Benjamin Theodore Morrell and Mary Ferguson

Husband

Benjamin Theodore Morrell

Born: 1804^[1] at Maine
Died: ABT 29 SEP 1839^[2] at Brown Co., Ill.
Married: 18 OCT 1829^[3] at Clermont Co., Ohio
Father: Benjamin Morrell
Mother: Mary Armstrong

Wife

Mary Ferguson

Born: ABT 1808^[4] at Ohio
Resided: 1840^[5] at Brown Co., Ill.
Resided: 1860^[6] at Elkhorn, Ill.
Died: 14 AUG 1868 at Elkhorn, Ill.
Also m.: (2) Peter Greenleaf

Children

Alabama Morrell1832

Born

1832^[7] · Ohio

Married

(1) Louisa Vanway family page →

(2) Louisa ____ family page →

Greenlief Morrell1833

Born: ABT 1833^[8] · Ohio
Married: Susan Pickett family page →

Louisa Morrell1835

Born: ABT 1835^[9]
Married: Thomas Westfall

Theodore Morrell1838 – 1918

Born

1838^[10] · Ill.

Died

08 JUN 1918^[11] · Camden, Ill.

Married

(1) Mary Elizabeth ____ family page →

(2) Emily Francis Owen family page →

(3) Louisa Pettet — m. 16 June 1889
Louisa b. 07 November 1860; d. 18 July 1934.

Benjamin Morrell1839 – 1865

Born: 04 NOV 1839^[12]
Died: 02 JAN 1865^[13] · Morrellville, Ill.

Ann Lisa Pearson, Benjamin Morrell Research Report (May 1985; Unpublished manuscript in the Morrill/Morrell Family archives, Western History Collection, Denver Public Library), 11.
Brown, Illinois, Probate Records 1839-1848 — Estate of Benjamin Morrell, letters of administration, 14 Oct 1839, online at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939V-4Q9S-3W?view=fullText&keywords=Benjamin+Morrell%2CIllinois&searchForm=simple&lang=en (accessed 2026-08-29), Image 33 of 739, book pages 45-46. At a Special term of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Brown and State of Illinois began and held at Mount Sterling the 14 day of October … It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that Benjamin Morrell late of the County of Brown and State of Illinois died on or about the 29 of Sept and that his widow having relinquished her right of administering on the said Morrell’s estate ordered that Thomas Sewell be appointed Administrator … Benjamin Morrell of the County of Brown and State of Illinois died intestate as it is said on or about the 29 day of September AD 1839.
Ohio Probate Court, [Clermont County, Ohio] Marriage Records, 1801-1910 (Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1963).
Date and place derived from 1860 census.
1840 US Census, Brown Co. IL, p. 160a. “Mrs. Mary Morrell” living with four boys, one girl, and one woman in her 60s (possibly her mother).
1860 US Census, Elkhorn IL, p. 811. “Widow” Mary Greenleaf, living with son Benjamin Morrill and three Greenleaf children ages 11, 13, and 15.
Date and place derived from 1870 census.
Ann Lisa Pearson, Benjamin Morrell Research Report (May 1985; Unpublished manuscript in the Morrill/Morrell Family archives, Western History Collection, Denver Public Library), 11.
Ann Lisa Pearson, Benjamin Morrell Research Report (May 1985; Unpublished manuscript in the Morrill/Morrell Family archives, Western History Collection, Denver Public Library), 11.
Date and place derived from 1860 census.
Ann Lisa Pearson, Benjamin Morrell Research Report (May 1985; Unpublished manuscript in the Morrill/Morrell Family archives, Western History Collection, Denver Public Library), 25.
Ann Lisa Pearson, Benjamin Morrell Research Report (May 1985; Unpublished manuscript in the Morrill/Morrell Family archives, Western History Collection, Denver Public Library), 11.
Ann Lisa Pearson, Benjamin Morrell Research Report (May 1985; Unpublished manuscript in the Morrill/Morrell Family archives, Western History Collection, Denver Public Library), 23.