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Date Posted: 11:20:44 07/10/07 Tue
Author: Annie Morgan Morts (B-))
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Re: Morgan's of NC and Texas
In reply to: Annie Morgan Morts 's message, "Morgan's of NC and Texas" on 11:00:38 06/26/07 Tue

>I am searching for any information about my
>grandfather, Luther Morgan.
>He was born on August 6, 1904 in Marion (McDowell
>County) NC.
>I just found this information on his death cert. There
>were no parents listed on this cert.
>
>We believe that his father and mother may have been
>John and Matilda. I have found a John T. Morgan and
>Matilda McKnight married July 4, 1858 in Ashe County
>NC, but the year does not quite seem right for the
>birth of the two son�s Thomas and Luther.
>
>I have been told that his father worked in the
>railroad station and was killed in the early 1900�s,
>may have been killed in the roundhouse by a train.
>
>He had a brother named Thomas born in 1894, date and
>place unknown possibly in NC.
>
>Their mother may have remarried a man named Albert S.
>Frick. I have found a marriage record of Matilda
>Morgan and Albert S. Frick on June 19, 1907 in
>Leavenworth County, Kansas. This would have been when
>Luther was 3 years old.
>
>Their mother may have put them into an orphanage in
>NC, after their father was killed, have been told that
>the boys ran away from the orphanage. Do not have the
>name of the orphanage or the place.
>
>Luther married Lue Ellen Brisco (b-12-30-1897) in
>Angleton Texas on December 22, 1920.
>Edward (my father), b- 3 Oct 1923 d- 23 June 1999
>Leola Ruth b- 11 Nov 1925
>Mary Ethel, b- 9 Jan 1928
>Lue Ellen, b-4 Oct 1929 d-
>Della b- 2 Sept 1931
>
>
>Luther died Oct 16, 1941 in Galveston Texas and is
>buried in the Old Hitchcock Cemetery in Hitchcock TX..
>This is about all the information I know and would
>love any help that is out there.
>
>Thank you,
>Annie Morgan Morts

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