Rework of Sidney Frances Morgan’s 1954 summary, expanded and corrected:
Susan Taylor Aldridge
“Morgan Family Data furnished by Laura Morgan Button
To Col. Sidney Morgan, Leghorn Italy March 4, 1956”
BENJAMIN MORGAN was born abt 1821 Swedesboro, NJ - died 25 March 1869 (son of ADAM MORGAN of NJ b. abt. 1797 who died 17 May 1861)
married before Feb. 1845 to
HANNAH LEACH born 15 May 1825 Dublin, Ireland, daughter of ALICE SCHOLCROFT and ELLIS LEACH, son of James and Hannah Leach of Bury, Lancashire, England. Benjamin is said to have lived in Moorestown, NJ for a short time, but he did live in Blockley, Philadelphia 1850 and Springville (Spring City), PA 1860. then Honeybrook, PA, and Grays Ferry Road (where he died) in Philadelphia for at least one day. He worked at the Arsenal during the Civil War, but do not know where he lived.
His grandfather Morgan (father of Adam Morgan) is said to have fought in the revolution in the NJ Line Regiment called 3 M. under Elias Dayton , his grandmother is Sarah Flanigan/Flaningham. Her parents were said to be Michael Flanigan/Flaningham and Sarah Jennings.
"DEATH FROM SUFFOCATION - Mr. Benjamin Morgan, of Chester County, rented a few days since the house 2542 Grays’s Ferry road which had been recently finished, and on Wednesday came to the city, with his family, to take possession of it. His wife stopped at a friend's house, where she was to remain until all the household goods should arrive, and the deceased, after kindling a fire in the range of the new house, determined to sleep in the room, but unfortunately he turned off the damper in the range, thus forcing the coal gas into the apartment. A police officer entered the house yesterday morning, after being informed that Mr. Morgan had not made his appearance, and found the deceased lying with his faced turned towards the floor, his head resting upon his arms, quite dead. An inquest was held, and a verdict in accordance with above facts rendered."
Phil. newspaper
"MORGAN - Suddenly on the 25th instant, BENJAMIN R. E. MORGAN (late of Springville, Chester county) in the 47th year of his age. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of his brother-in-law, R. M. Burns, 216 North Eighth street, on Sunday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. To proceed to Mount Moriah Cemetery"
Phil. newspaper
Issue:
1. (Rev.) Grifftt (later Griffith) Ellis Morgan b. Oct 1845, was in the Civil War- enlisted 1861 at age 15 and a half, Philadelphia, PA d. 23 Feb. 1932 m. Sara Evans Woods 17 Oct. 1875
a. infant Morgan b. 28 April 1877 Phil., PA
b. Mathew Harry Morgan b. July 1879 d. abt 1 Dec 1901 Phil., PA
c. Frederick Morgan B. abt. March 1884 d. May 1884
d. Anna S. Morgan b. 9 Sep. 1889 m. 1908 Gerald F. Proctor (of Brit. Vir.Is.) and m. George Eberly
e. Ruth Morgan b. Nov. 1898 d. June 1899 Phil., PA
2. Harriet Morgan (named after her father’s sister) no children b. abt. 1849 Blockley, Philadelphia, PA d. 18 Feb. 1923 m. Isaac R. Supplee (b.1827) 4 Nov. 1884 m. Jacob Louis/Lewis Coulson (b. abt. 1866 Maryland) abt. 1898
3. Benjamin Rush Morgan Jr. b. 9 Aug 1850 (named after his father, Ben is in Oct 1850 census) d. 27 Nov. 1908 m. 21 Nov. 1868 Mary Simon of Reading, may have given his 2 children when Mary died to Sarah Ann Wheatland and Benjamin K. Morgan of Moreland. and m. Rachel Wolfe abt. 1888 (no children)
Possibly:
a. Ellenor Morgan b. abt 1876
b. Laura M. Morgan b. 1880 died in infancy
4. Alice Morgan (named after her maternal grandmother Alice Scholcroft Leach) b. abt. 1854 d. 1 June 1925 m. Henry (possibly married Cyril Harrison 1895 and Fred Bowers 1896 in Arapoe, Colorado where the family said she went to seek her fortune and invested in a silver mine-she brought home silver nuggets Owned a share in a Colorado silver mine “Big Potato” or White Potato Aunt Laura said she “ Showed us children little silver potatoes about the size of a small pea.”) Married in Colorado: twins deceased in early childhood.
