her husband had served in Capt. Garretsons Company, and Capt. Pearsons regiment from Montgomery County, NC and had received an honorable discharge.
Elizabeth Mcswain Morton also had to vow allegiance to the United States of America. Remember, 1872 was during the period of reconstruction and Tennessee had been a part of the Confederacy. It had been a short 7 years from the close of that War. She stated that her husband had died on May 15, 1865, but had not offered a cause of death. However, he was at that time an elderly man around 80 years of age.
She confessed, "That at no time during the late rebellion against the authority of the United States did she or her husband adhere to the causes of the enemies of the Government, giving them aid or comfort or (illegible) the functions of any office whatsoever under any authority of pretended authority or hostility to the United States that she will support the Constitution of the United States, that she is not in receipt of any pension."
An S. Smith and A. J. Morton witnessed her statement. There were also statements that the witnesses, Smith and Morton , "are men of undoubted good characteristics."
A. J. Morton was their son, Atlas James Morton.
There were also notes as to Georges 80 acres in Tennessee, earned for his service and that he was discharged in Salisbury, NC on the 18th of July, 1814.
There were two witnesses to his death in 1865, Mr. Smith and his son, Atlas, and two witnesses to the marriage, Mrs. Matheny and Mrs. Mcswain.
It is also noted in the file that Elizabeth Mcswain Morton died January 20, 1884.
I was curious to know more about Elizabeth Matheny and Bonita Mcswain as they not only witnessed the wedding, but had also migrated to Henry County, Tennessee.
I first find Elizabeth Matheny as a widow in 1840. In 1850 she is 53, born in Virginia and head of the household including her children, Charles, 28 and Lewis, 21, born in Virginia and Nancy, 19, Isaac, 15, and Sarah, 17, all born in Tennessee.
I also find her in the 1860 and 1870 census records of Henry County, living with her son, Charles W. Matheny, who consistently maintains that he was born in North Carolina.
The family trees that Elizabeth is in has her tagged to a marriage record in Greene County, Tennessee with an unusual maiden name. This really doesn't fit. As her older children were born in North Carolina, Montgomery County, specifically, in Charles case, I don't see her getting married in Tennessee. And I've never seen that unusual name in local records. We know she was here in 1814, so probably in 1810 as well. No name in the 1810 census comes even close. I looked all around the Mcswains, that were Elizabeth Mcswain Morton's family, and there were lots of Throgmortons and also James Morton, who some have surmised was the father of my Samuel Parsons Morton. I believe they have Elizabeth Matheny with the incorrect maiden name. That Elizabeth seems to have died in 1860. Elizabeth Matheny who lived in Henry County, Tennessee, lived long past that time.
Benita "Nettie" Randle Mcswain and husband, David Mcswain from family files on ancestry.com. I question this as the woman appears to have a chin tattoo.
Bonita Mcswain was an entirely different story. Carrying the surname Mcswain, I felt she had to be related to Elizabeth, and she was. Nettie's maiden name was Randle and she married David McSwain, brother of Elizabeth Mcswain Morton, in 1825 in Montgomery County, North Carolina. She was Elizabeth's sister-in-law.
She was the daughter of John and Sally Calloway McSwain. Her 80 year old mother is living with her in 1860, along with her unmarried sister-in-law, Frances.
Sarah Calloway Randall, was a daughter of Isaac Calloway of Stanly (Montgomery) County. She was the Aunt of Vashti Calloway who married Rev. Samuel Parsons Morton. She's actually my 6th Great Aunt, but who's counting?
This is an exciting discovery for me. These are the same families that connected to both Samuel Parsons Morton and his little brother, George Crogin Morton. The Mcswains lived near and about James Morton in the early years of the 1800's.
David and Benita/Bonita Mcswain had several daughters and a son named Dr. Isaac Arnold McSwain. Isaac from Isaac Calloway, likely and the Arnold name passed down the line from my ancestor, Elizabeth Arnold, exactly as Rev. Sammy named a son George Arnold Morton.
I've been able to find quite a bit of information on Isaac due to his profession as one of the early and influential medical professionals in Henry County, including the above excerpt from Henry County, Tennessee, tngenweb.org.
These Tennessee migrants from what is now Stanly County, North Carolina, took with them the knowledge of their Mcswain heritage, all the way back to Scotland. I wish I could find a Morton history of the same.
So back to George.
Above, we find him in the 1850 census living in the town of Paris, Henry County, TN. George was born in Virginia, Prince Edward County, according to his military papers. Every one else was born in Montgomery County, North Carolina except 7 year old Sarah. That means they may have been on the move in 1840.
He's living with his 5 youngest children. By 1860, George and Elizabeth are just living with Atlas and Francis Naomi. Little Sarah must have died as a child.
The family had settled in the town of Paris, Henry County, and that's where we find Elizabeth, living with her son Atlas until she died in 1884.
