Biography of John W. Morgan - Pulaski Co. VA


JOHN W. MORGAN--born in Pulaski county, October 30, 1832, was a son of Francis 
Asbury MORGAN and Nancy (INGRAM) MORGAN, natives of this county, and grandson of 
Edward MORGAN, the first Methodist minister who preached west of the New river. 
This Edward MORGAN came from London, England, when about sixteen years old, and 
died aged about ninety-five years. His grandparents, by their kindness and 
heroic endurance of the many privations of frontier life, endeared themselves to 
the pioneer settlers of this county, and their memory is still revered by the 
descendants of these early settlers. Edward MORGAN was frequently called upon to 
perform the marriage ceremony, or to minister to the afflicted mourner, from 
many distant points, journeying often to Bland and Fayette counties, and 
sometimes absent from home for weeks at a time. In Pulaski county, July 6, 1870, 
John W. MORGAN was united in wedlock with Sallie A. WYSONG, and their home is 
brightened with the presence of six children, born to them: Ellen B., October 
26, 1871; Mary M., May 30, 1874; Willie D., September 8, 1876; Francis A., 
December 20, 1878; Jerry, December 21, 1880; Anna, April 16, 1883. The wife of 
Mr. MORGAN was born in Franklin county, Virginia, April 7, 1849, and came with 
her parents, Lonis and Ellen B. WYSONG, to Pulaski county in 1869. During the 
civil war, John W. MORGAN was a member of Captain DOUTHARD's Battery Early's 
Division, and participated in the momentous campaigns of the Shanandoah valley. 
He is extensively farming and grazing now, with his address at New River Bridge, 


Submitted by Sherry Crawford

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