James S. Morrow (1846-1902)

OVERVIEW
James and Ellen probably married about 1866 in Waterbury, Washington Co, VT. They moved to Michigan sometime between the birth of their son Thomas Martin in 1873, and the birth of James A. in 1878. By the 1900 census they had relocated to Lakeville, Dickinson Co, IA. They had five children, two girls and three boys. Ellen died in 1901 in Dickinson Co. James died the following year in Cass Minnesota, where he is thought to have been visiting his daughter Tressa, who had just given birth to a son.

Vita

 * Born: 19 Mar 1846 VT.  From gravestone, and census records.  Gravestone reading by TL Willis in the 1980's gives the  YOB as 1856;  he questioned the date at the time, but cofirmed the reading by checking with the cemetery's records.  Census records, however, give a YOB as 1846/47.  It is thought that the YOB on the gravestone is in error, as he is shown as being 10 years of age in 1850 in his parents household.  He is also shown as 15 years of age in the 1860 census;  while the census record YOB are somewhat erratic, he could not have been born in 1856 since he appears previously in the 1850 census.
 * Married: c1866 Ellen Stackpole (1847-1901)
 * Died:   5 April 1902, Pine River, Cass MN
 * Burial:

Ancestry
James S, was the son of James Morrow (1784-1881) and Katherine McNulty (1802-1894), the immigrant ancestors. James and Katherine married in Ireland c1832, as their first child, Maria, was born there in 1833. Examination of the DOB's and POB's of their children suggests that James and Katherine came to America c1836, about ten years prior to the beginning of the Irish Potatoe Famine. They settled first in Moretown, Washington Co, VT, and later moved to Waterbury in the same county. The death certificates of James and Katherine identify their parents as  Patrick Morrow and Bridgett McCarty, Mark McNulty, and Mary O'Harren, respectively. We have little other information about them. Little is known of Ellen's family, beyond the fact that they were Irish, and immigrated to America in 1847. That later point is known only because two of Ellen's children, Margaret Mariah, and Thomas Martin, identified their mother's place of birth as "at sea", indicating that she was born at the time of her parents immigration to this country. Family tradition passed down by Ellen's Granddaughter, Evelyn Francis Morrow (1913-2005), relates that her grandmother Sophia Cecelia Mucha ( - ) had been born at sea or at Ellis Island. However, ship records have been located that show Sophia as immigrating with her parents and landing at New York when she was about three years of age. Thus, the family tradition that Sophia was born at Ellis Island is probably derived from the fact that Evelyn's other grandmother, Ellen Stackpole was in fact "born at sea".

Child List

 * Margaret Mariah Morrow (1867-1930) = 1891 George H. Stoddard (c1855-?)
 * Tressa Morrow (1871-1933) = 1892 1) Eugene Clark (1859-1903); 2) Francis Scribner (1856-1931)
 * Thomas Martin Morrow (1873-1917)  = 1896 Rosa Pritchard (1873-1933)
 * James Albert Morrow (1878-1938) = Sohia Cecilia Mucha (?-?)
 * Patrick Henry Morrow (1881-?) = 1902 Minnie M Pritchard (?-?)

 

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