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Morrison, Jemima
LAST NAME: Morrison FIRST NAME: Jemima MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Stover AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: F TITLE: 
BORN: 26 Dec 1828 DIED: 30 Nov 1909 BURIED:  ~ Smith Cemetery
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Kentucky
DEATH PLACE: Airlie, Polk Co, Oregon
NOTES: 
MARRIAGE - Barney Morrison & Jemina Stover md 11 Apr 1846, Sullivan Co, Missouri
1850 IA CENSUS - Jemima Morrison (21y, b Kentucky) enumerated with Barney (23y, b Tenn, occupation laborer) and Ruth A. (2y, b Iowa)
1860 IA CENSIUS - Jemima Morrison (31y, b Ky) enumerated with Barney (31y, b Tenn, occupation farmer), Ruth A. (12y, b Iowa), Mary M.A. (10y, b Iowa), James H. (7y, b Iowa), Sarah J. (4y, b Iowa) & Chesley S. (1y, b Iowa)
1870 OR CENSUS - Jemima (41y, b Indiana) enumerated with  Barney (43y, b Tennessee, occupation sawyer), James (17y, b Iowa), Sarah (14y, b Iowa), Chesley (9y, b Iowa), Tabitha (8y, b Iowa), Josephine (5y, b Oregon) & Lydia (3y, b Oregon)
1880 OR CENSUS - Jemima Morrison (52y, b Kentucky) enumerated with husband B. [Barney] (53y, b Tennessee, occupation farmer), and 5 children, James A. (27y, b Kentucky), Chesley L. (21y, b Kentucky), Tabitha (19y, b Kentucky), Josephine (15y, b Oregon) & Lydia M. (13y, b Oregon)
1900 OR CENSUS -  Jemima Morrison (b Dec 1828, Kentucky, mother of 8 children, 5 living at time of census) enumerated with husband of 52 years Barney (b June 1827, Tennessee)
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OSBH DC (1909 Polk co) #3212 Jemima Morrison, female, housewife, widowed; b 26 Dec 1828, Ind; father Christopher Stover; d 30 Nov 1909, Airlie, age 80y 11m 4d; informant V.C. Staats, Airlie
OBITUARY: 
Died at the home of her daughter, Mrs I.M. Simpson, in Polk county, Mrs Morrison, widow of the late Barney Morrison. At death Mrs Morrison was 80 years, 11 months and 4 dauys old. She had been sick ten weeks. Thus Lincoln county’s pioneers are passing. For the past many years Mr and Mrs Morrison have been residents of our county, living at the little railroad station which bears their name, ten miles above Toledo. Mr Morrison preceeded the wife about two years. [bur Smith cem]
Lincoln County Leader (Toledo, Oregon), Friday, December 3, 1909, 5:4
INSCRIPTION: 
Jemima
His Wife
Dec. 26, 1828
Nov. 30, 1909

[shares marker with Barney & Lydia Morrison]
SOURCES: 
OSBH DC (1909 Polk co) #3212 
Missouri Marriage Records (Ancestry.com)
1850 IA CENSUS (Dallas Co, FA#983)
1860 IA CENSUS (Dallas Co, Adel, FA#852)
1870 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, Salt Creek, FA#842)
1880 OR CENSUS (Benton Co, Elk, ED 8, FA#13)
1900 OR CENSUS (Lincoln Co, Elk City, ED 30, sheet 12A)
Lincoln County Leader (Toledo, Oregon), 3 Dec 1909, 5:4
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