Alton Wayne Morgan

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Comments: Alton Wayne Morgan was the son of Marvin M. Morgan and Esthereene Morgan.
Alton Wayne Morgan, 54, of Orange, Texas, died Wednesday, May 11, 2005, at M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston. Funeral services will be 3:00 p.m. Sunday, May 15, 2005, at Claybar Funeral Home Chapel in Orange. Officiating will be Reverend Bailey Harris, pastor at Old First Orange Baptist Church. Entombment will follow at Orange Forest Lawn Cemetery, with Military Rites given by the Southeast Texas Veteran's Group and Masonic Rites by members of the Pine Forest Masonic Lodge in Vidor. Visitation will begin at 5:00 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home in Orange. Alton was born in Orange on December 30, 1950. He was the son of Marvin and Esthereene (Lott) Morgan. He was a veteran of the United States Air Force, serving during Vietnam. Upon his return to the states, he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant and became a member of the Strategic Air Command. He was a member of Pipefitter's Local #195, where he was a pipefitter, welder and instrument technician. He was a member of Pine Fo rest Masonic Lodge in Vidor and Old First Orange Baptist Church. Preceded in death by his parents, he is survived by his wife, Rosetta (Richardson) Morgan; son, Brandon Morgan both of Orange; and brothers, Raymond Morgan and Billy Ray Morgan both of Newton, Harold Morgan of San Antonio and Mel Morgan of Syracuse, New York. Serving as pallbearers will be Gary Gunter, Hershel Morgan, Larry Pearson, Clyde Morgan, Horton McCabe, and Therman Wallace. 504 N. 5th Street Orange, TX 77630 409-886-4445

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Alton married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living

Marvin married Esthereene Lott before 1939. Esthereene was born on 8 Apr 1920 in Texas; died on 16 Jul 2004 in Vidor, Orange County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was a daughter of Charles Lee "Charley" LOTT and Annie Elizabeth ROSS. Annie Elizabeth was the daughter of Ida Ross (b. May 1873, La) and William Ross (b. May 1871, TX).

Sabine County Reporter
August 4, 2004

Estereene Morgan

Estereene Morgan, 84, of Vidor died Friday, July 16, 2004. Mrs. Morgan, a native and former resident of the Brookeland/Browndell area, was a member of the Victory Baptist Church. Survivors: sons and daughters-in-law, Marvin H. and Dorothy Morgan of Seguin, Raymond C. and Yolanda Morgan of Call, Billy R. Morgan of Newton, Alton W. and Rosetta Morgan of Orangefield, and Melvin E. and Lauren Morgan of Brewerton, New York; sisters, Vera Lee Collett and Wanda Fay McClelland, both of Vidor; nine grandchildren; and eight great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Marvin Morgan, and a granddaughter, Desiree Ann Morgan; three brothers; and a sister. Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Victory Baptist Church in Vidor. Interment followed at 12:30 p.m. at Bean Cemetery in Kirbyville. Vidor Memorial Funeral Home, directors.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong)


Lott, Ann Elizabeth Ross
Dec. 30, 1980
KIRBYVILLE ? Ann Elizabeth Ross Lott, 82, of Kirbyville died at 12 p.m. Wednesday at St. Elizabeth Hospital after an illness. Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Causey's E.E. Stringer Funeral Home with burial in Bean Cemetery. A native of Newton County, she had lived in Kirbyville most of her life. Survivors include four daughters, Esthereene Morgan of Orange, Marjorie Green and Wanda McClelland, both of Vidor, and Vera West of Kirbyville; three sons, R.C. Lott of Vidor and Nathan Lott and Buddy Lott, both of Kirbyville; 20 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.

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At the time of the 1910 census, he was living between his parents, Malachi and Eliza MORGAN and Tom and Ella McLEMORE.

He was said to have married second Leona SISSON.