a. infant twin
| Name: | Fred Bowers |
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| Spouse: | Alice Morgan |
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| Marriage Date: | 24 Sep 1896 |
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| County: | Arapahoe |
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| State: | CO |
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5. Rebecca Regina Morgan (named after her grandmother Rebecca Tomlinson Morgan, no children) b. 23 Feb. 1856 Spring City area, East Vincent Twsp., Chester Co., PA d. 7 Aug. 1934 Morton, Chester Co., PA m. 1) 3 July 1878 Calvin Vandersloot, m. 2) abt. 1908 Thomas Tarbottom (b. England 1843), and m. 3)Ephraim Miller (b. abt. 1858)
6. Morris K. Morgan (named after the oldest ancestor the Morgan family could remember but they had no idea how far back he was) b. Dec. 1858 Spring City area, East Vincent Twsp., Chester Co., PA d. after 1930 m. 27 Nov. 1883 Sarah C. Griffith-no relation to Hannah Griffith
a. Bertha H. F. Morgan b. June 1884 m. abt. 1904 William H. Jones
b. Allen L. Morgan b. May 1889 prob. Phil., PA Corporal, U.S. Calvalry, died during World War I. American Legion Post at N.J. is named “Corp. Allen Morgan Post” after him. Allen Irving Morgan was survived by his parents, and siblings. By 1920 the Morgans had made their home on Emerald Avenue in Westmont (Haddon Township) NJ. His mother passed in the 1920s. Morris K. Morgan was still living in Westmont as of April, 1930.
"CORPORAL ALLEN IRVING MORGAN of Lowell Lane, Westmont NJ, died on a transport enroute to France from disease on March 22, 1918, at the age of 28. He was initially buried at Brest, France, then returned to the United States after the war had ended.
Allen Irving Morgan was born in May of 1889 in Pennsylvania, the son of Morris K. and Sallie C. Griffith Morgan. He was the second of four children, coming after Bertha, and before brothers Howard and Leslie. The Morgan family left Pennsylvania and settled in Westmont NJ sometime after 1896. Morris K. Morgan worked as a stationary engineer. Allen Irving Morgan enlisted in the United States Army on December 22, 1915 in Philadelphia PA. He served with Troop G of the 15th Cavalry Regiment. During his time in the Army he saw duty on the Mexican Border, and he had spent 18 months in the Philippine Islands. “
c. Howard H. E. Morgan b. Oct 1890 m. May K., m. Helen G.
d. Leslie A. Morgan b. Oct 1896
7. Mary (later Marion) Morgan (named after “aunt Mary Leach Pinkerton”) Spring City area, Chester Co., PA b. abt March 1860 d. after 1934 m.10 Dec 1879 to William B. Downing, a plumber- divourced, m. abt. 1908 to Thomas H. McFarland (b. 1842 Maryland)
a. Ethel Downing b. Sept. 1887 Phil., PA m. Howard Hall
8. Sidney George Morgan (called George during his lifetime) b. Dec 1862 Spring City area, East Vincent Twsp., Chester Co., PA d. Feb. 16, 1936, buried Arlington cem. M. Jennie Gould Oct. 27,1887 (born 21 Nov. 1864 shadow of Ballintoy Castle, Antrim, Ireland, near Bally Meana to John Gould and Anne McCay who married 30 Oct. 1863 Ballintoy-Scotch Presberterian)
a. Sidney Francis Morgan (no children) b. 7 May 1890 probably Honeybrook, Chester Co., PA d. 31 Jan. 1975 m. after 1920 Ethel Creager of Johnstown, Cambria, PA , m. Harriet.
