Life History

Notes

• "Hi.  I descend from Lavina Winters's daughter Caroline Winter Morris."
  --  Jeanie Confer, Ancestry Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins 30 August 2019
  
  1850 Federal Census, Cass County, Texas, 5 November, Precinct 4, page 761, Hse/Fam #1
  ** Benjamin S Winter 25 M Farmer $450 Real Estate Value b Alabama Married within the year [born abt 1825] **
  ** Mary J Winter 17 F Born Penn Married within the year [born abt 1833] **
  - Hse #1, Fam #2 -
  John B Thomson 23 M Merchant No Real Est rptd b Penn [born abt 1827]
  J E Thomson 12 F b Penn [born abt 1843]
  S A Thomson 9 F b Penn [born abt 1845]
  
  - Hse #2, Fam #3 -
  William Thomson 50 M Farmer $640 Real Estate b South Carolina [born abt 1800]
  Davis Thomson 46 F b Alabama [born abt 1838]
  Joseph C Thomson 3 M b Tex [born abt 1847]
  ** James G Winter 15 M Laborer b Ala [born abt 1835] **
  ** Caroline [Winter] 9 F b Tex [born abt 1841] **
  Parker Culberth 19 M Laborer b Ala [born abt 1831]
  M H Riley 52 M b Ohio [born abt 1798]
  
  Another researcher give s her full name as Catherine Elizabeth Winters.  This gives us a middle name.  But for the first name, I will follow her descendant, who gives the name as Caroline, not Catherine.  The name Caroline, howevre, is also affirmed by some genealogies.
  
  Catherine Elizabeth Winters rather than C E Morris
  Parents Daniel Winters and Lavina
  --  P Utley, Comment on a census record on Ancestry, 12 June 2010
  
  Caroline married T W Morris about 1859.  By the October 1860 census enumeration they had a six-month old daughter.
  
  1860 Federal Census, Cass County, Texas, 5 October, Beat 3, page 72, Hse #485, Fam #497
  T W Morris 21 M Farmer $1000 Real Estate $800 Pesonal Estate b Alabama
  C E Morris 23 F b Texas
  M I Morris 6mos F b Texas
  
  Her son D M Morris' death certificate identifies her simply as Elisabeth Morris.
  
  Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
  D M Morris
  Birth 14 April 1871 Titus County
  Father T W Morris, born Alabama
  Mother Elisabeth Morris, born Alabama
  Informant Frank Morris, Cookville
  Death 18 April 1928 Cookville, Titus County
  Cause of Death Cholecystitis
  Burial 19 April 1928 Gladewater Cemetery, by G C Garrett
  Filed 23 April 1928
  
  The 1870 census also listed her as Elizabeth Morris.
  
  1870 Federal Census, Titus County, Texas, 15 July, P O Mount Pleasant, page 45, Hse/Fam#288
  Morris, Timothy M 35 M W Farmer $400 Real Estate Value $400 Personal b Alabama
  Morris, Elizabeth 26 F W Keeping House b Texas
  Morris, Mary J 10 F W At Home b Texas Cannot Read or Write
  Morris, Eli W  8 M W b Texas
  Morris, Sarah F 2 F W b Texas
  
  Elizabeth died of Typhoid Fever in August 1879.  The 1880 census Mortality Schedule reported her under her reversed initials, E C Morris.
  
  U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885
  E C Morris
  White Female, Married
  Age 39, Birth abt 1840 Texas, USA
  Death Date Aug 1879
  Cause of Death Typhoid Fever
  1880 Census Morris County, Texas, USA, Enumeration District 95, Line 11
  
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  Caroline Elizabeth Winter Morris
  Birth 1841 Morris County, Texas, USA
  Death 29 Aug 1879 (aged 37-38) Morris County, Texas, USA
  Burial Concord Cemetery Omaha, Morris County, Texas
  Spouse Timothy Wilson Morris 1836-1927 (m. 1859)
  
  Children:
  Mary Jane Morris Rodgers 1859-1900
  Eli Wilson Morris 1866-1922
  Sarah Fannie Morris Clayton 1869-1953
  Dan Manuel Morris 1871-1928
  Julia Belle Morris Hervey 1873-1943
  John H Morris 1875-1914
  Exie M Morris 1878-1930
  
  Created by Chrystal 20 Nov 2007
  --  Find A Grave Memorial 22997198, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22997198/caroline-elizabeth-morris
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Sources

• 1. 1850 Federal Census, Cass County, Texas
  • 5 November, Precinct 4, page 761, Hse #2, Fam #3
• 2. 1860 Federal Census, Cass County, Texas
  • 5 October, Beat 3, page 72, Hse #485, Fam #497
• 3. U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885
• 4. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 5. 1870 Federal Census, Titus County, Texas
  • 15 July, P O Mount Pleasant, page 45, Hse/Fam#288
• 6. Ancestry Messaging
• 7. Ancestry Comments
• 8. Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982