Paris was established in 1823 as part of the Jackson Purchase from the Chickasaw tribe. The Morton's, Mcswain and Throgmortons from North Carolina didn't arrive until 17 years later. It was called the Gateway to West Tennessee and is one of the oldest towns in that section of the state. It bordered Callaway County, Kentucky and Stewart County, Tennessee, where other families from this area settled.
George Simeon Morton and Elizabeth Mcswain Morton raised a large family of 15 children. Their oldest son, Thomas F. Morton, removed to Taylor's Falls, Chicago County, Minnesota and became one of the founding fathers of that community.
What I know of who their children were is below:
1) Thomas F. Morton 1816-1869
Settled in Taylor's Falls, Chicago County Minnesota.
2) Harriett G. Morton Gallimore 1817-1878
Settled in Mandarin, Williamson Illinois.
3) William Crews Morton 1819 - 1890 Henry County Tennessee.
4) Elizabeth Jane Morton Smith
1820- 1891 Henry County Tennessee.
5) Margaret J. Morton Throgmorton 1822 -1863 Grantsburg, Johnson City, Illinois. A short biography of her family is found on ancestry.com derived from:
6) George Mcswain Morton 1825- ? . He married Mahala Oliver in 1842 and had 2 children, Thomas J. and Margaret Evangeline. He disappears, but his family ends up in Chicago County, Minnesota, where his oldest brother settled.
Seven and eight are daughters who appear as dashes in the early census records, born between 1825 and 1830. Their names are unknown. They may have been married before the 1850 census. There are two other unknown children missing from the total count of 15 mentioned in the obituary of Thomas J. Morton.
Those were the 6 older. There are 4 unknown. Below are the 5 younger.
11) Atlas J. Morton 1833 - 1901 Henry.
He remained single and became the one who took care of his mother until her death.
12) Philadelphia R. "Delphy" Morton Henderson. 1834 - 1912 Henry.
Had one daughter, Sarah Jane, who married back into the Mcswain family.
Delphia Morton Henderson
13) David G. Morton 1836 - 1900 Henry.
Married Nancy Sweaty.
14) Francis Naomi Morton Henley Bucy 1830- 1910. Omi remained single until middle age, when she married twice and outlived them both. Buried in Henry County.
15) Sarah 1843- before 1860. The only one born in Tennessee, she died as a child.
I've now discovered 3 George Mortons born in Stanly/Montgomery County, North Carolina. George Arnold Morton, son of Rev. Samuel Parsons Morton; George Crogin Morton, his younger brother, who moved to Webster County, MO; and George Simeon Morton, 1785 - 1865, who moved to Henry County , Tennessee, relationship unknown.
George Simeon Morton was 20 when Rev. Samuel Parsons Morton was born. He wasn't his father. It's possible that he could have been an Uncle. I share DNA with some of his descendants. This does not necessarily mean that DNA came from the Morton's. The Mcswains, Mortons and Throgmortons traveled in a group that included members of the Calloway family.
They carried their genes with them. There could have been other families who traveled with them. I could be related to these descendants of George and Elizabeth in a different way. But so far I haven't haven't found it.
I do not have a biological connection to the Mcswains, only through marriage. The Calloway connection was through Benita, Elizabeth's sister-in-law. So the chances of George Simeon Morton being a relation is very good.
But there was another George, one older yet than these three, who appears in the 1790 census of Montgomery County, North Carolina. Who are you, George?
I'm looking for information on this man, not just this man, but on his family. Not necessarily on the family he created with his two wives, but on the family he came from.
His name was Samuel Parsons Morton and he was my 4th Great Grandfather.
He's a bit scary looking in this photo, but he was very old at the time. Sammy lived a very long, productive life, and he was not a scary man, not in the least. By all accounts, he was an honest, devoutly religious man, who served his community, lived humbly and piously, and would give someone the crumbs off his plate, if he were starving.
What I do know of his origins is that he was born on the western bank of the Yadkin/ PeeDee River, in an area now known as Badin.
The below excerpt is from the 1830 census of Montgomery County, North Carolina. This section was on the Western side of the Pee Dee River, which would become Stanly.
Other Mortons lived in a different section of Stanly County, to the west, closer to the Cabarrus County line. By virtue of their neighbors, we can assume these Morton's lived around the Red Cross/ Big Lick area.
On old maps from the early half of the 1800's, we see a little town at a crossroads in the Northeast portion of the county called Narrowsville, named that because of its proximity to the rapids and 'narrow' section of the Yadkin/Pee Dee river.
This is where Samuel P. Morton spent his early years.
The below portion of the census shows Samuel P. Morton and his household, with 3 other Morton families nearby.
I believe these are these are his people, his family, this James, John and Will, while there's another John and William on the other side of the county.
The list names the following men:
John Stone, Thomas Bell, James Morton, Joseph Allen, James Dudney, William Morton, Nancy Hearne, John Calloway, William Lee, Samuel P. Morton, Will Collin, Thomas Hogan, James Maudlin, Henry Marshall, John Morton, Abner Nash and Arch McIver
The households show James with a household containing a male in his 50's with a female in her 60's. This could be husband and wife if he was late in his late 50's and she in her early 60's. There are 2 young men in their 20's another between 15 and 20, and a girl in the same age range.
