Re: Gadison (Gad) Morris
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Re: Gadison (Gad) Morris
1/10/02
My cousin Robin Marble, a family historian, sent me the following information on Gad Morris and his lineage, which may satisfy some of your questions:
The Cherokee Rumor
Records exist of a Gideon Franklin MORRIS, who was married to a Cherokee woman. But there is likely no relation to Lucy PARHAM, James MORRIS or their son, Gad MORRIS. Gideon Franklin MORRIS was born 2 April 1792 in Greenville, S.C., and died in 1884 in Stillwell, Adair County, Oklahoma. Gideon's parents were Drury M. MORRIS (1755-1818) and Rachel HAMPTON (born 1757 in South Carolina). Wife of Gideon Franklin MORRIS was a Cherokee named Rebecca Ka-ta-ti-he, born about 1816 in Macon County, N.C. More information on Gideon Franklin MORRIS and Rebecca Ka-ta-ti-he can be found at http://www.teresita.com/html/characters.htmlhttp://www.teresita.com/html/characters.html and http://www.teresita.com/html/history.htmlhttp://www.teresita.com/html/history.html on the Internet. Contributors responsible for the Gideon Franklin MORRIS information include: 1. Mary WALKER, POB 472, Needville, TX 77461 USA(979) 793-3307, [email protected]; 2. Jeri GARNER, 301 Arbutus Lane, Knoxville, TN 37920 USA(865) 579-4561, [email protected]; and 3. L. David ROPER, 1001 Auburn Drive S.W., Blacksburg, VA 24060-8123 USA, (540) 951-7047, [email protected]
Civil War Record of Gad Morris
Gad Morris fought for the South in the Civil War. Records indicate he enlisted as a private in Company C, 40th Infantry Regiment of the Confederate Army on 1 May 1862, while residing at Floyd County, Georgia. He was 31 or 32 at this time and married with seven children. His wife, Elizabeth Wanslee, would have been pregnant with an eighth child, John Wesley Morris, who was born 4 November 1862.
Apparently, the Union army captured Gad shortly after his enlistment. Union records list him as a prisoner of war on 4 July 1863 at Vicksburg, Mass., and indicate he was paroled two days later. However, records list Gad again as a P.O.W. on 15 July 1864 at Floyd County, Ga. Later that month, on 27 July 1864, Gad took an Oath of Allegiance at Louisville, Ky., and was released on condition that he remain north of the Ohio River. This information comes from the Roster of Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865; GARosterC; published in 1955 through 1958 by Longino & Porter
Parents of Gad Morris
The book, In A Pear Tree, by Marjorie P. Hailey, has information on Lucy PARHAM, mother of Gad MORRIS. On Page 34 it says: "Lucy (PARHAM) and James (MORRIS) moved to Bledsoe County, Tennessee, about 1813. Family tradition is that James abandoned Lucy and the children and that her brother, Jack, built a home for her on the creek not far from his home. By 1850 she was living with daughter, Elizabeth, and her husband, Simeon Selby."
A 1979 survey of Tollett (or Tollette) Cemetery, 15 miles north of Pikeville, Tenn., by Lana Sue Tollett Goodwin, Anna Lou Nail Tollett and Betty Nail Castillo, produced the following record: MORRIS, Lucy Parham, 16 May 1791 to 15 May 1856.
A copy of the will of Lucy's father, John Parham, can be found at http://users.ap.net/~chenae/parham4.htmlhttp://users.ap.net/~chenae/parham4.html on the Internet:
Will of John Parham, signed Aug 2, 1804, reg. Apr 22, 1805
In the name of God Amen. I John Parham being in sound mind and memory and calling to mind the state of mortality in which I dayly am, make and ordain this my will and testament and hereby revoke all other will or wills heretofore made by me. Item 1. My will is first of all that my just debts be paid. Item 2. I lend my wife Mary Parham both real and personal during her natural life or widowood. Except two horses, one to my son Thomas Parham, and the other to my son Dickson Parham. Priced to eighty dollars each. Item 3. My will further is that after the death of my wife above mentioned, my estate then to equaily divided between my several children, Viz: Elizabeth Bennett, Cannon Parham, John Parham, Isam Parham, Nancy Sargent, Mary Upshaw, Thomas Parham, Holeberry Hicks, Mildred Parham, Dickson Parham, Frances Parham and Lucy Parham. Item 4. My estate consists of one small tract of land on the water of Doves Creek, it being the place I now live on, six negroes named, Viz: Len, Anthony, Jane, James, and Delilia, a small stock of horses, cows, and hogs together with my household plantation tools and citery. Item 5. My will further is that my several daughters, Viz: Mary, Mildred, Holeberry, Frances and Lucy have each of them a bed before the division of my estate, priced to thirty five dollars each. My wife has the power to give those beds when she shall or may find it convenient. Item 6. I do now constitute and appoint my son John Parham and friend Wm Davis, Executors to this Last Will and Testament in whom I repose Real Confidence. Made, Signed and Sealed this second day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and four.
John Parham
Test: Edmond Shachelford, David Hicks, Thomas Parham
Registered the 22nd day of April 1805
W. Higginbotham C.C.O.
Ref. Pg. 13, His. Col. of the Ga. Cha. Nat. Soc. D.A.R. Vol 3--Davidson
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