... Alexander Gatewood Morgan came to Kentucky when young, and later married Annie Higgins, of Lexington, where he was for many years engaged in farming and stock raising. When war with Mexico was declared, he was offered a commission in a Tennessee regiment, but refused it, preferring to serve as a private in a Kentucky regiment. He went to the front, and was killed at the Battle of Buena Vista. His son, Alexander Gatewood Morgan, Jr., married Margaret Russell, of Fayette county. At the breaking out of the Civil war he enlisted in the Confederate service, was commissioned major, and subsequently died at Green Cove Springs, Florida. ...