William Morton was in his 20's.There were 2 women in his home in their 30's and a little girl under 5.
Samuel Parsons Morton was also in his 20's and so was a woman who must have been Vashti. There was a girl 15 - 20, another 10- 15, and another 5 to 10. There was one little boy under 5, which was probably Stephen Ferdinand Morton. I don't know who the girls were, her sisters or his, maybe. Knowing Sammy was 25 and Vashti younger, I can't see them being daughters.
John Morton was in his 30's as was a probable wife. There was a girl, 10 to 15, two boys 5 to 10 and a girl under 5.
This leads to more questions. If James was Sammy's father as numerous family trees claim, where's the proof? Sure, he was older and lived in close proximity, but if Sammy's father died when he was 18, as the 1953 profile on him suggested, then it could not have been James, as he was alive in 1830. Perhaps the article was wrong, and Sammy was in his 20's.
If the three young Morton men, William, John and Samuel P. , were all sons of James, then the article was also wrong about that as well, as Sammy would not have been the oldest son, with John over 30. That's possible too, as the article was written at least 2 generations and 50 years past his death. I have already found inconsistencies in it.
Assuming James passed away before 1840, what happened to John and William?
I'm not sure where these questions will lead. DNA connections are already adding more puzzles in the log book.
And so, with little to no information to go on, this begins my search for the Narrowsville Mortons.
I've found that all are in agreement that Ezekial Morton and his wife, Betsy (Elizabeth Brumbelow Morton), had at a minimum a dozen children. Some family trees add a 13th child and others, even add a 14th. I'm here today to explore one of them, to which my DNA gives a little creedence. The paper trail of the descendants of Ezekial Morton and Elizabeth Brumbelow Morton is a little rusty.
Ezekial and Betsy frist show up in the census records of North Carolina as a young married couple living in Anson County with one young son under 10, and both of them were under 25 years of age.
Name:
Ezekiel Morton
Home in 1800 (City, County, State):
Fayetteville, Anson, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10:
1 John D.
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25:
1 Ezekial
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25:
1 Betsy
Number of Household Members Under 16:
1
Number of Household Members:
3
That son should be John D. Morton, born in 1799.
Name:
Ezekiel Morton
Home in 1810 (City, County, State):
Palmer, Montgomery, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10:
2 William & Hezekiah
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15:
2 John & Joseph
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44:
1 Ezekial
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10:
1 Hannah
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44:
1 Betsy
Number of Household Members Under 16:
5
Number of Household Members Over 25:
2
Number of Household Members:
7
Ten years later, in 1810, the young family has moved to the area of Palmer in what was then Montgomery County, NC, and is now Stanly County, NC. Listed on that same page of families living in "Palmer" were John Burrows, Solomon Burrow (Burris), Ambrose Huneycutt, Henry Underwood, Dempsey Hathcock, Edward Almond, Malichi Harwood, Hardy Hatley, William Hatley, Martin Almond, Isaac Burleson, Jacob Greene, Demarcus Palmer, and Thomas Castles, all very familiar names to anyone who has done any research at all on the families living in the western part of the county, around the present communities of Red Cross, Endy, Frog Pond or Big Lick.
The family size is now 7, they have 2 sons between 10 and 15 and two under 10, and just one daughter under 10. We can easily presume these 5 to be John (1799) and Joseph (1801) as the 10 to 15, Betsy probably being pregnant with Joseph at the time of the last census, William (1802) and Hezekiah (1803) as the under 10 year old sons, and Hannah (1810) as the only daughter, keeping in mind that record and age-keeping in those days was not always an exact science, although certain old tombstones had age down to nearly the minute.
Name:
Egeril Morton[Ezekiel Morton]
Home in 1830 (City, County, State):
West Side Pee Dee River, Montgomery, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5:
2 Levi C. and Allen G. (1825 & 1827)
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9:
1 Ezekial John (1822)
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19:
1 Jesse (1811)
Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59:
1 Ezekial
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14:
2 Susanna & Nancy (1818 & 1816)
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19:
1 Dicey (1813)
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49:
1 Betsy
Free White Persons - Under 20:
7
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49:
1
Total Free White Persons:
9
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored):
9
The 1820 census for Montgomery is missing, so there is a 20 year jump to the 1830 census. In 20 years, a child could have been born, married and out on there own, especially if that child was a girl. I've borne witness to that in my own family tree, especially in between the 1880 and 1900 census's as most of the 1890 census was lost to fire.
The Ezekial Morton family in 1830 was a family of 9, but this was not complete as the older children were in their 20's and 30's and out on their own, starrting their own families. He is now noted as living on the West Side of the Pee Dee River, the area we now call Stanly County. There are 3 young females and 4 males.
There are a total of 14 Morton families in Montgomery County in 1830. They are divided into "East Pee Dee", the side that remained Montgomery County, and "West Pee Dee", the side that would become Stanly County.
