This is going to be New Chapter Two--  The Morrison Family of Mrs. Robert McCorkle (1770-1848) of Rowan/Iredell County, North Carolina, and finally of Dyer County, Tennessee:

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Now, to some MORRISON Genealogy --Margaret Morrison McCorkle (2^nd wife of Robert McCorkle):

 

As best I can figure it, here is some genealogy for MARGARET MORRISON McCORKLE

--Update:  The following has been updated at the end of Chapter 15, after my trip in May 2007 to the history room of the Iredell County Public Library in Statesville, North Carolina.

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The following information is in part based upon a chart that Stuart Hoyle Purvines placed in a huge genealogical collection he published privately in 1984 on the Purviance Family.  --  To my amazement, I just learned in 2007 that a brother of my cousin Diane White married a daughter of Stu Purvines.  My mother's mother, Notie Headden Cope (1886-1984) had a mother named Ada TAYLOR Headden (Mrs. Winfield Scott Headden of Dyer County, Tennessee).  Ada Taylor Headden had a sister named Dora Taylor (Mrs. White) who moved across the Mississippi River to Missouri.  So, my mother Joyce Cope Huie's Taylor-Headden cousin Diane White (granddaughter of Aunt Dora Taylor White of Dorena, Missouri) has a brother who married a daughter of Stuart Hoyle Purvines of Missouri.  Small world, indeed.

Some of this information may be wrong.  I've added some information, e.g., the siblings I know about of Margaret Morrison (Mrs. Robert McCorkle).  Also, I've used materials on file in the history room of the Iredell County, North Carolina, public library in Statesville, as well as an Internet placement about the Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee.  Here goes, with a primitive version:

 

I think the progenitor, the father of Generation One, was a James Morrison, born circa 1675 in Scotland or Northern Ireland; but I am not sure about this. This must be verified.... .... ....The anonymous posting in the Statesville, Iredell Co., NC, history room says the following. [Please, someone, tell me who authored this:]

"James Morrison left Scotland for Ireland about the year 1700.  They [the family?] came to America from Londonderry [Northern Ireland] or Fermaugh, and settled near Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  He had four sons: Thomas, James, William, and Andrew.  These came to North Carolina at an early date and settled on Third Creek, south of Loray in what is now Iredell County."    [[[[[[[--- An entry on the Internet under "Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee, says this about this James Morrison:  "James Morrison, b. circa 1675 in Scotland, married circa 1701.]]]]]]]]

[[Also, something I, Marsha Cope Huie,  read somewhere makes me wonder if this person moved to Natmeal Village, Chester County, Pennsylvania and died 1760????? --I do NOT know if this is "our" James Morrison the Generation Zero emigrant from Scotland-Northern Ireland. ]]]

And so I (Marsha Cope Huie) list as Generation One, here, the brothers I. William, I. Thomas, I. James, and I. Andrew:

 Generation I.  William, 1704-1771  --his wife's first name was Margaret, last name unknown; they died and were buried in Iredell Co., NC, near Statesville. This generation one William Morrison is the father to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison), which makes this Generation One William the grandfather of Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1848).   

Here's what the anonymous posting in the Statesville, Iredell Co., NC, history room says:

 "William Morrison, according to his tombstone was the first white inhabitant of the county, and died June 3, 1771, but his will dated July 13, 1771 [mentions his] 'being sick and weak of body,' so there is some confusion.  It was probated the August term of court following.  From BISHOP Joseph SPANNENBURG's [Marsha edits: ? sic: ?Bishop August Gottlieb Spanenburg?] letter --Colonial Records Volume V page one-- we learn that he had a mill in operation November 1752.  Writing from 'Forks of Little River, south of the Brushy Mountains,/ which would be near the present site of Taylorsville/'  he says, 'About fourteen miles from here lives a Scotch-Irish family; there is said to be a mill there but there is neither road nor way leading to it.' [End of quotation from Bishop Spanenburg]

"The Morrison graveyard is situated on an elevated plateau, between two branches about one-half mile northwest from the old mill, and a mile or so southwest from Loray.  It is walled in with stone and about sixty yards square in area.  In 1820, there was some rivalry between it and Concord graveyard, that resulted in both being enclosed with stone.

 "On one headstone--a nice smooth soapstone slab--is the following unique inscription, both in lettering and substance:  the letters being raised, and the "S" being executed like "P" [β], as follows:

W.M.

Wm. Morrison was born March 1704, June 9        departed this life June 3 1771 aged 67 years.      And as he was the first white inhabitant of the county      and poβeβor of this land he requests that his grave       and that on his left should never be opened.

[Marsha C. Huie adds:  in fact his grave was opened and was preserved at Centre Churchyard, according to a North Carolina highway marker.  --  I think it was descendants Sue Alice McCorkle Lee and Julia McCorkle Montgomery (McCorkle 1st cousins to my father Howard Ewing Huie) who gave permission sometime in the 1980s for removal and reburial of William Morrison. They visited sites in NC and found the landowner who wanted to get the graves moved off his farmland.  I may be wrong about this, as they didn't remember the precise Morrison first name upon their return to Tennessee.]

 

M.M.

Margeret                  Morrison                         was born AD 1715    deceased June 1767   in the 52nd year of her life.

"Another:

A.M.                Andrew                          Morrison                        born 1754, June 9                died Feb. 1780, aged 26 years

"Others read:

                G.I.S.                 

     Gerimiah Scroggs

          born April 8, 1753       

   departed this life Oct. 12, 1839,

             age 84 years, 6 mo.       

 

                        M.S.

                        Margaret Scroggs

         Departed  this life 1835

 

James Guy, Sr. born 1742: died 1813 [broken...]

Isabel Guy, born Mar. 11 1744, died 20 July 1828, age 84

______Guy

born April 23, 1789

 died Feb. 1850, age 60 y.

Alfred Guy  1787-1859

his wife, Harriot Guy, 1802-1866.

M. Walton, 1739-1822.

"About 200 yards west of the old graveyard stood the family [Generation I. William Morrison, 1704-1771] residence, the basement of which is in evidence by a sunken place in the field three or four feet deep.  Formerly a road from the mill passed nearby on the west; while another on the east passed up the branch more towards Loray. West of the home tradition locates an Indian grave.  An Indian lying in wait for Mr. Morrison, on one occasion, was observed from the house when he [William Morrison], passed out from the opposite side, executed a flank movement circling around him and observing his intentions, he [the Indian] was approached from the rear and dispatched with his trusty rifle.

" Tradition handed down by the family of John Morrison, Revolutionary soldier, is that there were two families of the name unrelated, came into the county originally."

                                 

  Generation I. Thomas;  this generation one Thomas Morrison is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison), and a great-uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848;

  Generation I. James b. ? 1702-????) (m. Mary ______) born circa 1702(?)   & died ?1779?--  [???is there a chance that he married Mary Newlin as someone has placed on www.ancestry.com ??  I don't think Mary Newlin married "our" James Morrison born 1702.  An entry on ancestry.com lists a James Morrison who was b. 1720 in Delaware and died 1766 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as marrying Mary Newlin, 1722-1775 in Concord, Chester Co., Pennsylvania.?? ;  this generation one James Morrison is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison), and a great-uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848.

-- The entry on the Internet under "Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee, says this about the progenitor/ Generation Zero, James Morrison:  "James Morrison, b. circa 1675 in Scotland, married circa 1701; --and then says this about the Generation One James Morrison:  "James Morrison, born about 1702 probably in Northern Ireland died 1779 in Rowan County, North Carolina; spouse:  Mary____; and lists his children as [my, Marsha Huie's, Generation Two):

2.  Andrew Morrison

2. Thomas Morrison

2.  James Morrison

2.  John Morrison

2.  Mary Morrison

2.  Martha Morrison

2.  William Morrison

2.  Catherine Morrison, born 1774-died 1822;

2.  Sarah Morrison

2.  Margaret Morrison, born 1765-died 1838.  This is NOT Margaret Morrison McCorkle (is not Mrs. Robert McCorkle, 1770-1848).

I cannot yet make proper attribution to the author of The Morrisons of Montgomery County (Tennessee), but am hoping the author contacts me for collaboration. I am most grateful for this author's information and hope to give proper attribution.

& Generation I. Andrew (Morrison), 1718- 5 Feb. 1770;  married Mary McKnight Purviance, born 1734 in Northern Ireland and died 5 Oct. 1784 in Rowan-Iredell County, North Carolina. This Andrew = my, Marsha's, Morrison generation one  --this generation one Andrew Morrison is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison), and a great-uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848. This Andrew is buried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church, Mill Bridge near Mooresville near Salisbury, North Carolina.

More on Generation One: 

MORRISON Generation One Siblings:  (my ancestor Generation I.)  WILLIAM MORRISON, was born in 1704 [was he born in Northern Ireland?  Scotland?] & died 1771 in Rowan-later Iredell County, NC, (m. Margaret __?__)-- This William is the paternal grandfather of Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle, 1770-1848, born in Rowan-Iredell Co. but  last of Dyer Co., Tennessee). That is, this Generation I. William Morrison is the father of inter alia the Andrew Morrison who married Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison);

Morrison Generation One: Siblings:   Generation I. THOMAS Morrison  --  This Thomas Morrison is an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle's father, that is, this generation one Thomas Morrison is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison). ;

Morrison Generation One Siblings: JAMES MORRISON (b. ? 1702-????) (m. Mary ___? ___).  --This James Morrison is an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle's father, that is, this generation one James Morrison is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison). ;

Morrison Generation One Siblings:  Generation I.  Andrew Morrison,  born 1718, and died 5 FEB 1770 in Iredell Co., NC, buried in Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery, married Mary McKnight Purviance, born 1734 in Northern Ireland and died 5 Oct. 1784 in Rowan-Iredell County, North Carolina.  -- This Andrew Morrison is an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle's father, that is, this generation one Andrew Morrison is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).  When I first saw his tombstone at Thyatira, I incorrectly thought he was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle; in fact, he was Margaret Morrison McCorkle's father's uncle.

More on Generation One William Morrison:

Generation I.    William Morrison, 1704-3 June 1771, m. Margaret (maiden name unknown) (Morrison).  Their Children=Generation Two=

 II. Rebecca Morrison (Mrs. Samuel Harris), born ?1737? in  ?Lancaster County, Pennsylvania? ; was Samuel Harris born circa 1735 in Pennsylvania and did he die 5 October 1796 in Statesville, Iredell Co., NC ??

??II.  Was there a Mary Morrison born circa 1738 as listed in the Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee Internet listing????

 II.  Hugh Morrison,

 II.  Patrick Morrison, --In a letter included in this compilation, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache inquired from her mother, Margaret Morrison McCorkle, if the latter's (Margaret McCorkle's) sister Mary Morrison had married a son of "Uncle Patrick," and if so what had happened to the "poor children."  Indeed, Margaret answered Elmira's inquiry, generation III. Mary Morrison had married Generation III. John Morrison who was a son of this Generation II. Patrick Morrison.  But Margaret did not inform Elmira as to what had happened to the poor children-- I do not know if Generation II. Patrick Morrison's grandchildren through his son John Morrison (Generation III) came through Generation III. Mary Morrison (Morrison); but it is known that Generation III. Mary appears on the 1850 census of Coffee Co., Tenn., as living (along with Mary's sister Rebecca Morrison) with the one-generation-younger family of a James C. Morrison.

As soon shown below, the unknown author of The Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee writes that this Generation II   Patrick Morrison, married Ann Foster (Morrison). Was Patrick Morrison born in 1744 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, and did Patrick die 5 July 1810 in Wilson County, Tennessee, as  The Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee states? 

II. Martha Morrison Foster,

 

FOSTER Excursus:  Fauster or Foster

Generation I. Alexander McCorkle b. 1722-d.1800 Thyatira Presbyterian Church, the immigrant;

  Generation II.  son John McCorkle who m. not Catherine "Katie" MORRISON (who was the wife of this John's brother,  generation II Alexander McCorkle who ended up in Henry Co., Tennessee) but instead son John McCorkle married CATHERINE "Katie" BARR;

 III.  son JOEL McCorkle who may have been the only child of John McCorkle m. Mary Ann "Polly Ann" Fauster.  About this Generation II-John McCorkle, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache wrote (gathered in this compilation) that her uncle John died young but was a member of the legislature and much respected and that John's son (her 1^st cousin) followed in John's honors. The exact quotation from Elmira:

"« John an elder in the church and member of the Legislature, useful and much beloved, died in the prime of life leaving an only son [Marsha Cope Huie adds: Joel McCorkle who m. Mary Ann "Polly Ann" Foster] who walked in his father's steps and enjoyed his  honors.>>"

--I found some of Joel's papers in the Robert Ramsay/James Graham Ramsay/'Nancy' Agnes McCorkle Ramsay papers in the UNoCarolina Archives.  Joel may not have been a lawyer but clearly understood legal language.

  Generation IV.  Children of Polly Ann Fauster (McCorkle):

Generation IV.1.  Lavinia McCorkle

Generation IV.2.  John Finley McCorkle

Generation IV.3.  Milton Enos McCorkle  --Milton Enos McCorkle was an ancestor of "Dick" Richard Barton late of Nashville.  Dick Barton was a friend of Annie Glen McCorkle's from circa 1960s and he had a son who removed from Nashville in high school.

Generation IV.4.  Samuel Ebenezer McCorkle

 Generation IV.5.  Mary Malissa McCorkle

 Generation IV.6.   Tirza C. McCorkle

I do not know if the above McCorkle-Fauster/Foster people were kin to these Fauster/Foster-Morrison people.

II.  Sarah Morrison,

II.  Nancy Morrison,

II.  Margaret Morrison (Mrs. George Erwin), ?born 1734? & married ?1757? ;

 II. Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan;      --was he born 9 June 1744 in Colerain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania? or was he born about 1745 in Rowan County, NC?  ==  and did he marry on 26 March 1766 Elizabeth Sloan, born 1746?  --  Our old West Tennessee records reveal no birth/death/marriage data on Elizabeth Sloan (Mrs. Andrew) Morrison.

and

II. William Morrison Jr., about whom more is written immediately below.

 The Morrisons of Montgomery County (Tennessee) whose author is unknown to me states that Generation One William Morrison, 1704-1771, married Margaret ______ about 1733.  --I, Marsha, believe that it was this William Morrison who often took shelter at Fort Dobbs (just outside today's Statesville, NC) in Rowan-Iredell County during the French and Indian Wars.

          Generation II: 

   Generation  II Hugh Morrison--an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle

                           II Margaret Morrison  (Erwin) b. 1734?  an aunt of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848 (inter alia);

The Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee, author writes that this Margaret Morrison (Erwin/Ervin) was born about 1734 probably in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and married George Erwin/Ervin who was born about 1730 & married about 1757 & died circa March 1783 in Rowan County, NC.

Generation II   Patrick Morrison, m. Ann Foster. Was Patrick born in 1744 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, and did Patrick die 5 July 1810 in Wilson County, Tennessee?  The Wilson County, Tennessee, location stated in The Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee makes sense to me, Marsha Cope Huie, because Patrick's daughter-in-law Mary Morrison Morrison (Mrs. John Morrison) writes in her old age to her nephew Robert "RAH" McCorkle in effect:  tell Quincy Roache we remember the sweet little boy who played so cutely when we all lived on Bradley's Creek (in Middle Tennessee).

The Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee, lists one child of Patrick & Ann Foster Morrison, viz., William Morrison, 1769-1839. This is my only source for this descendant--except that Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, as stated above, wrote to her mother asking what had happened to [Elmira's great]Uncle Patrick's  children?          III.  William Morrison, born circa 1769, Rowan Co., NC and died about 1839 in Montgomery Co., Tennessee  --This William Morrison, circa 1769-1839, would have been a 1^st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle, 1770-1848).

The Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee picks up some of the descendants of this Generation III William_Morrison, circa 1769-circa 1839, in that it lists the children of William's son JOSIAH Morrison, born 1 June 1788 in North Carolina and died 1 April 1868 in Montgomery County, Tennessee.  This Internet posting is my only source for this William Morrison (son of Patrick) and William's son Josiah Morrison, 1788-1868.

 

[I, Marsha C. Huie, know Generation Two Patrick Morrison had at least one other son: Generation Three John Morrison, who m. his 1st cousin Mary Morrison (Generation 3), Mary a daughter of Generation Two Andrew Morrison & wife Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).  This generation two Patrick is an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle, inter alia.  Who was the James C. Morrison, living near Hillsboro, Coffee County, Tennessee, with whom Mary Morrison Morrison & her older sister Rebecca Morrison (each Generation 3) lived in their very old age?  Was James C. Morrison a son of Generation 3 John Morrison, John being a son of Generation Two Patrick Morrison?]

 II Martha Morrison, m. John Foster  -- aunt to Margaret Morrison McCorkle

II Sarah Morrison       -- aunt to Margaret Morrison McCorkle

II Nancy Morrison       -- aunt to Margaret Morrison McCorkle

II George Erwin Morrison    --an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle

                           

II Andrew Morrison, m. Elizabeth Sloan (parents of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848, inter alia)  --  This generation two Andrew Morrison is the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle).

--Something I read says the following, but I do not know if it's correct or even if it refers to "our" Elizabeth Sloan Morrison (Mrs. Andrew Morrison: Andrew Morrison, 1744-1815, married on 26 March 1766 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania:  Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison), who was born about 1745 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  [Again, is this correct?]