Name: Millard Harrison Morgan
Death Date: 31 Jan 1970
Death Place: Jasper, Jasper, Texas
Gender: Male
Race:
Death Age: 88 years
Estimated Birth Date: 1882
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Father's Name: Malachi Morgan
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Lisa Clark
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Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2218584
Digital Film Number: 4168861
Image Number: 477
Reference Number: 12360
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976


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Census Listings:

1920 Census
Texas, Jasper County, JP 8
Enumerated 12 Feb 1920
SD 326 ED 80 Sheets 8A and 8B
144-154
Morgan, Millard Head M W 38 M Tx Ga Fl Farmer
Morgan, Mary Wf F W 35 M Tx Tx Tx
Morgan, Amma Dtr F W 12 S Tx Tx Tx
Morgan, Marvin Son M W 8 S Tx Tx Tx
Morgan, Elton Son M W 3 3/12 S Tx Tx Tx
Morgan, Bernice Dtr F W 1 7/12 S Tx Tx Tx

1930 Census
A 49 year old Millard B. Morgan, born in Texas with a father reported to be born in the US and mother in Virginia, was an Attendant at the Abilene State Hospital in Taylor County, Texas. He was listed as being married at the age of 22. None of his family appeared to be present, and he was apparently boarding at the hospital. This may or may not be the same Millard Harrison Morgan of Jasper County, Texas.

Millard married Mary "Matie" Frances Sims on 22 Feb 1906 in Jasper County, Texas. Mary (daughter of Rev. Alfred Cuthbert Sims and Francis Amanda Allen) was born on 6 Jul 1886 in Jasper County, Texas; died on 1 May 1932 in Jasper, Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Kenneth Morgan reported that his grandfather, Thomas Marion Morgan, loved his "Uncle Mal" and spent much time in his household when he was growing up. He said Mal was a sleepwalker, and the boys tried to watch out for him at night to prevent him from getting hurt. Early one morning, Mal asked the boys to go with him to their field across the creek to bring a turning plow back to the garden. When they arrived at the field the plow was missing, and they began to study tracks closely in the plowed ground. They found Mal's barefoot tracks where he had picked up the plow and walked across the creek on a log. Arriving back at the garden near the house they found the plow. Mal remembered nothing about the trip in the moonlight.

POSTMASTERS & POST OFFICES OF JASPER COUNTY, TEXAS 1846 - 1930 source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txpost/jasper.html

ERIN

Craige, Jas. A., 20 Sep 1847 Discontinued 5 Nov 1866

(Re-established) Faircloth, Jas. B., 31 Oct 1882
MORGAN, MALACHI, 22 Oct 1883 Aarant, Martin B., 29 Nov 1912
McLemore, Thos. F., 6 Nov 1913
McLemore, Nannie O., 3 Oct 1916
Aarant, Martin B., 15 Feb 1918
Discontinued 28 Feb 1923; mail to Magnolia Springs

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Census Listings:

According to the FamilySearch
1880 Census
Census Place:Precinct 3, Jasper, Texas
Source:FHL Film 1255313 National Archives Film T9-1313
Page 14
RelationSexMarrRaceAgeBirthplace
Mal. MORGAN Self M M W 32 GA Occ:Farmer Fa: NC Mo: NC
Eliza MORGAN Wife F M W 31 FL Occ:Keeping House Fa: GA Mo: FL
Robert MORGAN Son M S W 22 TX Occ:Works On Farm Fa: GA Mo: GA
Fountain MORGAN Son M S W 20 TX Occ:Works On Farm Fa: GA Mo: GA
Malichi F. MORGAN Son M S W 18TX Occ:Works On Farm Fa: GA Mo: GA
William O. MORGAN Son M S W 14 TX Occ:Works On Farm Fa: GA Mo: GA
Columbus MORGAN Son M S W 10 TX Fa: GA Mo: GA
Salura E. MORGAN Dau F S W 5 TX Fa: GA Mo: FL
Thomas MORGAN Son M S W 4 TX Fa: GA Mo: FL
Sarah MORGAN Dau F S W 2 TX Fa: GA Mo: FL
Lawrence MORGAN Son M S W 1 M TX Fa: GA Mo: FL

Malachi married Elizabeth Frances "Eliza" Clark on 21 Aug 1873 in Jasper County, Texas. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert B. Clark and Sarah Ann Kyle) was born in Jul 1849 in Gadsden County, Florida; died on 31 Jul 1921 in Jasper, Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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At the time of the 1920 census, Eliza was listed as a 70 year old widow, and was living with her youngest son, Watt.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JXBL-ZPT
Name: Eliza Morgan
Death Date: 31 Jul 1921
Death Place: Erin, Jasper, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: W
Death Age: 72 years
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 1849
Birthplace: Fl
Marital Status: Widowed
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Father's Name: Clark
Father's Birthplace:
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Occupation: Housewife
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Cemetery: ...
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Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2074099
Digital Film Number: 4165892
Image Number: 2696
Reference Number: 19977
Collection: Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976

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Married:
The 1910 census shows that she was the mother of 7 children, all of them living. According to the 1880 census however, she and Malachi also had a son Lawrence, who died young.