East Pee Dee boasted the households of David Jr., Dominick, Edward, Jincy, and Thomas.
West Pee Dee contained the households of Ezekial, George, James, 2 Johns, Joseph, Samuel P. and two Williams.
I must mention here that Samuel P. Morton was none other than the Rev. Samuel Parsons Morton, and another ancestor of mine on my mother's side of the family. While he was buried at Red Hill Church in Anson County, he was born and grew up around Ebenezer Church in Stanly. Ebnezer is now Badin Baptist and slap dab in the middle of the town of Badin, which was not in existence when GGGGGrandpa 'Crying Sammy' was born.
With this knowledge, I can divide the Stanly County Mortons into two basic groups, the Badin area/ Eastern Stanly Mortons and the Red Cross/ Big Lick Western Stanly Mortons.
For instance, James Morton and Samuel P. Morton were listed within a few households of each other. So was one of the John's and one of the Wills.
Joseph, was of course, my line to Ezekial, his second born son.
Name:
Joseph Morton
Home in 1830 (City, County, State):
West Side Pee Dee River, Montgomery, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5:
2
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29:
1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5:
1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29:
1
Free White Persons - Under 20:
3
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49:
2
Total Free White Persons:
5
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored):
5
So we have Joseph as a young man in his 20's and he and his wife have 3 little children under 5.
Name:
John Marton[]
Home in 1830 (City, County, State):
West Side Pee Dee River, Montgomery, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5:
1 Joseoph Calvin 3 (1827) named for Johns' brother.
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19:
1 Unknown, maybe a hired hand, maybe a family member hired to help with the farm.
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39:
1 John D.
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5:
2 Minty 4 (1826) Sarah 1 (1829)
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9:
2 Betsy 6 (1824)
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29:
1 Sarah, his wife
Free White Persons - Under 20:
6
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49:
2
Total Free White Persons:
8
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored):
8
Of the two John Mortons, one has a household of 6 and lives two homesteads from Samuel P. Morton, the other has a household of 8 and lives among Western Stanly names and one page over from Ezekial. My bets are on the family of 8 John being John D. Morton, Ezekial's oldest son. The age of the children work, with just one out of place.
Name:
Will Morton[]
Home in 1830 (City, County, State):
Montgomery, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5:
1 Alexander
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29:
1 William
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5:
3 Unknown
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29:
1 Frances
Free White Persons - Under 20:
4
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49:
2
Total Free White Persons:
6
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored):
6
Of the two Will Morton's, one lives two households from Sammy, the other lives actually in Tyson community. I would place my bets on this Will being the son of Ezekial. The problem with this, is that the census shows 3 little girls under 5. If this is the right William, those little girls are unknown.
Name:
John Folks
Home in 1830 (City, County, State):
Montgomery, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5:
1
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29:
1 John Fowlkes
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19:
1 Hannah
Free White Persons - Under 20:
2
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49:
1
Total Free White Persons:
3
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored):
3
The last of Ezekial's older children to be found on their own is his oldest daughter, Hannah. She married with a small son, and not yet 20.
The one known child of Ezekial not accounted for in this census was Hezekiah. Perhaps he was the additional young man in John's household, however, he should have been a bit older.
This brings up the subject of the George Morton in the 1830 census. This George is between 40 and 50 years old. This is definitely NOT George C. Morton.
By 1840, Ezekial Morton has passed away and Betsy is listed as the Head of Household.
Name:
Betsy Martin[Betsy Morton]
Home in 1840 (City, County, State):
West Pee Dee River, Montgomery, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14:
1 Allen G.
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19:
2 Ezekial J. & Levi C.
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29:
1 Susannah
Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69:
1 Betsy
Persons Employed in Agriculture:
2
No. White Persons over 20 Who Cannot Read and Write:
1
Free White Persons - Under 20:
3
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49:
1
Total Free White Persons:
5
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves:
5
There are now 11 Morton household listed in Montgomery County. We can break them down into West Pee Dee and East Pee Dee, as they were enumerated separately. The ones listed in West Pee Dee were: Betsy, David Jr. (another David was in East Pee Dee), Hezekiah, Jessee, John, Joseph, Samuel P., William and William Sr. No sign of a George. Hezekiah, Jessee, John and Joseph were of course, sons of Ezekial and Betsy. Of the two Williams, one was living fairly close to Joseph and very close to Green D. Morgan, who married his sister, Dicey, and Mark Morgan, who married his sister Nancy. The other William, by virture of his neighbors, John Melton, G. W. Thompson, Kirks and others, seemed to be living around the Swift Island area, so we'll peg him as being the East Stanly William Morton. The other two Mortons on the Eastern side of West Pee Dee were GGGGGrandpa Samuel P. Morton and David Jr.
