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45. MARY3 JANE MORRISON ( William2, Hugh1);
born circa 1838; died 1911; married JAMES FARRELL. 240
Children of James and Mary Jane (Morrison) Farrell:
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46. THOMAS3 ANDERSON MORRISON ( William2, Hugh1);
born 4 May 1840; married HELEN GARDNER, born circa 1841 in New York state. The family eventually lived in Smethport, McKean County, Pennsylvania where Thomas was a lawyer. 241
From Jordan’s (1913) Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania, 1840–1921, Volume I, page 163:
… William, son of Hugh and Isabella Morrison, was born in Center county [?], Pennsylvania. He became a prominent farmer of Pleasantville. He married Elizabeth McMasters, born 1815 in Pennsylvania; died in Forestville, New York, 1869 … Judge Thomas Anderson Morrison, son of William and Elizabeth (McMasters) Morrison, was born in Pleasantville, May 4, 1840. He was educated in the public school, Pleasantville Academy and the Pennsylvania State Normal College. He became a learned man, his lifetime being devoted to study, and to this habit more than any institution of learning his later successful career may be ascribed. At eighteen years of age he began teaching school during the winter months, working during the summer months on the home farm. In July 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company A, One Hundred and Twenty–first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. He went to the front with his regiment and at ‘bloody’ Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, was borne from the field of battle with one arm shot off and a bullet in his left knee. He was supposedly fatally wounded, but youth and a strong constitution triumphed and after a long term in Washington Hospital he was honorably discharged and mustered out in April 1863. He returned to Pleasantville minus an arm but plus experience that was perhaps worth the loss as he never faltered in any crisis of his after life, but with the same dauntless courage that carried him up the bullet swept slopes of St. Mary’s Hill, the Confederate breastworks, he meets every emergency and presses ever onward. He held office of justice of the peace in 1864–65. In 1867 was elected treasurer of Venango county, holding that office two years. In 1871 [1870] he was appointed United States deputy collector of Internal revenue and moved to Oil City, Pennsylvania, where he married, later returning to Pleasantville. He now decided to study law, although at an age where many lawyers have their reputation established. He began to study under Hon. M. C. Beebe and in 1875 was admitted to the Venango county bar and began practice. In 1879 he moved to Smethport [McKean County], where he established a successful law practice and gained so favorable a reputation that in 1887 he was appointed judge of the fourth judicial district of Pennsylvania, composed of the counties of McKean and Potter, and at the following election held November 13, 1887, he was elected to the same high office for a term of ten years …
He married March 31, 1870, Helen S. Gardner (see Gardiner IV) and maintains his permanent residence in Smethport. Children: 1. Mary Elizabeth, born in Pleasantville, Pennsylvania, October 8, 1874; educated in the high school of Smethport; married April 18, 1894, Samuel E. Bell, an oil producer; children: Morrison Donovan, born April 3, 1896; Morrison [sic Mortimer] Elliott, born July 27, 1903. 2. Thomas H., born in Pleasantville, March 11, 1877, graduate of Williams College, Massachusetts, now a practicing attorney of Smethport; he married June 18, 1904, Maud Davis of Bradford; child: Thomas F., born September 3, 1905.
Children of Thomas A. and Helen (Gardner) Morrison (all born in Pennsylvania):242
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George4 M. Wooley (adopted); born circa 1872 in Pennsylvania.
