Marion County WV Archives Biographies.....Morgan, Henry B. July 3, 1847 - October 24, 1930 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connie Burkett marionwvusgwarch@gmail.com September 15, 2009, 11:42 pm Source: Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley West Virginia Author: James Morton Callahan New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912 Volume III, Page 958, Henry B. Morgan Henry B. Morgan, son of Henry Sommerville Morgan [and Mary Lanham], was born July 3, 1847. He received his education in the Fairmont and Morgantown schools between the years 1858 and 1865. A Jeffersonian in politics, he represented Marion county in the legislature in 1892; is a local elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and devotes the greater part of his time to the work of the church. He has left his farm, which is a part of the land originally granted by patent to his grandfather, Stephen, and with his sisters resides in Fairmont. He married, September 18, 1873, Myrtle Merrill; two children were born to them, Lily Sarah and Eva Myrtle. Lily S., wife of William W. Davis, of Houston, Texas, has two daughters, Myrtle M. and Beulah K.; they reside at Hillside, Arizona. Eva M., wedded R. A. Watts, an attorney of Fairmont; they have one daughter, Sara Morgan Watts. Additional Comments: ========================================== from Death Register or Death Certificate ========================================== Marion County, WV Death Certificate 13944 Name: Henry B. Morgan Died: Oct. 24, 1930 in Fairmont, Marion County WV Born: July 3, 1847 in Marion County, WV Son-of: Henry S. Morgan & Mary Lanham Marital-status: Widower Occupation: Minister Cause: Cystitis Burial: Oaklawn Cemetery Marion County, WV Death Register, page 56 line 89 Name: Myrtle Morgan Died: September 8, 1878 (at age 26y-4m-7d) Wife-of: H. B. Morgan Daughter-of: ? Merrill File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wv/marion/bios/morgan37nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wvfiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb