"Joseph L. Morrow is a native of Chariton county, Missouri, born July 2, 1834, buts reared in Macon county, Missouri. His father was the Rev. Jesse S. Morrow, a Baptist minister and a farmer born in Kentucky, and an early pioneer of Missouri..... Mr. Morrow's mother was Henrietta (Williams) Morrow.... Mr. Morrow has one brother, John S. Morrow, a resident of Macon county, Missouri and one sister, Esther A. Morrow, of Texas. One brother and two sisters, William W. Morrow, Mrs. Rebecca Summers and Mrs. Elizabeth Green, are deceased."
