James Albert Morrow (1878-1938)

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OVERVIEW
James Albert Morrow was born in Tompkins Township, Jackson County MI, in 1878 where his parents had settled sometime after 1873. The family moved to Clay County Iowa sometime between the birth of Patrick Henry in 1881, and the marrige of Margaret Mariah in 1891. In 1902, at the time of his fathers death, James was living on his own in Spring Valley, Adair Co IA.

James and Sophia married about 1908, with their first child, Ellen, being born in 1909. About the time of their marriage James aquired land in Mountrail Co, in northwestern North Dakota, under the Homestead Act. It does not appear that they lived on the land itself but rented it to others who lived there, and worked the land. James made his living operating grain elevators in various towns in the area. The family made their home(s) in Minot and at various other times in some of the surrounding small towns. Sophia took ill sometime in the early 20's, and James moved the family to the Pacific northwest about 1925 with the hope that a change in climate would help. They first settled in Richmond Beach, a small community on the Puget Sound north of Seattle, WA. Later, they moved again to Unalaska in Lewis Co WA where James farmed. Despite the move, Sophia died in 1928. James died ten years later in 1938.

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Vita

 * Born: 1 Apr 1877 Tompkins, Jackson, Michigan,
 * Married: c1907 Sohia Cecilia Mucha (1885-1928) (DOM based on DOB of eldest child.
 * Died: 28 February, 1938 Chehalis, Lewis, WA
 * Burial:

Ancestry
James was the son of James S. Morrow (1846-1902) and Ellen Stackpole (1847-1901). James family came to America from Ireland c.1836 ten years before the beginning of the Irish Potatoe Famine. They settled in Moretown, and later Waterbury, Washington County, Vermont.

Ellen's family is not known, but she consistently gave her place of birth as Ireland in US Census records. Some of her children's census records as adults show their mother as having been born in Ireland, but at least two show her having been born at sea. It seems likely that she came to America as an infant about 1847. Evelyn Francis Morrow (1913-2005) says of her grandmother that "she had a hard early life"; this may indicate that she came to America during the Potatoe Famine.

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Child List

 * Ellen Morrow (1908-1985) = 1) Edward Kalnoski (?-?) 2) 1882 Raymond Huntting (?-?)
 * Donald Morrow (1912-?) = 1938 Alice Nolan
 * Evelyn Francis Morrow (1913-2005) = 1943 Thurston L. Willis (1913-1991)

Land Patent
http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/Detail.asp?Accession=NDMTAA+060974&Index=19&QryID=74617%2E46&DetailTab=1

Document Numbers
 * Patentee:	JAMES A MORROW
 * Survey
 * State:	NORTH DAKOTA
 * Acres:	160
 * Metes/Bounds:	No
 * Title Transfer
 * Issue Date:	2/17/1908
 * Land Office:	Montana State Office
 * Cancelled:	No
 * U.S. Reservations:	Yes
 * Mineral Reservations:	No
 * Authority:	April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
 * Document Nr.:	14353
 * Accession/Serial Nr.:	NDMTAA 060974
 * BLM Serial Nr.:	NDMTAA 060974

1910 US Census
U.S. 1910 Census Record<BR>

1920 US Census
1920 United States Federal Census Record
 * Name:	James O Morrow [James Albert Morrow]
 * Home in 1920:	Lowland, Mountrail, North Dakota
 * Age:	42 years
 * Estimated Birth Year:	abt 1878
 * BirthPlace:	Michigan
 * Relation to Head of House:	Head
 * Spouses's Name:	Sophie
 * Father's Birth Place:	Vermont
 * Mother's Birth Place:	Ireland
 * Marital status:	Married
 * Race:	White
 * Sex:	Male
 * Home owned:	Own
 * Able to read:	Yes
 * Able to Write:	Yes
 * Image:	692
 * Household Members:	Name	Age
 * James O Morrow	42
 * Sophie Morrow	33
 * Ellen Morrow	11
 * Donald Morrow	7
 * Evelyne Morrow	6

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1930US Census
1930 United States Federal Census Record
 * Name:	James O Morran [James Albert Morrow]
 * Home in 1930:	Cinebar, Lewis, Washington
 * Age:	53
 * Estimated Birth Year:	abt 1877
 * BirthPlace:	Michigan
 * Relation to Head of House:	Head
 * Race:	White
 * Occupation:
 * Household Members:
 * Name	Age
 * James O Morran	53
 * Donald G Morran	18
 * Evelyn F Morran	17

Links
[|Ward County Historical Society]