Mary Elizabeth (Miller) & William Solomon Denning’s fifth child, Angeline Denning, was born in Apr 1848 in Blue Township, near Independence, Missouri. Angeline appeared on the 1850 Census in Blue Township with her parents and four siblings (Isabella, Mary, William and Priscilla), plus her stepbrother, Miles Radcliff (her mother Elizabeth’s son from her first marriage). Angeline’s father, William Solomon Denning, died the following year and Angeline’s mother, Elizabeth, remarried to Gottlieb Bohkamper in April 1853. Angelina’s childhood is a bit of a mystery. She does not appear with her mother or siblings on either the 1860 or 1870 Censuses. The next record found for Angelina was her 1880 Census. By then, she was married to William James Morris. According to the 1900 Census (censuses are notoriously inaccurate), Angelina and William were married around 1870. William James Morris was born in March 1849 in Blue Township, Jackson County, Missouri. He was the younger brother of Louisa Morris, who had married Angeline’s older brother, William Franklin Denning, in 1864 in Leavenworth, Kansas. William’s mother died in 1860 and his father in May 1865 in Leavenworth County. On the 1865 Kansas State Census, William, age sixteen, was living with five of his siblings in Delaware Township in Leavenworth County, Kansas. The head of household was Melissa Morris, age 28, born in Kentucky—likely a Morris family relative as William and Louisa’s father, John Morrow Morris (1819-1865), who died in Leavenworth, was born in Kentucky. On the 1870 Census, taken 14 Jul 1870, William James Morris was living, and working as a farm laborer, on a farm in Prairie, Kansas, located about five miles north of the family’s home in 1865. Angeline and William settled in Leavenworth, Kansas after their marriage--their first child, Robert Walter Morris, was born there in Sep 1871. Angeline and William had five children in all: Robert Walter (1871-1921); Maude May (1873-1953); Rev. Edward Franklin (1874-1939); Clara (1880-bet. 1885 & 1895); and Grace Edna Morris (1890-1957). Shortly after settling in Leavenworth, William secured work as a prison guard at the Kansas State Prison in nearby Lansing.
On 13 Apr 1872, William J. Morris was a member of posse of about a dozen law enforcement officers who were sent to the Indian Courthouse in Going Snake District, in the Oklahoma Territory, to attend the trial of one Ezekial Proctor. Proctor, a white man, was a well known “desperado” (he reportedly had killed eighteen people). Earlier he walked up to another white man and his wife, a Cherokee Indian, and shot her dead and then shot the husband, but he survived. Proctor was arrested and was on trial at the Indian Courthouse in the Oklahoma Territory. The posse of officers were instructed to attend the trial and, if Proctor was not convicted, they were to arrest him and bring him back to Kansas for another trial on the murder charge. Proctor also was “in the neighborhood” where a Deputy Marshall, Bentz, was shot on sight upon his arrival a month earlier. Hence, the large posse which had a writ for the murderers of Bentz. It seems the Cherokee Nation did not take kindly to the white man’s interference in their affairs. The Marshalls’ posse arrived about three p.m., tied up their horses a short distance away from the Courthouse and began their cautious approach. They walked quietly in rows of two men, side by side, and stopped alongside the building. One of the posse members, a Cherokee man named Beck, went to the front door of the Courthouse and peered inside, seeing a large number of people inside “armed to the teeth”. He immediately turned around to return to his group but was fired upon and fell wounded--shot through the shoulder. A massive, but relatively brief, volley of gunfire ensued. Some gunfire occurred within the Courthouse itself while other gunfire from inside was directed at posse of officers outside. Proctor, woman killer and desperado, was reportedly guarded by eleven personal friends who did not want to see him convicted. It was a brief, but deadly, battle. When the smoke cleared, seven of the Marshalls’ force of eleven lay dead. Three assailants were killed. Another sixteen or seventeen people were wounded—one Marshall mortally. According to newspaper[1] reporting on the incident, William J. Morris helped lay out the nine bodies on a porch about a half mile from the scene.
William worked as a prison guard at the state prison from the early 1870s, until around 1891 when he joined the Kansas City Police Department. He was killed in the line of duty when he was shot dead at 3:30 a.m. in the morning of 2 Sep 1902, during a safe cracking hold-up in the car barn of the Kansas City Metropolitan Railway. William came upon the robbery in progress. Two men had captured the night guard and were in the process of breaking into the safe which contain money for payroll. William drew his revolver but was shot dead by one of the robbers. In the melee, the car barn guard was also shot. The guard recovered from his wounds and was able to identify the robbers, who were subsequently caught and sent to prison. William was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Kansas City (see gravestone at right).
