Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Capt. Zachariah F. MORRIS

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Transcribed and submitted by Darla Ruebush, <darbush @wizrealm.com>,April 1998.
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CAPT. ZACHARIAH F. MORRIS - son of Hazlewood and Rebecca E. (GRIFFIN)
MORRIS, was born in Nelson County, Virginia, December 22, 1829.  He has
been many years one of the substantial farming residents of Anthonys
Creek district, Greenbrier County, owning one hundred acres of bottom
land, all under cultivation.  He has a bearing orchard of apples,
peaches, cherries, plums, and grapes, and has 800 acres of upland in
timber, oak, ash and sugar.  On his land is a sulphur spring, unexcelled
in medicinal qualities by any spring in West Virginia.  He has been a
number of years a notary public, and still ably discharges the duties
of the office.  August 15, 1853, he married Emily E., daughter of James
and Mary M. (LINDSEY) DOLAN, born in Fluvanna County, Virginia, January
22, 1828.  Their children were born: James Walton, July 27, 1855; Marion
Lindsey, February 8, 1857, died in November, 1860; Mary Rebecca, December
7, 1858; Ida Marshall, September 20, 1860; Robert Lindsey, October 1,
1864; Martha Virginia, August 29, 1867, died September 28, following;
Virginia Mit, September 5, 1869; Wyatt, July 11, 1871.  Virginia M., is
in Lexington, Virginia, the others living in Greenbrier County.  Zachariah
F. MORRIS entered the Confederate army in the early months of the civil
war, and served until its close.  He was captain of Company G., 26th
Virginia Battalion, and the following are a few of the many engagements
in which his company, under his leading, participated: Lewisburg, Cold
Harbor, Gaines Mills, Winchester, Fishers Hill, White Sulphur, Handleys,
Martinsburg, Kernstown, and Strausburg.  He was wounded at White Sulphur,
and captured at Roanoke Island at the surrender of Wise and his army.
Capt. MORRIS was devoted to his men, and in turn was loved by them.
Alvon, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, is his postoffice address.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.