Edward Danforth Morrill and Bellephine Palmer

Edward Danforth Morrill

Born

29 JUL 1837^[1] at Rockford, Ill.

Resided

1880^[2] at Camden, Ala.

Resided

1900^[3] at Wash., D. C.

Died

25 DEC 1906 at Wash., D. C.

Married

ABT 1877

Father

Israel Morrill

Mother

Sophia Nichols Danforth

Also m.

(2) Mary E. Pearson

Edward Danforth Morrill was born in Illinois, but his family moved back to New England shortly thereafter. He was a carpenter in Lowell, Mass., married for one year, when he enlisted in 1862. After the war, he and his wife moved near Camden, Alabama, bought 4,000 acres on the Alabama River and planted cotton. His wife Mary died a few years later in 1869. A decade later he remarried and had a son Samuel. By 1876, he and his family removed to Washington, D. C. where they remained.

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Bellephine Palmer

Born

ABT 1856 at Ala.

Died

1943 at Wash., D. C.