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Zenas
Morgan was born circa 1798 UN10 or
1799 UN11 in
Connecticut UN10, UN11. Census
reports stated that Zenas was a farmer. At the time of the 1830 census, Zenas
resided in Lagrange, Lorain County UN8, but
he and his family had relocated to Carmdon, Lorain
County by 1840, to Pittsfield, Lorain County by 1850 UN10 and to Orleans, Ionia County, Michigan sometime before the 1860
census UN11. Zenas
Morgan owned forty acres in Section Eight in Orleans, Ionia County, Michigan in
1861 WR6,
and he was called a farmer who lived in Section 9 in Orleans, Ionia County,
Michigan in 1872 HI16 and
1875 IO1. His
son, Homer Morgan stated that Zenas Morgan of Orleans in Ionia County, Michigan
died intestate on Tuesday, February 5, 1878 MI24. He also listed the names of the heirs to Zenas Morgan’s estate
MI24:
Sarah
Sharkey daughter of said deceased Harriet Beckwith
daughter of said deceased Lucy Eckert daughter of said deceased Adeline Dow
daughter of said deceased Electa Antcliff
daughter of said deceased Homer Morgan son of said deceased all residing in
said County of Ionia Henry Blodgett Harrison Blodgett and Marilla Turner
children of Maria Blodgett a deceased daughter of said deceased and Arthur
Pryor and Jessie Kern children of Alzina Pryor a
deceased daughter of said deceased
He was buried in Orleans Township Cemetery in Ionia
County, Michigan, according to the Find a Grave website.
Homer Morgan petitioned the Probate Court of Ionia County, Michigan to grant
the administration to “some suitable person” on February 11, 1878, and this was
granted to Abe C. Huff on March 11, 1878 MI24. William
Smith, Edward Howe, and Alexander Howe were appointed as commissioners by the
judge of the Probate Court of Ionia County to examine the claims against the
estate of Zenas Morgan on the same day MI24.
James and Adeline Dow made a claim for $50, of which $25 was allowed MI24.
On
March 12, 1878, William Smith and Leander Berry were appointed to make an
inventory and appraise Zenas Morgan’s real and personal estate and to deliver
it to Abe (Abram) C. Huff, the administrator of the estate MI24. His estate included a parcel of forty acres of land in Ionia
County which was the north half of the north half of the southwest quarter of
Section Number Four Town Number 8 North which was worth $150 MI24. The inventory included one “yearlin
Colt” ($25), one mare ($35), one yoke of cattle ($100), one cow ($25), one
“yearling heffer” ($15), one “culter”
(50 cents), one buggy ($8), six “bus [bushels] of wheat” ($6), a trunk and
clothing ($5), one Note worth $28.17 (according to the administrator’s accounts
of the estate, this pertained to Homer Morgan), one “flanel
sheat” (50 cents), one watch ($15), one pair of boots
($2), one stove (50 cents), eight drag teeth (29 cents), an old harness (50
cents), two bushels of potatoes (50 cents), and money on hand ($35) MI24. The total valuation was $301.92 MI24. A “culter” was a coulter, which is a
plow blade which cuts the soil vertically and is mounted before the plowshare. The
eight drag teeth were likely meant for a drag harrow, which is a tool used to
loosen the soil of farmland.
As
the administrator of the estate, Abe C. Huff distributed the following sums to
the heirs of Zenas Morgan’s estate: $6.88 apiece to Sarah A. Sharkey, Harriet
Beckwith, Lucy Eckert, Adaline W. Dow, Electa R. Antcliff, and Homer Morgan, $2.29 apiece to Henry Blodgett,
Harrison Blodgett, and Marilla Turner, and $3.44 apiece to Jessie Kern and
Arthur E. Prior MI24. A note which
acknowledged the receipt of $2.29 was signed by Eliza M. Turner MI24.
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1830 US Census: lived in Lagrange, Lorain County, Ohio with one
boy and one girl under five, one girl aged five to nine, and one young woman
aged twenty to twenty-nine.
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1840 US Census: lived in Carmdon,
Lorain County, Ohio with one boy and two girls under five, one girl aged five
to nine, one boy and one girl aged ten to fourteen, one young woman aged
fifteen to nineteen, and one woman aged thirty to thirty-nine.
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1850 US Census: lived in Pittsfield, Lorain County, Ohio.
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1860 US Census: lived in Orleans, Ionia County, Michigan.
Rebecca Williams was
born circa 1803 UN10 or 1805
UN11 in New York UN10, UN11. According to a death record for her
daughter, Electa Antcliff,
who died in 1934, Rebecca’s maiden surname was Williams MI5. She was the mother of Mary M., Sarah Ann, Alzina
M., Homer, Harriet, Lucy, Emily, Adaline M., and Electa
Roseland Morgan.
