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 John Joseph MorrisBorn 12 Dec 1843 Quebec, Canada, died 13 Apr 1914 Page Township, Cass County, North Dakota, age 70 years The family is in the 1885 census of Bangor Township, Pope County. In the 1895 census the family is in Reynolds Township, Todd County. In the 1910 census they're in Hamerly, Renville County, North Dakota with the three youngest: Arthur E, Mabel G. and Alice. Married Feb 1871 Raymond Township, Stearns County, Minnesota, age 27 years (married 43 years) to:  Bridget Elizabeth "Elizabeth B" Tracey, age by marriage 19 years, daughter of Michael "Tracey on gravestone" Tracey and Ann "Anne" Rooney.Born 21 Aug 1851 Wakefield Township, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada, died 9 Dec 1937 Fargo, Cass County, North Dakota, age 86 years, buried Page Township, Cass County, North Dakota Baptismal sponsors: Patrick Killeen and Mary Rooney The 1900 census - Tintah, Traverse County, says that she and her husband came to the U.S. from Canada in 1866. Children: 1. William F MorrisBorn 7 Jan 1872 Minnesota, died 28 Apr 1963 Los Angeles, CA, age 91 years Bridget Morris - Her eldest son, Will Morris, left home as a young lad and they didn't hear from him for years. He was selling gasoline at a service station in Arizona when a customer asked him if he wasn't Will Morris. He told him his mother was still living. He went to see her and brought her back to Los Angeles and bought her a home on Wilshire Blvd (one of the nicest areas in LA then). I knew him in his later years and he was a sweet gentleman. (As told by Mildred Joyce Hamby in about 1998) 2. Joseph T MorrisBorn 29 Dec 1873 Minnesota, died 10 Jan 1920 Cass County, Minnesota, age 46 years, buried Page Township, Cass County, North Dakota They may have been in the 1900 census in Washington as "Joseph T," age 24, with his brother Michael E (M.E.), age 17. Its says their father was born (correctly) in Canada and their mother in Georgia (which may make this not the right family, as she was born in Canada as well). 3. John Lawrence MorrisBorn 3 Oct 1875 Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minnesota, died 11 May 1955 Umatilla, Umatilla County, Oregon Event Description: Umatilla County Hermiston Umatilla County Hermiston Umatilla County Hermiston Cemetery, age 79 years In 1900 John and his parents lived in Tintah, Traverse County, for a period of time. In 1910 John and his own family is in Hamerly, Renville County, North Dakota. In 1920 John is working in the iron mines in Irondale, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. All seven of the children were in the St. James Orphanage in Duluth on January 10, 1920. In March of 1920, they're back with the family in Deerwood (same 1920 census, but two months apart). (The orphanage records, for example, get this exactly right: Genevieve M. Morris, age 12, born in Wisconsin, father in Minnesota, mother in Pennsylvania. And all her siblings are listed there.) Something catastrophic happened in the family. Debora Jean Sargeant Morris says, August 14, 2016: Now the problem of John Lawrence Morris and Margaret Tresea O'Connell family. Thank you for your 1920 census link as it worked. How interesting as I also found another orphanage listing in 1925 for four of the children. Both 1920 census records for the children brings up a question to me about Cecelia Rose and her true age. I have a notarized birth statement given by Michael James Morris that he was present at the birth of his sister, Cecelia Rose Morris, child of John L Morris and Margaret O'Connell born in Sherwood North Dakota on the 21st day of April 1921. There are many different years in the records listed for her and at different periods she went by Cecelia Rose and Rose Cecelia as I knew her. She was married to Edward Moore and died in Oregon. John Lawrence also died in Oregon. My thoughts got away from the census research and why the children were not always with the parents which was a puzzle. I found four of the children in a Catholic Orphanage in Fargo, North Dakota on April 1, 1925. I have not found the 1930 census record for the family yet. As I said before I have not spent much time on this research yet. I do know that Michael James sister Genevieve was known to the family as Jennie. I don't remember anything said about Madison. Edna Filistis was know to the family as Filistis. She was born with a club foot and I remember her living in Idaho in the 1970's. I never met her and have not done research on that line. John Irvin went by the name Irvin. He lived in Montana. There also was a May. Her name might have been Marie or Mary but was known to the family as May. She lived in the state of Washington. There was Lawrence Vincent. He might have taught school somewhere in Texas as I remember. Michael James named his first son, my husband, after his two brothers, Lawrence and Irvin. There is a lot of research time that needs to be done for the families of John Lawrence Morris and Margaret Tresea O'Connell. I can't even begin to think about John's parents families. 