Morrill Kindred shows that Ira Morrill married a Mary Bent Smith in 1839, making her the mother of all the children. However, this is contradicted by the Vermont records, which show Mary Pickens to be the mother.

[1]Vermont, Secretary of State, General index to vital records of Vermont, early to 1870 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1951).

[2]1850 US Census , Randolph VT, p. 242.

[3]Annie Morrill Smith, Morrill Kindred in America, Volume 2 (New York: Grafton Press, 1931), 88.

[4]Date and place derived from 1850 census.

[5]Vermont VR, electronic library [note 1].

[6]ibid.

[7]ibid.

[8]ibid.

[9]Date and place derived from 1850 census.