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Allen Family History
The name Morris is of British origin, possible a modern form of the ancient Irish name O'Muirgheasa. Also a Latin noun meaning dark or swarthy.
(last update 28 Aug 2004)
First Generation
Edward Morris [5471] was born 1455.
Children of Edward Morris are:
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Thomas Morris,
born 1481, England; died 1556. -
Alice Morris, b. about 1467.
First Generation
was born 1768 in Virginia, and died September 1857 in Grant County, Arkansas. He married Delilah Brown on 10 October 1806 in Wake County, North Carolina. She was born 1790 in Wake County, North Carolina, and died between 1838 and 1844 in Marshall County, Mississippi.Children of Thomas Morris and Delilah Brown are:
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Elizabeth Morris, born about 1807 in Wake County, North Carolina;
married Jacob Mayberry about 1825 in Henderson County, Tennessee..
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Ethel Sumney Morris, born about 1808 in Wake County, North Carolina;
died June 1879 in Grant County, Arkansas. Married 1) Dorcas Stone, before
1831 and 2) Dolly Garner between 1856 and 1860 in Arkansas.
- + Seth Morris, born about 1815 in Wake County, North Carolina; married Becky [last name unknown].
Bibliography
- 1850 Federal Census, MS, Marshall County, Northern Division, page 278, Thomas Morris.