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Mary E. Morrison;
born 8 October 1874 in Pleasantville, Pennsylvania; married, 18 April 1894, Samuel E. Bell, born October 1873 in Pennsylvania. In 1900, Samuel and family were living in Smethport, McKean County Pennsylvania (census page 14B), where Samuel was enumerated as a liqueur salesman. Their children were
(a) Morrison Donavan Bell, born 3 April 1896, married Katherine [—?—], born circa 1902 in Georgia. In 1930, Donavan was a real estate agent in Baltimore—their known children in 1930 were
(i) Barbara Bell and (ii) Donna Bell;243
(b) Mortimer Elliott Bell, born 27 July 1903, married Mary N. [—?—], born circa 1906, in 1930, Mortimer was a real estate broker in Baltimore, Maryland.244
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Thomas H. Morrison;
born 11 March 1877 in Pleasantville. Pennsylvania; married Maud Davis (of Bradford, McKean County, Pennsylvania), born circa 1882 in Pennsylvania. Child of Thomas and Maud (Davis) Morrison in 1920 when they were living in Bradford, Pennsylvania: (1) Thomas F. Davis, born 3 September 1905. In 1930, Maud Morrison, widow, was still living in Bradford, Pennsylvania.245
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48. WILLIAM3 C. MORRISON ( William2, Hugh1);
born March 1843. William married Mahala [—?—], October 1858 in Pennsylvania. In 1880 and 1900, William and Mahala, no children, were living in Lackawannock Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, where William was listed as a carpenter in 1880 and a farmer in 1900. 246
49. FIDELIA3 MORRISON ( William2, Hugh1);
born circa 1846; married ALBERT MCQUISTON.
From the Titusville Morning Herald, 7 September 1876:247 “Married at M. E. parsonage on 3rd of September by Rev. A. N. Craft, Mr. Albert B. McQuiston of Oil City and Miss Idelia [sic] Morrison of Pleasantville.
In 1870, Fidelia, still single, and her father were living with Fidelia's sister Isabella (Morrison) Hyde in Forestville, New York.
Known children of Albert and Fidelia (Morrison) McQuiston:248
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Ira4 McQuiston.
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Blanche McQuiston;
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Jennie McQuiston.
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61. MARY3 NEILL ( Elizabeth2, Hugh1);
born April 1844 in Pennsylvania; married, 16 November 1870 in Ashtabula
County, Ohio,
ALEXANDER MERCILL, born November 1843 in Canada. 249
Note: The Morrison Web originally had Mary Neill marrying Warren Mercilliott of Forest County, Pennsylvania, instead of marrying Alexander Mercill. This Warren Mercilliott was a son of Jacob (born circa 1814 in Pennsylvania) and Eliza [—?—] Mercilliott (born circa 1817 in Pennsylvania) who lived in the Philadelphia area and then Forest County, Pennsylvania, where Warren and Mary also lived. 250
In an 8 September 2007 email report, Nancy Briggs provided carefully-researched information to Morrisons workers that showed our Mary Neill married Alexander Mercill instead of Warren Mercilliott. The report also includes census and marriage records. Here is Nancy Brigg's report:
We located an Elizabeth Neill in Clarion County and used the census and Hugh Clifford's records in the Oil Creek Morrisons (P. 147-168, Volume 2, note 51) about Mary's marriage to Warren R. Mercilliott to track down that line, but couldn't understand how Mary could be married to Warren and with 3 children in the 1870 census in Tionesta, Forest County, PA and at the same time enumerated with her mother and father in the Kingsville, Ashtabula, Ohio 1870 census. The Robert Jordan Neill family apparently moved to Ashtabula County, Ohio after the 1860 census and they were living right near the John Boyd and Margaret McMaster Morrison family there. Robert Jordan Neill died in 1871, presumably in Ashtabula, OH, but he is buried in Forest County, PA. His daughter Mary Neill, enumerated in 1870 in Ashtabula as a school teacher, actually married Alexander Mercill (French Canadian) on November 16, 1870 (LDS Film #0890265) in Ashtabula County, Ohio. This was found at the following website:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohashtab/marriage/1853/AshtabulaCOuntyMarriages1853N.htm
Alexander is listed as "Merrill" on this website, but it is actually spelled "Mercill" , as he shows up in all other references in the census.