4. Mary Angeline MorrisBorn 1 Jan 1877 Tintah, Traverse County, Minnesota, died 14 Sep 1960 Fargo, Cass County, North Dakota, age 83 years 5. Sarah Ellen MorrisBorn 16 Jan 1879 Minnesota, died 6 Mar 1946 Los Angeles, California Event Description: St. Catherine's Cemetery, Valley City, North Dak, age 67 years, buried Valley City, Barnes County, North Dakota 6. Mathew Austin "Matt" MorrisBorn 24 May 1880 Ashley Township, Stearns County, Minnesota, died 11 Nov 1956 Stearns County, Minnesota Event Description: Saint Francis de Sales Cemetery, Belgrade MN, age 76 years, buried Belgrade, Stearns County, Minnesota Mathew is with his wife in the 1905 Minnesota census and in the 1910 census in Seattle, King, Wasington, living with his wife's brother-in-law, Orrin T. Fish. It says his wife had two children of which one is alive. Thereafter Mathew appears with his son Curtis but never his wife again, though it shows him married until the 1940 census when he is listed as widowed. 7. Michael E MorrisBorn 1882 Bangor Township, Pope County, Minnesota They may have been in the 1900 census in Washington as "Joseph T," age 24, with his brother Michael E (M.E.), age 17. Its says their father was born (correctly) in Canada and their mother in Georgia (which may make this not the right family, as she was born in Canada as well). 8. Elizabeth Genevieve MorrisBorn 27 Apr 1884 Stearns County, Minnesota, died 29 Mar 1962 Anaheim, Orange County, California Event Description: Evergreen Memorial Park and Mausoleum, Riverside, CA, age 77 years, buried Riverside, Riverside County, California 9. James Henry MorrisBorn 8 Feb 1886 Bangor Township, Pope County, Minnesota, died 11 Feb 1979, age 93 years, buried Missoula, Missoula County, Montana By the 1940 census, the kids are gone. 10. Arthur Edmond "Edman; Edmund Arthur" MorrisBorn 12 Dec 1887 Long Prairie, Todd County, Minnesota, died Mar 1967 Aberdeen, Grays Harbor County, Washington Event Description: Fern Hill Cemetery, age 79 years He's in the 1900 census in Tintah, Traverse County, Minnesota, under "Edman A," Minnesota and in the 1910 (in Hamerly, Renville, North Dakota - northwest of Minot, just a few miles from the Canadian border) and 1920 (in Rich, Case, North Dakota - northwest of Fargo) censuses "under Arthur E." On his 1917 WWI draft card he's farming in Suffolk, Montana. In the 1940 census he is married to Sarah E and is living in "Simpson's Camp," Wilson, Grays Harbor, Washington where is a busker. (In 1935 they were inferred to be living in Aberdeen, Washington.) No kids are shown. In 1942 he's living in Aberdeen, Washington and working for the Simpson Logging Company. James Wall will always know his address. The card gives his exact birth date; however, his State of Washington death certificate in 1967 gives his birth date as one year earlier, and most records seem to indicate that 1887 is correct. 11. Mabelle Gertrude "Mabel" MorrisBorn 12 Dec 1890 Long Prairie, Todd County, Minnesota, died 9 May 1984 Riverside County, California Event Description: Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernadino, CA, age 93 years, buried San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, California Mabelle Gertrude Morris enrolled in Army Nurse Corps, at Minot, on Aug. 4, 1918; served in Base Hospital, Camp Lewis, Wash., to April 13, 1919; General Hospital No. 21, to discharge. Relieved from active duty at Denver, Colo., on Sept. 25, 1920, as an Army Nurse. In the 1920 census, Mabel is a nurse in the U.S. Army Hospital in Colfax, Adams, Colorado. I can't find her in the 1930 and 1940 federal censuses, so a lot could have happened in the decades between being a WWI army nurse and when she got married in 1961 in California. 12. Theresa Alice "Alice Theresa; Tess" MorrisBorn 28 Jun 1894 Reynolds, Todd County, Minnesota, died 13 Dec 1983 San Diego, San Diego County, California, age 89 years | |||