Benjamin Franklin Morrill and Sarah A. Leighton

Index

Husband

Benjamin Franklin Morrill

Born

12 AUG 1810[1]

Salisbury, N.H.

Resided

1880[2]

Bentonsport, Iowa

Died

23 OCT 1884

Bentonsport, Iowa

Father

Levi Morrill

Mother

Mary Bagley

Married

19 MAR 1834[3]

Somerset Co., Maine

Other spouses

(2) ca. 1875 to Sarah B. ____. Sarah B. ____ was b. in N.J., ca. 1821[4]

Wife	Sarah A. Leighton

Born

12 DEC 1814

Dexter, Maine

Father

Mother

CHILDREN

Name	Henry Leighton Morrill

Born

4 APR 1836

Guilford, Maine

Died

4 JUL 1904

Married

Clara White

Name	William F. Morrill

Born

3 APR 1837

Guilford, Maine

Died

15 OCT 1838

Guilford, Maine

Name	Mary Ellen Morrill

Born

2 AUG 1839

Ill.

Married

18 May 1866 to S. Baldwin

Name	Sarah Morrill

Born

18 JUL 1841

Van Buren Co., Iowa

Died

28 OCT 1878

Married

1859 to Richard M. Thatcher

Name	Charles Levi Morrill

Born

13 FEB 1845

Van Buren Co., Iowa

Died

7 MAR 1865

Little Rock, Ark.

Name	Benjamin F. Morrill

Born

21 APR 1848

Van Buren Co., Iowa

Died

17 DEC 1874

Benjamin Morrill enlisted as a Private on 3 May 1864 at the age of 18 in Company K, 45th Infantry Regiment Iowa, and mustered out on 16 September 1864. [5]

Name	David B. Morrill

Born

27 AUG 1849

Van Buren Co., Iowa

Died

3 FEB 1876

Name	Augustus P. Morrill

Born

18 OCT 1853

Van Buren Co., Iowa

Died

29 MAR 1854

FOOTNOTES

[1]John J. Dearborn, The history of Salisbury, New Hampshire (Manchester, N.H.: Printed by W.E. Moore, 1890), 671.

[2]1880 US Census , Bentonsport IA, p. 438.

[3]Maine, Court of County Commissioners (Somerset County), [Somerset County, Maine] Records 1833 - 1890 (Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1954).

[4]Date and place derived from 1880 census.

[5]Historical Data Systems, American Civil War Soldiers (Electronic database at http://www.ancestry.com).