T. H. MORRIS

MORRIS, GRIFFITH

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The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

T. H. MORRIS, Recorder of Deeds; born in Monroe Co., Ohio, in 1839; located in this county in 1849. Married Miss Geraldine Griffith in 1862; she was born in the same county and state; their children are Laura J. and Lula M. Mrs. Morris died in 1877. He is a member of the M. E. Church; Republican. Owns forty acres of land in this county. He enlisted in the 6th Iowa Vols. in 1861, Co. D; he was wounded at Shiloh, April 6, 1862, from effects of which he lost a limb; was mustered out at St. Louis, Mo., in 1863.