Life History

Notes

• Genealogies report her birth date as 1800, but then several cite a Quaker record of her birth reporting the exact date of 16 May 1905
  
  U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935
  Charity Morris
  Birth 16 May 1805 Wayne County, North Carolina
  Father Zachariah Morris
  Mother Celia Morris
  Nahunta Monthly Meeting (Wayne County, North Carolina)
  North Carolina Yearly Meeting
  
  U.S., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I-VI, 1607-1943
  Charity Morris
  Birth 16 Fifth 1805 Wayne County, North Carolina
  Contentnea Monthly Meeting
  Index Listing, p 291
  Page 149.
  Zachariah Morris,
  Celia Morris,
  Ch: Robert  b 9-=18-1797
  Charity  b 5-16-1805
  Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy Vol I
  
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  Charity Cherry Morris Gilbert
  Birth 1800
  Death 1854
  
  From: Barbara Elliott, (I am a direct descendant of Charity and Mable Gilbert, therefore, I respectfully submit some info for your consideration. This information is all over the internet and in books at SMU and Bonham, Texas.)
  
  Charity Morris married Mabel Gilbert about 1820 in Dickson County, Tennessee. Before they moved from Tennesee, she bore one daughter and six sons. They settled in Fannin County, Texas in 1837. Six more children were born in Texas.
  
  Charity's wisdom and bravey dealing with the Indians in the area is documented in area history. She was the first white woman to set foot on Dallas soil. Her son, Morris, was the first white child born in Dallas in 1842. Her daugher Hettie was the first white child born in Wichita County.
  
  This wonderful woman is a Texas pioneer who brought honor to the Gilbert name and left a long line of descendants to carry on her legacy.
  
  Hettie's Mother was Mabel's second wife, Rachel Gibbs Albright Freeman. They were married in the same year as Charity's death, 1854. [The marriage record reports a date of 18 December 1855.]  Hettie was born in 1860.
  
  Spouse Mabel Gilbert (1797 - 1870)
  
  Children:
  Newton Gilbert (1832 - 1880)
  Jasper M. Gilbert (1832 - 1870)
  Tennessee Gilbert Taylor (1838 - 1867)
  Louisiana Gibert Pace (1840-1860)
  Louis Morris Gilbert (1842 - 1916)
  
  Stone destroyed years ago recorded; early in century by DAR Groups and other references to it in newspapers
  
  Burial White Rock Cemetery, Fannin County, Texas
  
  Created by John Smith Nov 09, 2006
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #16573982, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16573982
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Sources

• 1. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 2. U.S., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I–VI, 1607-1943
  • Date: 2013;
• 3. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935
• 4. 1860 Federal Census, Fannin County, Texas
  • 19 June, Beat 1, P O Bonham, p 32, Hse #219, Fam #221
• 5. Ancestry Messaging