Mary M. Morgan was
born about 1824 UN10 and married
Valentine B. Blodget in Grafton, Lorain County, Ohio on November 9, 1844 OH3. “Volentine” Blodget (born about 1823
in New York) and Mary Blodget (born about 1824 in New York) were enumerated
with their children, Henry and Marilla, in LaGrange,
Lorain County, Ohio in 1850 UN10.
Mary may have died before the 1860 US Census because she was not listed with
Valentine “Blodgett” (born about 1824) when he was enumerated in Orleans
Township, Ionia County, Michigan UN11.
Instead, the name “Sybil” appeared underneath Valentine’s name, and the
children in the household at that time were Henry, Marilla, Harrison, and
four-month-old Clarissa UN11.
According to Homer Morgan, her brother, “Maria Blodgett” died sometime before the
death of her father, which occurred on February 5, 1878, and she was the mother
of Henry Blodgett, Harrison Blodgett, and Eliza Marilla Turner MI24. The Ionia County, Michigan death record for Harrison H.
Blodget, who died at age forty-six years, six months, and twenty days on
January 23, 1899, stated that his parents were Valentine Blodget and Mary
Morgan, who were both born in Michigan. His age at the time of his death
indicates that he was born about July 3, 1852, which indicates that Mary must
have died sometime between July 1852 and the occurrence of the 1860 US Census.
Sarah
Ann Morgan (Blodgett) Sharkey was born on May 10, 1825
in Ohio, according to her Ionia County, Michigan death certificate. Alzada Morgan UN10 (Alsina Pryor UN11) was born about 1831 UN10 or
1832 UN11 in
Ohio UN10, UN11.
Joseph W. Prior applied for a marriage license for himself and Alzina M. Morgan on September 6, 1850 in
Lorain County, Ohio OH3. Alsina Pryor was enumerated with Warren Pryor in Penfield,
Lorain County, Ohio in 1860 with two children, Arthur, age seven, and Jesse,
age three UN11.
Her brother, Homer Morgan, stated that Alzina Pryor
died sometime before February 5, 1878 and was the mother of Arthur Pryor and
Jessie Kern MI24.
Homer Morgan was
born in December 1835 UN14 or about
1832 UN12 or 1835 UN10, UN11, UN13 in
Ohio UN10, UN11, UN12, UN13. According to the 1900 US
Census, he had been married for forty-three years to Hannah, which indicates
they were married about 1857 UN14. Homer
and Hannah (or Anna UN12)
lived in Orleans, Ionia County, Michigan in 1860 and 1870 with their children, John and James UN11, UN12,
and in 1870, thirteen-year-old Jessie Pryor, who was born in Ohio about 1857,
also resided in their household UN12. In
1880, he lived in Odessa, Ionia County, Michigan with his wife, Hannah,
six-year-old son, Judson, and with James and Jamie, his twenty-year-old son and his wife UN13. Homer
and Hannah had relocated to Rolland Township, Isabella County, Michigan by 1900
UN14. According to his Mecosta County, Michigan death certificate, Homer
Morgan was born in Ohio on December 25, 1835 to “Zenos”
Morgan of Pennsylvania and an unknown mother. He died at age seventy-two years,
six months, and nineteen days in Millbrook, Mecosta County from general dropsy
and organic heart disease on August 12, 1907 and was buried at Decker Cemetery.
Harriet Morgan was
born about 1837 IO3, UN11, UN12 or
about 1839 UN14, 1842 MI23 or
1843 UN13 in Michigan UN11 or
Ohio UN12, UN13, UN14, MI23. At age eighteen, she and
William Owen, age nineteen, were married in Orleans on September 23, 1855 in a
ceremony officiated by R.D. Howe and witnessed by “Alanson & Sarah Blodget
both of Ionia Co State of Mich” IO3. Harriet and William
Owen with three-year-old Charles Owen were enumerated in 1860 in Orleans, Ionia
County, Michigan UN11; ten years later they were in the same
location with Charles, a girl named “Jamtt”, Willie,
and Riley UN12. William may have died by
1877, because on June 14, 1877, Harriet Owen, age thirty-five of Orleans,
Michigan, whose maiden name was Harriet Morgan,
married Oliver Beckwith in Saranac, Ionia County, Michigan MI23. Harriet and Oliver Beckwith were enumerated in 1880 and 1900
in Otisco, Ionia County, Michigan; in 1880, their
household included nine-year-old Florence Owen UN13, and in 1900, she stated that she was the mother of seven
children, of whom four were living UN14. It
is unlikely that she was born much later than 1839. In 1877 when she married
Oliver Beckwith, who was thirty-two, she claimed she was thirty-five, but if
that was correct, she would have been thirteen years
old when she married William Owen in 1855. An Ionia County, Michigan death certificate for Harriett
Beckwith was very likely hers. This death certificate
stated that Harriett Beckwith was born on April 1, 1836 to James Morgan of
Pennsylvania and a mother from Ohio whose maiden name
was “Kesler”. She died in Belding, Ionia County at age seventy-one years, eight
months, and six days from heart disease and anemia on December 4, 1907 and was
buried at Orleans Cemetery.