(It is Elizabeth Sloan Morrison --my ancestor Mrs. Andrew Morrison, immediately above--whose Sloan mother, Mrs. _[_X?] McCorkle Sloan(e), was herself a  sister to Alexander McCorkle the immigrant to the colonies, 1^st to Penn. then finally Rowan Co., NC, where Alexander died in 1800.  Source:  a letter of Elmira Sloan(e) McCorkle Roach(e) [granddaughter of Alexander McCorkle; & granddaughter of Andrew Morrison & Elizabeth Sloan] to her nephew in Newbern, Tennessee: James Scott McCorkle, M.D.  Elmira's letter is transcribed elsewhere in this collection.) 

 Generation III.   a dau. of Andrew & Elizabeth Sloan Morrison:  Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770 - d. 1848;   Margaret married Robert McCorkle in Rowan County, N.C. Finally they removed to and died in Dyer County, TN.

III.   son Andrew  Sloan Morrison [did he move back up to Virginia "to attend an old law suit" there, as sister Margaret Morrison McCorkle speculated in a letter to her daughter Elmira that is transcribed in this collection?-- some records I found in Iredell Co., NC, say that Andrew Sloan Morrison became a minister & removed to Indiana but I do not know;]

The Morrison Family of Montgomery County, Tennessee, author (author's name not given) states this about Andrew Sloan Morrison:  "born 17 Nov. 1779, Rowan County, North Carolina; died 5 January 1844 in Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana.  --I Marsha Cope Huie have seen elsewhere that he was a Presbyterian (or perhaps Cumberland Presbyterian) minister; I do not know.

 

III.   dau. Rachel Morrison Brown (was she a Mrs. Robert Brown?) --- "My sister Rachel died 1st July 1835" -- or so Margaret M. McCorkle thought about this sister as revealed in a letter to Margaret's daughter Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach(e).  The Morrison materials in the Statesville, Iredell County, genealogy room (no author stated) list this Rachel Morrison's husband as Robert Brown

 III.   son William Hays Morrison, 1767-1837--  this William Morrison is buried in Dyer Co. next to (beside) his sister Margaret Morrison McCorkle, whose husband Robert McCorkle's grave is on Margaret's other side.  This William Hay(e)s Morrison's wife née Haynes predeceased him & is according to information I found on the Internet and at www.ancestry.com buried in Bedford County, Tennessee.  Generation III William Morrison's old tombstone, now in ruins at the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County, West Tennessee, used to say, "Sacred to the memory of WILLIAM MORRISON, 1767-1837, aged 70 years x days y months."

 

 III.   dau. Mary Morrison Morrison, who married a son of her Uncle Patrick Morrison (yes, in this instance 1^st cousins married ! ).  Along with her older sister Rebecca Morrison, Mary ended her days in the home of a James C. Morrison, perhaps a son or nephew, near Hillsboro, Coffee County, Tennessee.  -- It is this aunt Mary Morrison that Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache accused of "constant complaints," and Elmira asked her mother Margaret Morrison McCorkle by letter "what happened to the poor children?"  Elmira opined that Aunt Rebecca [who lived in her extreme old age with a sister, Elmira's Aunt Mary, in somebody else's home--that of a James C. Morrison-- near Hillsboro, Tennessee] had probably grown fretful from long listening to the other's [Aunt Mary's] complaints.  --So, quaere:  what did happen to the "poor children?"   --See if Mary Morrison Morrison appears on the 1860 Coffee County, Tennessee, census; that is, had she died by the year 1860?  Mary's brother George Milton Morrison had remained in Iredell Co., NC, and George Milton Morrison had a daughter named Mary Amanda Morrison who appears on the Iredell Co., NC, census the same year that Mary Morrison Morrison appears on the Coffee Co., Tennessee, census.

Two of "Aunt Mary's" letters are gathered in this collection. She was living in the home then of a young man named James C. Morrison; it is unclear what her relationship was to him.  Was he a son? a nephew? a cousin?  Please recall Mary's niece's (Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache's) query in a letter posted to her, Elmira's, mother Margaret Morrison about Mary Morrison Morrison:  Elmira inquired, if it was uncle Patrick's son that aunt Mary married, "what happened to the poor children?" One wonders.... 

 Margaret Morrison McCorkle's son Edwin Alexander McCorkle from West Tennessee once sent Aunt Mary to the east a dollar bill, according to Aunt Mary Morrison's letter to Edwin's brother Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle dated 1851.  --And upon one occasion Edwin Alexander McCorkle, having heard of the penury of his mother's sisters Rebecca Morrison and Mary Morrison Morrison, drove a wagon to eastern Tennessee (Hillsboro, Coffee County) from Dyer County in West Tenn. expecting to rescue his elderly aunt Mary and older aunt Rebecca and take them to reside with his mother's people in Dyer County; but the two old ladies were afraid and would not travel westwardly with their nephew Edwin. Source of the latter story:  a letter from Margaret Morrison McCorkle to a child. 

III. Rebecca Morrison:  a sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle; Rebecca Morrison evidently never married; Rebecca Morrison died near Hillsboro, Coffee Co., Tennessee (see Rebecca's sister Mary Morrison Morrison, supra), attended by her younger, and complaining, sister Mary Morrison Morrison (Mrs. John Morrison, John being a son of Patrick Morrison, this Mary's uncle)--Translation:  Mary Morrison (Morrison) married her 1^st cousin John Morrison.  --Rebecca appears on the 1850 Coffee County census but not on the 1860 one, so I presume she died circa 1855.  Was she born circa 1774?

III.  Records in Iredell County, NC (Statesville Public Library) say there was an Elizabeth Morrison (Lowrie), a sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle but remaining in Loray Community, Iredell County, NC.  According to records in the Statesville, NC, public library, this sister left her worldly goods in 1850 to brother George Morrison who had remained in Rowan-Iredell County, NC.  From this one can infer that Elizabeth Morrison Lowrie left no surviving children.  George Morrison,  these materials say, remained at Third Creek, Iredell Co., NC--near or in the community of Loray, NC. As stated, this Generation III George Morrison, 10 Aug. 1771-1854, Iredell Co., NC, had several daughters [Mary Amanda Morrison, b. 1815-ish, for example] but only one child who left children: a son named Generation IV. George Milton Morrison, born circa 1824 in Iredell County.

 Elizabeth --  ["Elizabeth, mar. John Lowrie.  In 1850 made will to bro. George Morrison"]

 

III.  George Morrison  -- remained at Third Creek, Iredell Co., NC--near or in community of Loray, NC. This George had a son:  Generation IV. George Milton Morrison.... Records in the Statesville Public Library's family and local history room say that of the several children of this George Morrison, mostly females, only the son George MILTON Morrison procreated. --A letter from Mary Morrison Morrison transcribed in this Marsha Cope Huie collection says that she has recently heard from [Generation IV.] Mary Amanda Morrison, a daughter of her brother George Morrison.... I think this Mary Amanda Morrison (a daughter of this III. George Morrison) is the Mary Morrison on the Rowan County-Iredell Co., NC, census that brings confusion with the Mary Morrison Morrison (Mrs. John Morrison), who was sister to George Morrison, and also sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle, as well as being sister to all these other siblings listed here under Roman Numeral III, immediately above.  This would answer the query kindly placed on the Tennessee rootsweb genealogical web site by Jean Morrison of Cincinnati, Ohio, about there being two Mary Morrison ladies connected to George Morrison of the piedmont of NC.  Indeed there were:  George Morrison had a sister Mary Morrison (Mrs. John Morrison) and a daughter Mary Amanda Morrison.

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Generation II.  William Morrison, b. 1742? & died 22 March1822, Rowan Co., NC who married Martha Miller (Morrison) ? in 1767?-- this William was an uncle to, inter alia, Margaret Morrison McCorkle, as this William Morrison (the 2nd) was a brother to Margaret's father ANDREW MORRISON, who m. Elizabeth Sloan.  -- did he m. Jane Tucker in 1765?

The Morrison Family of Montgomery County, Tennessee, author (name unknown to me) lists the following as children of William Morrison, 1742? - 1822, viz.,

III.  Martha Morrison, born circa 1768 in Rowan Co., NC;  --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

 III. James Miller Morrison, born circa 1770 in Rowan County, NC;  --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

 III. Sarah Morrison, born circa 1772 in Rowan County, died circa 1836; --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

III. Margaret Morrison, born circa 1774 in Rowan Co., NC --This is absolutely not Margaret, Mrs. Robert McCorkle, who lived 1770-1848.  This is a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

III.  Nancy M. Morrison, born circa 1776 in Rowan Co., NC  --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

III.  William Morrison  --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

III.  Andrew Morrison  --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

III.  Hugh Morrison  --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

III.  John H. Morrison --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

The Morrison Family of Montgomery County, Tennessee, is my only source for the above Generation III children.

II.  Rebecca Morrison m. Samuel Harris on 8 Aug 1758;  b. ca. 1737 in ? Pennsylvania? died 11 Aug 1776--This Rebecca Morrison Harris was an aunt to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1848)

Children of Generation II Rebecca Morrison (Harris) and Samuel Harris:

 Generation III.  Rebecca Harris (Mrs. Andrew Provine or Purvine) = formerly  Purviance or in France PURVAIANCE;

III.  Samuel Harris (m. Sarah PURVIANCE)

III.  Margaret Harris m. William Roseboro or Roseborough 

                                                 II.  JOHN MORRISON m. Sarah Potts

II.  Andrew Morrison [a 1^st cousin, e.g., to the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770; that is, this Andrew Morrison was a first cousin to another Andrew Morrison.  What a confusing nomenclature the Morrison s chose for their children ! ]

II.  JAMES Morrison, m. Elizabeth PURVIANCE  [This is not the Elizabeth Purviance who became Mrs. William Thomas, mother of Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle alias Jane Maxwell Thomas.] More confusion...  This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770

II.  JOHN Morrison  --This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770

II.  MARY MORRISON, married JAMES MORRISON  --  The Morrisons were prone to marry their 1st cousins. [This is not the Mary Morrison who married a son, John Morrison, of her uncle Patrick Morrison; this latter Mary was a sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle. The Mary Morrison who m. James Morrison was not a sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle]  --This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770

II.  Martha Morrison, m. James McKee   --This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770.

II.  WILLIAM Morrison m. Elizabeth Murdock  --This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770.

II.  CATHERINE "KATIE" MORRISON m. JOHN McCORKLE, a brother to "our" Robert McCorkle (Robert McCorkle who died in 1828 in West Tenn., Dyer County).  -- Do I have the following wrong:  is Catherine "Katie" Morrison (Mrs. John McCorkle) a first cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle? I think this has to be correct.] Or, is Katie Morrison McCorkle a first cousin to Andrew's daughter, Margaret Morrison McCorkle?  -- Now, I'm confused and will have to stop to figure this out.   ....    We know that two  McCorkle brothers (John --father of Joel-- & Robert McCorkle) married Morrison cousins--but what was the degree of consanguinity?    If the former--Katie Morrison McCorkle & Margaret Morrison McCorkle were 1st cousins-once-removed):  then two McCorkle brothers married two women who were 1st-cousins-once-removed.  Conclusion:  --This Catherine "Katie" Morrison, later Mrs. John McCorkle, is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770; and ranks therefore as a first-cousin-once-removed to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle).--I'm still a bit hesitant about this, though.

II.  Sarah Morrison, who m. James POTTS   --This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770

II.  Margaret MORRISON who m. John McCLELLAND  -- This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770; so, our Margaret Morrison McCorkle had a 1st cousin-once-removed  --  named Margaret Morrison McClelland.

II.  THOMAS Morrison  --This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770

GENERATION I.  ANDREW MORRISON m. Mary McKnight Purviance, a daughter of {John Purviance & wife Margaret McKnight Purviance}.  Born in Northern Ireland in 1734, she moved with her parents to Third Creek, NC.  This  ANDREW MORRISON is buried at THYATIRA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CEMETERY in NC.  He died in 1770, and he is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who sired Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1840.    Their children:

II.  Margaret Morrison (Mrs. James ADAMS)  He died in Preble County, Ohio, in 1821.  --1^st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

II.  Sarah (Mrs. James MURDOCK)  ----1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

II.  Martha (m. 21st June 1794: Henry McHenry) ----1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

II.  Mary Morrison (Mrs. ABSALOM KNOX ---- 1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

Please recall young (approximately ten-years-old) Addison Locke Roache Sr's 1827 letter (probably written from Indiana) to his uncle Edwin Alexander McCorkle in Dyer County, Tennessee, saying that Absalom Knox was teaching school up north.  [As delineated in this chapter's Morrison Genealogy, Absalom Knox married a Morrison woman kin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle, grandmother of young Addison Locke Roache.   To repeat:  One of the many  "ANDREW MORRISONs"  married Mary McKnight Purviance, a daughter of {John Purviance & wife Margaret McKnight Purviance}.  Born in Northern Ireland in 1734, she moved with her parents to Third Creek, NC.  This  ANDREW MORRISON is buried at THYATIRA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CEMETERY in NC.  He died in 1770.  --  His & Mary McKnight Purviance Morrison's daughter Mary Morrison m. Absalom Knox. Mary Morrison was the 2nd wife of Absalom Knox; so Mary Morrison Knox was Elmira's 1st-cousin-twice-removed and Addison's 1st-cousin-thrice-removed.  --But that letter was written in 1827, so the foregoing cannot be right about this Absalom Knox, because this particular Absalom Knox lived 1738-1808. (I cannot resolve this.) ] One of the Absalom Knox men was son of Jean GRACEY & John Knox. Had 3 children:  III. William KNOX m. Margaret Armstrong; and III. Andrew Knox m. Margaret Adams.  Andrew Knox had 2: generation IV. Milton Knox and IV. Agnes Knox (Mrs. Hill McCorkle).

II.  JOHN Morrison   died 20th January 1790. ----1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

           John Morrison married in 1784 Frances Wilson, 1757-1832, a stepdaughter of Samuel Harris; then Frances Wilson (widow Morrison) married George Niblock. [Now, the Huie folk in Rowan-Iredell Co. somehow are kin to Gracie/Gracey Niblock. My father's paternal aunt, Aunt Phronie, that is Sophronia Huie Thompson, used to correspond with her father Julius M. Huie's Niblock cousins in NC.]

III. = Children of John Morrison & Frances Wilson (Morrison): =

III. Andrew Morrison; III. Josiah Morrison, b. 11th May 1797, died Fayette Co., Tennessee (near Memphis) in 1880; married a woman named Margaret who died in Fayette Co., TN, in 1878. III. Elam Morrison; III. Mary Morrison.

II.  James Morrison married ELIZABETH PURVIANCE.  --1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.   This James was born a posthumous child of his father. 3 children:

III.  Zeno Morrison (Ireland) 1798-1861 [Zenobia?]  m. Dorcas Ireland; Polly Dickey; and Mary D. Jones.

III. John Morrison

III. Malinda Morrison, b. 24th Feb. 1796 (Mrs. Fleming Mitchell)

II.  ANDREW Morrison  --  a 1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.  This Andrew Morrison was born 19th January 1754 and died 7th Feb. 1780 in Iredell County, NC.  Wife:  Rosanne Alexander.  [This "Alexander" name is of significance because some sources, not our old West Tenn. records say that "our" immigrant Alexander McCorkle, the one born ca.1722- & died in 1800 & is buried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church, was born to a Mrs. Samuel McCorkle, née ___ ALEXANDER.  So, here is an Alexander clue for us.]

III. Andrew B. Morrison, born 1780 (18th July 1780) in Iredell County, NC, and died in 1853 in Preble County, Ohio.  His marriage was in Bourbon County, Kentucky.  --His father Andrew Morrison, 1754-1780, was a 1st cousin to our Margaret MORRISON McCorkle. Here we see that some MORRISONs followed the NC to Bourbon Co., Ky., to Preble Co., Ohio, route, the shared route of the Purviances and some McCorkles.              

II.  David Morrison--1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

II.  William Morrison, who died before 1808--1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle..

_The following is probably going to be a repeat of much of the above, for which repetition I apologize. Someday I hope to meld the several pieces of Morrison Genealogy which I have gathered over the years.

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Morrison Genealogical Update added in the summer of 2007:

A lot of this information is from an anonymous contribution made to the Morrison file in the History Room of the Iredell Public Library in Statesville, NC.  I would like to make proper attribution, but cannot do so. The material in brackets was added by me, and some of it may be off-base.

 First:

Generation Zero (0)

 

Generation Zero (0) is James Morrison  -- 

James Morrison. --I think this James Morrison had a brother named Andrew Morrison. 

 

Generation One is William Morrison, born 1701 or 1704 - 1771, son of Generation Zero James Morrion.  This William Morrison, 1704-1771, removed to Iredell County, North Carolina. His wife's first name is Margaret (surname unknown) Morrison, 1715-1767.This is the man who referred to himself as the "first inhabitor" of the Third Creek region that became Loray, Iredell County, NC.  He erected a mill there, according in part to the colonial records of Moravian [Czech group also known as the United Brethren] Bishop Spanenburg.  This William Morrison didn't want his corpse to be exhumed and reburied, but was to suffer the indignity much later, in the late 20th century, of being re-interred at Centre Church.  I think it was he for whom Sue Alice McCorkle Lee & Julia McCorkle Montgomery, my father Ewing Huie's first cousins and each interested in McCorkle-Morrison Genealogy, gave permission to NC authorities to  move and preserve the grave.  --  Also, I think but am not certain that this William Morrison's brothers were  Thomas, James, & Andrew. -- I'm in great danger of being confused here and of  having this wrong, so read it "cum grano salis" [with a grain of salt] as a pontificating lawyer once wrote and made me laugh.]

