David, Jr. (12 Apr 1812-30 Jul 1860) — m. Hannah Lufkin about 1838
James, Sr. (10 Feb 1814-12 Nov 1884) — m. Mary Leach Doton in 1838
Moses Baker (4 Feb 1815-10 Feb 1885) — m. Sophia J. Cottle about 1838; m. Mary Eliza Wentworth Gurney on 29 Nov 1865; m. Amelia M. McKeen on 16 Oct 1872
Benjamin Lang (19 Apr 1818-18 Aug 1883) — m. Ann Catherine Hinkley in 184x
Louisa Jane (1 Jun 1820-15 Jun 1862) — never married
Cyrus (2 Apr 1822-30 Dec 1863) — m. Amy Jane Philbrick in 184x; m. Bethia A. Hewey in 185x
Darius (2 Aug 1824-27 Oct 1825)
Salome (11 Sep 1826-5 Nov 1860) — m. Hiram H. Buzzell about 1844
Mary (9 May 1828-27 Oct 1850)
Eleanor (15 Apr 1831-14 Jun 1898) — m. Samuel Fassett Hinkley in 185x
David was born in Candia, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, the sixth of nine children to Revolutionary War soldier John Morrison (1755-6 Oct 1799) and Mary Worthen (1761-Jan 1849), who married on 23 Mar 1778. An 1893 biography of his grandson James Morrison, Jr. described the family as descendants of “that numerous Scotch-Irish clan of Morrisons, a part of whom migrated from the north of Ireland and settled in New Hampshire in the early part of the seventeenth century.”
Eleanor was also born in Candia, daughter of Capt. Benjamin Lang (????-24 Nov 1818) and Deborah Bean (22 May 1766-27 May 1830), who are buried in a small family plot in Candia called Lang Cemetery.
David and Eleanor married in Candia on 11 or 20 Nov 1811. They lived there until about 1822.
Around 1823, the family moved to Palermo, Waldo County, Maine. They remained there at least until David’s death in 1833. His burial location is unknown.
The information on this family’s early years come from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 48, pub. 1894, which traces the Morrisons back to England rather than Ireland. In particular, see pages 418-419.
By the 1850 census, Eleanor was living with her married daughter Salome and family, plus her unmarried daughters Louisa, Mary, and Eleanor (Jr.), in Madrid, Franklin County, Maine. Her married son David was living in Madrid also.
Eleanor died in 1860, and is buried in a cemetery on Number 6 Road identified in the death record only as “#5”. This was probably Marrow Cemetery, where her son David was buried just over a month later, although it might refer to some other, now lost cemetery. To find Marrow Cemetery, head southeast out of Madrid on Route 4 about a mile and a half, crossing the bridge over the South Branch of Sandy River, and then turn right onto Number Six Road. Marrow Cemetery is about 1/10th of a mile ahead on the left. The road continues south-southwest for six or seven miles, following the South Branch.
David Jr. has his own entry in the family tree.
James married Mary Leach Doton (13 May 1807-14 Jul 1887) from Buckfield, Maine in 1838. They lived in Phillips. Children:
James, Jr. (14 Mar 1841-5 Feb 1929) — m. Louisa Etta Chick on 14 Mar 1871
Mary Ellen “Nellie” (17 Jun 1845-19 Dec 1916) — m. Leroy Adelbert Smith on 9 Mar 1864
James was a farmer and mill owner. The 1850 and 1860 censuses showed him and Mary in Phillips with the two children, although in 1860 he was mistakenly listed as being from Massachusetts. The 1870 census showed him and Mary still in Phillips, with son James Jr. and nephew Charles Morrison, age 10, son of the late Cyrus Morrison. By 1880 it was just James and Mary. James died in 1884, and is buried in Madrid Village Cemetery. Mary died three years later and is buried with him. James’s tombstone identifies him as a captain, but the details behind that rank are currently unknown.
Their son James Morrison, Jr. enlisted as a corporal in Company F, 2nd Maine Cavalry on 11 Dec 1863, and was mustered out at the end of 1865. In addition to being a farmer, he was a lawyer, and served as a judge of probate.