Lucy Morgan was
born in April 1840 UN14 or
about 1839 UN10, UN13 in Ohio UN10, UN13, UN14. In 1870, James and Lucy Eckert were enumerated
in Orleans, Ionia County, Michigan, and their household included Alfred,
eleven, Homer, nine, Rebecca, six, Harley, four, and James, who was two UN12. James may have been the James M. Eckert who
was born in “York State” and who died at age forty-five on December 20, 1874 in
Orleans, Ionia County, Michigan due to “rheumatism in the head” MI21. In 1880, Lucy Eckert was enumerated in Orleans
with Alfred, Homer, Mary, Harley, and James, who was twelve UN13. Lucy Eckert (or Echert)
lived with her son, James, and daughter, Mary Penney, in Otisco,
Ionia County, Michigan in 1900 UN14. The
Ionia County, Michigan death certificate for Lucy Eckert stated that she was
born on April 21, 1840 to S. Morgan of New York and an unknown mother, and she
died in Belding, Ionia County as a widow due to heart failure following an
acute intestinal obstruction at age seventy years, one month, and three days on
May 24, 1910.
Emily Morgan was
born about 1841 UN10 or 1842 UN11 in Ohio UN10, UN11. Emily Hency,
the daughter of “Zenos” and “Rebeca” Morgan, died at
age twenty-eight years and three months in Orleans, Ionia County, Michigan from
typhoid fever on February 3, 1869 MI21, MI4,
which indicates a birthdate of about November 3, 1840.
Aderlin UN10 or
Adaline UN11 Morgan was born in January 1844 UN14 or about 1843 UN10 or
1844 UN11, UN12, UN13, MI2 in Ohio UN10, UN11, UN12, UN13. Adaline
M. Morgan, age twenty, married
James Dow, age twenty-three, in Montcalm County, Michigan on January 2, 1864 MI2. Adaline and James Dow were enumerated in
Orleans, Ionia County, Michigan in 1870 and 1880; their household in 1870
included four-year-old Jennie and one-year-old James UN12, and in 1880 included three daughters and one
son: Jennie (fourteen), Myrta (nine), Adel (six), and Zenas (four) UN13. They lived near George and Electa Antcliff in 1880 UN13. Adeline, James, and Zenas were enumerated in
District 10, Ward 1 of Ionia, Ionia County, Michigan in 1900 UN14. According to her Ionia
County, Michigan death certificate, Adeline Dow was the daughter of Zenas
Morgan and Rebecca Williams and was born on January 1, 1844 in Ohio. She died
from pneumonia at age fifty-six years, seven months, and three days on August
3, 1900 and was buried in Orleans Cemetery.
Electa Roseland Morgan was
born in October 1849 UN14 or
about 1847 UN16, 1848 UN10, UN15, IO3,
1849 UN11, or 1850 UN13 in
Lorain County IO3 Ohio UN10, UN11, UN13, UN14. Electa Morgan, age nineteen, married George L. “Anltiff”
(the recorder likely intended to spell “Antliff” but
crossed the letter “l” instead of the letter “t”), age twenty-one, on December
7, 1867 in Orleans, Ionia County, Michigan IO3. George L. and Electa R. Antcliff were
enumerated in Orleans, Ionia County in 1880 with their children, Josephine, age
twelve, Estell, age ten, George E., age eight, Chester, age four, and Pearl M.,
age one month (born in May) UN13. George Antcliff,
the son of George E. and Fannie Antcliff, died at age
forty-nine on September 30, 1894 in Orleans, Ionia County from cancer MI21. Electa resided in
District 11, Ward 2 of Ionia in Ionia County with her two daughters, Pearl and
Fanny B., a grandson, Arthur, and three boarders at the time of the 1900 US
Census UN14. She remained in the city of Ionia in 1910
and 1920; in 1910, her household included her son, Chauncey, daughter and
son-in-law, Pearl and Clinton Eckmeter,
and two grandchildren, Gladys Eckmeter and Arthur Antcliff UN15. She lived alone in
District 77, Ward 2 of Ionia in 1920 UN16. According
to her Ionia County, Michigan death certificate, Electa
Roseland Antcliff was born on October 16, 1848 in
Lorain County, Ohio to Zenas Morgan (born in Connecticut) and Rebecca Williams
(born in Pennsylvania). She married George L. Antcliff
and died as a widow on May 26, 1934 from chronic osteoarthritis, according to
the physician, Verner H. Kitson, M.D.
Rebecca was buried in Orleans Township Cemetery, Ionia County,
Michigan, according to the Find a Grave website.
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1850 US Census: lived in Pittsfield, Lorain County, Ohio.
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1860 US Census: lived in Orleans, Ionia County, Michigan.