Generation Two is the Andrew Morrison who married Elizabeth Sloan.

Generation Three is 1770-1848 Margaret Morrison McCorkle who m. Robert McCorkle.

 

More on Generation Two

II.1.   Margaret Morrison who m. Mr. George Erwin 

 This Margaret Morrison Erwin would be a sister to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, wouldn't it? I'm iffy about this...N.B. The Erwin name is listed at Fort Dobbs just outside Statesville in Iredell County, NC.

Generation Two    [This Rebecca Morrison Harris would be a sister to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, wouldn't it? I'm iffy about this....]

2.  Rebecca Morrison (Harris),    born _______ and died 1776.  She married on 7th Aug. 1758 Samuel Harris.  They had 10 children and lived a tiny bit north of Loray, NC.  [This is what the anonymous source says: ...they lived]  "...on plantation owned by family of Lewis F. Stevenson; buried at foot of grave of parents where a rough stone inscribed '"R.H. 1776"' marks her resting place."

 

Generation Two .3.      [This Hugh  Morrison would be a brother to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, wouldn't he? I'm almost sure but yet a bit iffy about this.... ]

Hugh Morrison  -- [an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle.  Nothing is said about him in Statesville.]

 

Generation Two.    [This is the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan and was father of, inter alia,  the 1770-1848 Margaret Morrison McCorkle.] The following is quoted verbatim from the anonymous piece in the Statesville library:

 

"4.  Andrew Morrison, 3^rd, was granted 493 acres of land on both sides of 5^th Creek / North Fork / and on both sides of Turnersburg Road, including the crossing at the "Five Mile Branch."  His home was north of the Turnersburg Road and west of the Olin Road.  In 1790 he deeded to his son George Morrison a tract including the old Milton Morrison place, south of the 5 Mile Branch, now owned by George Wesley Morrison, a great-grandson, whose children are of the 5th generation on this tract. [Marsha Cope Huie adds:  I guess this "old Milton Morrison place" means George Milton Morrison, 1828-1902, a grandson of Andrew Morrison (3rd), & a son of George Morrison, George Morrison being Andrew Morrison 3rd's son; but I am not sure.]   Here at the large oaks on the hill, south of the crossing, George Milton Morrison settled and raised his family of children.

 

"Children of Andrew were

[III]    Rachel       [Marsha Cope Huie adds:  Rachel Morrison Brown, alias Mrs. Robert Brown]  --[her sister Margaret Morrison McCorkle wrote in a letter that, as best she had been able to discern, her sister Rachel had died in 1835. Margaret did not use the word "Brown" regarding Rachel.]

 

[III]    William     [Marsha Cope Huie adds: William Hay(e)s Morrison, buried beside his sister Margaret Morrison McCorkle in the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer Co., Tennessee, although his wife née Haynes who predeceased him is buried in Bedford County, Tennessee. William Hays Morrison lived 1767-1837. His old tombstone at the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County, in great peril during my childhood and now gone, used to say succinctly:Sacred to the memory of WILLIAM MORRISON, 1767-1837, aged 70 years x days y months."

Sacred to the memory of

William Morrison

1767-1837

aged 70 yrs [ x mos  y  dys, but the months and days  I cannot remember now]

And that was all:  no "Hays" listed as middle name; no wife's name; and no children's names.  I used to wonder why a Morrison man was lying in eternal rest beside Margaret McCorkle; now I know she must have seen to the burial of her elder brother.

 

[III]    Margeret  [sic]  [Marsha Cope Huie adds:  Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848, alias Mrs. Robert McCorkle, McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County]  This source has her birthday wrong, I think, although it's possible Margaret mis-remembered her own birthday once she left NC.  She wrote to her daughter Elmira that she had been born 11 August 1770.]

 

[III]    Rebecca  -- [Marsha Cope Huie adds:  in old age, Rebecca lived with her younger sister Mary Morrison Morrison in the home of a James C. Morrison near Hillsboro, Coffee County, Tennessee.  Mary Morrison Morrison's relationship to James C. Morrison is unknown. Was James her son?  her stepson?  Evidently, Rebecca Morrison never married.] 

[III]    Elizabeth --  ["Elizabeth, mar. John Lowrie.  In 1850 made will to bro. George Morrison."]

 

[III]    Mary             [Marsha Cope Huie adds:  Mary Morrison Morrison, alias Mrs. John Morrison; m. John, who was a son of her uncle Patrick Morrison.]

 

[III]    Andrew        [ Marsha Cope Huie adds: I guess this is Andrew Sloan Morrison]

[This Iredell County NC source writes later, "Andrew a preacher, went to Indiana."]

 and

[III]    George Morrison.

[George Morrison m. a Martha Morrison. Evidently, she was a cousin; they remained in Iredell Co., NC.]

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[Generation III] "a1. Rachel, mar. Robert Brown  [Generation III]

 

[Generation III] a2  William [William Hay(e)s Morrison] 

[Gen. IV.]  b1 Joseph    b2 Eliza  b3 Elinor   b4 John   b5 William

           [Marsha Cope Huie adds:  According to a letter dated 1857 from Mary Morrison Morrison, alias Mrs. John Morrison, the above [IV.] b5 William Morrison (a son of that writer's, Mary's, brother William Hays Morrison and of the wife born Haynes), this b5 [Generation IV] William Morrison had the following children:

Generation IV.     1st     Eliza Elenor Morrison aged 15 [?] years [in 1857],

Generation IV.    2nd     William Bell [Morrison] 14 [?],     [in 1857]

Generation IV.    3rd     Joseph Pinckney [Morrison] 12,     [in 1857]

Generation IV.     4th     George Columbus [Morrison] 10,  [in 1857]

Generation IV.    5th     Sarah Elizabeth [Morrison] aged 7,  [in 1857]

 Generation IV.    6th     Mary Catharine [Morrison] age 3   [in 1857].

[Generation III]     a3  Margeret [sic] mar. Robert McCorkle  [Marsha Cope Huie adds: and Margaret Morrison McCorkle moved to Rutherford County in Middle Tennessee then to Dyer County in the Western District, where she died in 1848 and is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County.  Her husband Robert McCorkle's grave, dug in 1828, is the first in that cemetery.]

 

Generation III]    a4  Rebecca  [Marsha Cope Huie adds: Rebecca Morrison never married, I think, and lived at least in her old age with her sister Mary Morrison Morrison in the home of a James Morrison, near Hillsboro in Coffee County, Tennessee.]

 

Generation III]    a5  George Morrison, Aug. 10, 1771 - 1854, married in Sept 1806, Martha Morrison, dau [end of line, words may be missing] of Wm., son of James;  1779-1851.

         [Gen. IV.]    b1  Elizabeth                        Aug 30^th 1807

         [Gen. IV.]    b2  Hiram Andrew,             1809-1844

         [Gen. IV.]    b3  Rufus                               1811-1844

         [Gen. IV.]    b4  Mary Amanda                1814-1879

         [Gen. IV.]    b5  Rebecca Athea               1816

         [Gen. IV.]    b6  Sarah Adaline                1819-1871

         [Gen. IV.]    b7  Martha Clementine       1819-1905

         [Gen. IV.]    b8  George Milton Morrison,     1828-1902, m. 1856                                                        Emiline Nicholson [Morrison], 1832-19__.

    "Of the children of George Morrison, this [child, George Milton Morrison, was the] only one to raise a family.  A family tree and interesting relics in the family."

"  c1   Mary Louise, 1837-1937

c2  Martha Emeline

c3  Florence Angeline 1862

c4  Elizabeth Jane 1866- ____

c5  George Wesley  1867-19__, m.  Lives at the old homestead, has children

c6  Sidney Reece, 1870-19__, m.  

[Generation III.]     a6   Elizabeth, mar. John Lowrie.  1850 made will to bro. George

[Generation III.]    a7   Mary Morrison, mar. John Morrison [her 1st cousin, a son of Patrick the son of Wm.]

[Generation III.]    a8    Andrew a preacher, went to Indiana

                                                  [I Marsha think he was Andrew Sloan Morrison.]

         [Generation IV.]    b1  Eli Morrison, went to Ohio

          [Generation IV.]  b2 George McKnight Morrison, mar. and went to Va.

                                     b3   [I couldn't read this]

                                     b4   [I couldn't read this]

         [Generation IV.]   b5   Joseph, went to Louisiana

         [Generation IV.]   b6   NIEL Morrison

[Generation V.]    c1  Mary.   c2 Sarah E.    c3  Georgiana    [Generation V.]    c4 Sidney

 

[Generation V.]    c5  David Nelson, went to Indiana

 

[Generation II.]     5  Patrick Morrison, mar. lived 1st on Snow Creek, then Ky. or Tenn.    [Marsha Cope Huie adds: It was Patrick's  son John who m. John's 1st cousin Mary Morrison, Mary being a daughter of Andrew Morrison & Elizabeth Sloan Morrison.]  [Update in 2007 from Morrison Family of Montgomery County, Tennessee:  this Internet entry lists a son of Patrick Morrison as William Morrison, born circa 1769 in Rowan Co., NC and died circa 1839 in Montgomery County, Tennessee; and lists William Morrison's son as Josiah Morrison, born 1 June 1788 in NC and died 1 April 1868 in Montgomery County, Tennessee.

    [This Generation II. Patrick was a sibling of the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).]

 

[Generation II.]     6.  Mary Morrison, mar. Robert King.

[This Mary Morrison King was a sibling of the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison) & an aunt of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.]

[Generation II.]     7.  Martha Morrison mar. John Foster

[This Martha Morrison Foster was a sibling of the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).]

[Generation II.]     8.  William Morrison, 2nd, 17__ - 1822  mar. Martha ______  "

    [This William Morrison was a sibling of the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).]

 

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 [End of material quoted directly from anonymous source's placement in the History Room of the Public Library of Iredell County in Statesville, North Carolina.  Material placed in brackets above is added by me.]   Please, somebody, tell me who the author was so I can make proper attribution.]

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We discern the following from the 1857 letter, transcribed in Chapter Two--will be New Chapter Three-- of this compilation, from Mary Morrison Morrison (a sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle) to one of her nephews; and from facts your compiler (Marsha) has acquired over the years:

 

Generation III William Hays Morrison, 1767-1837, who is buried beside his sister III. Margaret Morrison McCorkle in Dyer County, Tennessee (McCorkle Cemetery).  William Hays Morrison had these children, evidently by wife nee Haynes, viz.,

IV.1  Joseph    IV.2  Eliza  IV.3. Elinor   IV.4.  John  IV.5 William

 

Generation III Mary Morrison Morrison [who m. her 1st cousin John Morrison, a son of the Patrick Morrison who was a brother to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison)] writes in 1857 from Hillsboro, Coffee County, Tennessee, a letter to her nephew IV.1. Joseph Pinckney Morrison :  "I had a letter from your brother William [Gen. IV.5. William Bell Morrison] dated April 17th [1857]. I had made particular enquiries about all his family, he answered me pretty well about his children,

[children of Gen. IV.5. William Bell Morrison]:

 

[Generation V]      1st     Eliza Elenor aged 15 [?] years,

[Generation V]      2nd     William Bell 14 [?],    

[Generation V]      3rd     Joseph Pin[c]kney 12,

[Generation V]      4th     George Columbus 10,

[Generation V]      5th     Sarah Elizabeth aged 7,

[Generation V]       6th     Mary Catharine age 3."

 

The anonymous source in Iredell County, NC, Statesville Public Library had listed the children of III. William [Hays] Morrison [1767-1837] as:

  [IV]  b1  Joseph    b2 Eliza  b3 Elinor   b4 John  b5 William

 

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This is going to be New Chapter Two--  The Morrison Family of Mrs. Robert McCorkle (1770-1848) of Rowan/Iredell County, North Carolina, and finally of Dyer County, Tennessee:

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Now, to some MORRISON Genealogy --Margaret Morrison McCorkle (2^nd wife of Robert McCorkle):

 

As best I can figure it, here is some genealogy for MARGARET MORRISON McCORKLE

--Update:  The following has been updated at the end of Chapter 15, after my trip in May 2007 to the history room of the Iredell County Public Library in Statesville, North Carolina.

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The following information is in part based upon a chart that Stuart Hoyle Purvines placed in a huge genealogical collection he published privately in 1984 on the Purviance Family.  --  To my amazement, I just learned in 2007 that a brother of my cousin Diane White married a daughter of Stu Purvines.  My mother's mother, Notie Headden Cope (1886-1984) had a mother named Ada TAYLOR Headden (Mrs. Winfield Scott Headden of Dyer County, Tennessee).  Ada Taylor Headden had a sister named Dora Taylor (Mrs. White) who moved across the Mississippi River to Missouri.  So, my mother Joyce Cope Huie's Taylor-Headden cousin Diane White (granddaughter of Aunt Dora Taylor White of Dorena, Missouri) has a brother who married a daughter of Stuart Hoyle Purvines of Missouri.  Small world, indeed.

Some of this information may be wrong.  I've added some information, e.g., the siblings I know about of Margaret Morrison (Mrs. Robert McCorkle).  Also, I've used materials on file in the history room of the Iredell County, North Carolina, public library in Statesville, as well as an Internet placement about the Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee.  Here goes, with a primitive version:

 

I think the progenitor, the father of Generation One, was a James Morrison, born circa 1675 in Scotland or Northern Ireland; but I am not sure about this. This must be verified.... .... ....The anonymous posting in the Statesville, Iredell Co., NC, history room says the following. [Please, someone, tell me who authored this:]

"James Morrison left Scotland for Ireland about the year 1700.  They [the family?] came to America from Londonderry [Northern Ireland] or Fermaugh, and settled near Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  He had four sons: Thomas, James, William, and Andrew.  These came to North Carolina at an early date and settled on Third Creek, south of Loray in what is now Iredell County."    [[[[[[[--- An entry on the Internet under "Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee, says this about this James Morrison:  "James Morrison, b. circa 1675 in Scotland, married circa 1701.]]]]]]]]

[[Also, something I, Marsha Cope Huie,  read somewhere makes me wonder if this person moved to Natmeal Village, Chester County, Pennsylvania and died 1760????? --I do NOT know if this is "our" James Morrison the Generation Zero emigrant from Scotland-Northern Ireland. ]]]

And so I (Marsha Cope Huie) list as Generation One, here, the brothers I. William, I. Thomas, I. James, and I. Andrew:

 Generation I.  William, 1704-1771  --his wife's first name was Margaret, last name unknown; they died and were buried in Iredell Co., NC, near Statesville. This generation one William Morrison is the father to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison), which makes this Generation One William the grandfather of Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1848).   

Here's what the anonymous posting in the Statesville, Iredell Co., NC, history room says:

 "William Morrison, according to his tombstone was the first white inhabitant of the county, and died June 3, 1771, but his will dated July 13, 1771 [mentions his] 'being sick and weak of body,' so there is some confusion.  It was probated the August term of court following.  From BISHOP Joseph SPANNENBURG's [Marsha edits: ? sic: ?Bishop August Gottlieb Spanenburg?] letter --Colonial Records Volume V page one-- we learn that he had a mill in operation November 1752.  Writing from 'Forks of Little River, south of the Brushy Mountains,/ which would be near the present site of Taylorsville/'  he says, 'About fourteen miles from here lives a Scotch-Irish family; there is said to be a mill there but there is neither road nor way leading to it.' [End of quotation from Bishop Spanenburg]

"The Morrison graveyard is situated on an elevated plateau, between two branches about one-half mile northwest from the old mill, and a mile or so southwest from Loray.  It is walled in with stone and about sixty yards square in area.  In 1820, there was some rivalry between it and Concord graveyard, that resulted in both being enclosed with stone.

 "On one headstone--a nice smooth soapstone slab--is the following unique inscription, both in lettering and substance:  the letters being raised, and the "S" being executed like "P" [β], as follows:

W.M.

Wm. Morrison was born March 1704, June 9        departed this life June 3 1771 aged 67 years.      And as he was the first white inhabitant of the county      and poβeβor of this land he requests that his grave       and that on his left should never be opened.

[Marsha C. Huie adds:  in fact his grave was opened and was preserved at Centre Churchyard, according to a North Carolina highway marker.  --  I think it was descendants Sue Alice McCorkle Lee and Julia McCorkle Montgomery (McCorkle 1st cousins to my father Howard Ewing Huie) who gave permission sometime in the 1980s for removal and reburial of William Morrison. They visited sites in NC and found the landowner who wanted to get the graves moved off his farmland.  I may be wrong about this, as they didn't remember the precise Morrison first name upon their return to Tennessee.]

 

M.M.

Margeret                  Morrison                         was born AD 1715    deceased June 1767   in the 52nd year of her life.

"Another:

A.M.                Andrew                          Morrison                        born 1754, June 9                died Feb. 1780, aged 26 years

"Others read:

                G.I.S.                 

     Gerimiah Scroggs

          born April 8, 1753       

   departed this life Oct. 12, 1839,

             age 84 years, 6 mo.       

 

                        M.S.

                        Margaret Scroggs

         Departed  this life 1835

 

James Guy, Sr. born 1742: died 1813 [broken...]

Isabel Guy, born Mar. 11 1744, died 20 July 1828, age 84

______Guy

born April 23, 1789

 died Feb. 1850, age 60 y.

Alfred Guy  1787-1859

his wife, Harriot Guy, 1802-1866.