Moses married Sophia J. Cottle (1819-24 Jun 1863) about 1838. Their children:
Henry C. (30 Jan 1839-????)
Sarah Pease (30 Nov 1841-10 Dec 1922) — m. Elbridge Augustus Sumner on 13 Jul 1856; m. Chester Whitney on 10 Jul 1897
Moses Augustus (23 Feb 1844-21 Apr 1897) — m. Julia Estelle Hamlin on 6 Jul 1872
Sophia Jennie (23 Feb 1844-????) — m. Robert Forest Gould about 1871; divorced
Alphonzo B. (4 Jan 1847-185x)
unnamed boy (16 Dec 1853-16 Dec 1853)
Edwin A. (20 Jan 1858-20 Nov 1861)
They lived at first in Madrid, Franklin County, but in 1840-1841 moved to Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts. The 1850 census found them there: Moses (34) and Sophia (30) with children Henry C. (11), Sarah P. (9), Sophia J. (6), Moses Augustus (6), and Alphonso B. (3), plus Sophia’s presumed mother Love Cottle (67). They were still there, apart from Love Cottle, in the 1855 Massachusetts census.
The 1860 census for Tisbury listed the family as Moses B. (42), Sophia J. (41), Henry C. (21), Sophia J. (16), and Augustus (16). Sophia died in 1863, and is buried in Madrid Village Cemetery.
The family apparently moved back to Maine either before or just after Sophia’s death. Moses married Mary Eliza Wentworth Gurney (25 Dec 1828-17 Nov 1869) in 1865 in Farmington, Franklin County. They had two more children:
Hattie Mae (24 Nov 1866-17 Jul 1960) — m. Henry Melvin Wood on 3 Apr 1895
Alice Wentworth (4 Apr 1869-28 Jun 1930) — m. Samuel Dodge Soule on 21 Dec 1893
Mary died in 1869. Moses married a third time, to Amelia M. McKeen (1841-????) from Strong, Franklin County, in 1872. They had one child:
Charles Herbert (7 Aug 1873-3 Apr 1960) — m. Cora Bell Hillman on 31 Dec 1900; divorced; m. Delia B. Gibbons on 24 Jan 1914
The 1880 census had Moses in Gardiner, Maine with Amelia, their son Charles, and Mary’s daughters Hattie and Alice. He died there in 1885, and is buried with Sophia.
Benjamin married Ann Catherine Hinkley, older sister of our ancestor Joel Whitney Hinkley, in the 1840s. See the Hinkley-Humphrey family page for their details.
Louisa never married. In the 1860 census, shortly after her mother’s death, she was living with sister Eleanor and her family in Strong, Franklin County. She died in 1862, and is buried in Madrid Village Cemetery.
Cyrus married Amy Jane Philbrick (1831-185x) in the late 1840s. They had at least one child:
Adelman (May 1850-5 Dec 1911) — m. Julia A. Gile in 1872
The 1850 census listed Cyrus (28) and Amy (19) with son “Dalmon” (1 month) in Sandy River Planation, Franklin County. Amy died in the 1850s. Cyrus married Bethia A. Hewey (1836-????). They had three children of record, although, given the lack of death and marriage dates, it’s possible that Diana and Emma were Amy’s children:
Diana (1852-????)
Emma Jane (15 Aug 1855-7 Dec 1930) — m. Charles Tibbetts about 1872; m. Joseph Alberto Bradstreet about 1874
Charles M. (Feb 1860-7 Feb 1927) — m. Clara R. Clough on 19 Oct 1897
In 1860, the family consisted of Cyrus (38), Bethia A. (24), Diana (8), Emma (5), and Charles M. (5 months), plus Bethia’s brother Charles Hewey (19). (The Hewey family was next door.) Adelman was with some of his mother’s kin in Rangeley.
Cyrus joined the 13th Maine Volunteer Regiment, Co. E. He died in Texas at the end of 1863.
Unclear what became of Bethia and daughter Diana, but it’s likely they both died in the 1860s. In the 1870 census, daughter Emma was living with the family of her married cousin Emily Morrison Hinkley in Rangeley, and son Charles was with his uncle James Morrison in Phillips.
