MRS. M. MORRISON

MORRISON, BYERS

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 7/14/2009 at 20:46:16

Source: 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.

MRS. M. MORRISON, farmer, Sec. 3; P.O. Unionville; born in Mercer Co., Penn., in 1811; her maiden name being Mary Byers. She married Andrew Morrison in 1832; he was born in Ireland in 1803; died March 30, 1873; emigrated to America with his mother when he was 9 years of age; landed at Quebec, and first settled near Brookfield, Ohio, and remained in that vicinity until 1846, when he, with his wife, came to this county by water to Keokuk, then with team. The people here, suposing them to be Mormons, refused them a drink of water or a place to sleep; had barely enough to get here, but now has 124 acres of land, valued at $20 per acre; a part of their land having been used for railroad purposes, and for building up the village of Unionville.