Millicent Tetlow Taylor says,
” He finished high school at age 16 (High School was Lower Merion High) - and then worked for the Main Line Times newspaper as sports reporter. Then as general reporter. Along came WW I -- he went to Officers Training School - got his Lt. bar. Along the way, later (he stayed in the Army after the War), he wrote the Army Officers Handbook (don't know the years). He was an executive in the Patent Office. He became Secretary of the Tariff Commission. He served during WW II ( received many honors from the Chech government- may have worked with the Chech underground). At War's end he was Military Attache to Governments in Exile. He was awarded a prestigious French medal on an invited trip to France (about 1946 or so). As Military Attache to Govts. in Excile after WW II, he made several trips to Europe. I have a newspaper printout describing some of his successes. He was a patriotic person, indeed. He was a natural leader. He had a strong personality - was honorable - reliable. He was outstanding wherever he was placed.”
b. Laura Morgan (no children) b. 27 Jan. 1892 probably Honeybrook, Chester Co., PA Millicent Tetlow says, “Their house at West Spring Ave. was ready to live in when Laura was going-on two years old-- therefore it was being built in 1892-93.” d. 23 April 1974 m. abt 1925 Charles Button of Germantown. She was a WW I WAC, career Civil Service, world traveller, and bi-sexual (had a female life long partner- “Jackie” Nellie Hubbell)
c. infant Morgan abt. 1894 died by 1900
d. Herbert B. D. Theodore (later changed to Theodore from D.) Morgan b. 27 Aug. 1895, 14 West Spring Ave., Ardmore, Lower Merion, Montgomery, PA d. June 1981 m. 9 July, 1926 Selma Pfaff b. PA. d. 9 Dec. 1946 (one child), Ester Scully Mac Cauly from NJ and went together to Florida in her pink Cadillac m. 30 June 1957 - she died 1963,married Helen Dorothy Taylor 3 July 1966-she was from Hamilton,Ohio (her children were Marjory, James, and H. Eugene Taylor)
child- Theodore Sidney Morgan b. ? Philadelphia, PA m. Helen Powell on ? b. ? (3 children- Jeffrey Powell Morgan b. Lafayette, Louisiana m. Nancy Ellen Joseph –have 3 children, Leslie Powell Morgan b. San Marino, Cal, Stacie Powell Morgan b. Pasedena, Cal.
e. infant Morgan abt. 1897 die by 1900
f. Morris Morgan died at 6 months
g. Ruth Dorothy Morgan b. 18 June 1904, 14 West Spring Ave., Ardmore, Lower Merion, Montgomery, PA d. 27 Oct 1987 m. James Taylor Jr. from Glasgow, Scotland b. 2 Jan 1899 d. 12 Jan 1984 (2 children). Play piano by ear from an early age. Loved gardening and birds. Susan Taylor said: “She used to play the piano for me as I lay in my bed going to sleep at night upstairs on Rock Glenn Drive, at my request. In the morning she gave me the bread crumbs to feed the birds in her rose garden. Together we sat under an apple tree in white wooden chairs and listened to birds which she fed with breadcrumbs, smelled her rose garden and she also taught her favorite recipes....”
i. stillborn or miscarriage Morgan ca 6 months after marriage
ii. James Taylor III b. 3 Aug. 1923 14 Spring Ave., Ardmore, Lower Merion, Montgomery Co., PA d. 10 Feb 2000 Aiken, SC m. Claire Millicent Tetlow (Tetzlaff) b. West Philadelphia, PA (4 children- Susan Millicent m. Thomas Eugene Aldridge, Deborah James m. John “Jack” Mewshaw, Laura Brookes m. Mark Munson, Claire Elizabeth m. William Prior) divorced, m. Amy Lance of PA in Aiken, SC (no children together, but 3 from deceased husband, Linda Lance, Robert Lance and Bill)
iii. Jane Anne Taylor b. 16 May 1934 d. 9 May 1988 age 53 m. Frank Inella divorced (3 children-male Dana m. , twins Jennifer m. and Janice A.)
h. Irma Finley Morgan (no children) b.2 July 1905, 14 West Spring Ave., Ardmore PA d. 21 April, 1995,( Irma went insane in her 20s and ran down the street naked, so they say… she then led a long and peaceful life at South Mountain, Franklin, PA inane asylum.)
