Richard Morgan and wife Sarah E. Pace
Query from a letter [to Page O'Dell] dated 1973 from Mardelle Hartwig, 4855 Central Ave, Fremont, calif 94536
My great-grandfather was Richard Morgan buried in Memory Cemetery.
My grandfather was Thomas "Bud" Icabud Hayes or Hays. He married Sarah Pace Morgan's daughter Elizabeth Frances Morgan who was born in New Market, Iowa and died in Shenandoah, Iowa.
Thomas Hays' father was Thomas Hays and his mother ws Martha Bougher or Bookure.
My father was Harold "Pood" Hayes from Shenandoah and I don't have anyone to get information from in my family as he passed away when I was seven [1939] and my mother also. My mother was Ruth Thompson from Shenandoah and I was born there.
With this letter is this insert - Morgan
Census Linn Co, Iowa 1850
David Morgan, 52, born NC, farmer
Jane Morgan, 18, born Mo
Melinda Morgan, 16, born Mo
Lucinda Morgan, 14 born Mo
Mary "Jane" Morgan was my great grandmother married to David Brooks in Linn Co, Iowa Jan 15, 1851. They were in Fayette Co, Iowa census 1856.
Melinda Morgan married John J. Scott and went to Indian Territory [Oklahoma].
Lucinda Morgan - no information.
There was a son Archie 10 years older than Jane. Maybe an Evan. Archie had children adopted out. Nellie Magee born Nebraska City, Ne, Dec 8, 1862 buried Nov 13, 1920 at Council Bluffs, Iowa, Fairview Cemetery. Died at Omaha, Neb. Mission Settlement worker. The adopted parents names were used so I got no information there.
Jane Morgan's descendants knew David Morgan as John Morgan born Tenn to Missouri and then to Iowa. The first wife was Mattie Waughs, Waughause or a similar name. Died in Missouri I think.
David Morgan then married a widow, Charlotta Wood West who had three children, Jane, John and Jim. David and Charlotta's children together were George Morgan born Jun 9, 1854 Cedar Rapids, Ia, William Morgan and Benjamin Franklin Morgan.
The second family knew him as David Morgan. His granddaughter told me her father said he went to war (which?) and they never heard of him again.
John Morgan of Linn and Taylor Co, Iowa was a nephew or cousin. Supposed to be a large family of Morgan boys. His descendants or some of them moved to Brush Prairie, Wash Terr.