M. Walton, 1739-1822.

"About 200 yards west of the old graveyard stood the family [Generation I. William Morrison, 1704-1771] residence, the basement of which is in evidence by a sunken place in the field three or four feet deep.  Formerly a road from the mill passed nearby on the west; while another on the east passed up the branch more towards Loray. West of the home tradition locates an Indian grave.  An Indian lying in wait for Mr. Morrison, on one occasion, was observed from the house when he [William Morrison], passed out from the opposite side, executed a flank movement circling around him and observing his intentions, he [the Indian] was approached from the rear and dispatched with his trusty rifle.

" Tradition handed down by the family of John Morrison, Revolutionary soldier, is that there were two families of the name unrelated, came into the county originally."

                                 

  Generation I. Thomas;  this generation one Thomas Morrison is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison), and a great-uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848;

  Generation I. James b. ? 1702-????) (m. Mary ______) born circa 1702(?)   & died ?1779?--  [???is there a chance that he married Mary Newlin as someone has placed on www.ancestry.com ??  I don't think Mary Newlin married "our" James Morrison born 1702.  An entry on ancestry.com lists a James Morrison who was b. 1720 in Delaware and died 1766 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as marrying Mary Newlin, 1722-1775 in Concord, Chester Co., Pennsylvania.?? ;  this generation one James Morrison is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison), and a great-uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848.

-- The entry on the Internet under "Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee, says this about the progenitor/ Generation Zero, James Morrison:  "James Morrison, b. circa 1675 in Scotland, married circa 1701; --and then says this about the Generation One James Morrison:  "James Morrison, born about 1702 probably in Northern Ireland died 1779 in Rowan County, North Carolina; spouse:  Mary____; and lists his children as [my, Marsha Huie's, Generation Two):

2.  Andrew Morrison

2. Thomas Morrison

2.  James Morrison

2.  John Morrison

2.  Mary Morrison

2.  Martha Morrison

2.  William Morrison

2.  Catherine Morrison, born 1774-died 1822;

2.  Sarah Morrison

2.  Margaret Morrison, born 1765-died 1838.  This is NOT Margaret Morrison McCorkle (is not Mrs. Robert McCorkle, 1770-1848).

I cannot yet make proper attribution to the author of The Morrisons of Montgomery County (Tennessee), but am hoping the author contacts me for collaboration. I am most grateful for this author's information and hope to give proper attribution.

& Generation I. Andrew (Morrison), 1718- 5 Feb. 1770;  married Mary McKnight Purviance, born 1734 in Northern Ireland and died 5 Oct. 1784 in Rowan-Iredell County, North Carolina. This Andrew = my, Marsha's, Morrison generation one  --this generation one Andrew Morrison is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison), and a great-uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848. This Andrew is buried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church, Mill Bridge near Mooresville near Salisbury, North Carolina.

More on Generation One: 

MORRISON Generation One Siblings:  (my ancestor Generation I.)  WILLIAM MORRISON, was born in 1704 [was he born in Northern Ireland?  Scotland?] & died 1771 in Rowan-later Iredell County, NC, (m. Margaret __?__)-- This William is the paternal grandfather of Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle, 1770-1848, born in Rowan-Iredell Co. but  last of Dyer Co., Tennessee). That is, this Generation I. William Morrison is the father of inter alia the Andrew Morrison who married Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison);

Morrison Generation One: Siblings:   Generation I. THOMAS Morrison  --  This Thomas Morrison is an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle's father, that is, this generation one Thomas Morrison is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison). ;

Morrison Generation One Siblings: JAMES MORRISON (b. ? 1702-????) (m. Mary ___? ___).  --This James Morrison is an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle's father, that is, this generation one James Morrison is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison). ;

Morrison Generation One Siblings:  Generation I.  Andrew Morrison,  born 1718, and died 5 FEB 1770 in Iredell Co., NC, buried in Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery, married Mary McKnight Purviance, born 1734 in Northern Ireland and died 5 Oct. 1784 in Rowan-Iredell County, North Carolina.  -- This Andrew Morrison is an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle's father, that is, this generation one Andrew Morrison is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).  When I first saw his tombstone at Thyatira, I incorrectly thought he was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle; in fact, he was Margaret Morrison McCorkle's father's uncle.

More on Generation One William Morrison:

Generation I.    William Morrison, 1704-3 June 1771, m. Margaret (maiden name unknown) (Morrison).  Their Children=Generation Two=

 II. Rebecca Morrison (Mrs. Samuel Harris), born ?1737? in  ?Lancaster County, Pennsylvania? ; was Samuel Harris born circa 1735 in Pennsylvania and did he die 5 October 1796 in Statesville, Iredell Co., NC ??

??II.  Was there a Mary Morrison born circa 1738 as listed in the Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee Internet listing????

 II.  Hugh Morrison,

 II.  Patrick Morrison, --In a letter included in this compilation, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache inquired from her mother, Margaret Morrison McCorkle, if the latter's (Margaret McCorkle's) sister Mary Morrison had married a son of "Uncle Patrick," and if so what had happened to the "poor children."  Indeed, Margaret answered Elmira's inquiry, generation III. Mary Morrison had married Generation III. John Morrison who was a son of this Generation II. Patrick Morrison.  But Margaret did not inform Elmira as to what had happened to the poor children-- I do not know if Generation II. Patrick Morrison's grandchildren through his son John Morrison (Generation III) came through Generation III. Mary Morrison (Morrison); but it is known that Generation III. Mary appears on the 1850 census of Coffee Co., Tenn., as living (along with Mary's sister Rebecca Morrison) with the one-generation-younger family of a James C. Morrison.

As soon shown below, the unknown author of The Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee writes that this Generation II   Patrick Morrison, married Ann Foster (Morrison). Was Patrick Morrison born in 1744 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, and did Patrick die 5 July 1810 in Wilson County, Tennessee, as  The Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee states? 

II. Martha Morrison Foster,

 

FOSTER Excursus:  Fauster or Foster

Generation I. Alexander McCorkle b. 1722-d.1800 Thyatira Presbyterian Church, the immigrant;

  Generation II.  son John McCorkle who m. not Catherine "Katie" MORRISON (who was the wife of this John's brother,  generation II Alexander McCorkle who ended up in Henry Co., Tennessee) but instead son John McCorkle married CATHERINE "Katie" BARR;

 III.  son JOEL McCorkle who may have been the only child of John McCorkle m. Mary Ann "Polly Ann" Fauster.  About this Generation II-John McCorkle, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache wrote (gathered in this compilation) that her uncle John died young but was a member of the legislature and much respected and that John's son (her 1^st cousin) followed in John's honors. The exact quotation from Elmira:

"« John an elder in the church and member of the Legislature, useful and much beloved, died in the prime of life leaving an only son [Marsha Cope Huie adds: Joel McCorkle who m. Mary Ann "Polly Ann" Foster] who walked in his father's steps and enjoyed his  honors.>>"

--I found some of Joel's papers in the Robert Ramsay/James Graham Ramsay/'Nancy' Agnes McCorkle Ramsay papers in the UNoCarolina Archives.  Joel may not have been a lawyer but clearly understood legal language.

  Generation IV.  Children of Polly Ann Fauster (McCorkle):

Generation IV.1.  Lavinia McCorkle

Generation IV.2.  John Finley McCorkle

Generation IV.3.  Milton Enos McCorkle  --Milton Enos McCorkle was an ancestor of "Dick" Richard Barton late of Nashville.  Dick Barton was a friend of Annie Glen McCorkle's from circa 1960s and he had a son who removed from Nashville in high school.

Generation IV.4.  Samuel Ebenezer McCorkle

 Generation IV.5.  Mary Malissa McCorkle

 Generation IV.6.   Tirza C. McCorkle

I do not know if the above McCorkle-Fauster/Foster people were kin to these Fauster/Foster-Morrison people.

II.  Sarah Morrison,

II.  Nancy Morrison,

II.  Margaret Morrison (Mrs. George Erwin), ?born 1734? & married ?1757? ;

 II. Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan;      --was he born 9 June 1744 in Colerain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania? or was he born about 1745 in Rowan County, NC?  ==  and did he marry on 26 March 1766 Elizabeth Sloan, born 1746?  --  Our old West Tennessee records reveal no birth/death/marriage data on Elizabeth Sloan (Mrs. Andrew) Morrison.

and

II. William Morrison Jr., about whom more is written immediately below.

 The Morrisons of Montgomery County (Tennessee) whose author is unknown to me states that Generation One William Morrison, 1704-1771, married Margaret ______ about 1733.  --I, Marsha, believe that it was this William Morrison who often took shelter at Fort Dobbs (just outside today's Statesville, NC) in Rowan-Iredell County during the French and Indian Wars.

          Generation II: 

   Generation  II Hugh Morrison--an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle

                           II Margaret Morrison  (Erwin) b. 1734?  an aunt of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848 (inter alia);

The Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee, author writes that this Margaret Morrison (Erwin/Ervin) was born about 1734 probably in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and married George Erwin/Ervin who was born about 1730 & married about 1757 & died circa March 1783 in Rowan County, NC.

Generation II   Patrick Morrison, m. Ann Foster. Was Patrick born in 1744 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, and did Patrick die 5 July 1810 in Wilson County, Tennessee?  The Wilson County, Tennessee, location stated in The Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee makes sense to me, Marsha Cope Huie, because Patrick's daughter-in-law Mary Morrison Morrison (Mrs. John Morrison) writes in her old age to her nephew Robert "RAH" McCorkle in effect:  tell Quincy Roache we remember the sweet little boy who played so cutely when we all lived on Bradley's Creek (in Middle Tennessee).

The Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee, lists one child of Patrick & Ann Foster Morrison, viz., William Morrison, 1769-1839. This is my only source for this descendant--except that Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, as stated above, wrote to her mother asking what had happened to [Elmira's great]Uncle Patrick's  children?          III.  William Morrison, born circa 1769, Rowan Co., NC and died about 1839 in Montgomery Co., Tennessee  --This William Morrison, circa 1769-1839, would have been a 1^st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle, 1770-1848).

The Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee picks up some of the descendants of this Generation III William_Morrison, circa 1769-circa 1839, in that it lists the children of William's son JOSIAH Morrison, born 1 June 1788 in North Carolina and died 1 April 1868 in Montgomery County, Tennessee.  This Internet posting is my only source for this William Morrison (son of Patrick) and William's son Josiah Morrison, 1788-1868.

 

[I, Marsha C. Huie, know Generation Two Patrick Morrison had at least one other son: Generation Three John Morrison, who m. his 1st cousin Mary Morrison (Generation 3), Mary a daughter of Generation Two Andrew Morrison & wife Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).  This generation two Patrick is an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle, inter alia.  Who was the James C. Morrison, living near Hillsboro, Coffee County, Tennessee, with whom Mary Morrison Morrison & her older sister Rebecca Morrison (each Generation 3) lived in their very old age?  Was James C. Morrison a son of Generation 3 John Morrison, John being a son of Generation Two Patrick Morrison?]

 II Martha Morrison, m. John Foster  -- aunt to Margaret Morrison McCorkle

II Sarah Morrison       -- aunt to Margaret Morrison McCorkle

II Nancy Morrison       -- aunt to Margaret Morrison McCorkle

II George Erwin Morrison    --an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle

                           

II Andrew Morrison, m. Elizabeth Sloan (parents of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848, inter alia)  --  This generation two Andrew Morrison is the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle).

--Something I read says the following, but I do not know if it's correct or even if it refers to "our" Elizabeth Sloan Morrison (Mrs. Andrew Morrison: Andrew Morrison, 1744-1815, married on 26 March 1766 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania:  Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison), who was born about 1745 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  [Again, is this correct?]

(It is Elizabeth Sloan Morrison --my ancestor Mrs. Andrew Morrison, immediately above--whose Sloan mother, Mrs. _[_X?] McCorkle Sloan(e), was herself a  sister to Alexander McCorkle the immigrant to the colonies, 1^st to Penn. then finally Rowan Co., NC, where Alexander died in 1800.  Source:  a letter of Elmira Sloan(e) McCorkle Roach(e) [granddaughter of Alexander McCorkle; & granddaughter of Andrew Morrison & Elizabeth Sloan] to her nephew in Newbern, Tennessee: James Scott McCorkle, M.D.  Elmira's letter is transcribed elsewhere in this collection.) 

 Generation III.   a dau. of Andrew & Elizabeth Sloan Morrison:  Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770 - d. 1848;   Margaret married Robert McCorkle in Rowan County, N.C. Finally they removed to and died in Dyer County, TN.

III.   son Andrew  Sloan Morrison [did he move back up to Virginia "to attend an old law suit" there, as sister Margaret Morrison McCorkle speculated in a letter to her daughter Elmira that is transcribed in this collection?-- some records I found in Iredell Co., NC, say that Andrew Sloan Morrison became a minister & removed to Indiana but I do not know;]

The Morrison Family of Montgomery County, Tennessee, author (author's name not given) states this about Andrew Sloan Morrison:  "born 17 Nov. 1779, Rowan County, North Carolina; died 5 January 1844 in Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana.  --I Marsha Cope Huie have seen elsewhere that he was a Presbyterian (or perhaps Cumberland Presbyterian) minister; I do not know.

 

III.   dau. Rachel Morrison Brown (was she a Mrs. Robert Brown?) --- "My sister Rachel died 1st July 1835" -- or so Margaret M. McCorkle thought about this sister as revealed in a letter to Margaret's daughter Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach(e).  The Morrison materials in the Statesville, Iredell County, genealogy room (no author stated) list this Rachel Morrison's husband as Robert Brown

 III.   son William Hays Morrison, 1767-1837--  this William Morrison is buried in Dyer Co. next to (beside) his sister Margaret Morrison McCorkle, whose husband Robert McCorkle's grave is on Margaret's other side.  This William Hay(e)s Morrison's wife née Haynes predeceased him & is according to information I found on the Internet and at www.ancestry.com buried in Bedford County, Tennessee.  Generation III William Morrison's old tombstone, now in ruins at the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County, West Tennessee, used to say, "Sacred to the memory of WILLIAM MORRISON, 1767-1837, aged 70 years x days y months."

 

 III.   dau. Mary Morrison Morrison, who married a son of her Uncle Patrick Morrison (yes, in this instance 1^st cousins married ! ).  Along with her older sister Rebecca Morrison, Mary ended her days in the home of a James C. Morrison, perhaps a son or nephew, near Hillsboro, Coffee County, Tennessee.  -- It is this aunt Mary Morrison that Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache accused of "constant complaints," and Elmira asked her mother Margaret Morrison McCorkle by letter "what happened to the poor children?"  Elmira opined that Aunt Rebecca [who lived in her extreme old age with a sister, Elmira's Aunt Mary, in somebody else's home--that of a James C. Morrison-- near Hillsboro, Tennessee] had probably grown fretful from long listening to the other's [Aunt Mary's] complaints.  --So, quaere:  what did happen to the "poor children?"   --See if Mary Morrison Morrison appears on the 1860 Coffee County, Tennessee, census; that is, had she died by the year 1860?  Mary's brother George Milton Morrison had remained in Iredell Co., NC, and George Milton Morrison had a daughter named Mary Amanda Morrison who appears on the Iredell Co., NC, census the same year that Mary Morrison Morrison appears on the Coffee Co., Tennessee, census.

Two of "Aunt Mary's" letters are gathered in this collection. She was living in the home then of a young man named James C. Morrison; it is unclear what her relationship was to him.  Was he a son? a nephew? a cousin?  Please recall Mary's niece's (Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache's) query in a letter posted to her, Elmira's, mother Margaret Morrison about Mary Morrison Morrison:  Elmira inquired, if it was uncle Patrick's son that aunt Mary married, "what happened to the poor children?" One wonders.... 

 Margaret Morrison McCorkle's son Edwin Alexander McCorkle from West Tennessee once sent Aunt Mary to the east a dollar bill, according to Aunt Mary Morrison's letter to Edwin's brother Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle dated 1851.  --And upon one occasion Edwin Alexander McCorkle, having heard of the penury of his mother's sisters Rebecca Morrison and Mary Morrison Morrison, drove a wagon to eastern Tennessee (Hillsboro, Coffee County) from Dyer County in West Tenn. expecting to rescue his elderly aunt Mary and older aunt Rebecca and take them to reside with his mother's people in Dyer County; but the two old ladies were afraid and would not travel westwardly with their nephew Edwin. Source of the latter story:  a letter from Margaret Morrison McCorkle to a child. 

III. Rebecca Morrison:  a sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle; Rebecca Morrison evidently never married; Rebecca Morrison died near Hillsboro, Coffee Co., Tennessee (see Rebecca's sister Mary Morrison Morrison, supra), attended by her younger, and complaining, sister Mary Morrison Morrison (Mrs. John Morrison, John being a son of Patrick Morrison, this Mary's uncle)--Translation:  Mary Morrison (Morrison) married her 1^st cousin John Morrison.  --Rebecca appears on the 1850 Coffee County census but not on the 1860 one, so I presume she died circa 1855.  Was she born circa 1774?

III.  Records in Iredell County, NC (Statesville Public Library) say there was an Elizabeth Morrison (Lowrie), a sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle but remaining in Loray Community, Iredell County, NC.  According to records in the Statesville, NC, public library, this sister left her worldly goods in 1850 to brother George Morrison who had remained in Rowan-Iredell County, NC.  From this one can infer that Elizabeth Morrison Lowrie left no surviving children.  George Morrison,  these materials say, remained at Third Creek, Iredell Co., NC--near or in the community of Loray, NC. As stated, this Generation III George Morrison, 10 Aug. 1771-1854, Iredell Co., NC, had several daughters [Mary Amanda Morrison, b. 1815-ish, for example] but only one child who left children: a son named Generation IV. George Milton Morrison, born circa 1824 in Iredell County.

