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Olive or Olivia Morgan was the daughter of Evan Morgan of Edgefield Co., SC. Evan was a descendant of the immigrant Rev. Abel Morgan of Wales and PA-NJ. Existing genealogies have Evan Morgan married to Olive Morgan, “probably a second cousin.” The obituary of his daughter Olivia Morgan which follows next sheds light on the name of Evan’s wife. This information is available at book.google.com.
Kelsey, Michael, Nancy Graff-Kelsey, Ginny Guinn Parsons, “Marriage and Death Notices from the South Western Baptist Newspaper,” Heritage Books, 1995, p. 2.
http://books.google.com/books?id=YRn84w7knBMC&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=newsome+morgan+olive+south+carolina&source=bl&ots=ZJsO0o7_CM&sig=TMCuyRwAodkpz2CljRIJ-2lcgSY&hl=en&ei=BpfXSfC6AZe-tAOc2ayxCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1
10-2-1850
Died at her residence near Carthage, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama on Sunday, September 22nd, 1850, Mrs. Olivia Norris, in the seventy-third year of her age. She was born in Edgefield District, South Carolina on March 2nd, 1778. Her parents were Evan and Olive Morgan. The maiden name of the latter was Newsome, a pious woman who died early leaving the subject of this notice an infant. Her father, Evan Morgan, was a native of Wales who from ill treatment of a step mother at an early age of twelve years left his home and country and came to America. He, too, became a devotedly pious man, a member with his wife of a Baptist Church on Big Stephen's Creek, Edgefield, South Carolina.
Olivia Morgan was married to David Quarles, esq., July 1795, who died March 1807 leaving four children. In December 1809 she was married to Thomas Norris, who afterward became a Baptist minister of wide notoriety and usefulness, removed with his family to Alabama in 1833, and finished his course at the family residence September 1842, aged sixty-three years ….. her mortal remains were consigned to the tomb on Monday afternoon, September 23rd , 1850.
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