Ellender Clarkston Morris Clarkston Kimberling Alcorn was the daughter of Sarah McKinney and John Clarkston of Lee Co., Virginia and Harlan Co., Kentucky. She married four times: 1st to Richard "Dick" Pearl Morris, Sr., who was bushwacked on his farm in Lee Co., Virginia in March or April, 1865; 2nd to her first cousin Benjamin Franklin Clarkston; 3rd to Jacob Kimberling; and 4th to John Alcorn.
Ellender was forced to flee on foot with her children from Lee Co., Virginia over the mountains to her family in Harlan Co., Kentucky when her first husband, Dick Morris, was killed by bushwackers at the end of the Civil War. She took off her petticoats and wrapped her baby in them. There was snow on the ground, according to the story, and the baby died the next day. She was also pregnant at the time and her youngest child with Dick Morris was born eight months later.
Ellender Clarkston Morris Clarkston Kimberling Alcorn was the daughter of Sarah McKinney and John Clarkston of Lee Co., Virginia and Harlan Co., Kentucky. She married four times: 1st to Richard "Dick" Pearl Morris, Sr., who was bushwacked on his farm in Lee Co., Virginia in March or April, 1865; 2nd to her first cousin Benjamin Franklin Clarkston; 3rd to Jacob Kimberling; and 4th to John Alcorn.
Ellender was forced to flee on foot with her children from Lee Co., Virginia over the mountains to her family in Harlan Co., Kentucky when her first husband, Dick Morris, was killed by bushwackers at the end of the Civil War. She took off her petticoats and wrapped her baby in them. There was snow on the ground, according to the story, and the baby died the next day. She was also pregnant at the time and her youngest child with Dick Morris was born eight months later.
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