By 1850, the Mortons had expanded all over the county as sons and grandsons struck out on their own. Hezekiah was no more, but left his widow, Susannah, with their children. Betsy was still alive and living with her son, Allen Green (or Green Allen, it was interchangeble) Morton and his young family. They were right next door to her son, ( my line), Joseph and Margaret Almond, and oldest son John's son, (Joseph) Calvin Morton (Jr.), named for his uncle.
I don't see where George Crogan Pemberton "Pem" Morton fits in. We do find George for the first time in a census in 1850, where he is living with his wife, Mary, and their little girl in Harris Township, which is the Northeastern section of the county.
This is probably the land he bought on December 14 1849, just months before this census was taken, from David Safely. In Book 3, Page 6, of the Stanly County Deed Books, we see where George bought 82 acres for $82 from David Safely that was located on both sides of the Salisbury Road and on the waters of Grassy Creek, meeting the property line of Wiley Safely.
Just two years later, on February 11, 1851, he bought 40 acres for $100 from Noah Thompson and his wife, Tabitha, that seems to have adjoined the previously purchased property. This lot, obviously much more valueable due to the purchase price for half the size, was also located on both sides of the Salisbury Road and both sides of Grassy Creek and also ran with Wiley Safely's line.
But the 1849 deed was not the first record I find for George Morton in Stanly County, instead, he is first found in the Minutes of the Pleas and Quarters Court in the February 1846 Session on a charge of Bastardy. George C. P. Morton, about 26 years old, had fathered a child out of wedlock with one Polly Kirk, about 18. He was ordered to pay $30 at the May 1846 term of court, $15 at the May 1847 term of court and $15 at the May 1848 term of court.
The child was a little girl that Polly Kirk named Eliza Sophronia Kirk (Morton).
In 1850, she and her mother, Mary "Polly" Smith Kirk, were living with Polly's family in a home headed by her younger brother, Parham, with their mother, Sarah Stone Kirk, and their youngest brother, William Deberry Kirk.
Mary Smith Kirk did not stay single, Smith being her middle name, and not her maiden name, by the way. On February 25, 1853, Mary S. Kirk, now 25, married Rev. John Wesley Middleton, son of John Littlleton and Betsy Carter Littleton.
In 1860, Eliza was still living with her Grandmother and Uncle Parham, while her mother had started a family with Rev. Littleton.
Eliza ended up getting married, herself, on September 8, 1869 to John M. Jenkins. She was 23. Eliza named her parents as G. C. Morton and Mary S. Littleton.
Eliza Sophronia Kirk Morton Jenkins lived a long and productive life. She and John Jenkins raised a family of 7 children in the New London area, where Eliza died at the age of 84 on June 16, 1830. They were: Parham (1870), Sarah Elizabeth (1873),Mary Ada (1875),Sophronia Tommie (1878), Dora Kron (1872), William M. (1876), and Charles E. (1887).
She, and her family, fully knew who her parents were, even though her father had left for Missouri in 1855. We last (and first) saw George in 1850 with a wife, Mary and a daughter, Sarah. Somewhere around 1848, after his bond payments, or court-ordered child support, for Eliza Sophronia Kirk stopped, he married another Mary Kirk.
Mary Smith Kirk Littleton was born on February 27, 1828 and died on July 4, 1886 in Stanly County.
She was the daughter of Parham Kirk (1782-1854) and Sarah Elizabeth Stone Kirk (1802-1884).
The Mary "Polly" Kirk he married was born November 12, 1826 in Stanly County, NC and died Oct 17, 1887 in Webster County, Missouri.
She was the daughter of Alexander Kirk (1797 - 1858) and Louisa Forrest Kirk (1802-1881).
Since Parham Kirk Sr. and Alexander Kirk were brothers, sons of John Lewis Kirak and wife, Sarah Mary Steele, Kirk, that made the two Polly Kirk's first cousins. So to wrap all of that up, in 1846, George C. Morton had a relationship with Polly Kirk, daughter of Parham that resulted in the birth of a little girl, Eliza. He then married her older cousin, Polly Kirk, daughter of Alexander. Both girls even had brothers named Parham. Got that?
So, lets go back to 1850 for a minute. George and family lived in Harris Township. The previous December, he had purchased land on Grassy Creek along the Salisbury Road, from David Safely. His closest neighbors were Parkers, Carters, Calloways, Millers, Kirks and Crowells. That helps to place whereabouts he lived.
Name:
George C Merton
Residence Date:
1850
Residence Place:
Harris and Ridenhour, Stanly, North Carolina, USA
Number of Enslaved People:
2
There was another detail about George C. Morton that set him apart from the Ezekial Morton family, he owned 2 slaves. Ezekial and his family did not. I do not know if the two enslaved people came to him through his wife, Polly, as some of the Kirks were slave owners, but in 1850, George is listed with a 35 year man and a 15 year old boy.
So here begins a bit of mystery, between 1851 and 1860, George and family moved to Missouri. The mystery is that there is no record of him selling his land before he moved. What happed to the land?
