Robert Morris to David Morris, letter, 13 December 1885

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2025.4.9

Scope and Content

Robert Morris, (location of sender not specified, but likely Waynesburg, Pennsylvania) to David Morris, letter, 13 December 1885; Lois (Morris) Gdovin Collection, privately held by Celia (Gdovin) Riggle, Eldon, Missouri, 2012. Transcribed by Keith Riggle. TRANSCRIPT PAGES 1-4: "I can't give you very much information about your Grandfather Morris. I was small when I saw him not more than 8 or 9 years old. From what I learned later in life he was born in New Jersy [sic] but in month or year I can't tell. From what parentage I can't tell he came from it was often told to me that he was close related Robert Morris of Philadelphia who in time of the revolutionary war borrowed money on his account to carry on the revolutionary war. Whether we are related to him or not he was a great man in the time of the war but became involved and was imprisoned in jail for debt and it has been stated that he died in jail and that debt was for the money borrowed. You will find in the history of the revolutionary war more than I can tell you. You [sic] Grandfather Morris died about 1846 or 7 about 90 year of age. He left Pennsylvania about 64 years ago and never was back out one time and was 3 or 4 years after he went to Ohio. Your Grandmother Morris her name before she was married was Fisher. She was of New Jersy [sic] stock but they lived in this county [?]. She died Febuary [sic] the 14 1820. As to age I don't now [sic] any thing of it. Ther [sic] is record of it as I now of at I never saw any and she died with the consumtion [sic]."

Collection

Lois (Morris) Gdovin Collection

Lexicon

Search Terms

Letters (Correspondence), Morris family

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

RIGG0009

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Morris, David Milligan [1840-1917]

Person or Organization

Morris, Robert [1816-1891]

Web Links and URLs

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Provenance

Provenance Detail

Morris Series - Lois (Morris) Gdovin Collection

Acquisition Method

Digital

Acquisition Date

2007

Notes

The Lois (Morris) Gdovin Collection was passed from David Milligan Morris [1840-1917] and his wife, Eleanor Perry [1848-1908], to their son, Edward Benona Morris [1871-1948], and his wife, Celia Yennie [1881-1974], to their daughter, Lois Morris [1920-2001], and her husband, Albert Gdovin [1901-1964], to their daughter, Celia (Gdovin) Riggle, who owned and shared the collection with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2007. Celia (Gdovin) Riggle has since passed the collection to her son, Keith Riggle, who owned and shared additional items in 2014. SOURCE CITATION: Robert Morris, (location of sender not specified, but likely Waynesburg, Pennsylvania) to David Morris, letter, 13 December 1885; item no. RIGG0009, Lois (Morris) Gdovin Collection, shared by Celia (Gdovin) Riggle and her son, Keith Riggle; Greene Connections Archives Project (GreeneConnections.com).