Orville Morrill and Miranda Olmstead

Index

Husband

Orville Morrill

Born

21 AUG 1820[1]

Irasburg, Vt.

Resided

1860[2]

Union, Mich.

Resided

1880[3]

Benton, Mich.

Died

8 OCT 1911

Benton Harbor, Mich.

Father

Jeremiah Morrill

Mother

Ruth Garland

Married

14 FEB 1844[4]

Branch Co., Mich.

Wife	Miranda Olmstead

Born

27 MAY 1827

Triangle, N.Y.

Died

12 FEB 1918

Benton Harbor, Mich.

Father

Mother

In about 1837,.Orville moved with several family members to Union City, Michigan, where they become some of the first settlers of that town. By 1863 he had removed to Benton. He was a farmer. [5]

CHILDREN

Name	Charles Valentine Morrill

Born

16 APR 1846[6]

Union City, Mich.

Died

13 JUN 1932

Married

Sophia Taylor

Name	Albert Alphronus Morrill

Born

12 NOV 1849[7]

Union City, Mich.

Married

Elva Weese

Name	Ellen Miranda Morrill

Born

9 SEP 1852[8]

Union City, Mich.

Died

17 MAY 1940

Married

in Watervliet, Mich., 9 July 1876 to George F. Cunningham. George F. Cunningham was b. in N.Y. City, N.Y., 6 April 1853; d. 19 April 1923

Name	Chester Orville Morrill

Born

27 JUN 1855[9]

Union City, Mich.

Married

Allie Benson

Name	Mary Morrill

Born

20 NOV 1866[10]

Benton Harbor, Mich.

Died

17 MAY 1948

Married

7 November 1895 to Urban Wagner. Urban Wagner d. 14 March 1951

FOOTNOTES

[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]1860 US Census , Union MI, p. 821.

[3]1880 US Census , Benton MI, p. 60D.

[4]Branch County (Michigan) Town Clerk, [Branch Co. Michigan] Record of marriages 1833-1915 (Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1973).

[5]Annie Morrill Smith, Morrill Kindred in America, Volume 2 (New York: Grafton Press, 1931), 152.

[6]Smith, Morrill Kindred II [note 5], 153.

[7]ibid., 153.

[8]ibid., 153.

[9]ibid., 153.

[10]ibid.