Silas Houghton Morrill and Mary B. Scribner

Husband

Silas Houghton Morrill

Born: 31 OCT 1838^[1] at Danville, Vt.
Resided: 1870^[2] at Chelsea, Mass.
Died: at Wash., D.C.
Married: 27 MAR 1866^[3] at Boston, Mass.
Father: Capt. Manning Morrill
Mother: Miriam Houghton

Name source:^[4]

Wife

Mary B. Scribner

Born: 1843^[5] at Wash., Vt.
Died: 02 OCT 1926^[6] at the Baptist Home, 3248 N St. N.W., Wash., D.C.

NOTE: This entry’s underlying Find a Grave Index record (FamilySearch, ark 1:1:Q23Y-QWVK) labels ’05 Oct 1926′ as its ‘Death Date’ field. Two independent primary sources — District of Columbia, Deaths, 1874-1961 (FamilySearch, ark 1:1:F7RY-ZV4) and the contemporaneous Evening Star obituary of 4 Oct 1926 — agree death occurred 2 Oct 1926, with 5 Oct 1926 instead being the funeral and interment date. Treated here as a mislabeled burial date on the index record, not a competing death date.

needs independent verification: the Rock Creek Cemetery plot/burial register itself, or a physical grave-marker photograph, to confirm the Section N, Lot 104, Site 6 locator recorded only on a user-contributed Find a Grave memorial^[8]

Children

Harrie S. Morrill1868 – 1876

Born: 30 MAR 1868^[9] · Boston, Mass.
Died: 18 JUL 1876^[10] · Chelsea, Mass.

Tolerance Isabelle Morrill1869

Born: ABT 1869

Vermont, Secretary of State, General index to vital records of Vermont, early to 1870 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1951).
1870 US Census, Chelsea MA, p. 229a.
Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910 Database (Electronic Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org), 191: 29.
Annie Morrill Smith, Morrill Kindred in America, Volume 2 (New York: Grafton Press, 1931), 243.
Date and place derived from record of marriage.
Evening star (Washington, D.C.), October 4, 1926, online at https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1926-10-04/ed-1/?sp=9 (accessed 2026-07-28), 9, “Deaths” column. MORRILL. On Saturday, [October] 2, 1926, at the Baptist Home, 3248 [OCR: ‘324 S’] N st. n.w., MARY E[.] widow of the late Silas H Morrill. Funeral services from the above address Tuesday, October 5, at 2 p.m. Interment Rock Creek Cemetery. See also District of Columbia, Deaths, 1874-1961, online at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7RY-ZV4 (accessed 2026-07-28), Source Details 301686, Frame Number 2774. Name: Mary E. Morrill. Sex: Female. Age: 84 years. Birth Date: 1842. Birthplace: Vermont. Address: 3248 N St., N.W. Burial Date: 1926. Marital Status: Widowed. Occupation: None. Event Type: Death. Event Date: 1926 [citation gives exact date: 02 Oct 1926]. Event Place (Original): District of Columbia, United States. Cemetery: Rock Creek. Parents: Gilman (Father, New Hampshire), Louisa Scrivner (Mother, Vermont). Spouse: Silas H. Morrill.
Mary B. Scribner Morrill (1841-1926) – Find a Grave Memorial, online at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/161806594 (accessed 2026-07-28), Memorial #161806594, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, Section N, Lot 104, Site 6. Mary B. Scribner Morrill. BIRTH Jun 1841 Vermont, USA. DEATH 2 Oct 1926 (aged 85) Washington, District of Columbia, USA. BURIAL Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, USA. PLOT Section N, Lot 104, Site 6. MEMORIAL ID 161806594.
Date and place derived from record of death.
Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910 Database (Electronic Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org), 285: 313.