Nicholas County KyArchives Biographies.....Morgan III, Garrard May 16, 1806 - April 10, 1889
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Source: Research by Nicholas Groesbeck Morgan, Sr.
Author: Nicholas Groesbeck Morgan

Garrard Morgan III and Eliza Ann Hamilton Morgan.  
Garrard Morgan III was born in Carlisle, Nicholas County, Kentucky in the 
beautiful Bluegrass region on May 16, 1806.  He was the fourth son to be born 
in the family and was only eight years of age when his father died suddenly in 
1814.  By 1823 when his mother, as a widow, moved her family to Greensburg, 
Decatur County, Indiana, he was just coming into young manhood being at that 
time seventeen years old.

They say it is hard for any child to be born in the “middle of a family.”  
Garrard III was right in the middle of his family, three sons having been born 
earlier and three daughters being born after he came into the light of day.  
To be the youngest of four brothers is difficult but to be just older than his 
three sisters has its problems too.

He married Eliza Ann Hamilton who was born July 2, 1815 in Nicholas County, 
Kentucky.  He was more than thirty years of age before he married.  He was 
eighty-three years old at the time of his death on April 10, 1889.  Eliza Ann 
died on April 8, 1901 at the age of eighty-six years. 

Garrard Morgan III and Eliza Ann Hamilton were the parents of five sons and 
one daughter.

William Woodson Morgan born in 1840 at Greensburg, Indiana.
John Hamilton Morgan born August 8, 1842 at Greensburg, Indiana, later came to 
Utah.
Leonidas Morgan 
James Morgan
Luella Morgan
Garrard Morgan IX

The old Atlas of Indiana for 1876 gives some interesting bits of information 
relating to the early settlement of Decatur County.  In one place it says 
that “the first settlement of the county was made in the northwestrn part of 
the present Fugit Township by John Fugit, Griffith Griffith and John Kane in 
1819.  They moved into the county from near Pipe Creek in Franklin County, 
Indiana before any survey was made.  The next settlement was made between 
Little and Big Flat Rock Creeks in 1821 by the following families, viz:  The 
Hamiltons, the Donnels, the Thompsons and Lowes who came from Nicholas County, 
Kentucky and established the first Presbyterian Church in the 

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