John H. Morrill and Anna Mitchell

Index

Husband

Gen. John H. Morrill

Born

3 JUN 1827

Canterbury, N.H.

Resided

1870[1]

Wallace, Ill.

Resided

1880[2]

Wallace, Ill.

Died

29 JUL 1893[3]

Wallace, Ill.

Father

Ezekiel Marcellus Morrill

Mother

Sarah Emery Bradley

Married

ABT 1854

Other spouses

(2) ca. 1865 to Visa ____. Visa ____ was b. in N.Y., 1841

Wife	Anna Mitchell

Father
Mother

John Morrill commanded of the 64th Regiment Infantry, Illinois, also known as the "Yates Sharpshooters." He was Captain, later Colonel, and finally was breveted as Brigadier General after being severely wounded on July 22, 1864 at the Seige of Petersburg.

CHILDREN

Name	Cincinattas F. Morrill

Born

APR 1855[4]

Ill.

Married

(1) Julia Ann Bragg
(2) Laura Luetta Book

Name	Blanche Morrill

Born

1858

Ill.

Married

in Ottawa, Ill., 23 April 1896 to Joseph R. Strasser

FOOTNOTES

[1]1870 US Census , Wallace IL, p. 775.

[2]1880 US Census , Wallace IL, p. 755D.

[3]Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago, IL), July 29, 1893, p. 3. Also July 31, 1893, p. 3. His funeral was attended by over 2,000 people and included a "general's" (11-gun) salute. He was buried at the Ottowa Avenue cemetary.

[4]Date and place derived from 1900 census.