 Elizabeth --  ["Elizabeth, mar. John Lowrie.  In 1850 made will to bro. George Morrison"]

 

III.  George Morrison  -- remained at Third Creek, Iredell Co., NC--near or in community of Loray, NC. This George had a son:  Generation IV. George Milton Morrison.... Records in the Statesville Public Library's family and local history room say that of the several children of this George Morrison, mostly females, only the son George MILTON Morrison procreated. --A letter from Mary Morrison Morrison transcribed in this Marsha Cope Huie collection says that she has recently heard from [Generation IV.] Mary Amanda Morrison, a daughter of her brother George Morrison.... I think this Mary Amanda Morrison (a daughter of this III. George Morrison) is the Mary Morrison on the Rowan County-Iredell Co., NC, census that brings confusion with the Mary Morrison Morrison (Mrs. John Morrison), who was sister to George Morrison, and also sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle, as well as being sister to all these other siblings listed here under Roman Numeral III, immediately above.  This would answer the query kindly placed on the Tennessee rootsweb genealogical web site by Jean Morrison of Cincinnati, Ohio, about there being two Mary Morrison ladies connected to George Morrison of the piedmont of NC.  Indeed there were:  George Morrison had a sister Mary Morrison (Mrs. John Morrison) and a daughter Mary Amanda Morrison.

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Generation II.  William Morrison, b. 1742? & died 22 March1822, Rowan Co., NC who married Martha Miller (Morrison) ? in 1767?-- this William was an uncle to, inter alia, Margaret Morrison McCorkle, as this William Morrison (the 2nd) was a brother to Margaret's father ANDREW MORRISON, who m. Elizabeth Sloan.  -- did he m. Jane Tucker in 1765?

The Morrison Family of Montgomery County, Tennessee, author (name unknown to me) lists the following as children of William Morrison, 1742? - 1822, viz.,

III.  Martha Morrison, born circa 1768 in Rowan Co., NC;  --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

 III. James Miller Morrison, born circa 1770 in Rowan County, NC;  --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

 III. Sarah Morrison, born circa 1772 in Rowan County, died circa 1836; --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

III. Margaret Morrison, born circa 1774 in Rowan Co., NC --This is absolutely not Margaret, Mrs. Robert McCorkle, who lived 1770-1848.  This is a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

III.  Nancy M. Morrison, born circa 1776 in Rowan Co., NC  --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

III.  William Morrison  --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

III.  Andrew Morrison  --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

III.  Hugh Morrison  --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

III.  John H. Morrison --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

The Morrison Family of Montgomery County, Tennessee, is my only source for the above Generation III children.

II.  Rebecca Morrison m. Samuel Harris on 8 Aug 1758;  b. ca. 1737 in ? Pennsylvania? died 11 Aug 1776--This Rebecca Morrison Harris was an aunt to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1848)

Children of Generation II Rebecca Morrison (Harris) and Samuel Harris:

 Generation III.  Rebecca Harris (Mrs. Andrew Provine or Purvine) = formerly  Purviance or in France PURVAIANCE;

III.  Samuel Harris (m. Sarah PURVIANCE)

III.  Margaret Harris m. William Roseboro or Roseborough 

                                                 II.  JOHN MORRISON m. Sarah Potts

II.  Andrew Morrison [a 1^st cousin, e.g., to the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770; that is, this Andrew Morrison was a first cousin to another Andrew Morrison.  What a confusing nomenclature the Morrison s chose for their children ! ]

II.  JAMES Morrison, m. Elizabeth PURVIANCE  [This is not the Elizabeth Purviance who became Mrs. William Thomas, mother of Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle alias Jane Maxwell Thomas.] More confusion...  This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770

II.  JOHN Morrison  --This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770

II.  MARY MORRISON, married JAMES MORRISON  --  The Morrisons were prone to marry their 1st cousins. [This is not the Mary Morrison who married a son, John Morrison, of her uncle Patrick Morrison; this latter Mary was a sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle. The Mary Morrison who m. James Morrison was not a sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle]  --This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770

II.  Martha Morrison, m. James McKee   --This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770.

II.  WILLIAM Morrison m. Elizabeth Murdock  --This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770.

II.  CATHERINE "KATIE" MORRISON m. JOHN McCORKLE, a brother to "our" Robert McCorkle (Robert McCorkle who died in 1828 in West Tenn., Dyer County).  -- Do I have the following wrong:  is Catherine "Katie" Morrison (Mrs. John McCorkle) a first cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle? I think this has to be correct.] Or, is Katie Morrison McCorkle a first cousin to Andrew's daughter, Margaret Morrison McCorkle?  -- Now, I'm confused and will have to stop to figure this out.   ....    We know that two  McCorkle brothers (John --father of Joel-- & Robert McCorkle) married Morrison cousins--but what was the degree of consanguinity?    If the former--Katie Morrison McCorkle & Margaret Morrison McCorkle were 1st cousins-once-removed):  then two McCorkle brothers married two women who were 1st-cousins-once-removed.  Conclusion:  --This Catherine "Katie" Morrison, later Mrs. John McCorkle, is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770; and ranks therefore as a first-cousin-once-removed to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle).--I'm still a bit hesitant about this, though.

II.  Sarah Morrison, who m. James POTTS   --This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770

II.  Margaret MORRISON who m. John McCLELLAND  -- This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770; so, our Margaret Morrison McCorkle had a 1st cousin-once-removed  --  named Margaret Morrison McClelland.

II.  THOMAS Morrison  --This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770

GENERATION I.  ANDREW MORRISON m. Mary McKnight Purviance, a daughter of {John Purviance & wife Margaret McKnight Purviance}.  Born in Northern Ireland in 1734, she moved with her parents to Third Creek, NC.  This  ANDREW MORRISON is buried at THYATIRA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CEMETERY in NC.  He died in 1770, and he is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who sired Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1840.    Their children:

II.  Margaret Morrison (Mrs. James ADAMS)  He died in Preble County, Ohio, in 1821.  --1^st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

II.  Sarah (Mrs. James MURDOCK)  ----1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

II.  Martha (m. 21st June 1794: Henry McHenry) ----1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

II.  Mary Morrison (Mrs. ABSALOM KNOX ---- 1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

Please recall young (approximately ten-years-old) Addison Locke Roache Sr's 1827 letter (probably written from Indiana) to his uncle Edwin Alexander McCorkle in Dyer County, Tennessee, saying that Absalom Knox was teaching school up north.  [As delineated in this chapter's Morrison Genealogy, Absalom Knox married a Morrison woman kin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle, grandmother of young Addison Locke Roache.   To repeat:  One of the many  "ANDREW MORRISONs"  married Mary McKnight Purviance, a daughter of {John Purviance & wife Margaret McKnight Purviance}.  Born in Northern Ireland in 1734, she moved with her parents to Third Creek, NC.  This  ANDREW MORRISON is buried at THYATIRA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CEMETERY in NC.  He died in 1770.  --  His & Mary McKnight Purviance Morrison's daughter Mary Morrison m. Absalom Knox. Mary Morrison was the 2nd wife of Absalom Knox; so Mary Morrison Knox was Elmira's 1st-cousin-twice-removed and Addison's 1st-cousin-thrice-removed.  --But that letter was written in 1827, so the foregoing cannot be right about this Absalom Knox, because this particular Absalom Knox lived 1738-1808. (I cannot resolve this.) ] One of the Absalom Knox men was son of Jean GRACEY & John Knox. Had 3 children:  III. William KNOX m. Margaret Armstrong; and III. Andrew Knox m. Margaret Adams.  Andrew Knox had 2: generation IV. Milton Knox and IV. Agnes Knox (Mrs. Hill McCorkle).

II.  JOHN Morrison   died 20th January 1790. ----1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

           John Morrison married in 1784 Frances Wilson, 1757-1832, a stepdaughter of Samuel Harris; then Frances Wilson (widow Morrison) married George Niblock. [Now, the Huie folk in Rowan-Iredell Co. somehow are kin to Gracie/Gracey Niblock. My father's paternal aunt, Aunt Phronie, that is Sophronia Huie Thompson, used to correspond with her father Julius M. Huie's Niblock cousins in NC.]

III. = Children of John Morrison & Frances Wilson (Morrison): =

III. Andrew Morrison; III. Josiah Morrison, b. 11th May 1797, died Fayette Co., Tennessee (near Memphis) in 1880; married a woman named Margaret who died in Fayette Co., TN, in 1878. III. Elam Morrison; III. Mary Morrison.

II.  James Morrison married ELIZABETH PURVIANCE.  --1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.   This James was born a posthumous child of his father. 3 children:

III.  Zeno Morrison (Ireland) 1798-1861 [Zenobia?]  m. Dorcas Ireland; Polly Dickey; and Mary D. Jones.

III. John Morrison

III. Malinda Morrison, b. 24th Feb. 1796 (Mrs. Fleming Mitchell)

II.  ANDREW Morrison  --  a 1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.  This Andrew Morrison was born 19th January 1754 and died 7th Feb. 1780 in Iredell County, NC.  Wife:  Rosanne Alexander.  [This "Alexander" name is of significance because some sources, not our old West Tenn. records say that "our" immigrant Alexander McCorkle, the one born ca.1722- & died in 1800 & is buried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church, was born to a Mrs. Samuel McCorkle, née ___ ALEXANDER.  So, here is an Alexander clue for us.]

III. Andrew B. Morrison, born 1780 (18th July 1780) in Iredell County, NC, and died in 1853 in Preble County, Ohio.  His marriage was in Bourbon County, Kentucky.  --His father Andrew Morrison, 1754-1780, was a 1st cousin to our Margaret MORRISON McCorkle. Here we see that some MORRISONs followed the NC to Bourbon Co., Ky., to Preble Co., Ohio, route, the shared route of the Purviances and some McCorkles.              

II.  David Morrison--1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

II.  William Morrison, who died before 1808--1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle..

_The following is probably going to be a repeat of much of the above, for which repetition I apologize. Someday I hope to meld the several pieces of Morrison Genealogy which I have gathered over the years.

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Morrison Genealogical Update added in the summer of 2007:

A lot of this information is from an anonymous contribution made to the Morrison file in the History Room of the Iredell Public Library in Statesville, NC.  I would like to make proper attribution, but cannot do so. The material in brackets was added by me, and some of it may be off-base.

 First:

Generation Zero (0)

 

Generation Zero (0) is James Morrison  -- 

James Morrison. --I think this James Morrison had a brother named Andrew Morrison. 

 

Generation One is William Morrison, born 1701 or 1704 - 1771, son of Generation Zero James Morrion.  This William Morrison, 1704-1771, removed to Iredell County, North Carolina. His wife's first name is Margaret (surname unknown) Morrison, 1715-1767.This is the man who referred to himself as the "first inhabitor" of the Third Creek region that became Loray, Iredell County, NC.  He erected a mill there, according in part to the colonial records of Moravian [Czech group also known as the United Brethren] Bishop Spanenburg.  This William Morrison didn't want his corpse to be exhumed and reburied, but was to suffer the indignity much later, in the late 20th century, of being re-interred at Centre Church.  I think it was he for whom Sue Alice McCorkle Lee & Julia McCorkle Montgomery, my father Ewing Huie's first cousins and each interested in McCorkle-Morrison Genealogy, gave permission to NC authorities to  move and preserve the grave.  --  Also, I think but am not certain that this William Morrison's brothers were  Thomas, James, & Andrew. -- I'm in great danger of being confused here and of  having this wrong, so read it "cum grano salis" [with a grain of salt] as a pontificating lawyer once wrote and made me laugh.]

Generation Two is the Andrew Morrison who married Elizabeth Sloan.

Generation Three is 1770-1848 Margaret Morrison McCorkle who m. Robert McCorkle.

 

More on Generation Two

II.1.   Margaret Morrison who m. Mr. George Erwin 

 This Margaret Morrison Erwin would be a sister to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, wouldn't it? I'm iffy about this...N.B. The Erwin name is listed at Fort Dobbs just outside Statesville in Iredell County, NC.

Generation Two    [This Rebecca Morrison Harris would be a sister to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, wouldn't it? I'm iffy about this....]

2.  Rebecca Morrison (Harris),    born _______ and died 1776.  She married on 7th Aug. 1758 Samuel Harris.  They had 10 children and lived a tiny bit north of Loray, NC.  [This is what the anonymous source says: ...they lived]  "...on plantation owned by family of Lewis F. Stevenson; buried at foot of grave of parents where a rough stone inscribed '"R.H. 1776"' marks her resting place."

 

Generation Two .3.      [This Hugh  Morrison would be a brother to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, wouldn't he? I'm almost sure but yet a bit iffy about this.... ]

Hugh Morrison  -- [an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle.  Nothing is said about him in Statesville.]

 

Generation Two.    [This is the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan and was father of, inter alia,  the 1770-1848 Margaret Morrison McCorkle.] The following is quoted verbatim from the anonymous piece in the Statesville library:

 

"4.  Andrew Morrison, 3^rd, was granted 493 acres of land on both sides of 5^th Creek / North Fork / and on both sides of Turnersburg Road, including the crossing at the "Five Mile Branch."  His home was north of the Turnersburg Road and west of the Olin Road.  In 1790 he deeded to his son George Morrison a tract including the old Milton Morrison place, south of the 5 Mile Branch, now owned by George Wesley Morrison, a great-grandson, whose children are of the 5th generation on this tract. [Marsha Cope Huie adds:  I guess this "old Milton Morrison place" means George Milton Morrison, 1828-1902, a grandson of Andrew Morrison (3rd), & a son of George Morrison, George Morrison being Andrew Morrison 3rd's son; but I am not sure.]   Here at the large oaks on the hill, south of the crossing, George Milton Morrison settled and raised his family of children.

 

"Children of Andrew were

[III]    Rachel       [Marsha Cope Huie adds:  Rachel Morrison Brown, alias Mrs. Robert Brown]  --[her sister Margaret Morrison McCorkle wrote in a letter that, as best she had been able to discern, her sister Rachel had died in 1835. Margaret did not use the word "Brown" regarding Rachel.]

 

[III]    William     [Marsha Cope Huie adds: William Hay(e)s Morrison, buried beside his sister Margaret Morrison McCorkle in the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer Co., Tennessee, although his wife née Haynes who predeceased him is buried in Bedford County, Tennessee. William Hays Morrison lived 1767-1837. His old tombstone at the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County, in great peril during my childhood and now gone, used to say succinctly:Sacred to the memory of WILLIAM MORRISON, 1767-1837, aged 70 years x days y months."

Sacred to the memory of

William Morrison

1767-1837

aged 70 yrs [ x mos  y  dys, but the months and days  I cannot remember now]

And that was all:  no "Hays" listed as middle name; no wife's name; and no children's names.  I used to wonder why a Morrison man was lying in eternal rest beside Margaret McCorkle; now I know she must have seen to the burial of her elder brother.

 

[III]    Margeret  [sic]  [Marsha Cope Huie adds:  Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848, alias Mrs. Robert McCorkle, McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County]  This source has her birthday wrong, I think, although it's possible Margaret mis-remembered her own birthday once she left NC.  She wrote to her daughter Elmira that she had been born 11 August 1770.]

 

[III]    Rebecca  -- [Marsha Cope Huie adds:  in old age, Rebecca lived with her younger sister Mary Morrison Morrison in the home of a James C. Morrison near Hillsboro, Coffee County, Tennessee.  Mary Morrison Morrison's relationship to James C. Morrison is unknown. Was James her son?  her stepson?  Evidently, Rebecca Morrison never married.] 

[III]    Elizabeth --  ["Elizabeth, mar. John Lowrie.  In 1850 made will to bro. George Morrison."]

 

[III]    Mary             [Marsha Cope Huie adds:  Mary Morrison Morrison, alias Mrs. John Morrison; m. John, who was a son of her uncle Patrick Morrison.]

 

[III]    Andrew        [ Marsha Cope Huie adds: I guess this is Andrew Sloan Morrison]

[This Iredell County NC source writes later, "Andrew a preacher, went to Indiana."]

 and

[III]    George Morrison.

[George Morrison m. a Martha Morrison. Evidently, she was a cousin; they remained in Iredell Co., NC.]

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[Generation III] "a1. Rachel, mar. Robert Brown  [Generation III]

 

[Generation III] a2  William [William Hay(e)s Morrison] 

[Gen. IV.]  b1 Joseph    b2 Eliza  b3 Elinor   b4 John   b5 William

           [Marsha Cope Huie adds:  According to a letter dated 1857 from Mary Morrison Morrison, alias Mrs. John Morrison, the above [IV.] b5 William Morrison (a son of that writer's, Mary's, brother William Hays Morrison and of the wife born Haynes), this b5 [Generation IV] William Morrison had the following children:

Generation IV.     1st     Eliza Elenor Morrison aged 15 [?] years [in 1857],

Generation IV.    2nd     William Bell [Morrison] 14 [?],     [in 1857]

Generation IV.    3rd     Joseph Pinckney [Morrison] 12,     [in 1857]

Generation IV.     4th     George Columbus [Morrison] 10,  [in 1857]

Generation IV.    5th     Sarah Elizabeth [Morrison] aged 7,  [in 1857]

 Generation IV.    6th     Mary Catharine [Morrison] age 3   [in 1857].