In the 1880 census, Alexander Mercill and Mary Neill Mercill are located in Beaver Township, Clarion County with two daughters, Edith M. Mercill and M. E. Mercill. The very next entry is for Elizabeth Neill (Mary's mother) and the note states "kept by son A. Mercill". This is the last record we have for Elizabeth Morrison Neill, but there are probably death and burial records in Clarion, Venango or Crawford County. She may be buried with Robert Jordan Neill in the same cemetery in Forest County, but she is not listed there. The search is still on for her death records and grave - the youngest of the Hugh Morrison family.
Alexander and Mary Mercill then show up in Vernon Township, Crawford County, PA in 1900 with just M. E (Myrta E. ) and then in 1910 they are in Meadville City, and Myrta is still with them, listed as a private teacher.
A volunteer in the Conneaut Valley Area Historical Society (Crawford County, PA) just emailed a reference to the marriage of Edith M. Mercill on November 16, 1895 to Victor Bacon.
This confirms that the Edith M. Bacon living next to/or with Alexander and Mary Mercill in Meadville in 1910 is their older daughter, apparently a widow at that time. She is listed with three children, Eleanor M. Bacon, Elizabeth W. Bacon and Percy V. Bacon. She is enumerated as a saleswoman in the same business of her "Retail Merchant" father selling housewares.
This is as far as I have gotten in the search for the Elizabeth Neill line through her daughter Mary Neill Mercill, but it does confirm that the information given to Hugh Clifford by Patsy Heinen regarding Mary Neill's marriage to Warren Mercilliott is incorrect.
Alexander Mercill's parents were probably Andrew (born circa 1809) and Eleanor (born circa 1816) Mercill. In 1852 there was a Mercill family reported in the 1851 Census of Canada West, as residents of Grenville County, Ontario. Grenville County is in southeastern Ontario, bordering the St. Lawrence River and about 50 miles south of the Quebec border, near Hull, Quebec. The Mercills listed were Andrew and Eleanor Mercill (presumably parents), and children Henry Mercill (born circa 1833), Joseph Mercill (born circa 1836), Mary Mercill (born circa 1838, Alex Mercill (born circa 1845), Catherine Mercill (born circa 1847), and Andrew Mercill (born circa 1849).
In 1880, when the family was in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, Alexander was listed as a person who "cuts and draws casing." In 1900, when in Vernon Township, Crawford County, he was listed as a tin peddler, and in 1910, a retail merchant, when the family was in Meadville, Pennsylvania—the 1910 federal census lists Alexander's father born in Canada (French) and his mother born in Ireland. Probably both Alexander and Mary died before the 1920 federal census. 251
Children of Alexander and Mary (Neill) Mercill (from informaton in Nancy Brigg's 8 September 2007 report, see above):
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Edith4
M. Mercill;
born circa 1873 in Pennsylvania; married, 16 November 1895 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, Victor Bacon of Hayfield Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. In 1910, Edith M. Bacon, widow, and children were living with her parents and sister Myrta in Meadville, Pennsylvania, where Edith was enumerated as a saleswoman of house ?. In 1930, Edith, daughter Eleanor Payne and granddaughter Lucille Payne were still living with Edith's unmarried sister, Myrta, in Chicago, Illinois.
Children of Victor and Edith (Mercill) Bacon, known from the 1910 federal census:
(a) Eleanor M. Bacon, born circa 1898 in Pennsylvania; married [—?—] Payne. In 1930, Eleanor Payne was living with her mother, Edith Bacon, and her aunt Myrta Mercill in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois (census page 9A). Child of Eleanor Payne and husband was Lucille Payne, born (private).
(b) Elizabeth A. Bacon, born circa 1900 in Pennsylvania.
(c) Percy Bacon, born circa 1903 in Pennsylvania
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Myrta E. Mercill;
born May 1880 in Pennsylvania. In 1910. Mytra, single, was living with her parents in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and enumerated as a teacher. In 1930, still single and still enumerated as a public school teacher, Myrta was head of household in Chicago, Illinois; also in the family in 1930 was Myrta's sister Edith Bacon and Edith's daughter Eleanor Payne and granddaughter Lucille Payne.251b |
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