Brooks-Montgomery-Lowndes County GaArchives Biographies.....Morrison, Angus 1864 - unknown
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   ANGUS MORRISON. Devoting his time and energies to the development and
advancement of the agricultural interests of Brooks county, Angus Morrison has
for several years been actively and successfully engaged in general farming in
the Morven district, where his property is finely located. He is distinguished
as a native-born citizen, his birth having occurred in that district, February
9, 1864. He is a son of the late Angus Morrison, Sr., and a grandson of John
Morrison, a pioneer of Georgia.

   Born and educated in Scotland, John Morrison came to America when a young
man, and after spending a brief time in North Carolina dauntlessly pushed his
way to Montgomery county, Georgia, which was then but thinly populated. Buying a
tract of wild land, he engaged in farming and stock-raising, remaining on the
homestead, which he cleared and improved, until his death, while yet in the
prime of a vigorous manhood. He married Catherine McCrimmon, who was also a
native of Scotland. She was a woman of much ability and courage, and on being
left a widow with a family to care for she immediately assumed the management of
the home farm, on which she reared her children, giving to each a good
education. She continued her residence on the farm, which is now owned by her
great-grandson, until her death.

   Angus Morrison, Sr., born in Montgomery county, Georgia, June 13, 1819, was
but two years old when left fatherless. Receiving an excellent education, he
embarked upon a professional career at the age of fourteen years, teaching first
in Montgomery county, and later in Lowndes county, where he had charge of
schools in various places. In 1857 he bought a tract of land in lot number 362,
in what is now Morven district, Brooks county, and erected the house in which
his widow now resides. Engaged both in teaching and farming, he was a resident
of the district until his death, October 28, 1873.

   On February 7, 1857, Angus Morrison, Sr., married Louisa Pike, who was born
in that part of Lowndes county now included in Brooks county, March 22, 1834.
Her father, Hon. John Joseph Pike, was born in Saint Augustine, Florida. His
father being murdered by the Indians, he was taken, with the other children to
the home of his grandfather, in Charleston, South Carolina. When large enough to
care for himself he returned to Florida, where he took an active part in various
Indian wars. Coming from there to Georgia, John Joseph Pike was one of the early
settlers of that part now called Brooks county. Purchasing land north of Morven,
he built a log house in the forest and began to clear a farm. There were no
railways in this vicinity for many years thereafter the most convenient markets
being either at Savannah or in the gulf ports, the round trip taking from one to
two weeks. Deer, bear, panthers, wolves, wild turkeys, and game of all kinds
were plentiful, and every man went armed as a protection against the hostile
Indians. Mr. Pike had slaves and with their assistance cleared a large portion
of the land, and until his death continued to reside on his farm, which is now
owned by his great-grandson.

   Hon. John Joseph Pike married Nancy Hall, who was born in Montgomery county,
a daughter of Sion Hall. Her grandfather, Enoch Hall, came from North Carolina
to Georgia, settling first in Montgomery county, but later removing to Appling
county. His wife, whose maiden name was Jennie Jackson, was born and reared in
North Carolina. Their son, Sion Hall, accompanied them to Georgia, and when
ready to settle in life bought land in that part of Irwin county that was later
made into Lowndes county, and is now a part of Brooks county. Purchasing large
tracts of land he operated it with slave labor, and was also engaged in milling,
having a grist mill and a sawmill on Little river, and a sawmill on Mill creek.
Sion Hall, who lived to be nearly a hundred years old, continued a resident on
the home farm until his death, and many of the descendants of him and his wife,
whose maiden name was Mary Morrison, are still living in Brooks county. Hon.
Joseph Pike was prominent in public affairs, serving as an officer in the state
militia, and representing his district in the state legislature. Both he and his
wife were influential members of the Primitive Baptist church.

   Brought up and educated in Brooks county, Angus Morrison began life for
himself as a railway employee, being first employed in the shops of the P. C. &
P. Railroad Company, and later being an engineer on the same road, which is now
called the Seaboard Air Line. After fifteen years' experience in that work, Mr.
Morrison returned to Brooks county, and having purchased the estate which he now
owns and occupies has since been prosperously engaged in farming and
stock-raising. His farm, containing three hundred acres of rich land, is located
at the Four Corners, five miles west of the village of Morven, and is one of the
more desirable farms of that vicinity.

   Mr. Morrison married, February 14, 1892, Anna Morrison Alderman, who was born
in Marion county, Florida, a daughter of Hiram Alderman. Her grandfather, Samuel
M. Alderman, was born and reared in North Carolina. He married Sarah Chestnut,
and on coming to Georgia settled in Bulloch county, where he cleared and
improved a homestead, on which they both resided during the remainder of their
lives, her death occurring at the age of eighty-seven years. One of a large
family of children, Hiram Alderman was reared in Bulloch county, Georgia, but as
a young man went to Marion county, Florida, bought land, and in the log cabin
which he built in the midst of the forest kept bachelor's hall two years.
Returning then to Bulloch county, he married Emeline Jones, a daughter of Basil
and Deborah (Bowen) Jones, who moved from North Carolina to Bulloch county,
Georgia, in pioneer days. Returning with his bride to Florida he installed her
as mistress of his cabin. Fifteen years later he disposed of that property, and
purchased a farm in Bradford county, Florida, where both he and his wife' spent
their remaining days. They were the parents of nine children, as follows:
Harmon; Deborah; Alice; Jane; Anna Morrison, wife of Angus Morrison; Laura;
John; Basil; and Susan. Mr. and Mrs. Morrison have one child, Emma Lou Morrison,
a student at the Norman Park Institute. Both Mr. and Mrs. Morrison are members
of the Missionary Baptist church.

   Mr. Morrison's mother is still living, a bright and active woman of
seventy-eight years, with her mental faculties unimpaired. In her younger days
she used to card, spin and weave, and for many years did all of her cooking by
the fireplace. She is one of the few now living who have watched with pride the
growth of Brooks county from a wilderness to a country in which are flourishing
towns and cities, and rich agricultural regions. In the days of her girlhood the
wild beasts of the forest had not yet fled before the advancing steps of
civilization, hut, with the dusky savage, inhabited the vast wilderness.
Railroads, telegraph and telephone lines were then unknown, and the primitive
cart, the only wheeled vehicle known by the early pioneers, has given way to the
expensive carriages and automobiles now seen everywhere, not only in the streets
of the cities and villages, but on the rural highways.


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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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