Washington Co., AR - Biographies - John B. Morris *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: The Goodspeed Publishing Co Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org *********************************************** John B. Morris, whose post-office address is Spring Valley, Ark., was born in Indiana in 1843, and is the son of Isaac and Margaret (Booth) Morris. The father was a native of Virginia, and has followed agricultural pursuits all his life. In 1870 he and family moved from Indiana to Illinois, and four years later he concluded to move to Arkansas, and did so, but only remained in that State until 1877 or 1878, when he moved to Bates County, Mo. Not being satisfied here he returned to Arkansas, and has been living in this State ever since. In 1861 his son, John B. Morris, enlisted in Company B, Thirty-first Indiana Regiment, and served four years and three months. He participated in all the principal battles fought by the Army of the Cumberland, was slightly wounded three times, and served faithfully until the close of the war. In 1862, while in Kentucky, he was taken prisoner, and was exchanged as a prisoner of war the following year. He had a sunstroke at Atlanta, Ga., from the effects of which he has never fully recovered. After the war he returned to his home, and in 1866 Miss Mary E. Davis became his wife. They became the parents of seven children, five now living: Clara J., Mary E., George E., Thomas H. and Robert F. Mr. Morris is a member of the G. A. R. and Odd Fellows' lodges, is also a member of the Agricultural Wheel, and he and wife are members of the Christian Church. It is hardly necessary to add that Mr. Morris is a Republican in his political views.