Her [Margaret Morrison's] father, Archibald Morrison, and his brother, who were of Scotch-Irish birth, emigrated from England to America some time before the Revolution, and settled on the Yadkin river, in North Carolina. Here he married a Miss Fooks, and at the breaking out of the war in 1775, when he enlisted as a soldier in the Continental army, he became separated from his brother, and never heard of him again. But near the year 1788, Archibald Morrison removed from North Carolina toWest Milford, in Harrison county, and here he and his wife sleep.
His sons were Alexander, John and William, who rest in Harrison county, where some of their descendants live; Archibald, junior, lies in Ohio; Marshall Reese, in California; Margaret Lowther, and Susan, whose married name is unknown to us, were two of the daughters. Alexander married Miss Margaret Brake and settled on Hacker's creek in 1824. He was a soldier of the war of 1812, and a curiosity in the form of a briar-root cane, which he brought from North Carolina, and upon which he carved the head and face of a man, is still in the family. Alexander Morrison's son, James Monroe Morrison, was commissioned Lieutenant-General of the U.S. Militia by President Lincoln. He married Miss Sarah Jane Bennett, and they were the parents ofthe Rev. U.W. Morrison, of the West Virginia Protestant conference.
