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Below is a family biography included in The History of Brown County, Ohio published by W. H. Beers & Co. in 1883.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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J. W. MORROW, farmer and tobacco-raiser, P. O. Wallsburg, was born in Lewis Township, Brown County, Ohio, two miles north of Higginsport, December 18, 1830. His grandfather, James Morrow, was a native of Ireland, and came to this county at an early day. He located near Russellville, in Jefferson Township, where his son, William Morrow, the father of our subject, was born. William Morrow was a farmer through life, and in 1880, emigrated to Missouri, where he subsequently died. He married Rachel Drake, a native of New Jersey, who came to this county with her parents, when quite young. William and Rachel Morrow were the parents of sixteen children, five now living. Mrs. Morrow departed this life, in Missouri, in December, 1881. The subject of this notice came to Franklin Township when two years of age, and has since resided here. His educational facilities were somewhat limited. He assisted his father on the farm until eighteen years of age, and then went to live with a sister at the “Second Cross Roads,” two miles from his present farm. A year later, he purchased forty acres of land, of J. Perry Fife, at that point, where he resided till 1860. He then purchased sixty acres of land, known as the “Dennis Farm,” and located on the West Fork of Straight Creek, where he lived ten years. He then bought seventy-one acres of his present farm, where he has since resided. Mr. Morrow also owns fifty acres of land in Scott Township, making 181 acres in all. His political ideas have always been Democratic, and for twenty-two years he has served his neighbors as Constable of Franklin Township. Mr. Morrow was married, in 1854, to Morilla Staten, a native of Indiana. Like his own parents, he has been blessed with a family of sixteen children, seven of these are living — A. J., in business at Georgetown; Sarah, wife of George Berry, a farmer of Lewis Township; Marietta, wife of John Lucas, on the home farm; Theressa A.; Rachel B.; Louella and Lillie M. The other children all died in infancy.

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This family biography is one of 992 biographies included in The History of Brown County, Ohio published in 1883 by W. H. Beers & Co.  For the complete description, click here: Brown County, Ohio History and Genealogy

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