The 1860 census shows him in Marshfield, Webster County, Missouri, working as a House Carpenter, with Mary and 5 children. The older 3 children, Sarah, Martha and Adam, were born in North Carolina, and the younger two, Nancy and Robert, were born in Missouri.
George Morton was registered for the draft in Missouri as a Mechanic and birth year of 1819. Also from North Carolina was a David Melton. They likely had traveled together.
George died in Webster County, Missouri on February 28, 1864. I can not determine if his death was the result of anything having to do with the Civil War or not, for cetiain, but there are hints that it was. He was 44 years old. All I can find is that he served in a Civilian capacity and credited with providing supplies. Missouri was a hotbed of division in those years.
The Mortons had settled in Marshville, the county seat of Webster County, Missouri, about the time it was founded, in 1855. Webster County is located "on the summit of the Ozark Range", and noted for being well-watered and of pleasant climate.
During the Civil War, the area was divided by persons supporting both sides and others attempting to stay out of the melee altogether. George Morton died near the end of the War, at the age of 44, so I don't know what his level of participation was in it. He has no record of serving as a soldier, but in this area of neighbor against neighbor, it appears he might have gotten caught up in it as a civilian casualty. He was briefly mentioned in the 1889 book , "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, Pulaski, Phelps, and Dent Counties, Missouri" published by The Goodspeed Publishing Company, in a paragraph concerning his future son-in-law, William A. Martin.
William A. Martin. Among the men of Webster county, Mo., who have
attained prominence as tillers of the soil and stock men, may be men-
tioned Mr. Martin, who was born in Marion county, Tenn., March 19, 1841
but was reared to manhood in Webster county, Mo., whither he came with
his parents, James D. and Catherine (Thompson) Martin, in 1852. The
father was born in Virginia, and after attaining manhood went to Tenn.,
where he was married, and after a few years' residence in that state,
moved to St. Louis county, Mo. In August, 1861 he joined Company B,
Twenty-fourth Missouri Infantry, and served until his death in May,
1864 at Pleasant Hill, La. William A. Martin enlisted at the same time
in the same company as his father, and was at the battle of Pleasant
Hill, and in a great many skirmishes, and was severely wounded in the
right shoulder by a gunshot at the former engagement, being in the
hospital at New Orleans and Memphis for about five months. He received
his discharge at St. Louis, January 11, 1865, homesteading the same
year the farm of 200 acres where he now lives. He has about 150 acres
under cultivation and well improved, and his farm is situated about
eight miles from Marshfield. He has always supported the measures of
the Republican party, and in the fall of 1884 was nominated and elected
sheriff of Webster county, and ably filled the duties of that office
for two years. Since then he has resided on his farm. February 19,
1865 he was married to Miss Mary L. Turner, who died in Webster county,
on the 16th of April, 1868, and he took for his second wife Miss Sarah
L. Morton, a native of North Carolina, and daughter of George Morton,
who died during the war. Two children were born to his first marriage,
Laura M. and Charles F. The following are the children of his last
marriage: Mary S., and James P. and Matilda C. (twins). Mrs. Martin
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he belongs to the
A. O. U. W. and G. A. R.
From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
"Miss Sarah L. Morton, a native of North Carolina, and daughter of George Morton, who died during the war."
From the 'Ozarks Civil War' Collection, I found the following information at the following link:
When the Civil War began, most residents did not want to get involved in the conflict. There were very few slaveholders in the county, so there were few strong feelings on the slavery issue. However, after the Confederate victory at Battle of Wilson’s Creek, residents began to choose sides. The Confederate troops began to victimize the residents who supported the Union, and by August of 1861, most pro-Union residents fled to Rolla. They did not return to the area until it was back in Union control.
And after the War, the citizens went into a veil of silence, wanting to forget the terror and tragedy of War, and to return to an era of peace and to rebuild and reestablish their quiet and solemn existence.
With George gone, the story moves on with his widow, Mary and their children, some who had been born since the 1960 census.
Mary 'Polly' Kirk, daughter of Alexander and Ludie Forrest Kirk and wife of George C. Morton
1870
Mary Kirk Morton had been joined in a community of women by her mother, Louisa Forrest Kirk and her younger sister, Francis.
Her older daughter, Sarah Louisa Morton, had already married William A. Martin and started her own family. Son Robert, an infant in 1860, is not in the household, so he evidentally died as a child. She still has Martha Jane, Adam S, Nancy Paralee and her two sons, Isaham Pemberton and George Parham Morton, who were born after the census. In fact, Mary was pregnant with George Parham, who was born on July 1, 1864, when George C. Morton, his father, died on February 28, 1864. My heart goes out to this strong pioneer woman.
Marshfield, Webster County, Missouri
These families were caught in the crossfire of warring factions in an area that was of primarily Union sympathies and occupation, with sizeble pockets of Confederate Guerrillas, and marauding bands of deserters, bushwhackers and jayhawks, all raiding and robbing the local citizens for supplies.
But Polly was not alone. Not only was she joined by her mother and sister, Francis "Franky" Kirk, a closer look at the 1870 census reveals she was living right next door to Nancy Calloway from North Carolina.