[Generation III]     a3  Margeret [sic] mar. Robert McCorkle  [Marsha Cope Huie adds: and Margaret Morrison McCorkle moved to Rutherford County in Middle Tennessee then to Dyer County in the Western District, where she died in 1848 and is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County.  Her husband Robert McCorkle's grave, dug in 1828, is the first in that cemetery.]

 

Generation III]    a4  Rebecca  [Marsha Cope Huie adds: Rebecca Morrison never married, I think, and lived at least in her old age with her sister Mary Morrison Morrison in the home of a James Morrison, near Hillsboro in Coffee County, Tennessee.]

 

Generation III]    a5  George Morrison, Aug. 10, 1771 - 1854, married in Sept 1806, Martha Morrison, dau [end of line, words may be missing] of Wm., son of James;  1779-1851.

         [Gen. IV.]    b1  Elizabeth                        Aug 30^th 1807

         [Gen. IV.]    b2  Hiram Andrew,             1809-1844

         [Gen. IV.]    b3  Rufus                               1811-1844

         [Gen. IV.]    b4  Mary Amanda                1814-1879

         [Gen. IV.]    b5  Rebecca Athea               1816

         [Gen. IV.]    b6  Sarah Adaline                1819-1871

         [Gen. IV.]    b7  Martha Clementine       1819-1905

         [Gen. IV.]    b8  George Milton Morrison,     1828-1902, m. 1856                                                        Emiline Nicholson [Morrison], 1832-19__.

    "Of the children of George Morrison, this [child, George Milton Morrison, was the] only one to raise a family.  A family tree and interesting relics in the family."

"  c1   Mary Louise, 1837-1937

c2  Martha Emeline

c3  Florence Angeline 1862

c4  Elizabeth Jane 1866- ____

c5  George Wesley  1867-19__, m.  Lives at the old homestead, has children

c6  Sidney Reece, 1870-19__, m.  

[Generation III.]     a6   Elizabeth, mar. John Lowrie.  1850 made will to bro. George

[Generation III.]    a7   Mary Morrison, mar. John Morrison [her 1st cousin, a son of Patrick the son of Wm.]

[Generation III.]    a8    Andrew a preacher, went to Indiana

                                                  [I Marsha think he was Andrew Sloan Morrison.]

         [Generation IV.]    b1  Eli Morrison, went to Ohio

          [Generation IV.]  b2 George McKnight Morrison, mar. and went to Va.

                                     b3   [I couldn't read this]

                                     b4   [I couldn't read this]

         [Generation IV.]   b5   Joseph, went to Louisiana

         [Generation IV.]   b6   NIEL Morrison

[Generation V.]    c1  Mary.   c2 Sarah E.    c3  Georgiana    [Generation V.]    c4 Sidney

 

[Generation V.]    c5  David Nelson, went to Indiana

 

[Generation II.]     5  Patrick Morrison, mar. lived 1st on Snow Creek, then Ky. or Tenn.    [Marsha Cope Huie adds: It was Patrick's  son John who m. John's 1st cousin Mary Morrison, Mary being a daughter of Andrew Morrison & Elizabeth Sloan Morrison.]  [Update in 2007 from Morrison Family of Montgomery County, Tennessee:  this Internet entry lists a son of Patrick Morrison as William Morrison, born circa 1769 in Rowan Co., NC and died circa 1839 in Montgomery County, Tennessee; and lists William Morrison's son as Josiah Morrison, born 1 June 1788 in NC and died 1 April 1868 in Montgomery County, Tennessee.

    [This Generation II. Patrick was a sibling of the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).]

 

[Generation II.]     6.  Mary Morrison, mar. Robert King.

[This Mary Morrison King was a sibling of the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison) & an aunt of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.]

[Generation II.]     7.  Martha Morrison mar. John Foster

[This Martha Morrison Foster was a sibling of the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).]

[Generation II.]     8.  William Morrison, 2nd, 17__ - 1822  mar. Martha ______  "

    [This William Morrison was a sibling of the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).]

 

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 [End of material quoted directly from anonymous source's placement in the History Room of the Public Library of Iredell County in Statesville, North Carolina.  Material placed in brackets above is added by me.]   Please, somebody, tell me who the author was so I can make proper attribution.]

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We discern the following from the 1857 letter, transcribed in Chapter Two--will be New Chapter Three-- of this compilation, from Mary Morrison Morrison (a sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle) to one of her nephews; and from facts your compiler (Marsha) has acquired over the years:

 

Generation III William Hays Morrison, 1767-1837, who is buried beside his sister III. Margaret Morrison McCorkle in Dyer County, Tennessee (McCorkle Cemetery).  William Hays Morrison had these children, evidently by wife nee Haynes, viz.,

IV.1  Joseph    IV.2  Eliza  IV.3. Elinor   IV.4.  John  IV.5 William

 

Generation III Mary Morrison Morrison [who m. her 1st cousin John Morrison, a son of the Patrick Morrison who was a brother to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison)] writes in 1857 from Hillsboro, Coffee County, Tennessee, a letter to her nephew IV.1. Joseph Pinckney Morrison :  "I had a letter from your brother William [Gen. IV.5. William Bell Morrison] dated April 17th [1857]. I had made particular enquiries about all his family, he answered me pretty well about his children,

[children of Gen. IV.5. William Bell Morrison]:

 

[Generation V]      1st     Eliza Elenor aged 15 [?] years,

[Generation V]      2nd     William Bell 14 [?],    

[Generation V]      3rd     Joseph Pin[c]kney 12,

[Generation V]      4th     George Columbus 10,

[Generation V]      5th     Sarah Elizabeth aged 7,

[Generation V]       6th     Mary Catharine age 3."

 

The anonymous source in Iredell County, NC, Statesville Public Library had listed the children of III. William [Hays] Morrison [1767-1837] as:

  [IV]  b1  Joseph    b2 Eliza  b3 Elinor   b4 John  b5 William

 

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This is going to be New Chapter Two--  The Morrison Family of Mrs. Robert McCorkle (1770-1848) of Rowan/Iredell County, North Carolina, and finally of Dyer County, Tennessee:

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Now, to some MORRISON Genealogy --Margaret Morrison McCorkle (2^nd wife of Robert McCorkle):

 

As best I can figure it, here is some genealogy for MARGARET MORRISON McCORKLE

--Update:  The following has been updated at the end of Chapter 15, after my trip in May 2007 to the history room of the Iredell County Public Library in Statesville, North Carolina.

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The following information is in part based upon a chart that Stuart Hoyle Purvines placed in a huge genealogical collection he published privately in 1984 on the Purviance Family.  --  To my amazement, I just learned in 2007 that a brother of my cousin Diane White married a daughter of Stu Purvines.  My mother's mother, Notie Headden Cope (1886-1984) had a mother named Ada TAYLOR Headden (Mrs. Winfield Scott Headden of Dyer County, Tennessee).  Ada Taylor Headden had a sister named Dora Taylor (Mrs. White) who moved across the Mississippi River to Missouri.  So, my mother Joyce Cope Huie's Taylor-Headden cousin Diane White (granddaughter of Aunt Dora Taylor White of Dorena, Missouri) has a brother who married a daughter of Stuart Hoyle Purvines of Missouri.  Small world, indeed.

Some of this information may be wrong.  I've added some information, e.g., the siblings I know about of Margaret Morrison (Mrs. Robert McCorkle).  Also, I've used materials on file in the history room of the Iredell County, North Carolina, public library in Statesville, as well as an Internet placement about the Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee.  Here goes, with a primitive version:

 

I think the progenitor, the father of Generation One, was a James Morrison, born circa 1675 in Scotland or Northern Ireland; but I am not sure about this. This must be verified.... .... ....The anonymous posting in the Statesville, Iredell Co., NC, history room says the following. [Please, someone, tell me who authored this:]

"James Morrison left Scotland for Ireland about the year 1700.  They [the family?] came to America from Londonderry [Northern Ireland] or Fermaugh, and settled near Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  He had four sons: Thomas, James, William, and Andrew.  These came to North Carolina at an early date and settled on Third Creek, south of Loray in what is now Iredell County."    [[[[[[[--- An entry on the Internet under "Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee, says this about this James Morrison:  "James Morrison, b. circa 1675 in Scotland, married circa 1701.]]]]]]]]

[[Also, something I, Marsha Cope Huie,  read somewhere makes me wonder if this person moved to Natmeal Village, Chester County, Pennsylvania and died 1760????? --I do NOT know if this is "our" James Morrison the Generation Zero emigrant from Scotland-Northern Ireland. ]]]

And so I (Marsha Cope Huie) list as Generation One, here, the brothers I. William, I. Thomas, I. James, and I. Andrew:

 Generation I.  William, 1704-1771  --his wife's first name was Margaret, last name unknown; they died and were buried in Iredell Co., NC, near Statesville. This generation one William Morrison is the father to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison), which makes this Generation One William the grandfather of Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1848).   

Here's what the anonymous posting in the Statesville, Iredell Co., NC, history room says:

 "William Morrison, according to his tombstone was the first white inhabitant of the county, and died June 3, 1771, but his will dated July 13, 1771 [mentions his] 'being sick and weak of body,' so there is some confusion.  It was probated the August term of court following.  From BISHOP Joseph SPANNENBURG's [Marsha edits: ? sic: ?Bishop August Gottlieb Spanenburg?] letter --Colonial Records Volume V page one-- we learn that he had a mill in operation November 1752.  Writing from 'Forks of Little River, south of the Brushy Mountains,/ which would be near the present site of Taylorsville/'  he says, 'About fourteen miles from here lives a Scotch-Irish family; there is said to be a mill there but there is neither road nor way leading to it.' [End of quotation from Bishop Spanenburg]

"The Morrison graveyard is situated on an elevated plateau, between two branches about one-half mile northwest from the old mill, and a mile or so southwest from Loray.  It is walled in with stone and about sixty yards square in area.  In 1820, there was some rivalry between it and Concord graveyard, that resulted in both being enclosed with stone.

 "On one headstone--a nice smooth soapstone slab--is the following unique inscription, both in lettering and substance:  the letters being raised, and the "S" being executed like "P" [β], as follows:

W.M.

Wm. Morrison was born March 1704, June 9        departed this life June 3 1771 aged 67 years.      And as he was the first white inhabitant of the county      and poβeβor of this land he requests that his grave       and that on his left should never be opened.

[Marsha C. Huie adds:  in fact his grave was opened and was preserved at Centre Churchyard, according to a North Carolina highway marker.  --  I think it was descendants Sue Alice McCorkle Lee and Julia McCorkle Montgomery (McCorkle 1st cousins to my father Howard Ewing Huie) who gave permission sometime in the 1980s for removal and reburial of William Morrison. They visited sites in NC and found the landowner who wanted to get the graves moved off his farmland.  I may be wrong about this, as they didn't remember the precise Morrison first name upon their return to Tennessee.]

 

M.M.

Margeret                  Morrison                         was born AD 1715    deceased June 1767   in the 52nd year of her life.

"Another:

A.M.                Andrew                          Morrison                        born 1754, June 9                died Feb. 1780, aged 26 years

"Others read:

                G.I.S.                 

     Gerimiah Scroggs

          born April 8, 1753       

   departed this life Oct. 12, 1839,

             age 84 years, 6 mo.       

 

                        M.S.

                        Margaret Scroggs

         Departed  this life 1835

 

James Guy, Sr. born 1742: died 1813 [broken...]

Isabel Guy, born Mar. 11 1744, died 20 July 1828, age 84

______Guy

born April 23, 1789

 died Feb. 1850, age 60 y.

Alfred Guy  1787-1859

his wife, Harriot Guy, 1802-1866.

M. Walton, 1739-1822.

"About 200 yards west of the old graveyard stood the family [Generation I. William Morrison, 1704-1771] residence, the basement of which is in evidence by a sunken place in the field three or four feet deep.  Formerly a road from the mill passed nearby on the west; while another on the east passed up the branch more towards Loray. West of the home tradition locates an Indian grave.  An Indian lying in wait for Mr. Morrison, on one occasion, was observed from the house when he [William Morrison], passed out from the opposite side, executed a flank movement circling around him and observing his intentions, he [the Indian] was approached from the rear and dispatched with his trusty rifle.

" Tradition handed down by the family of John Morrison, Revolutionary soldier, is that there were two families of the name unrelated, came into the county originally."

                                 

  Generation I. Thomas;  this generation one Thomas Morrison is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison), and a great-uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848;

  Generation I. James b. ? 1702-????) (m. Mary ______) born circa 1702(?)   & died ?1779?--  [???is there a chance that he married Mary Newlin as someone has placed on www.ancestry.com ??  I don't think Mary Newlin married "our" James Morrison born 1702.  An entry on ancestry.com lists a James Morrison who was b. 1720 in Delaware and died 1766 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as marrying Mary Newlin, 1722-1775 in Concord, Chester Co., Pennsylvania.?? ;  this generation one James Morrison is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison), and a great-uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848.

-- The entry on the Internet under "Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee, says this about the progenitor/ Generation Zero, James Morrison:  "James Morrison, b. circa 1675 in Scotland, married circa 1701; --and then says this about the Generation One James Morrison:  "James Morrison, born about 1702 probably in Northern Ireland died 1779 in Rowan County, North Carolina; spouse:  Mary____; and lists his children as [my, Marsha Huie's, Generation Two):

2.  Andrew Morrison

2. Thomas Morrison

2.  James Morrison

2.  John Morrison

2.  Mary Morrison

2.  Martha Morrison

2.  William Morrison

2.  Catherine Morrison, born 1774-died 1822;

2.  Sarah Morrison

2.  Margaret Morrison, born 1765-died 1838.  This is NOT Margaret Morrison McCorkle (is not Mrs. Robert McCorkle, 1770-1848).

I cannot yet make proper attribution to the author of The Morrisons of Montgomery County (Tennessee), but am hoping the author contacts me for collaboration. I am most grateful for this author's information and hope to give proper attribution.

& Generation I. Andrew (Morrison), 1718- 5 Feb. 1770;  married Mary McKnight Purviance, born 1734 in Northern Ireland and died 5 Oct. 1784 in Rowan-Iredell County, North Carolina. This Andrew = my, Marsha's, Morrison generation one  --this generation one Andrew Morrison is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison), and a great-uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848. This Andrew is buried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church, Mill Bridge near Mooresville near Salisbury, North Carolina.

More on Generation One: 

MORRISON Generation One Siblings:  (my ancestor Generation I.)  WILLIAM MORRISON, was born in 1704 [was he born in Northern Ireland?  Scotland?] & died 1771 in Rowan-later Iredell County, NC, (m. Margaret __?__)-- This William is the paternal grandfather of Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle, 1770-1848, born in Rowan-Iredell Co. but  last of Dyer Co., Tennessee). That is, this Generation I. William Morrison is the father of inter alia the Andrew Morrison who married Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison);

Morrison Generation One: Siblings:   Generation I. THOMAS Morrison  --  This Thomas Morrison is an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle's father, that is, this generation one Thomas Morrison is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison). ;

Morrison Generation One Siblings: JAMES MORRISON (b. ? 1702-????) (m. Mary ___? ___).  --This James Morrison is an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle's father, that is, this generation one James Morrison is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison). ;

Morrison Generation One Siblings:  Generation I.  Andrew Morrison,  born 1718, and died 5 FEB 1770 in Iredell Co., NC, buried in Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery, married Mary McKnight Purviance, born 1734 in Northern Ireland and died 5 Oct. 1784 in Rowan-Iredell County, North Carolina.  -- This Andrew Morrison is an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle's father, that is, this generation one Andrew Morrison is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).  When I first saw his tombstone at Thyatira, I incorrectly thought he was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle; in fact, he was Margaret Morrison McCorkle's father's uncle.

More on Generation One William Morrison:

Generation I.    William Morrison, 1704-3 June 1771, m. Margaret (maiden name unknown) (Morrison).  Their Children=Generation Two=

 II. Rebecca Morrison (Mrs. Samuel Harris), born ?1737? in  ?Lancaster County, Pennsylvania? ; was Samuel Harris born circa 1735 in Pennsylvania and did he die 5 October 1796 in Statesville, Iredell Co., NC ??

??II.  Was there a Mary Morrison born circa 1738 as listed in the Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee Internet listing????

 II.  Hugh Morrison,

 II.  Patrick Morrison, --In a letter included in this compilation, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache inquired from her mother, Margaret Morrison McCorkle, if the latter's (Margaret McCorkle's) sister Mary Morrison had married a son of "Uncle Patrick," and if so what had happened to the "poor children."  Indeed, Margaret answered Elmira's inquiry, generation III. Mary Morrison had married Generation III. John Morrison who was a son of this Generation II. Patrick Morrison.  But Margaret did not inform Elmira as to what had happened to the poor children-- I do not know if Generation II. Patrick Morrison's grandchildren through his son John Morrison (Generation III) came through Generation III. Mary Morrison (Morrison); but it is known that Generation III. Mary appears on the 1850 census of Coffee Co., Tenn., as living (along with Mary's sister Rebecca Morrison) with the one-generation-younger family of a James C. Morrison.

As soon shown below, the unknown author of The Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee writes that this Generation II   Patrick Morrison, married Ann Foster (Morrison). Was Patrick Morrison born in 1744 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, and did Patrick die 5 July 1810 in Wilson County, Tennessee, as  The Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee states? 

