The Family of Ruthvan Wellington MORROW 
and Lilly Muse WALTON
(4th Generation)

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8 Ruthvan Wellington MORROW, b. 31 Jul 1853, Summit Point, Jefferson Co., WV, s/o Joseph MORROW & Mary Ann DOWNS MORROW, d. 16 Dec 1900, Charlestown, Jefferson Co., WV, m. (9) Lilly (Lily, Lillie) Muse WALTON, b. Oct 1868, Duffields, Jefferson Co., WV, d/o Henry Martyn & Lydia Magdalena NEILL WALTON, d. 1904, Charles Town, Jefferson Co., WV. Both are buried in Edge Hill Cemetery, Charles Town, WV. According to son R. W., the senior R. W. went west as a young man, but returned to Jefferson Co. Quite possibly he went to Missouri where his older half-brothers, William Hamilton MORROW, or to Pike Co., IL, where his other half-brother, John James MORROW resided. He returned to Jefferson Co. prior to 1880, where he appears in the 1880 U.S. Census with his parents, listed as planter. He taught school in Shepherdstown, WV, between 1880 and 1886, when he married. After his marriage, the couple resided in Jefferson County all of their married life. Early in their marriage, they lived at WHITE HOUSE FARM in Summit Point. This farm came to R. W. from the estate of his father's first wife Eleanor LOCK. Around 1890, before the birth of their next child Evarts, they moved to Charles Town, at the time  R. W. bought the local newspaper. He was an ardent Democrat, free silver man and a follower of William Jennings Bryan. The story goes that he was Bryan's WV Campaign Manager and may have been in Bryan's cabinet had Bryan won the presidential election. (I have no corroborating evidence of this.) He bought the WV Democrat paper in Charles Town in 1890, changing the name to the Farmer's Advocate, a paper representing interest in the Farmer's Alliance, a grange type organization. He was elected to two terms in the WV State Legislature, in 1899 and 1990. He attended the Democratic national Convention in Kansas City, MO, in 1900, where his brother, William Hamilton was also a delegate from Pike Co., MO. He died in 1900, of pneumonia after riding a bicycle on a cold December morning  (son R. W.),  before he could serve the second term. Little is know about Lilly. She was the granddaughter of William Claiborne WALTON, a well-known Presbyterian evangelist of the 1830s and 40s. She was at one time a governess for a Shirley family in Charles Town, two of whom were Henry and Lucy. She also died at an early age of ruptured appendix. The children were farmed out to relatives and their memories of family died with their parents. Their son, R. W., and the compiler's grandfather, was only 12 when his father died, and 16 when his mother died. He knew very little about his ancestral roots on his father's side, and practically nothing about his Mother's. It was this void of information that drove him to drive the compiler to find the answers. (BR1, O2, 20, P17, PI10, US1, WVJEB1, 15, WVJE1-3, 5-6, 17, 19, WVNP2, VABEB14 p213) Children:

8.1 Joseph Walton MORROW,  b. 7 Dec 1886, Summit Point, Jefferson Co., WV, d. 17 Dec 1961, Winchester, Frederick Co., VA, m. 3 Mar 1921 in Baltimore City, MD, to Ethel Irene PEARL, b. 20 Nov 1895, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson Co. WV, d. 14 Dec 1998, Fairfax City, VA (US1). Joseph attended Shepherd College and business school in Poughkeepsee, NY. In the 1920 census, he was enumerated with Susan PEARL in Harpers Ferry, WV, probably the family of his soon to be wife, Ethel. He worked for the Railroad Express Agency in Harpers Ferry, where he met his wife, Ethel. He was transferred to Baltimore and finally became an agent in 1930 in Winchester, VA. He retired in 1955. His wife still resided there in 1980. (LE9,  WVJE2, 21, US1) One child:

8.1a Carroll Walton MORROW

8.1a1-son

  • 8.1a1a J. E. MORROW
  • 8.1a1b D. E. MORROW

8.1a2-daughter

  • 8.1a2a L. A. CAMPBELL
  • 8.1a2b L. J. CAMPBELL

8.4 Evarts Walton MORROW, b. 5 Jan 1890, Charles Town, WV, d. 20 Apr 1968 (US1), Naples, Collier, FL, buried in FL. In the 1910 census of Jefferson Co., WV, Evarts, age 19, (spelled Evasts, in the soundex record), was enumerated with Lucy D. Locke. He married or lived with Pauline BERGEN. Very little is known about Evarts life after he left home. He lived in Miami, was a pharmacist, never communicated with the brothers and sisters except in time of illness or death. It is reported that he was an alcoholic, not uncommon affliction in the family. Mary Neill MORROW CAMPBELL, the younger sister came to live with him when it was revealed that she had terminal cancer. An obituary, found in the papers of R. W. MORROW (1888-1970) revealed that he was a soldier in WWI and was wounded in action. (PI7, 8, 53, O1, WVJE2, 17)