The 1905 Kansas City State Census showed Angeline living with her son, Edward Franklin Morris and her two daughters, Maude (age 32) and Grace Edna (14). Angeline, Maude and Grace were still living together according to the 1915 City Directory. Angeline’s youngest daughter, Grace Edna Morris, married Lora Samuel Tague around 1916. Lora was an agent with Wells Fargo Express. The Tagues had a son, Morris Franklin Tague (b. 20 Jul 1917) and a daughter, Jane Angeline Tague (b. 20 Aug 1918). Angeline moved in with the Tague family who settled in Pittsburg, Kansas about 120 miles south of Kansas City. Angeline died of a stroke at the Tague family home in Pittsburg on 3 Feb 1919. She was seventy years old and was survived by her four remaining children. Angeline was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery.
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On 13 Apr 1872, William J. Morris was a member of posse of about a dozen law enforcement officers who were sent to the Indian Courthouse in Going Snake District, in the Oklahoma Territory, to attend the trial of one Ezekial Proctor. Proctor, a white man, was a well known “desperado” (he reportedly had killed eighteen people). Earlier he walked up to another white man and his wife, a Cherokee Indian, and shot her dead and then shot the husband, but he survived. Proctor was arrested and was on trial at the Indian Courthouse in the Oklahoma Territory. The posse of officers were instructed to attend the trial and, if Proctor was not convicted, they were to arrest him and bring him back to Kansas for another trial on the murder charge. Proctor also was “in the neighborhood” where a Deputy Marshall, Bentz, was shot on sight upon his arrival a month earlier. Hence, the large posse which had a writ for the murderers of Bentz. It seems the Cherokee Nation did not take kindly to the white man’s interference in their affairs. The Marshalls’ posse arrived about three p.m., tied up their horses a short distance away from the Courthouse and began their cautious approach. They walked quietly in rows of two men, side by side, and stopped alongside the building. One of the posse members, a Cherokee man named Beck, went to the front door of the Courthouse and peered inside, seeing a large number of people inside “armed to the teeth”. He immediately turned around to return to his group but was fired upon and fell wounded--shot through the shoulder. A massive, but relatively brief, volley of gunfire ensued. Some gunfire occurred within the Courthouse itself while other gunfire from inside was directed at posse of officers outside. Proctor, woman killer and desperado, was reportedly guarded by eleven personal friends who did not want to see him convicted. It was a brief, but deadly, battle. When the smoke cleared, seven of the Marshalls’ force of eleven lay dead. Three assailants were killed. Another sixteen or seventeen people were wounded—one Marshall mortally. According to newspaper[1] reporting on the incident, William J. Morris helped lay out the nine bodies on a porch about a half mile from the scene.
William worked as a prison guard at the state prison from the early 1870s, until around 1891 when he joined the Kansas City Police Department. He was killed in the line of duty when he was shot dead at 3:30 a.m. in the morning of 2 Sep 1902, during a safe cracking hold-up in the car barn of the Kansas City Metropolitan Railway. William came upon the robbery in progress. Two men had captured the night guard and were in the process of breaking into the safe which contain money for payroll. William drew his revolver but was shot dead by one of the robbers. In the melee, the car barn guard was also shot. The guard recovered from his wounds and was able to identify the robbers, who were subsequently caught and sent to prison. William was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Kansas City (see gravestone at right).
The 1905 Kansas City State Census showed Angeline living with her son, Edward Franklin Morris and her two daughters, Maude (age 32) and Grace Edna (14). Angeline, Maude and Grace were still living together according to the 1915 City Directory. Angeline’s youngest daughter, Grace Edna Morris, married Lora Samuel Tague around 1916. Lora was an agent with Wells Fargo Express. The Tagues had a son, Morris Franklin Tague (b. 20 Jul 1917) and a daughter, Jane Angeline Tague (b. 20 Aug 1918). Angeline moved in with the Tague family who settled in Pittsburg, Kansas about 120 miles south of Kansas City. Angeline died of a stroke at the Tague family home in Pittsburg on 3 Feb 1919. She was seventy years old and was survived by her four remaining children. Angeline was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery.