Darius died at age 1 in Palermo, Waldo County, Maine.
Salome married former Union soldier Hiram Hutchinson Buzzell (2 Nov 1825-22 Apr 1877) from Madrid. (His last name is also spelled Busiel and Bussell.) They had four children:
Otis Johnson (13 Dec 1844-17 Jan 1877) — m. Arabella M. Evans on 13 Nov 1870
Charles Jasper (26 Jul 1846-17 Jun 1870) — m. Caroline Curry on 12 Sep 1869
William F. (1856-26 Apr 1920) — m. Abbie J. Ward on 31 Mar 1877; m. Ida M. Ward on 23 Feb 1887
Edwin (May 1858-29 Mar 1865)
Salome died in 1860, a few months after her mother and her brother David. She’s buried in Marrow Cemetery, Phillips. Hiram moved to Massachusetts, and remarried on 3 Oct 1865 to Mary Ann Brown Morrison (~1825-1898) in Chelsea, Suffolk County. She was the widow of another Union soldier, Isaac T. Morrison (1821-23 Feb 1865), who didn’t return from the war. Isaac was from Waldo County, Maine, where David and Eleanor Morrison lived at the time he was born, but there’s no record of how he was related to them.
Hiram died in 1877, not long after his eldest son. He has two graves – one in Garden Cemetery, Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, and one in Togus National Cemetery, Chelsea, Kennebec County, Maine. Mary Ann moved to Ohio to be near a daughter from her first marriage, and died there in 1898.
Mary died in 1850, age 22. She’s buried in Madrid Village Cemetery. Her death record incorrectly names her mother as Emily.
Eleanor married Samuel Fassett Hinkley, older brother of our ancestor Joel Whitney Hinkley. See the Hinkley-Humphrey family page for their details.
https://www.geni.com/people/David-Morrison/6000000079484128172 -- David Sr.
https://books.google.com/books?id=FccMAAAAYAAJ&dq=Darius+morrison+1841+madrid+maine&source=gbs_navlinks_s -- That book
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~byronfamily/genealogy/beang001.htm -- Includes 1793 birth of Eleanor
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLXP-1HW -- 1811 wedding
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F44Q-NYT -- 1825 birth of Salome’s husband Hiram
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F44Q-NVJ -- 1826 birth of Salome
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F44Q-NYL -- 1844 birth of Salome’s son Otis
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F44Q-V95 -- 1846 birth of Salome’s son Charles
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6JP-L28 -- 1850 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6JP-8S5 -- 1850 census, Cyrus
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKM1-QR83 -- 1850 burial of Mary
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111117286/mary-morrison -- 1850 grave of Mary
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKM1-QRWC -- 1860 death of Eleanor Sr.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/199943488/eleanor-morrison -- 1860 grave of Eleanor Sr., currently listed in the wrong cemetery
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDH5-2KG -- 1860 census, Eleanor Jr. and Louisa
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDHR-YFL -- 1860 census, Salome
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDH5-GB2 -- 1860 census, Cyrus
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105578373 -- 1860 grave of Salome
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKXM-W8XM -- 1862 death of Louisa
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47611546 -- 1862 grave of Louisa
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2QB-VCS2 -- 1864 enlistment of Salome’s son Charles
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:246N-WR4 -- 1865 discharge of Salome’s son Otis
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDSB-4SC -- 1870 census, Salome’s son Otis
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4SB-Y8W -- 1870 wedding of Salome’s son Otis
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHKN-G3G -- 1870 death of Salome’s son Charles
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V6HQ-M24 -- 1877 burial of Salome’s son Otis
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111883916/otis-j-buzzell -- 1877 grave of Otis
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHX6-9BJ -- 1880 census, Moses’s daughter Sophia
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43828739/benjamin-l-morrison -- 1883 grave of Benjamin
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191663356/eleanor-hinkley -- 1898 grave of Eleanor Jr.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24N-2DZS -- 1911 death of Cyrus’s son Adelman