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_SRCT:
_FIELD: TX-AUTHOR
Text: Marion J. "Jim" Laughlin and Julia Laughlin
_FIELD: DT-PUBLICATION_DATE
Date: 1992
_FIELD: TX-TITLE
Text: Descendants of John Laughlin and Tabitha Trimble
_FIELD: TX-PUBLISHER
Text: self-published
_FIELD: TX-REFERENCE
Text: Morton 2
_FIELD: RP-REPOSITORY
Repository:
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[S1367] Laughlin/Trimble Book page Morton 2
We are not sure when Warren Morton left Kentucky but we find him next in the "Vital Records of Jackson Co. Mo." in the church records of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church of Independence, Mo., which was established in 1837. The first church built in Independence was built by Old School Baptists. Among the names of the original members was EDWARD GRAY and several names of later inhabitants of New Santa Fe where we find our MORTON/GRAY/LAUGHLIN ancestors.
1860 shows him as a donor to pay off debts of the church and was appointed to serve as clerk. The list of members shows he had come "by letter" 23 Feb 1858. The early church records from Vital Records of Jackson Co. Mo. says "Meetings were held in July, August, September 1861. Third Saturday in November 1861 no quorum met and no preaching on Sunday. The JAYHAWKERS expected in to burn the town but did not come. G.W. Stout, Moderator - no more meetings until March 1862. Regular meetings were held in April, May, June, July, and August 1862. No meetings for twelve months. Third Saturday in August 1863 --- Pleasant Grove Church has not met as is seen from the last record since August 1863 in consequence of the National difficulties running so high in this locality, the Country having been depopulated by General Ewing's Order No. Eleven. -- G.W. Stout.
W.C. Morton is listed twice in the 1860 census. In April 1860 he was a school teacher in Blue Township, SW of Independence, Mo. living in the household of Ira Boone. He was unmarried. In August 1860 he was in Washington Twp. page 201 on line 10/1570 was:
Gray, William • age 57 • born Virginia •
Gray, Elizabeth • age 51 • born Virginia •
• children: Virginia, Hugh, Thomas, Floyd • •
next family: Morton, W.C. • age 50 • born Ky • school teacher
Morton, Rachel • age 29 • born Virginia •
In those same Jackson County Vital & Historical Records the Church records available the GRAY family is listed as member of the New Santa Fe Christian Church. Later we also find our Laughlin ancestors belonged to this same church.
In surviving cemetery records (page 361) is the KERBY BURYING GROUND on the Kerby Farm north of New Santa Fe was the largest being in use as early as 1835. There were as many as 75 or 100 graves. In 1950/60 the Road improvements (now Red Bridge Road running east from State Line) crosses the farm and destroyed all traces of the Kerby and Ervin Burying Grounds.
A small number of the bodies and stones were removed. What has become of those stones which marked the spot where many of the early pioneers of that community were buried. Near the site of this burying ground stands a SANTA FE TRAIL MARKER. Among those whose ashes were removed from the Kerby cemetery were ten of the Kerby family, which were taken to the little cemetery at the New Santa Fe Church. Col. Richard Kerby was born in Greene Co. Ky. 16 June 1820, his wife Mary J. Johnston of Kentucky died 29 Sept. 1870.
Surviving records of the New Santa Fe Church are sparse, descendants of some early ancestors contributed their Bible and family records. The little church building burned many years ago. A descendant of the Bartlett family had:
Samuel Bartlett, born July 18, 1809
Mahala Bartlett, wife of Samuel Bartlett, born March 31, 1811
"Billy" Gray
____ Morton, son-in-law of Billy Gray
Mrs. _____ Morton, daughter of "Uncle Billy" and "Aunt Betsy" Gray died 1882
We believe these are Warren C. Morton and Rachel (Gray) Morton and her parents William Gray (Billy) and Elizabeth ? (Aunt Betsy).
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