Elisha Knowles Morrill and Susan Ruhamah Barney

Index

Husband

Elisha Knowles Morrill

Born

6 JUL 1825[1]

Springfield, N.H.

Resided

1880[2]

Wahpeton, Dakota Territory

Died

29 NOV 1911

Dayton, Ohio

Father

Stephen Morrill

Mother

Susanna Dean

Married

2 JUN 1858

Grafton, N.H.

Wife	Susan Ruhamah Barney

Born

11 JUL 1835

Bridgewater, N.H.

Died

20 SEP 1909

Wahpeton, N.Dak.

Father

Otis Barney

Mother

Lucy Kinsman

Additional information available.[3]

CHILDREN

Name	Myron Harry Morrill

Born

9 MAY 1860

Canaan, N.H.

Died

24 SEP 1940

Married

Ida May Anderson

Name	Myrta K. Morrill

Born

ABT 1862

Name	Milo True Morrill

Born

13 MAY 1865

Chickasaw Co., Iowa

Died

22 JUN 1921

Defiance, Ohio

Married

Alice Covington Vaughan

Name	Harlon Justin Morrill

Born

13 JUL 1868

Wash. Co., Iowa

Died

6 AUG 1913

Cicero, Ill.

Married

in Minneapolis, Minn., 1908 to Minnie Brunkhorst Thanksgiving

FOOTNOTES

[1]Joseph Warren Morrill, A History of the Morrill Family (Manuscript, NEHGS).

[2]1880 US Census , Wahpeton Dakota Territory, p. 149D.

[3]Joseph Warren Morrill, A History of the Morrill Family (Manuscript, NEHGS). This manuscript offers a 70-odd page biography of Elisha Knowles Morrill and his family. Elisha is quoted at length from his letters and notes. He grew up on a farm, attended the NH Converence Seminary beginning in 1846 to learn to be a teacher, and was subsequently a teacher for a number of years. In 1862, Elisha moved his family from Canaan to Iowa where he was a farmer.