Terry Boyd - [email protected]
Mary Elizabeth (Miller) & William Solomon Denning’s fifth child, Angeline Denning, was born in Apr 1848 in Blue Township, near Independence, Missouri. Angeline appeared on the 1850 Census in Blue Township with her parents and four siblings (Isabella, Mary, William and Priscilla), plus her stepbrother, Miles Radcliff (her mother Elizabeth’s son from her first marriage). Angeline’s father, William Solomon Denning, died the following year and Angeline’s mother, Elizabeth, remarried to Gottlieb Bohkamper in April 1853. Angelina’s childhood is a bit of a mystery. She does not appear with her mother or siblings on either the 1860 or 1870 Censuses. The next record found for Angelina was her 1880 Census. By then, she was married to William James Morris. According to the 1900 Census (censuses are notoriously inaccurate), Angelina and William were married around 1870. William James Morris was born in March 1849 in Blue Township, Jackson County, Missouri. He was the younger brother of Louisa Morris, who had married Angeline’s older brother, William Franklin Denning, in 1864 in Leavenworth, Kansas. William’s mother died in 1860 and his father in May 1865 in Leavenworth County. On the 1865 Kansas State Census, William, age sixteen, was living with five of his siblings in Delaware Township in Leavenworth County, Kansas. The head of household was Melissa Morris, age 28, born in Kentucky—likely a Morris family relative as William and Louisa’s father, John Morrow Morris (1819-1865), who died in Leavenworth, was born in Kentucky. On the 1870 Census, taken 14 Jul 1870, William James Morris was living, and working as a farm laborer, on a farm in Prairie, Kansas, located about five miles north of the family’s home in 1865. Angeline and William settled in Leavenworth, Kansas after their marriage--their first child, Robert Walter Morris, was born there in Sep 1871. Angeline and William had five children in all: Robert Walter (1871-1921); Maude May (1873-1953); Rev. Edward Franklin (1874-1939); Clara (1880-bet. 1885 & 1895); and Grace Edna Morris (1890-1957). Shortly after settling in Leavenworth, William secured work as a prison guard at the Kansas State Prison in nearby Lansing.
On 13 Apr 1872, William J. Morris was a member of posse of about a dozen law enforcement officers who were sent to the Indian Courthouse in Going Snake District, in the Oklahoma Territory, to attend the trial of one Ezekial Proctor. Proctor, a white man, was a well known “desperado” (he reportedly had killed eighteen people). Earlier he walked up to another white man and his wife, a Cherokee Indian, and shot her dead and then shot the husband, but he survived. Proctor was arrested and was on trial at the Indian Courthouse in the Oklahoma Territory. The posse of officers were instructed to attend the trial and, if Proctor was not convicted, they were to arrest him and bring him back to Kansas for another trial on the murder charge. Proctor also was “in the neighborhood” where a Deputy Marshall, Bentz, was shot on sight upon his arrival a month earlier. Hence, the large posse which had a writ for the murderers of Bentz. It seems the Cherokee Nation did not take kindly to the white man’s interference in their affairs. The Marshalls’ posse arrived about three p.m., tied up their horses a short distance away from the Courthouse and began their cautious approach. They walked quietly in rows of two men, side by side, and stopped alongside the building. One of the posse members, a Cherokee man named Beck, went to the front door of the Courthouse and peered inside, seeing a large number of people inside “armed to the teeth”. He immediately turned around to return to his group but was fired upon and fell wounded--shot through the shoulder. A massive, but relatively brief, volley of gunfire ensued. Some gunfire occurred within the Courthouse itself while other gunfire from inside was directed at posse of officers outside. Proctor, woman killer and desperado, was reportedly guarded by eleven personal friends who did not want to see him convicted. It was a brief, but deadly, battle. When the smoke cleared, seven of the Marshalls’ force of eleven lay dead. Three assailants were killed. Another sixteen or seventeen people were wounded—one Marshall mortally. According to newspaper[1] reporting on the incident, William J. Morris helped lay out the nine bodies on a porch about a half mile from the scene.
William worked as a prison guard at the state prison from the early 1870s, until around 1891 when he joined the Kansas City Police Department. He was killed in the line of duty when he was shot dead at 3:30 a.m. in the morning of 2 Sep 1902, during a safe cracking hold-up in the car barn of the Kansas City Metropolitan Railway. William came upon the robbery in progress. Two men had captured the night guard and were in the process of breaking into the safe which contain money for payroll. William drew his revolver but was shot dead by one of the robbers. In the melee, the car barn guard was also shot. The guard recovered from his wounds and was able to identify the robbers, who were subsequently caught and sent to prison. William was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Kansas City (see gravestone at right).
