1Bell's Chapel Methodist Church.
1Bell's Chapel Methodist Church.
1Bell's Chapel Methodist Church.
1Documentation from Mary Lou Murray.
1. "The Mortons And Their Kin, A genealogy and a Source Book," , St Joseph, Mo., Complied between 1880-1920.
2. "The Hist. ".". "Research:
Thomas Bottomley Morton,
Born March 20 1860 At Owensboro Kentucky. Educated at Bethel College Russellville, Kentucky. Methodist. Married (1) Mattie Petrie of Elkton, Kentucky, Dec. 18 1883, b. August 22, 1861, d. December 31, 1886 at the home of David Morton, Louisville, Kentucky, buried at Elkton, Kentucky, daughter of Hays G. Petrie and Mary Bristow, niece of Benjamin H. Bristow, Secretary of the Navy under Grant. M. (2) Margaret Williams, September 27, 1893, daughter of Bailey Peyton Williams and Virginia (Snead) Williams. Bailey Peyton Williams and the grandfather of Lieutenant Pierson Hobson, the hero of the Merimac, were first cousins. Thomas B. was employed for awhile in the clerk's office in the Court House in Louisville Kentucky. He then was in the employ of Bradley & Gilbert, printers and booksellers and blank book manufactures and paper Daniel Morton, his brothers. Morton Brothers were printers doing a printing business. With the coming of Thomas B. Morton, a blank book and stationery department was added. The firm soon occupied a three story building on the west side of Fifth Street between Main and Market and built up a good paying business. About 1882 Joseph Morton retired from the firm and studied law and located in St. Joseph, Missouri in1885. In 1885 Daniel Morton retired from the firm, studied medicine and in 1888 located in St. Joseph Missouri. The name of the firm was changed to the Office Supply Company, the business grew and a new location was found on Main Street between Fourth and Fifth Streets. Thomas B. Morton remained the sole proprietor was until he sold the business and engaged in other business. He was a prominent member of the Walnut Street lataaer the Fourth Avenue Methodist Church, and a member of the Board of Church Extension of the Methodist Church South. He is a man of decided literary tastes and decided ability with the pen, a lover of music and a flutist of marked skill. In 1920 living at Morrison N. J., as Manager of the Jerseyman, a newspaper. Both wives were women of marked intelligence and character. Mattie Petrie died of consumption before her time and had a lingering illness and suffered much. I was present at her death. She was a lovely, sweet girl and mother. Margaret Williams is a splendid woman of great fortitude, who was true and loving to the step children committed to her care.1."
1Semi-Weekly Tobacco Leaf, January 7, 1887, page 1. "Obituary:
Mrs. Mattie Petrie Morton, died December 31, 1886, in Louisville. She was the wife of Thomas B. Morton and the daughter of H. G. Petrie of Elkton. Interment was in Elkton.
Marr: 18 Dec 1883
Children: Mary Petrie (1884-)
Daniel Hazel (1886-)
David B. (1886-1957).".
1The Morton's and Their Kin. "Daniel Hazel MORTON
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Birth: 21 Feb 1886, Elkton Todd County Kentucky
Occ: newspaper writer and English teacher
Educ: Vanderbilt University, Nashville Tennessee
Research:
David Hazel Morton b. February 21,1886 at Elkton, Kentucky. Educated at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Was a famous football player on that team. Newspaper writer on newspapers in Louisville and New York City. Teacher of English in the Louisville High School and at Norristown, New Jersey. Among America's foremost poets in 1920. Unmarried 1920.1.".
1The Morton's and Their Kin. "3 David B. MORTON
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Birth: 21 Feb 1886, Elkton Todd County Kentucky
Death: 1957
David B. Morton, a renowned poet, was the son of Thomas B. And Mattie Petrie Morton; he was born February 21st, 1886. His birthplace was the home; which is owned and occupied by the widow of the late Paul Oldham. The mother was a daughter of Hazel (Hayes,son of William S.) Graham Petrie, and a great great granddaughter of Peter Petrie, who was a veteran of the American Revolution and a local settler, before Todd County was organized.
David Morton was reared in Louisville, although he spent the summer seasons in Elkton and with Petrie grandparents. After having graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1909, he became a reporter for the Louisville Evening Post; later he was an editorial writer for the Detroit News Tribune and eventually for the Courier Journal. Subsequently he became Associate President of that newspaper corporation. In Louisville, he also was an English Professor in Louisville Boys High School. From 1915-1945, he taught English in various schools at Amherst College. In May, 1917, he was Professor of English and History at a school in Morristown New Jersey; furthermore he worked in an editorial capacity for the New York Sun. During World War 1, he was appointed the first Secretary of the Kentucky Council of Defense; in 1954, the subject was awarded the Borestine Poetry Prize for "Like a Man in Love"; the award was granted to him on a second occasion. He died in 1957.
Two collections of his poetry, Journey Into Time and Ships In Harbor were published. Prose works include The Sonnet Today and Yesterday, 1926 and The Renaissance of Irish Poetry, in 1929. The Kentuckiana section of Western Kentucky University has a collection of his work.2.".
1. "The Mortons And Their Kin, A genealogy and a Source Book," , St Joseph, Mo., Complied between 1880-1920.
2. "The Hist. ".". "Research:
Thomas Bottomley Morton,
Born March 20 1860 At Owensboro Kentucky. Educated at Bethel College Russellville, Kentucky. Methodist. Married (1) Mattie Petrie of Elkton, Kentucky, Dec. 18 1883, b. August 22, 1861, d. December 31, 1886 at the home of David Morton, Louisville, Kentucky, buried at Elkton, Kentucky, daughter of Hays G. Petrie and Mary Bristow, niece of Benjamin H. Bristow, Secretary of the Navy under Grant. M. (2) Margaret Williams, September 27, 1893, daughter of Bailey Peyton Williams and Virginia (Snead) Williams. Bailey Peyton Williams and the grandfather of Lieutenant Pierson Hobson, the hero of the Merimac, were first cousins. Thomas B. was employed for awhile in the clerk's office in the Court House in Louisville Kentucky. He then was in the employ of Bradley & Gilbert, printers and booksellers and blank book manufactures and paper Daniel Morton, his brothers. Morton Brothers were printers doing a printing business. With the coming of Thomas B. Morton, a blank book and stationery department was added. The firm soon occupied a three story building on the west side of Fifth Street between Main and Market and built up a good paying business. About 1882 Joseph Morton retired from the firm and studied law and located in St. Joseph, Missouri in1885. In 1885 Daniel Morton retired from the firm, studied medicine and in 1888 located in St. Joseph Missouri. The name of the firm was changed to the Office Supply Company, the business grew and a new location was found on Main Street between Fourth and Fifth Streets. Thomas B. Morton remained the sole proprietor was until he sold the business and engaged in other business. He was a prominent member of the Walnut Street lataaer the Fourth Avenue Methodist Church, and a member of the Board of Church Extension of the Methodist Church South. He is a man of decided literary tastes and decided ability with the pen, a lover of music and a flutist of marked skill. In 1920 living at Morrison N. J., as Manager of the Jerseyman, a newspaper. Both wives were women of marked intelligence and character. Mattie Petrie died of consumption before her time and had a lingering illness and suffered much. I was present at her death. She was a lovely, sweet girl and mother. Margaret Williams is a splendid woman of great fortitude, who was true and loving to the step children committed to her care.1."