II. Martha Morrison Foster,

 

FOSTER Excursus:  Fauster or Foster

Generation I. Alexander McCorkle b. 1722-d.1800 Thyatira Presbyterian Church, the immigrant;

  Generation II.  son John McCorkle who m. not Catherine "Katie" MORRISON (who was the wife of this John's brother,  generation II Alexander McCorkle who ended up in Henry Co., Tennessee) but instead son John McCorkle married CATHERINE "Katie" BARR;

 III.  son JOEL McCorkle who may have been the only child of John McCorkle m. Mary Ann "Polly Ann" Fauster.  About this Generation II-John McCorkle, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache wrote (gathered in this compilation) that her uncle John died young but was a member of the legislature and much respected and that John's son (her 1^st cousin) followed in John's honors. The exact quotation from Elmira:

"« John an elder in the church and member of the Legislature, useful and much beloved, died in the prime of life leaving an only son [Marsha Cope Huie adds: Joel McCorkle who m. Mary Ann "Polly Ann" Foster] who walked in his father's steps and enjoyed his  honors.>>"

--I found some of Joel's papers in the Robert Ramsay/James Graham Ramsay/'Nancy' Agnes McCorkle Ramsay papers in the UNoCarolina Archives.  Joel may not have been a lawyer but clearly understood legal language.

  Generation IV.  Children of Polly Ann Fauster (McCorkle):

Generation IV.1.  Lavinia McCorkle

Generation IV.2.  John Finley McCorkle

Generation IV.3.  Milton Enos McCorkle  --Milton Enos McCorkle was an ancestor of "Dick" Richard Barton late of Nashville.  Dick Barton was a friend of Annie Glen McCorkle's from circa 1960s and he had a son who removed from Nashville in high school.

Generation IV.4.  Samuel Ebenezer McCorkle

 Generation IV.5.  Mary Malissa McCorkle

 Generation IV.6.   Tirza C. McCorkle

I do not know if the above McCorkle-Fauster/Foster people were kin to these Fauster/Foster-Morrison people.

II.  Sarah Morrison,

II.  Nancy Morrison,

II.  Margaret Morrison (Mrs. George Erwin), ?born 1734? & married ?1757? ;

 II. Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan;      --was he born 9 June 1744 in Colerain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania? or was he born about 1745 in Rowan County, NC?  ==  and did he marry on 26 March 1766 Elizabeth Sloan, born 1746?  --  Our old West Tennessee records reveal no birth/death/marriage data on Elizabeth Sloan (Mrs. Andrew) Morrison.

and

II. William Morrison Jr., about whom more is written immediately below.

 The Morrisons of Montgomery County (Tennessee) whose author is unknown to me states that Generation One William Morrison, 1704-1771, married Margaret ______ about 1733.  --I, Marsha, believe that it was this William Morrison who often took shelter at Fort Dobbs (just outside today's Statesville, NC) in Rowan-Iredell County during the French and Indian Wars.

          Generation II: 

   Generation  II Hugh Morrison--an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle

                           II Margaret Morrison  (Erwin) b. 1734?  an aunt of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848 (inter alia);

The Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee, author writes that this Margaret Morrison (Erwin/Ervin) was born about 1734 probably in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and married George Erwin/Ervin who was born about 1730 & married about 1757 & died circa March 1783 in Rowan County, NC.

Generation II   Patrick Morrison, m. Ann Foster. Was Patrick born in 1744 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, and did Patrick die 5 July 1810 in Wilson County, Tennessee?  The Wilson County, Tennessee, location stated in The Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee makes sense to me, Marsha Cope Huie, because Patrick's daughter-in-law Mary Morrison Morrison (Mrs. John Morrison) writes in her old age to her nephew Robert "RAH" McCorkle in effect:  tell Quincy Roache we remember the sweet little boy who played so cutely when we all lived on Bradley's Creek (in Middle Tennessee).

The Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee, lists one child of Patrick & Ann Foster Morrison, viz., William Morrison, 1769-1839. This is my only source for this descendant--except that Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, as stated above, wrote to her mother asking what had happened to [Elmira's great]Uncle Patrick's  children?          III.  William Morrison, born circa 1769, Rowan Co., NC and died about 1839 in Montgomery Co., Tennessee  --This William Morrison, circa 1769-1839, would have been a 1^st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle, 1770-1848).

The Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee picks up some of the descendants of this Generation III William_Morrison, circa 1769-circa 1839, in that it lists the children of William's son JOSIAH Morrison, born 1 June 1788 in North Carolina and died 1 April 1868 in Montgomery County, Tennessee.  This Internet posting is my only source for this William Morrison (son of Patrick) and William's son Josiah Morrison, 1788-1868.

 

[I, Marsha C. Huie, know Generation Two Patrick Morrison had at least one other son: Generation Three John Morrison, who m. his 1st cousin Mary Morrison (Generation 3), Mary a daughter of Generation Two Andrew Morrison & wife Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).  This generation two Patrick is an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle, inter alia.  Who was the James C. Morrison, living near Hillsboro, Coffee County, Tennessee, with whom Mary Morrison Morrison & her older sister Rebecca Morrison (each Generation 3) lived in their very old age?  Was James C. Morrison a son of Generation 3 John Morrison, John being a son of Generation Two Patrick Morrison?]

 II Martha Morrison, m. John Foster  -- aunt to Margaret Morrison McCorkle

II Sarah Morrison       -- aunt to Margaret Morrison McCorkle

II Nancy Morrison       -- aunt to Margaret Morrison McCorkle

II George Erwin Morrison    --an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle

                           

II Andrew Morrison, m. Elizabeth Sloan (parents of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848, inter alia)  --  This generation two Andrew Morrison is the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle).

--Something I read says the following, but I do not know if it's correct or even if it refers to "our" Elizabeth Sloan Morrison (Mrs. Andrew Morrison: Andrew Morrison, 1744-1815, married on 26 March 1766 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania:  Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison), who was born about 1745 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  [Again, is this correct?]

(It is Elizabeth Sloan Morrison --my ancestor Mrs. Andrew Morrison, immediately above--whose Sloan mother, Mrs. _[_X?] McCorkle Sloan(e), was herself a  sister to Alexander McCorkle the immigrant to the colonies, 1^st to Penn. then finally Rowan Co., NC, where Alexander died in 1800.  Source:  a letter of Elmira Sloan(e) McCorkle Roach(e) [granddaughter of Alexander McCorkle; & granddaughter of Andrew Morrison & Elizabeth Sloan] to her nephew in Newbern, Tennessee: James Scott McCorkle, M.D.  Elmira's letter is transcribed elsewhere in this collection.) 

 Generation III.   a dau. of Andrew & Elizabeth Sloan Morrison:  Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770 - d. 1848;   Margaret married Robert McCorkle in Rowan County, N.C. Finally they removed to and died in Dyer County, TN.

III.   son Andrew  Sloan Morrison [did he move back up to Virginia "to attend an old law suit" there, as sister Margaret Morrison McCorkle speculated in a letter to her daughter Elmira that is transcribed in this collection?-- some records I found in Iredell Co., NC, say that Andrew Sloan Morrison became a minister & removed to Indiana but I do not know;]

The Morrison Family of Montgomery County, Tennessee, author (author's name not given) states this about Andrew Sloan Morrison:  "born 17 Nov. 1779, Rowan County, North Carolina; died 5 January 1844 in Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana.  --I Marsha Cope Huie have seen elsewhere that he was a Presbyterian (or perhaps Cumberland Presbyterian) minister; I do not know.

 

III.   dau. Rachel Morrison Brown (was she a Mrs. Robert Brown?) --- "My sister Rachel died 1st July 1835" -- or so Margaret M. McCorkle thought about this sister as revealed in a letter to Margaret's daughter Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach(e).  The Morrison materials in the Statesville, Iredell County, genealogy room (no author stated) list this Rachel Morrison's husband as Robert Brown

 III.   son William Hays Morrison, 1767-1837--  this William Morrison is buried in Dyer Co. next to (beside) his sister Margaret Morrison McCorkle, whose husband Robert McCorkle's grave is on Margaret's other side.  This William Hay(e)s Morrison's wife née Haynes predeceased him & is according to information I found on the Internet and at www.ancestry.com buried in Bedford County, Tennessee.  Generation III William Morrison's old tombstone, now in ruins at the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County, West Tennessee, used to say, "Sacred to the memory of WILLIAM MORRISON, 1767-1837, aged 70 years x days y months."

 

 III.   dau. Mary Morrison Morrison, who married a son of her Uncle Patrick Morrison (yes, in this instance 1^st cousins married ! ).  Along with her older sister Rebecca Morrison, Mary ended her days in the home of a James C. Morrison, perhaps a son or nephew, near Hillsboro, Coffee County, Tennessee.  -- It is this aunt Mary Morrison that Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache accused of "constant complaints," and Elmira asked her mother Margaret Morrison McCorkle by letter "what happened to the poor children?"  Elmira opined that Aunt Rebecca [who lived in her extreme old age with a sister, Elmira's Aunt Mary, in somebody else's home--that of a James C. Morrison-- near Hillsboro, Tennessee] had probably grown fretful from long listening to the other's [Aunt Mary's] complaints.  --So, quaere:  what did happen to the "poor children?"   --See if Mary Morrison Morrison appears on the 1860 Coffee County, Tennessee, census; that is, had she died by the year 1860?  Mary's brother George Milton Morrison had remained in Iredell Co., NC, and George Milton Morrison had a daughter named Mary Amanda Morrison who appears on the Iredell Co., NC, census the same year that Mary Morrison Morrison appears on the Coffee Co., Tennessee, census.

Two of "Aunt Mary's" letters are gathered in this collection. She was living in the home then of a young man named James C. Morrison; it is unclear what her relationship was to him.  Was he a son? a nephew? a cousin?  Please recall Mary's niece's (Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache's) query in a letter posted to her, Elmira's, mother Margaret Morrison about Mary Morrison Morrison:  Elmira inquired, if it was uncle Patrick's son that aunt Mary married, "what happened to the poor children?" One wonders.... 

 Margaret Morrison McCorkle's son Edwin Alexander McCorkle from West Tennessee once sent Aunt Mary to the east a dollar bill, according to Aunt Mary Morrison's letter to Edwin's brother Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle dated 1851.  --And upon one occasion Edwin Alexander McCorkle, having heard of the penury of his mother's sisters Rebecca Morrison and Mary Morrison Morrison, drove a wagon to eastern Tennessee (Hillsboro, Coffee County) from Dyer County in West Tenn. expecting to rescue his elderly aunt Mary and older aunt Rebecca and take them to reside with his mother's people in Dyer County; but the two old ladies were afraid and would not travel westwardly with their nephew Edwin. Source of the latter story:  a letter from Margaret Morrison McCorkle to a child. 

III. Rebecca Morrison:  a sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle; Rebecca Morrison evidently never married; Rebecca Morrison died near Hillsboro, Coffee Co., Tennessee (see Rebecca's sister Mary Morrison Morrison, supra), attended by her younger, and complaining, sister Mary Morrison Morrison (Mrs. John Morrison, John being a son of Patrick Morrison, this Mary's uncle)--Translation:  Mary Morrison (Morrison) married her 1^st cousin John Morrison.  --Rebecca appears on the 1850 Coffee County census but not on the 1860 one, so I presume she died circa 1855.  Was she born circa 1774?

III.  Records in Iredell County, NC (Statesville Public Library) say there was an Elizabeth Morrison (Lowrie), a sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle but remaining in Loray Community, Iredell County, NC.  According to records in the Statesville, NC, public library, this sister left her worldly goods in 1850 to brother George Morrison who had remained in Rowan-Iredell County, NC.  From this one can infer that Elizabeth Morrison Lowrie left no surviving children.  George Morrison,  these materials say, remained at Third Creek, Iredell Co., NC--near or in the community of Loray, NC. As stated, this Generation III George Morrison, 10 Aug. 1771-1854, Iredell Co., NC, had several daughters [Mary Amanda Morrison, b. 1815-ish, for example] but only one child who left children: a son named Generation IV. George Milton Morrison, born circa 1824 in Iredell County.

 Elizabeth --  ["Elizabeth, mar. John Lowrie.  In 1850 made will to bro. George Morrison"]

 

III.  George Morrison  -- remained at Third Creek, Iredell Co., NC--near or in community of Loray, NC. This George had a son:  Generation IV. George Milton Morrison.... Records in the Statesville Public Library's family and local history room say that of the several children of this George Morrison, mostly females, only the son George MILTON Morrison procreated. --A letter from Mary Morrison Morrison transcribed in this Marsha Cope Huie collection says that she has recently heard from [Generation IV.] Mary Amanda Morrison, a daughter of her brother George Morrison.... I think this Mary Amanda Morrison (a daughter of this III. George Morrison) is the Mary Morrison on the Rowan County-Iredell Co., NC, census that brings confusion with the Mary Morrison Morrison (Mrs. John Morrison), who was sister to George Morrison, and also sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle, as well as being sister to all these other siblings listed here under Roman Numeral III, immediately above.  This would answer the query kindly placed on the Tennessee rootsweb genealogical web site by Jean Morrison of Cincinnati, Ohio, about there being two Mary Morrison ladies connected to George Morrison of the piedmont of NC.  Indeed there were:  George Morrison had a sister Mary Morrison (Mrs. John Morrison) and a daughter Mary Amanda Morrison.

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Generation II.  William Morrison, b. 1742? & died 22 March1822, Rowan Co., NC who married Martha Miller (Morrison) ? in 1767?-- this William was an uncle to, inter alia, Margaret Morrison McCorkle, as this William Morrison (the 2nd) was a brother to Margaret's father ANDREW MORRISON, who m. Elizabeth Sloan.  -- did he m. Jane Tucker in 1765?

The Morrison Family of Montgomery County, Tennessee, author (name unknown to me) lists the following as children of William Morrison, 1742? - 1822, viz.,

III.  Martha Morrison, born circa 1768 in Rowan Co., NC;  --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

 III. James Miller Morrison, born circa 1770 in Rowan County, NC;  --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

 III. Sarah Morrison, born circa 1772 in Rowan County, died circa 1836; --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

III. Margaret Morrison, born circa 1774 in Rowan Co., NC --This is absolutely not Margaret, Mrs. Robert McCorkle, who lived 1770-1848.  This is a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

III.  Nancy M. Morrison, born circa 1776 in Rowan Co., NC  --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

III.  William Morrison  --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

III.  Andrew Morrison  --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

III.  Hugh Morrison  --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

III.  John H. Morrison --a 1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1840)

The Morrison Family of Montgomery County, Tennessee, is my only source for the above Generation III children.

II.  Rebecca Morrison m. Samuel Harris on 8 Aug 1758;  b. ca. 1737 in ? Pennsylvania? died 11 Aug 1776--This Rebecca Morrison Harris was an aunt to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1848)

Children of Generation II Rebecca Morrison (Harris) and Samuel Harris:

 Generation III.  Rebecca Harris (Mrs. Andrew Provine or Purvine) = formerly  Purviance or in France PURVAIANCE;

III.  Samuel Harris (m. Sarah PURVIANCE)

III.  Margaret Harris m. William Roseboro or Roseborough 

                                                 II.  JOHN MORRISON m. Sarah Potts

II.  Andrew Morrison [a 1^st cousin, e.g., to the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770; that is, this Andrew Morrison was a first cousin to another Andrew Morrison.  What a confusing nomenclature the Morrison s chose for their children ! ]

II.  JAMES Morrison, m. Elizabeth PURVIANCE  [This is not the Elizabeth Purviance who became Mrs. William Thomas, mother of Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle alias Jane Maxwell Thomas.] More confusion...  This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770

II.  JOHN Morrison  --This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770

II.  MARY MORRISON, married JAMES MORRISON  --  The Morrisons were prone to marry their 1st cousins. [This is not the Mary Morrison who married a son, John Morrison, of her uncle Patrick Morrison; this latter Mary was a sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle. The Mary Morrison who m. James Morrison was not a sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle]  --This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770

II.  Martha Morrison, m. James McKee   --This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770.

II.  WILLIAM Morrison m. Elizabeth Murdock  --This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770.

II.  CATHERINE "KATIE" MORRISON m. JOHN McCORKLE, a brother to "our" Robert McCorkle (Robert McCorkle who died in 1828 in West Tenn., Dyer County).  -- Do I have the following wrong:  is Catherine "Katie" Morrison (Mrs. John McCorkle) a first cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle? I think this has to be correct.] Or, is Katie Morrison McCorkle a first cousin to Andrew's daughter, Margaret Morrison McCorkle?  -- Now, I'm confused and will have to stop to figure this out.   ....    We know that two  McCorkle brothers (John --father of Joel-- & Robert McCorkle) married Morrison cousins--but what was the degree of consanguinity?    If the former--Katie Morrison McCorkle & Margaret Morrison McCorkle were 1st cousins-once-removed):  then two McCorkle brothers married two women who were 1st-cousins-once-removed.  Conclusion:  --This Catherine "Katie" Morrison, later Mrs. John McCorkle, is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770; and ranks therefore as a first-cousin-once-removed to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle).--I'm still a bit hesitant about this, though.

II.  Sarah Morrison, who m. James POTTS   --This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770

II.  Margaret MORRISON who m. John McCLELLAND  -- This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770; so, our Margaret Morrison McCorkle had a 1st cousin-once-removed  --  named Margaret Morrison McClelland.

