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William H. Morelock, a farmer and stock raiser of Morrow Township, was born in Sullivan County, Tenn., in 1833, and is the third of eight children of Maj. E. M. C. and Elizabeth (Pickens) Morelock, natives of East Tennessee, and of whom account has been given in sketch of J. K. P. Morelock. Our subject was reared under the parental roof, his educational advantages being limited to the subscription schools of the neighborhood; and the time he attended these not exceeding three months. In 1852 he was united in marriage to Miss Martha, daughter of Charles and Frances Overstreet, formerly of Illinois, where Mrs. Morelock was born. They have nine children only four of whom are living, viz.: Elizabeth Frances (wife of James Pickens, of Washington Township), Ann Eliza (wife of William Abernathy, of Sullivan County), James K. P., and Charles E. He has since been a resident of his present farm with the exception of a few months spent in Texas in 1874. He is the owner of 280 acres on Spring Creek, near the old home farm, forty acres in Putnam, and also has a half interest in eighty acres in another tract, nearly all this property being the result of his own hard labor and good management. In 1865 he served about forty days in the Missouri State Militia. In politics he is a Democrat, casting his first presidential vote for Buchanan in 1856. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity and with his wife belongs to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.