Edward Danforth Morrill and Bellephine Palmer

Index

Husband

Edward Danforth Morrill

Born

29 JUL 1837[1]

Rockford, Ill.

Resided

1880[2]

Camden, Ala.

Resided

1900[3]

Wash., D. C.

Died

25 DEC 1906

Wash., D. C.

Father

Israel Morrill

Mother

Sophia Nichols Danforth

Married

ABT 1877

Other spouses

(2) in Lowell, Mass., 01 January 1861[4] to Mary E. Pearson. Mary E. Pearson was b. in Deerfield, N.H., 1833; d. 1869

Wife	Bellephine Palmer

Born

ABT 1856

Ala.

Died

1943

Wash., D. C.

Father

Mother

Additional information available.[5]

CHILDREN

Name	Samuel Danforth Morrill

Born

1879

Ala.

Married

Esther H. Anderson

FOOTNOTES

[1]Ann Lisa Pearson, Morrill/Morrell Families Association Newsletter , 3(3): 48. .

[2]1880 US Census , Camden AL, p. 310A. 1880 US Census, Source Medium: Book .

[3]1900 US Census , Washington DC, p. 236a. 1900 US Census, Source Medium: Book .

[4]Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910 Database (Name: Electronic Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org;), 145: 97. .

[5]Ann Lisa Pearson, Morrill/Morrell Families Association Newsletter , Vol III, No. 2, p. 48. . See also Edward Danforth Morrill was born in Illinois, but his family moved back to New England shortly thereafter. He was a carpenter in Lowell, Mass., married for one year, when he enlisted in 1862. After the war, he and his wife moved near Camden, Alabama, bought 4,000 acres on the Alabama River and planted cotton. His wife Mary died a few years later in 1869. A decade later he remarried and had a son Samuel. By 1876, he and his family removed to Washington, D. C. where they remained. .