II.  THOMAS Morrison  --This is a 1^st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770

GENERATION I.  ANDREW MORRISON m. Mary McKnight Purviance, a daughter of {John Purviance & wife Margaret McKnight Purviance}.  Born in Northern Ireland in 1734, she moved with her parents to Third Creek, NC.  This  ANDREW MORRISON is buried at THYATIRA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CEMETERY in NC.  He died in 1770, and he is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who sired Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1840.    Their children:

II.  Margaret Morrison (Mrs. James ADAMS)  He died in Preble County, Ohio, in 1821.  --1^st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

II.  Sarah (Mrs. James MURDOCK)  ----1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

II.  Martha (m. 21st June 1794: Henry McHenry) ----1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

II.  Mary Morrison (Mrs. ABSALOM KNOX ---- 1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

Please recall young (approximately ten-years-old) Addison Locke Roache Sr's 1827 letter (probably written from Indiana) to his uncle Edwin Alexander McCorkle in Dyer County, Tennessee, saying that Absalom Knox was teaching school up north.  [As delineated in this chapter's Morrison Genealogy, Absalom Knox married a Morrison woman kin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle, grandmother of young Addison Locke Roache.   To repeat:  One of the many  "ANDREW MORRISONs"  married Mary McKnight Purviance, a daughter of {John Purviance & wife Margaret McKnight Purviance}.  Born in Northern Ireland in 1734, she moved with her parents to Third Creek, NC.  This  ANDREW MORRISON is buried at THYATIRA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CEMETERY in NC.  He died in 1770.  --  His & Mary McKnight Purviance Morrison's daughter Mary Morrison m. Absalom Knox. Mary Morrison was the 2nd wife of Absalom Knox; so Mary Morrison Knox was Elmira's 1st-cousin-twice-removed and Addison's 1st-cousin-thrice-removed.  --But that letter was written in 1827, so the foregoing cannot be right about this Absalom Knox, because this particular Absalom Knox lived 1738-1808. (I cannot resolve this.) ] One of the Absalom Knox men was son of Jean GRACEY & John Knox. Had 3 children:  III. William KNOX m. Margaret Armstrong; and III. Andrew Knox m. Margaret Adams.  Andrew Knox had 2: generation IV. Milton Knox and IV. Agnes Knox (Mrs. Hill McCorkle).

II.  JOHN Morrison   died 20th January 1790. ----1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

           John Morrison married in 1784 Frances Wilson, 1757-1832, a stepdaughter of Samuel Harris; then Frances Wilson (widow Morrison) married George Niblock. [Now, the Huie folk in Rowan-Iredell Co. somehow are kin to Gracie/Gracey Niblock. My father's paternal aunt, Aunt Phronie, that is Sophronia Huie Thompson, used to correspond with her father Julius M. Huie's Niblock cousins in NC.]

III. = Children of John Morrison & Frances Wilson (Morrison): =

III. Andrew Morrison; III. Josiah Morrison, b. 11th May 1797, died Fayette Co., Tennessee (near Memphis) in 1880; married a woman named Margaret who died in Fayette Co., TN, in 1878. III. Elam Morrison; III. Mary Morrison.

II.  James Morrison married ELIZABETH PURVIANCE.  --1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.   This James was born a posthumous child of his father. 3 children:

III.  Zeno Morrison (Ireland) 1798-1861 [Zenobia?]  m. Dorcas Ireland; Polly Dickey; and Mary D. Jones.

III. John Morrison

III. Malinda Morrison, b. 24th Feb. 1796 (Mrs. Fleming Mitchell)

II.  ANDREW Morrison  --  a 1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.  This Andrew Morrison was born 19th January 1754 and died 7th Feb. 1780 in Iredell County, NC.  Wife:  Rosanne Alexander.  [This "Alexander" name is of significance because some sources, not our old West Tenn. records say that "our" immigrant Alexander McCorkle, the one born ca.1722- & died in 1800 & is buried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church, was born to a Mrs. Samuel McCorkle, née ___ ALEXANDER.  So, here is an Alexander clue for us.]

III. Andrew B. Morrison, born 1780 (18th July 1780) in Iredell County, NC, and died in 1853 in Preble County, Ohio.  His marriage was in Bourbon County, Kentucky.  --His father Andrew Morrison, 1754-1780, was a 1st cousin to our Margaret MORRISON McCorkle. Here we see that some MORRISONs followed the NC to Bourbon Co., Ky., to Preble Co., Ohio, route, the shared route of the Purviances and some McCorkles.              

II.  David Morrison--1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

II.  William Morrison, who died before 1808--1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle..

_The following is probably going to be a repeat of much of the above, for which repetition I apologize. Someday I hope to meld the several pieces of Morrison Genealogy which I have gathered over the years.

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Morrison Genealogical Update added in the summer of 2007:

A lot of this information is from an anonymous contribution made to the Morrison file in the History Room of the Iredell Public Library in Statesville, NC.  I would like to make proper attribution, but cannot do so. The material in brackets was added by me, and some of it may be off-base.

 First:

Generation Zero (0)

 

Generation Zero (0) is James Morrison  -- 

James Morrison. --I think this James Morrison had a brother named Andrew Morrison. 

 

Generation One is William Morrison, born 1701 or 1704 - 1771, son of Generation Zero James Morrion.  This William Morrison, 1704-1771, removed to Iredell County, North Carolina. His wife's first name is Margaret (surname unknown) Morrison, 1715-1767.This is the man who referred to himself as the "first inhabitor" of the Third Creek region that became Loray, Iredell County, NC.  He erected a mill there, according in part to the colonial records of Moravian [Czech group also known as the United Brethren] Bishop Spanenburg.  This William Morrison didn't want his corpse to be exhumed and reburied, but was to suffer the indignity much later, in the late 20th century, of being re-interred at Centre Church.  I think it was he for whom Sue Alice McCorkle Lee & Julia McCorkle Montgomery, my father Ewing Huie's first cousins and each interested in McCorkle-Morrison Genealogy, gave permission to NC authorities to  move and preserve the grave.  --  Also, I think but am not certain that this William Morrison's brothers were  Thomas, James, & Andrew. -- I'm in great danger of being confused here and of  having this wrong, so read it "cum grano salis" [with a grain of salt] as a pontificating lawyer once wrote and made me laugh.]

Generation Two is the Andrew Morrison who married Elizabeth Sloan.

Generation Three is 1770-1848 Margaret Morrison McCorkle who m. Robert McCorkle.

 

More on Generation Two

II.1.   Margaret Morrison who m. Mr. George Erwin 

 This Margaret Morrison Erwin would be a sister to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, wouldn't it? I'm iffy about this...N.B. The Erwin name is listed at Fort Dobbs just outside Statesville in Iredell County, NC.

Generation Two    [This Rebecca Morrison Harris would be a sister to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, wouldn't it? I'm iffy about this....]

2.  Rebecca Morrison (Harris),    born _______ and died 1776.  She married on 7th Aug. 1758 Samuel Harris.  They had 10 children and lived a tiny bit north of Loray, NC.  [This is what the anonymous source says: ...they lived]  "...on plantation owned by family of Lewis F. Stevenson; buried at foot of grave of parents where a rough stone inscribed '"R.H. 1776"' marks her resting place."

 

Generation Two .3.      [This Hugh  Morrison would be a brother to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, wouldn't he? I'm almost sure but yet a bit iffy about this.... ]

Hugh Morrison  -- [an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle.  Nothing is said about him in Statesville.]

 

Generation Two.    [This is the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan and was father of, inter alia,  the 1770-1848 Margaret Morrison McCorkle.] The following is quoted verbatim from the anonymous piece in the Statesville library:

 

"4.  Andrew Morrison, 3^rd, was granted 493 acres of land on both sides of 5^th Creek / North Fork / and on both sides of Turnersburg Road, including the crossing at the "Five Mile Branch."  His home was north of the Turnersburg Road and west of the Olin Road.  In 1790 he deeded to his son George Morrison a tract including the old Milton Morrison place, south of the 5 Mile Branch, now owned by George Wesley Morrison, a great-grandson, whose children are of the 5th generation on this tract. [Marsha Cope Huie adds:  I guess this "old Milton Morrison place" means George Milton Morrison, 1828-1902, a grandson of Andrew Morrison (3rd), & a son of George Morrison, George Morrison being Andrew Morrison 3rd's son; but I am not sure.]   Here at the large oaks on the hill, south of the crossing, George Milton Morrison settled and raised his family of children.

 

"Children of Andrew were

[III]    Rachel       [Marsha Cope Huie adds:  Rachel Morrison Brown, alias Mrs. Robert Brown]  --[her sister Margaret Morrison McCorkle wrote in a letter that, as best she had been able to discern, her sister Rachel had died in 1835. Margaret did not use the word "Brown" regarding Rachel.]

 

[III]    William     [Marsha Cope Huie adds: William Hay(e)s Morrison, buried beside his sister Margaret Morrison McCorkle in the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer Co., Tennessee, although his wife née Haynes who predeceased him is buried in Bedford County, Tennessee. William Hays Morrison lived 1767-1837. His old tombstone at the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County, in great peril during my childhood and now gone, used to say succinctly:Sacred to the memory of WILLIAM MORRISON, 1767-1837, aged 70 years x days y months."

Sacred to the memory of

William Morrison

1767-1837

aged 70 yrs [ x mos  y  dys, but the months and days  I cannot remember now]

And that was all:  no "Hays" listed as middle name; no wife's name; and no children's names.  I used to wonder why a Morrison man was lying in eternal rest beside Margaret McCorkle; now I know she must have seen to the burial of her elder brother.

 

[III]    Margeret  [sic]  [Marsha Cope Huie adds:  Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848, alias Mrs. Robert McCorkle, McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County]  This source has her birthday wrong, I think, although it's possible Margaret mis-remembered her own birthday once she left NC.  She wrote to her daughter Elmira that she had been born 11 August 1770.]

 

[III]    Rebecca  -- [Marsha Cope Huie adds:  in old age, Rebecca lived with her younger sister Mary Morrison Morrison in the home of a James C. Morrison near Hillsboro, Coffee County, Tennessee.  Mary Morrison Morrison's relationship to James C. Morrison is unknown. Was James her son?  her stepson?  Evidently, Rebecca Morrison never married.] 

[III]    Elizabeth --  ["Elizabeth, mar. John Lowrie.  In 1850 made will to bro. George Morrison."]

 

[III]    Mary             [Marsha Cope Huie adds:  Mary Morrison Morrison, alias Mrs. John Morrison; m. John, who was a son of her uncle Patrick Morrison.]

 

[III]    Andrew        [ Marsha Cope Huie adds: I guess this is Andrew Sloan Morrison]

[This Iredell County NC source writes later, "Andrew a preacher, went to Indiana."]

 and

[III]    George Morrison.

[George Morrison m. a Martha Morrison. Evidently, she was a cousin; they remained in Iredell Co., NC.]

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[Generation III] "a1. Rachel, mar. Robert Brown  [Generation III]

 

[Generation III] a2  William [William Hay(e)s Morrison] 

[Gen. IV.]  b1 Joseph    b2 Eliza  b3 Elinor   b4 John   b5 William

           [Marsha Cope Huie adds:  According to a letter dated 1857 from Mary Morrison Morrison, alias Mrs. John Morrison, the above [IV.] b5 William Morrison (a son of that writer's, Mary's, brother William Hays Morrison and of the wife born Haynes), this b5 [Generation IV] William Morrison had the following children:

Generation IV.     1st     Eliza Elenor Morrison aged 15 [?] years [in 1857],

Generation IV.    2nd     William Bell [Morrison] 14 [?],     [in 1857]

Generation IV.    3rd     Joseph Pinckney [Morrison] 12,     [in 1857]

Generation IV.     4th     George Columbus [Morrison] 10,  [in 1857]

Generation IV.    5th     Sarah Elizabeth [Morrison] aged 7,  [in 1857]

 Generation IV.    6th     Mary Catharine [Morrison] age 3   [in 1857].

[Generation III]     a3  Margeret [sic] mar. Robert McCorkle  [Marsha Cope Huie adds: and Margaret Morrison McCorkle moved to Rutherford County in Middle Tennessee then to Dyer County in the Western District, where she died in 1848 and is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County.  Her husband Robert McCorkle's grave, dug in 1828, is the first in that cemetery.]

 

Generation III]    a4  Rebecca  [Marsha Cope Huie adds: Rebecca Morrison never married, I think, and lived at least in her old age with her sister Mary Morrison Morrison in the home of a James Morrison, near Hillsboro in Coffee County, Tennessee.]

 

Generation III]    a5  George Morrison, Aug. 10, 1771 - 1854, married in Sept 1806, Martha Morrison, dau [end of line, words may be missing] of Wm., son of James;  1779-1851.

         [Gen. IV.]    b1  Elizabeth                        Aug 30^th 1807

         [Gen. IV.]    b2  Hiram Andrew,             1809-1844

         [Gen. IV.]    b3  Rufus                               1811-1844

         [Gen. IV.]    b4  Mary Amanda                1814-1879

         [Gen. IV.]    b5  Rebecca Athea               1816

         [Gen. IV.]    b6  Sarah Adaline                1819-1871

         [Gen. IV.]    b7  Martha Clementine       1819-1905

         [Gen. IV.]    b8  George Milton Morrison,     1828-1902, m. 1856                                                        Emiline Nicholson [Morrison], 1832-19__.

    "Of the children of George Morrison, this [child, George Milton Morrison, was the] only one to raise a family.  A family tree and interesting relics in the family."

"  c1   Mary Louise, 1837-1937

c2  Martha Emeline

c3  Florence Angeline 1862

c4  Elizabeth Jane 1866- ____

c5  George Wesley  1867-19__, m.  Lives at the old homestead, has children

c6  Sidney Reece, 1870-19__, m.  

[Generation III.]     a6   Elizabeth, mar. John Lowrie.  1850 made will to bro. George

[Generation III.]    a7   Mary Morrison, mar. John Morrison [her 1st cousin, a son of Patrick the son of Wm.]

[Generation III.]    a8    Andrew a preacher, went to Indiana

                                                  [I Marsha think he was Andrew Sloan Morrison.]

         [Generation IV.]    b1  Eli Morrison, went to Ohio

          [Generation IV.]  b2 George McKnight Morrison, mar. and went to Va.

                                     b3   [I couldn't read this]

                                     b4   [I couldn't read this]

         [Generation IV.]   b5   Joseph, went to Louisiana

         [Generation IV.]   b6   NIEL Morrison

[Generation V.]    c1  Mary.   c2 Sarah E.    c3  Georgiana    [Generation V.]    c4 Sidney

 

[Generation V.]    c5  David Nelson, went to Indiana

 

[Generation II.]     5  Patrick Morrison, mar. lived 1st on Snow Creek, then Ky. or Tenn.    [Marsha Cope Huie adds: It was Patrick's  son John who m. John's 1st cousin Mary Morrison, Mary being a daughter of Andrew Morrison & Elizabeth Sloan Morrison.]  [Update in 2007 from Morrison Family of Montgomery County, Tennessee:  this Internet entry lists a son of Patrick Morrison as William Morrison, born circa 1769 in Rowan Co., NC and died circa 1839 in Montgomery County, Tennessee; and lists William Morrison's son as Josiah Morrison, born 1 June 1788 in NC and died 1 April 1868 in Montgomery County, Tennessee.

    [This Generation II. Patrick was a sibling of the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).]

 

[Generation II.]     6.  Mary Morrison, mar. Robert King.

[This Mary Morrison King was a sibling of the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison) & an aunt of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.]

[Generation II.]     7.  Martha Morrison mar. John Foster

[This Martha Morrison Foster was a sibling of the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).]

[Generation II.]     8.  William Morrison, 2nd, 17__ - 1822  mar. Martha ______  "

    [This William Morrison was a sibling of the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).]

 

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 [End of material quoted directly from anonymous source's placement in the History Room of the Public Library of Iredell County in Statesville, North Carolina.  Material placed in brackets above is added by me.]   Please, somebody, tell me who the author was so I can make proper attribution.]

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We discern the following from the 1857 letter, transcribed in Chapter Two--will be New Chapter Three-- of this compilation, from Mary Morrison Morrison (a sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle) to one of her nephews; and from facts your compiler (Marsha) has acquired over the years:

 

Generation III William Hays Morrison, 1767-1837, who is buried beside his sister III. Margaret Morrison McCorkle in Dyer County, Tennessee (McCorkle Cemetery).  William Hays Morrison had these children, evidently by wife nee Haynes, viz.,

IV.1  Joseph    IV.2  Eliza  IV.3. Elinor   IV.4.  John  IV.5 William

 

Generation III Mary Morrison Morrison [who m. her 1st cousin John Morrison, a son of the Patrick Morrison who was a brother to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison)] writes in 1857 from Hillsboro, Coffee County, Tennessee, a letter to her nephew IV.1. Joseph Pinckney Morrison :  "I had a letter from your brother William [Gen. IV.5. William Bell Morrison] dated April 17th [1857]. I had made particular enquiries about all his family, he answered me pretty well about his children,

[children of Gen. IV.5. William Bell Morrison]:

 

[Generation V]      1st     Eliza Elenor aged 15 [?] years,

[Generation V]      2nd     William Bell 14 [?],    

[Generation V]      3rd     Joseph Pin[c]kney 12,

[Generation V]      4th     George Columbus 10,

[Generation V]      5th     Sarah Elizabeth aged 7,

[Generation V]       6th     Mary Catharine age 3."

 

The anonymous source in Iredell County, NC, Statesville Public Library had listed the children of III. William [Hays] Morrison [1767-1837] as:

  [IV]  b1  Joseph    b2 Eliza  b3 Elinor   b4 John  b5 William

 

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