9. Willis B. Morgan, died in infancy
10. Anna Franklin Morgan (named after her aunt Anna Bath Morgan, no children) b. abt. 1865 near Spring City, on farm of 110 acres in East Vincent Twsp., Chester Co., PA d.May 1954 - 426 ESSEX Ave., Narberth, PA-house devided in apts. had belonged to Irvin Morgan, inherited by Laura Morgan Button, m. 3 June 1885 Alfred C. Homan b. abt. 1863 Maryland, sister is Bertha Homan buried at Arlington
11. Willis (later changed to William) B. Morgan b. 8 Sept. 1867 on farm of 110 acres in East Vincent Twsp., Chester Co., PA James P. Morgan says, ”March 16, 1869, nine days before his death, Benjamin & Hannah sold property in East Vincent for $1,950. The microfilm is very poor quality. I will need to view the original document in another location to find out more. Both of their signatures are on the deed. They purchased the property on September 22, 1865.” d. 2 June 1940 m. late 1894 Rose Dale b. 3 April 1874 England- imm. 7 July 1884 Phil.
a. William Lyle Morgan b. 1 Oct 1895 d. April 1973 Phil., PA m. about 1925 Pauline J. b. 31 Oct 1899 PA
i. Alene Morgan
ii. William Lyle Morgan
b. Edward D. Morgan b. 21 Oct 1897 d. 22 April 1961
c. Louis Coulson Morgan b. 18 Nov. 1903 d. 8 dec. 1979 m. Frances Veronica Winnick b. 26 March 1909 Phil. D. 10 dec. 1997
d. Irvin James Morgan (named after uncle) b: OCT 1900 in Philadelphia, PA
e. Earle Morgan b. abt. Jan 1907 d. August 1907
f. Russell J. Morgan b. 26 June 1908 Phil., PA d. Feb 1986
12. Irvin James Morgan (Dr. Hon. U. of PA.) (no children) b. 26 Oct. 1869 probably 2542 Gray’s Ferry Road, Philadelphia, PA buried 4 Dec. 1947 Arlington Cem. Drexel Hill "Grove" Lot 228 -- Grave # 3, married Anna, married Rose (?-but wife on death certificate was Marie Miller. Maybe she was Rose Marie). He was a world renowned organist who could play at age 3. Played for Queen of England, in Moscow, in China, installed the John Wanamaker organ and the Salt Lake City Mormon Tabernacle organ, played at a World’s Fair?
Great Aunts: Maria Morgan Burns, Louisa B. Morgan Moore, Bath(probably Bathnapthleah or Bathsheba) Anna Morgan, Harriet Morgan, Mary Morgan (Sisters of Benjamin Rush E. Morgan.) Mary Leach Pinkerton (sister to Hannah Leach Morgan)
Great Uncles: Andrew J. Morgan, John P. Morgan, Jacob Morgan-twin to Benjamin Rush Morgan d. abt. 1837, buried at Swedes Church- Philadelphia or Swedesboro, NJ (Trinity).
Aunts and uncles: aunt Josephine Burns b. 6 Oct 1851 Philadelphia d. 4 Dec. 1922, Bertha M. Burns, Francis “Frank” Walter Burns, William E. Burns, Mary E. Moore, Anna H. Moore, Emma C. Moore, Francis Walter Moore, Edwin Morgan, Charles P. Morgan, Olivia Morgan, Henry Morgan, John Pinkerton, Elizabeth Pinkerton, Samuel L. Pinkerton, Sarah Pinkerton, Rebecca Pinkerton, aunt Mary Pinkerton, Hannah Pinkerton, Elizabeth Morgan, Edward Morgan, Mary Morgan, Adam Morgan, John Morgan, Kate Morgan, aunt Anna Franklin Morgan and all her sisters and brothers above named in outline tree
Known Cousins: Josephine L. Burns, Robert W. Burns, Katherine C. Burns, Charles Burns, Bertha M. Burns, William E. Burns, George W. Burns, Mathew Harry Morgan, Frank E. Morgan, Anna S. Morgan, Ruth Morgan b. Nov 1898, Howard W. Butcher, Clifford S. Butcher, Frank M. Butcher (children of aunt Anna H. Moore), William J. Morgan, Robert Walter Burns Morgan, Mary H. Morgan, Kate Morgan, Sallie Morgan (children of uncle William Edwin Morgan), Alberta Morgan (child of uncle Henry Morgan), Rebecca “Bessie” Pinkerton, Mary L. Pinkerton, William Pinkerton, Elizabeth Pinkerton (children of uncle Samuel L. Pinkerton Jr.) and all other cousins names above in outline tree
Adam Morgan and his son in law Robert Walter Burns founded a boot factory in downtown Philadelphia which profited greatly during the Civil War and was worth $30,000 by 1870. Adam’s 2 daughters who were milliners (Louisa B. Morgan Moore and Maria B. Morgan Burns) had to join in and help, as well as all members of their families. Even the Pinkertons moved back from their farm in Penn, Sterling, Wayne, Chester Co. to Philadelphia by 1870- probably to help at the factory. Her husband Samuel was left alone on the farm. Benjamin’s daughter Alice was listed as a sales lady at the store next to the factory in 1880.