The 1905 Kansas City State Census showed Angeline living with her son, Edward Franklin Morris and her two daughters, Maude (age 32) and Grace Edna (14). Angeline, Maude and Grace were still living together according to the 1915 City Directory. Angeline’s youngest daughter, Grace Edna Morris, married Lora Samuel Tague around 1916. Lora was an agent with Wells Fargo Express. The Tagues had a son, Morris Franklin Tague (b. 20 Jul 1917) and a daughter, Jane Angeline Tague (b. 20 Aug 1918). Angeline moved in with the Tague family who settled in Pittsburg, Kansas about 120 miles south of Kansas City. Angeline died of a stroke at the Tague family home in Pittsburg on 3 Feb 1919. She was seventy years old and was survived by her four remaining children. Angeline was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery.
Terry Boyd - [email protected]
On 13 Apr 1872, William J. Morris was a member of posse of about a dozen law enforcement officers who were sent to the Indian Courthouse in Going Snake District, in the Oklahoma Territory, to attend the trial of one Ezekial Proctor. Proctor, a white man, was a well known “desperado” (he reportedly had killed eighteen people). Earlier he walked up to another white man and his wife, a Cherokee Indian, and shot her dead and then shot the husband, but he survived. Proctor was arrested and was on trial at the Indian Courthouse in the Oklahoma Territory. The posse of officers were instructed to attend the trial and, if Proctor was not convicted, they were to arrest him and bring him back to Kansas for another trial on the murder charge. Proctor also was “in the neighborhood” where a Deputy Marshall, Bentz, was shot on sight upon his arrival a month earlier. Hence, the large posse which had a writ for the murderers of Bentz. It seems the Cherokee Nation did not take kindly to the white man’s interference in their affairs. The Marshalls’ posse arrived about three p.m., tied up their horses a short distance away from the Courthouse and began their cautious approach. They walked quietly in rows of two men, side by side, and stopped alongside the building. One of the posse members, a Cherokee man named Beck, went to the front door of the Courthouse and peered inside, seeing a large number of people inside “armed to the teeth”. He immediately turned around to return to his group but was fired upon and fell wounded--shot through the shoulder. A massive, but relatively brief, volley of gunfire ensued. Some gunfire occurred within the Courthouse itself while other gunfire from inside was directed at posse of officers outside. Proctor, woman killer and desperado, was reportedly guarded by eleven personal friends who did not want to see him convicted. It was a brief, but deadly, battle. When the smoke cleared, seven of the Marshalls’ force of eleven lay dead. Three assailants were killed. Another sixteen or seventeen people were wounded—one Marshall mortally. According to newspaper[1] reporting on the incident, William J. Morris helped lay out the nine bodies on a porch about a half mile from the scene.
William worked as a prison guard at the state prison from the early 1870s, until around 1891 when he joined the Kansas City Police Department. He was killed in the line of duty when he was shot dead at 3:30 a.m. in the morning of 2 Sep 1902, during a safe cracking hold-up in the car barn of the Kansas City Metropolitan Railway. William came upon the robbery in progress. Two men had captured the night guard and were in the process of breaking into the safe which contain money for payroll. William drew his revolver but was shot dead by one of the robbers. In the melee, the car barn guard was also shot. The guard recovered from his wounds and was able to identify the robbers, who were subsequently caught and sent to prison. William was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Kansas City (see gravestone at right).
The 1905 Kansas City State Census showed Angeline living with her son, Edward Franklin Morris and her two daughters, Maude (age 32) and Grace Edna (14). Angeline, Maude and Grace were still living together according to the 1915 City Directory. Angeline’s youngest daughter, Grace Edna Morris, married Lora Samuel Tague around 1916. Lora was an agent with Wells Fargo Express. The Tagues had a son, Morris Franklin Tague (b. 20 Jul 1917) and a daughter, Jane Angeline Tague (b. 20 Aug 1918). Angeline moved in with the Tague family who settled in Pittsburg, Kansas about 120 miles south of Kansas City. Angeline died of a stroke at the Tague family home in Pittsburg on 3 Feb 1919. She was seventy years old and was survived by her four remaining children. Angeline was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery.
Terry Boyd - [email protected]
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