son of John David Morris and Margaret “Peggy” Patton

Elijah Morris ..born 1820…
married
Jane Morrison born 1823...died 1899
(her parents were Francis Morrison and Elizabeth buried at Drucilla cemetery)
lived in Mud Creek NC
buried at www.rfci.net/wdfloyd/bethelmc.html

11 children

3 died in infancy

1-Margaret E Morris born 10-12-1844 died 4-8-1910
buried at www.rfci.net/wdfloyd/bethelmc.html
married 10-20-1869…no children
James E Byrd or James Asbery Bird born 4-7-1845 died 11-20-1915
buried at West Marion united methodist cemetery
(his father Wilson Bird)

2-John F Morris born 7-2-1846 died 8-22-1906
married
Mattie C Morris 4-27-1855 died 10-16-1896

11 children
1-Rosa Morris born 10-1872 married 12-22-1901 to Girard Lai
2-Benjamin Franklin Morris born 4-4-1875 died 12-30-1919
married 12-29-1901 to Margaret Buchanan
3-Eugene Morris married Vera Mae Shaw Morris
4-Lillie F Morris born 4-1877
4-Charlie Morris born 1879 died 1910
married 1907? Hattie Byrd Morris daughter of Lucy Bird
5-Marvin L Morris born 6-25-1882 died 4-30-1922 married Rosa Hogan
6-Robert S Morris born 3-1885 unmarried
7-Wade Atcherison Morris born 2-1-1887
8-Jennie E Morris born 7-1889 married John Bailey
9-Winnie B Morris born 4-1891
10-Sallie B Morris on 1900 census born 3-1893

3-Sarah Louise Morris 11-5-1849 died 2-22-1924 unmarried

4-infant son 9-26-1851 died 10-9-1851

5-Elijah Lee Morris Jr born 8-5-1853 died 2-14-1930
buried Round Hill cemetery #2
married 8-29-1883 to
Nannie Rutherford Logan born 4-10-1859 died 3-6-1926
her parents were John Logan and Celia

9 children
1-James L Morris born 7-8-1884 died 1954
2-Augustus Lee Morris born 2-11-1886? Died 4-5-1972 married Nannie Sue C. Rucker
children Leslie Morgan Morris 1921 and Ray Augustus Morris 1923
3-George R Morris born 12-29-1887 married Winnie Denton
4-Manley T Morris born 9-22-1889 married Erin Cline
5-Anna J Morris born 4-1891 married Alton Trout
6-Addie Morris born 1-1894
7-Mary A Morris born 1897
8-John Horace Morris born 4-23-1899 married Maggie Buchanan Morris
9--William Morris married Anita White
10-Anna Morris married Alton Trout
11-Mae Morris married Bruce Elliot

6-Mary J Morris born 1-1-1856 died 7-10-1856

7-Thomas Morris “Mr. Tom” born 8-18-1859 died 3-21-1923
buried Oak Grove cemetery married
Mary Martha Neal Morris born 5-10-1868 died 7-3-1917
her parents Joseph Kerr Neal and Elizabeth Sophronia Alexander

8 children
1- Edwin Hardy Morris born 3-5-1887
married 5-9-1912 to Alma C McCall

children Harold, Bill, Wayne
2- William Lester Morris born 1-14-1889 died 1950

married Maggie M Rogers

3-Maggie Lou Morris born 3-18-1891 died 1-3-1960
married J.H.L Miller

4-Thomas Roland Morris born 11-17-1893 married Lenoir Eckard….one son Tom
5- Lawrence G Morris born 9-6-1896 married Marian Truax
children Lawrence Jr and Ann
6- Arnold Augustus“Coot” Morris born 4-8-1899 died 8-11-1972
married Alicia Donavon Dillard…daughter of James Porter Dillard
one son Joe

7- John Neal Morris born 3-11-1902 died 6-15-1970
married Mary Cyrene Duvall

8- Glenn Alexander Morris 11-9-1908 died 3-2-1985
married Augusta McGregor

8-Robert Pinkney "Pink" Morris born 2-24-1862 died 4-3-1942
married 1-10-1897
Rebecca Etta Wilson born 4-12-1869 died 9-3-1953
buried Oak Grove City cemetery McDowell County
(Rebecca’s parents Thomas B Wilson and Emily M Crawford Grant Wilson
Emily Crawford’s 1st marriage was to a Grant)

4 children
1-Bertha Morris 10-11-1897 died 10-25-1988

married Z.V. Hemphill
2-Fred Crawford Morris born 6-15-1899 died 2-8-1954

married 5-15-1934 to Effie Cox Giles

3-Ray Wilson Morris 10-28-1901 died 7-23-1951
4-Robert Jack Morris 1-15-1904 died 6-15-1989

9-Alice Morris born 12-10-1864 died 2-16-1951
unmarried

10-Charlie Bruce Morris born 6-11-1867 died 11-6-1927
married 2-7-1900
Olive Jane Hicks Morris born 12-24-1879 died 3-17-1957
daughter of Mills and Rebecca Hicks
buried at www.rfci.net/wdfloyd/bethelmc.html

4 children
1-Nila V Morris born 12-16-1900 died 4-6-1901
2-Hicks E Morris born 3-17-1902 married Beatrice Laughridge

3-Harley T Morris born 6-10-1910 married Sarah Kimball
children Joe E Morris born 4-23-29 married Mary Hugh Cox
and Matha Allen Morris born 9-28-1933

4-Charley Yates born 2-27-1913 died 5-13-1924 or 1921