Grandfather Benjamin Morgan left Philadelphia and went to Spring City, Pa. (by 1857 where he is on the tax list that year), where he was an engineer for Springville paper mill. With the Civil War he returned to Philadelphia and became an engineer at Frankford Arsenal (where he worked with Benjamin W. Morgan who is half owner of the cemetery plot at Mt. Moriah Cem. at the hub of the big circle plot 42 98E1/2- in Philadelphia, see cem. Map below. Benjamin W. Morgan 1840: laborer, US Arsenal, no address listed , Benjamin W. Morgan 14 JULY 1860- 6, 7, 9th precincts Philadelphia, Ward 1,: Gray's Ferry Road e Washington Ave, packer, US Arsenal)
After the War grandfather Benjamin decided to open a store for the sale of handmade shoes, possibly the products of his brother in law Robert Walter Burns and his sisters Maria and Louisa. The store was already for opening and Grandfather decided to spend the night in the store before the opening. The store had a coal stove which was lit, but because the damper was not open, he was found dead the next morning near the window and having been asphyxiated by coal gas. Uncle Irvin James Morgan was born 6 months after his father’s death.
The Leach family in England were master dyers. Grandmother Leach had the formulas of the dyes but destroyed them all, said aunt Frank and Sidney George Morgan. Grandmother Hannah Leach was born in Dublin, Ireland while her father and mother were travelling. He went to the cities (probably Manchester and Dublin) and mixed dyes from his formulas for the manufacturers.
Aunt Frank told Laura that the Morgans had canal boats on the old canal between Philadelphia and Trenton at one time. (Before the Civil War?). Ruth Dorothy Morgan told James Taylor III that the Morgans are related to the founder of Morristown, NJ. But did she mean Moorestown?
Mother Jean Gould Morgan’s side.
Her mother: Anne McKay – of Bally Tor, Antrim near Bally Meana, Scotch Presbyterian (I think she means Ballintoy? And McCay with a C is the spelling on the birth cert. And the marriage cert.)
Married John Gould/Gold 30 October 1863, Ballintoy, Antrim, Ireland. Anne (pronounced Anna) McKay’s sister Jane married John? Steel (a Ballintoy name also) in Philadelphia. Son James Steel died as a young man, around 1899 or 1900.
Daughters: Jean Gould b. 20 November 1864 -0100, Croagh District, Ballintoy, Antrim, Ireland. Katherine Gould b. August 1866 and came “as a babe in arms” on a sailing ship from Ireland according to James Taylor III’s notes. She married
1st Unknown Goodman
DAUGHTER Ethel Goodman
Married about 1906 Clarence Watson
Son: Clarence Watson
2nd Joseph Carson
Daughter Josephine
Married John Billingsley on Memorial day in Maryland
Children Jack (John),Joan, Jeffrey
Note: written into the lease of the farm where grandmother Anne McKay Gould lived;
“As long as the grass grows
and water flows
This farm shall belong to the McKays.”
Grandmother McKay had a brother (brother in law she means?); believe his name was William. He had a daughter Mamie Gould. He married a second time and had sons William and Jay Gould. (According to James Taylor III, John Gould had a brother Hugh Gould. He had a son William and a sister Mary living with him in 1880 in Kensington, near the carpet factory. In 1890 he is listed as a carpet maker in the Philadelphia directory.)