8.5 William Hamilton MORROW, b. 10 Dec 1893, Charles Town, WV, d. 10 Apr 1962, Hagerstown, Washington Co., MD, m. 2 Jul 1917, Shepherdstown, Jefferson Co., WV, to Edna Reike LICKLIDER, b. 10 Aug 1889, Shepherdstown, d/o Edward Templin & Ellen Virginia ENTLER LICKLIDER, d. 7 Dec 1950, in Hagerstown, MD. Both are buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Shepherdstown. William Hamilton was sent to live with his father's sister, Josephine MORROW DALE in New Mexico after the death of his mother. During this period he attended New Mexico Military Academy in Roswell, NM, and later Stanford University. He served in the Navy in WWI. He returned to Shepherdstown, and married Reiki, sister of Louise MORROW. They lived in the Shepherdstown area for awhile, eventually moving to Halfway section of Hagerstown, MD. There he worked for Norman S. Early and Sons, where he retired in 1956. He and daughter, Josephine built a home on Northern Ave. in Hagerstown. Josephine still lives in the house, and is a financial planner in Hagerstown.
(LE11, WVJE2) Children:

8.5b William Hamilton MORROW, b. 16 Mar 1922, in Shepherdstown, WV, d. 1 Mar 2004 in Ridgewood, NJ. He graduated from Hagerstown High School n 1940, and was a graduate of Georgia Technical University.  He m. 14 Nov 1942 to Natalie HARMISON d/o Sam HARMISON of Berkeley Springs, Morgan Co., WV. He was employed as a sales engineer fro IBM. During WWII, he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He was a member of Ridgewood United Methodist Church, the Rotary Club, and the Georgia Techinical University Alumni. He was buried in Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Paterson, NJ. (LE11, MDNP1, 3 Mar 2004)

8.5c Margaret Vincent MORROW b. 15 Jul 1923, Shepherdstown, Jefferson Co., WV, d. 2 Aug 2007, Hagerstown, Washington Co., MD, m. 27 aug 1946, Hagerstown, John Henry REDDIG b. 27 sep 1918, Waynesboro, Franklin Co., PA, s/o Clyde Steiner and Nell (MYERS) REDDIG, d. 26 Feb 1985, Hagerstown.(LE11)

8.5c1 B. M. REDDIG

  • 8.5c1a C. B. MUMMA
  • 8.5c1b J. H. MUMMA
  • 8.5c1c A. C. MUMMA

8.5c2 R. A. REDDIG

  • 8.5c2a D. R. R. ALVORG .

8.6 Mary Neill MORROW, b. 7 Sep 1896, Charles Town, WV, d. 1949, Miami Dade Co., FL (may have died in Naples), m. 5 Mar 1919, Charles Town, WV, to Charles N. CAMPBELL, b. 10 Sep  1884, Jefferson Co., WV, d. 19 May 1934, Jefferson Co., WV. Both are buried in Edge Hill Cemetery, Charlestown  After the death of her mother, Mary went to live with Aunt Josephine (MORROW) DALE in New Mexico. She returned to Jefferson Co., and met Charles CAMPBELL, who taught school in a girls academy there. They adopted a son, Dale CAMPBELL. Mary was a nurse with the Red Cross in WWII, and was involved in a jeep accident, which is said to have caused the cancer that eventually killed her. She returned to FL to the home of brother Evarts where she died in 1949. Dale CAMPBELL was last seen in 1957 by the compiler in San Diego, where he was a naval airplane mechanic stationed at North Island Naval Air Station, married, and had two children. In the 1960s, he stopped to see R. W. MORROW (1888-1970) in Shepherdstown, WV, and nothing has been heard from him since that time. Louise MORROW thought he was going to a new duty station in New England.  (O2, 6, PI7, 8, 11, WVJE1, 2) Children:

8.6a Dale CAMPBELL was an air mechanic in the U. S. Navy at North Island Air Base in San Diego, CA in 1956-67. The compiler contacted him and met him once at a hanger on base. We were supposed to meet for supper at his home, but I was shipped out before we could make contact again. In about 1962, he stopped to see Ruthvan W. and Louise MORROW in Shepherdstown, Jefferson Co., WV, and said he was on his way to a new duty station, possibly in CT. From that time on there has been no contact with him from any of the family. He was married and had 2 or 3 children when he visited Shepherdstown. (O5)

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