Notes:

In A.C. Sims' memoirs of the Civil War, he tells that he joined up with General Hood's Texas Regiment in Georgia after the death of this twin brother, Hub in Arkansas. His elder brother, Tom, was an officer in the Confederate Army. A.C. suffered much illness during the period he was in Georgia. Upon the end of the fighting, he returned home to East Texas where he was a teacher and later a Baptist Minister.

He first married Rachell Segrest, and on the 1870 Tyler County census, they were living in the home of Rachell's father, Jacob Segrist. About 3 months after the birth of Apless Arabella, Rachell died, leaving A.C. with 5 children under the age of 10. He later married Fannie Allen, and they had 5 more children.

His last will and testament was very simple:

State of Texas Jasper, Jasper County 21 January 1903

To all whom it may concern: Know by these prescence that it is my will that my beloved wife F.A. Sims after my decease shall retain full possession of all that is called mine as a means of support until her death provided, however, she remains single. In the event that she should marry again or die, all properties in anywise belonging to me be equally divided between my ten children. Written with mine own hand this 21 day of January A.D. 1903.

A.C. Sims

(The foregoing information is courtesy of Candie Sims. A. C. Sims's full memoirs of the Civil War, orginally published inthe JASPER NEWS BOY on May 17, 1911, can be found on Candie's website: http://CandiesTree.webjump.com/ )

Alfred married Francis Amanda Allen on 15 Sep 1884. Francis (daughter of John M. Allen and Ann Thyrxa/Thriza Thomason) was born on 1 Sep 1853 in Jasper County, Texas; died on 1 Dec 1933 in Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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At the time of hte 1930 Federal Census, she was living with her son and daughter-in-law, Albert and Ruth Sims, in Jasper.

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Married:
In August, 1884, A.C. Sims wrote this letter to Miss Fannie Allen, a maiden woman of 31 years. They were married in September.

Beech Grove Jasper County, Texas August 8th, 1884

Miss Fannie Allen,

I trust that you will forgive my presumption in thus addressing you without first having obtained your permission to do so. Though I am a stranger to you, yet your bright smiles haunt me still so that you no longer seem as a stranger to me, and I cannot forbear the temptations longer that I have to make known to you some of my thoughts, affections and wishes, and fearing lest I should not have such an opportunity as I would desire to express my sentiments, were I to visit you, I have concluded to adopt this medium of expression. Affection is sometimes of slow growth and again it springs up in a moment and I hope you will pardon me for confessing the truth by declaring to you my love for you at first sight and you will not, I trust, think it so strange of it when you shall learn of the favorable reports which I have received of you which taken in connection with your personal beauty I think sifficient cause to engage the affections of even the most fastidious.

I of course cannot hope to have made so favorable an impression on your mind on so short an acquantance but I do not know what is in your heart or what might be hereafter and I therefore desire to give expression of my feelings and learn my fate before it is too late. I wish that you may therefore after serious consideration of this letter to inform me whether or not I shall cherish this feeling or shall I smother it at once. I fully believe that when two like hearts meet that it is no difficult taks for them to determine that fact and I cannot help entertaining a hope that you are one that I am in search of and in futher testimony there of I will relate to you a strange circumstance. Before arriving at your house last Sunday, I asked a sign of the Lord that if either of the three ladies that were there should be the one that she might show it by asking me if I had not been to dinner. I hope that the answer is from the Lord and that he may awaken in your bosom the same feeling that I now experience for you. If you should see fit to answer this letter direct it to me at Town Bluff, Texas. If you should wish to send it by hand you need not be afraid to deposit it with your Cousin Dug as she is aware that I have written this to you but no one else,

Respectfully,

A.C. Sims

(Courtesy of Candie Ann Marie Sims)

The 1900 Census showed they had been married 16 years, and that she was the mother of 5 children, all living.