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James Morton

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James Morton

Birth
Chester County, South Carolina, USA
Death
29 Jan 1871 (aged 73)
Marion County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Centralia, Marion County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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NOTE: James' mother Martha Phoebe Blair Morton is buried at Old Cov in Illinois, but James' father Alexander died in Tennessee in 1829 (contradicting some claims). Note that Martha is a widow in Lincoln County, Tenn. in the 1830 and 1840 Fed censuses before the Morton family moved to Marion, Ill. in the 1840s.

James Morton brought his family to Marion County, Illinois in the early to mid 1840s. They lived in the Romine Church neighborhood in Raccoon Township. James and his wife are buried at the Old Covenanter Church near Walnut Hill, Marion County, Illinois. His parents were Alexander Morton and Martha Phoebe (Blair) Morton. Martha is also buried in Old Covenanter, but the Morton clan had not made it to Illinois before father Alexander died. According to my GGG grandmother Tirzah Elvira (Morton) McLaughlin, her grandpa Alexander was buried somewhere on the Morton property in Lincoln County, Tennessee.

--Brian McLaughlin
NOTE: James' mother Martha Phoebe Blair Morton is buried at Old Cov in Illinois, but James' father Alexander died in Tennessee in 1829 (contradicting some claims). Note that Martha is a widow in Lincoln County, Tenn. in the 1830 and 1840 Fed censuses before the Morton family moved to Marion, Ill. in the 1840s.

James Morton brought his family to Marion County, Illinois in the early to mid 1840s. They lived in the Romine Church neighborhood in Raccoon Township. James and his wife are buried at the Old Covenanter Church near Walnut Hill, Marion County, Illinois. His parents were Alexander Morton and Martha Phoebe (Blair) Morton. Martha is also buried in Old Covenanter, but the Morton clan had not made it to Illinois before father Alexander died. According to my GGG grandmother Tirzah Elvira (Morton) McLaughlin, her grandpa Alexander was buried somewhere on the Morton property in Lincoln County, Tennessee.

--Brian McLaughlin

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His stone said he died in 1870, but this must have been a mistake. All family bible records have him dying in Jan 1871, and the 1870 census (which was taken in June 1870) has him alive as a head of household.

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