Morey, David D.

MOREY, BUTTERFIELD, ROCKWELL, WORKS, ROBINSON

Posted By: Mary H. Cochrane, Volunteer
Date: 7/2/2019 at 14:55:24

Biographical and Historical Record of Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa, (Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), p. 682:

"DAVID D. MOREY, section 16, Hamilton Township, is a native of Vermillion County, Indiana, born September 11, 1830, a son of George and Sylvia (Butterfield) Morey, natives of New York, but married in Ohio. In 1831 they moved to Jackson County, the same State. From there they went to Caldwell County, Missouri, the father having united with the Mormon church. He followed the fortunes of that people in different localities, when, owing to the tendency toward polygamy, he left them, and in 1844 moved to Brown County, Illinois, where he lived until 1849. From there he moved to DeKalb County, and two years later to Whiteside County, and in 1852 to Decatur County, Iowa, locating in Hamilton Township, on a tract of wild land, where he lived until his death in 1875. The mother died in 1880. Their family consisted of seven children -- Mary Ann, Martha Ann, Supply, Eunice, David D., Helen and William. The latter died aged nine years. David D. Morey remained with his parents until manhood, and was twenty-two years of age when they moved to Decatur County. In 1856 he located on what is his present farm, at that time a tract of wild land. His first house was a log cabin, 16 x 16, with a small shed kitchen. The log cabin has given place to a good story-and-a-half frame building, surrounded by native shade trees. He has a good orchard of 300 bearing trees, and his other improvements are well built and comfortable. Mr. Morey was married January 1, 1856, to Miss Deborah A. Rockwell, who was born in Fairfield County, Connecticut, March 30, 1831, a daughter of David and Abigail (Works) Rockwell, who moved to Geauga County, Ohio, in 1843, where the mother died, and Mrs. Morey afterward came to Iowa with her aunt, Mrs. Ebenezer Robinson. Mr. and Mrs. Morey have eight children -- Charles E., George M., Eliza, Elsie, David Ebenezer, William Supply, James Monroe and Evangeline. They are members of the church or Reorganized Latter-Day-Saints."

(Submitted to the Decatur County GenWeb site by Christy Jay, email: Jaygenie@aol.com)