Nancy was also a sister of Mary and a daughter of Louisa Forrest Kirk.
Nancy had married Parham Calloway, also from the Eastern side of Stanly County, NC. You might notice the name "Parham" was quite common in these families, hailing back to an earlier family name of perhaps a common female ancestor.
Add to that, Sarah L. Morton Martin, George and Polly's oldest girl, is living in High Prairie, Webster County, just east of Marshfeild, and right next door to Isaac Calloway.
All in all, I found 3 Calloway brothers who had migrated at the same time as George Morton to Webster County; Parham, his brother-in-law, Robert Smith Calloway and Isaac Freeman Calloway. Add David F. Melton to that and one can begin to envison a Wagon Train from Stanly County, NC to Webster County, MO.
Wagon Train by R. G. Williams
It's worth a mention that Mary's sister Martha, had married Henry Harrison Melton, a probable cousin of David.
The Calloway brothers were the sons of Col. John M. Calloway and his wife , Elizabeth Smith. Col. John M. Calloway was the brother of my ancestor, Job Calloway. They lived roughly in the area we know call Badin, in Stanly County. Job's daughter, Vashti, married Rev. Samuel Parsons Morton and became my 4th Great Grandparents, as I have previously mentioned. Remember that.
Isaac Freeman Calloway and wife Louisa Shook
Finding Nancy Kirk Calloway opened up a narrative that also opens a window to the life and death of George Morton and family.
Parham Calloway served in the Webster County Home Guard, along with his brother, Isaac Freeman Calloway, aka "Freeman", and their nephew, Newton M. Calloway, son of their older brother, Robert Smith Calloway, who seems to have arrived in Webster County, first, via Tennesee, where Newton was born.
Freeman survived, but Parham was killed the same year as George Morton, 1864, just a few months later, later, in June. So Mary and her sister Nancy were widowed about the same time, and both Civil War widows. It seems all of the Webster County Home Guard with Stanly and Montgomery County origins that I can find, were on the Union side.
Name:
P... Callaway
Side:
Union
Regiment State/Origin:
Missouri
Regiment:
Webster County Regiment, Missouri Home Guard
Company:
C
Rank In:
Private
Rank Out:
Private
Film Number:
M390 roll 8
It is unknown what skirmish or incidents took the lives of Parham Calloway and George C. Morton, but breif synopses of the families experiences exists within family stories kept alive through papers and memories passed on through the generations.
Restored Calloway Cabin, Webster County, Missouri
The cabin of Parham and Nacy Calloway still exists and has been lovingly restored by the county of Webster.
Some history of the cabin and its restoration can be found in the link below.
A story passed down through the family is breifly mentioned in the link, but is told in more detail below, posted by Earlene Price on July 22, 2011 as recounted from the papers of Mary Calloway Downer.
During the Civil War, Parham and Nancy Callaway lost most of their livestock to marauding parties. Not long after Parham's death and a short time before the Battle of Hartville, a number of Confederate troops were camped at the springs along the Marshfield-Hartville road. They somehow found out about two bay mares that Nancy had hidden and sent a detachment to get them. Nancy would not tell them where the mares were, so the troops searched the premises. When they could not find them, they went back to the house and told Nancy if she didn't tell where the horses were hiddden they would take the daughter (Mary Ann) who was about 16 years old. Nancy then relented and told them where the horses were hidden. After they found the horses, they went back to the house and told Nancy that if she would send her "little boy," (James P. aged 14) to the camp with them, they would give him some horses. He was given two very poor horses with harness and saddle sores so bad they were useless to the army. James took them home, healed the sores and put some flesh on their bones. They made a good team for a number of years.
(This story was found among the effects of Mary Callaway Downer.)
It is not hard to imagine the Mortons livng in a similar cabin and Mary Kirk Morton experiencing similar horrors as her sister during the war years.
1880 and beyond
The restoration years of the 1880's find Polly living in High Prairie with her two youngest sons, George and Isham.
The family seems to have made themselves a little community in the high meadows of the North Ozark hills. Son Adam and his young family lived next door and oldest daughter , Sarah Martin and her family lived nearby.
This would be Mary's last census. She outlived George, but did not live a long life. Mary "Polly" Kirk Morton died on October 17, 1887, at the age of 60. She was buried in the Moore Family Cemetery in Webster County, Missouri.
This brings me back to the begining, to the reason for this post, an answer to the question: Was George Crogin Pemberton Morton a son of Ezekial Morton and Besty Brumbalow Morton?
My guess would be No.
I don't find anything that connects him to that family or their circle. One thing you find out in genealogy is that certian connected families seemed to run in circles, even from one state to another. Families that were connected in Virginia, stayed connected and intermarried in the Carolinas, then the same on to Arkansas or Alabama, then on to Texas and further west.
But this begs a further question; if George was not a son of Ezekial and Betsy, why am I related to, or share DNA with, several of his descendants, as they show up in my Thru-Lines?
I believe I have an answer to that.
George C. Morton did have a circle of his own. He was connected to the Kirk and Calloway families. He was not a West Stanly Morton. He was an East Stanly/ Badin area Morton. It is my belief that I share DNA with his descendants because he was related to my other Morton ancestor; Rev. Samuel Parsons Morton.
Now, I don't know how he was related, but I believe the relationship was a close one. Sammy Morton married a Calloway, Vashti Calloway, a cousin of the Calloway brothers that the George C. Morton family migrated to Missouri with. George C. Morton was born around 1819 or 1820. Samuel P Morton was born in 1805, 14 or 15 years older.
And then , I came upon this clipping:
Written by Mrs. G. D. Reynolds and published in the Stanly News and Press on Dec. 12, 1953.
This gives the information that George C. Morton had been a Deputy Clerk in the early years of this county, but also names Rev. S. P. Morton as his father. While people did marry early sometimes in those days, I still believe this was a tad too early. Right off the bat, I can see that it is wrought with several errors, the writer even contradicting herself in the same article.
Consider the following excerpt; "History says his only son, George went to Texas after the death of his mother, Vashti, who was the daughter of Isaac Calloway."
A) George went to Missouri, not Texas.
B) Vashti died in 1846, George left for Missouri in 1855, nearly a decade later.
C) Vashti was born in 1812. George was born in 1819 or 1820. There is no way she could have been his mother.
D) Vashti was the granddaughter of Isaac Calloway, not his daughter. She was the daughter of Job Calloway.
The article then goes on to mention a daughter who married G. W. Turner of Anson, which is my line, that daughter being Elizabeth Wincy Morton Turner, and another who married Thomas Hall.
Wincy Elizabeth Morton Turner
She then goes on to mention a second son, Stephen Ferninand L. Morton, who moved to Van Buren County, Arkansas. and gave power of Attorney to John Freeman to settle his part of the Calloway estate, after naming George as the only son. Sammy actually had 5 daughters with Vasthi: Adaline, Susan Jane, Wincy Elizabeth, Mary and Sarah Ann. He had two sons with her, the afore mentined Stephen Ferdinand, who married Nancy Pennigton, and George Arnold Morton, born in 1841, whom the article may have mixed up with George C. Morton. George Arnold Morton DID go to Texas, but not after his mother died, as he was only 5 years old, more like 30 years after his mother died., but I see where the confusion could come in .
Rev. S. P. Morton remarried after his first wife died, to Lucy Ingram, and had two more sons , James and Lewis, making a total of 4 known sons and 5 daughters.
As in all things , I have a theory, derived from an obituary from the Biblical Recorder, which was written at the time of his death, not 70 years later. This obituary states that his father died when he was 18 years old (around 1823) and that as the oldest son (indicating more sons), he assumed his fathers place in the family and raised his siblings. My theory is that George Crogin Morton was the brother of Rev. Samuel P. Morton and that Sammy raised him. George would have been 4 or 5 in 1823. It works.
To further test my theory, I went back to Thru-Lines on ancestry.com and took a closer look at his descendants that I am a match with genetically. I looked at the shared matches. The first thing I noticed was that the shared matches were on my mothers side of the family, not my Dad's side, which the Ezekial Morton line was. While many of them have no definite connection, many of the shared matches had the notation "common ancestor". A few of the common ancestors were William Carr Morton and Lucy Taylor, who are supposedly the parents of Ezekial Morton. That would show on anyone who has them as the grandparetns of George C. Morton. But overwhelmingly, I kept finding the common ancestors to be Samuel P. Morton or either his daughter, Elizabeth Wincy Morton Turner and her husband, G. W. Turner, my 3rd Great Grandparents. This supports my theory that the relation is through a connection to Rev. Sammy P. Morton.
The children of George Crogin Pemberton Morton were:
With Mary Smith Kirk Littleton:
- Eliza Sophronia Kirk Jenkins 1846-1930 both in Stanly County, NC. Married John M. Jenkins.
With Mary "Polly" Kirk Morton:
1) Sarah Louisa Morton Martin b 1849 Stanly County, NC - Died 1931 Marshfield, Webster County, MO.
Married William A. Martin.
2)Martha Jane Morton b 1850 Stanly Co., NC d 1852 Marshfield, Webster Co. NC. Married Joseph T. Moore.
3) Adam Samuel Morton b 1853 NC d 1931 Marshfiled, Webster Co. MO.
Married Matilda Margaret Martin.
4) Nancy Paralee Morton b 1858 Webster Co. MO d 1947 San Joaquin, California.
Married William Henry Yandle.
Nancy Parlee Morton Yandle and grandchildren.
5) Robert C. Morton b 1859 d before 1870.
6) Isham or Isom Pemberton Morton b 1862 Marshfield, Webster Co. MO d 1848 Jaspar County, MO.
7) George Parham Morton b 1864 posthumously 4 months after his father's death in Marshfield, Webster County, MO d 1944 Amarillo, TX.
