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m. 27 Feb 1823
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John E Morgan was born 8 Feb 1844 in LaGrange, Georgia, the youngest of 11 children. At He served in the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy in the 13th Georgia Infantry, Company K where he served as a courier. After the war he lived for a while in Atlanta and then moved to Rutherford County, Tennessee where in the census of 1880 he was living near Nashville, TN with his wife Irene and daughter Ella. In 1882 he moved to the boom town of Lampasas, Texas. He was County Clerk for Lampasas from 1894 through 1920.
[edit] Civil WarJohn E Morgan staed that he joined the militia in early 1861. We know that he enlisted in the confederate army on 10 January 1862 and served under Stonewall Jackson as a courier in Company K of the 13th Georgia Infantry. His unit fought in nearly every major battle in the Eastern theater including Antietam and Gettysburg before surrendering at Appomatox. In January of 1865, Morgan and his unit were under seige near Petersburg, Virginia. On 30 January 1865 Morgan was given a 24 day furlough to return home. In passing the request to Major General John Gordon, Brig. General Evans stated, "(I) hope that the application will be granted. This couriers horse is nearly worn out, and will be unfit for the spring campaign and the object in granting him this furlough without transportation is to enable him to provide himself with another animal. He is a desirable man & I will make no detail in his place except in the event of an engagement." The request was approved by Gordon and General Lee, and Morgan headed home for a month. On 24 Feb 1865 Private J E Morgan reported to Altlanta, Georgia en route to returning to his unit and was paid $72 by the Provost Marshall's Office for the period of 31 August to 31 December 1864. It was felt to be impracticable for him to proceed on account of communications being severed, and was ordered to report to Camp Direction, Macon, Georgia by way of LaGrange. He was paroled with permission to go home on 10 April 1865 with a pass signed by R. Maltbie, Lt. Col. J E Morgan filed for a Confederate Pension with the State of Texas on 9 Mar 1926 (file #41896) stating that his physical condition was "bad". [edit] LampasasJohn E Morgan, along with his wife and daughter moved to Lampasas, Texas about 1882. He ranched for a few years a few miles north of the city. In 1894 he was elected Lampasas County Clerk and seved in that office until 1920 and afterward served in the office as deputy. Stanley Walker in "Home to Texas" stated that "the bearded Colonel made himslf solid with the citizens because he usually issued marriage licences free, therby sadly reducing his legitimate income." According to the Lampasas Record (30 Jun 1927), J E Morgan "was possibly the best loved man in Lampasas County. He was a friend to everyone, never losing the opportunity to do a friendly act; and some have said that it looked like he could think of more friendly acts to do than most anybody else. His friends were numbered by his acquaintances, and his acquaintances were numbered by the population of this county besides others who happened to come his way. He was courteous and genteel, a typical Southern gentleman. No man was ever more chivalrous or had higher regard for for the virtue of womanhood."
[edit] DeathJohn E Morgan passed away on June 27, 1927 at about 1:00 on a Sunday afternoon. He had been in poor health for the past few years, but had only been confined to bed for a few days. Friends called on him that morning and the Colonel sid that he was getting along all right. About 12:30 J.D. Casell took him some chicken soup, and left him about 1:00 stiing on the edge of the bed, and the Colonel told him he was feeling better. Mary Washington who kept house for him had gone out to make him some ice cream. When she returned Mr. Morgan was dead. He has seemingly fallen asleep without any warning. [edit] ObituaryCOLONEL J E MORGAN Lampasas mourns, the passing of Colonel J. E. Morgan, who has so long been a power and an Influence in this community, that it is difficult to realize that he is no more. He was not a leader in the sense of worldly success, but he had the "understanding heart," specially for the boys who were continually growing up around him. He took a keen and personal interest in their problems and difficulties, restraining too great impetuosity, encouraging the discouraged, preventing mistakes from inexperience, guiding the too impulsive, inspiring those with unusual talents to prepare themselves to make use of them, and aiding in procuring advantages for those who would otherwise have to go without them. His ideals of friendship, his broadness of mind, his grace of manner and the deference he paid to true womanhood, were ennobling to the young men who had the privilege of association with him, and if signatures to these facts were required, the list of names would be a long one. A large concourse of people stood about his grave, and for the time being there were no differences, no creeds, no divisions; all hearts throbbed to the same emotion, and In effect, all hands were joined. But the people of Lampasas did not wait until he was dead to express their appreciation of him. It may be remembered that during Christmas week of 1926, there appeared in the columns of the Daily Leader a little write-up, telling that Colonel J. E. Morgan claimed that his money had no purchasing power, that whatever he required was handed to him with the words: "Complimentary to You, Sir." This spirit had long permeated is the town, and continued to do so, and in this class, or more justly at the head of it, belongs Mary Washington, who cared for him through all his declining years, "without money, and without price." . The very flowers on his grave told his life history, since they came alike from the old and the young, from friends of long association, and, from children of those friends; from the few gray veterans of the Civil War, and the young veterans of the World War. There were costly hot house flowers made up into beautiful designs, flowers grown in little beds, by children, and lovely wild flowers, the donors of which drove far out into the country to gather, because he loved them. The Mildred Lee chapter of The United Daughters of the Confederacy, with affection and esteem, had years ago voted him a life membership in that organization, and the evergreen wreath sent by the chapter, bearing the flag, of the Confederacy was given precedence over all others, and placed at his head. His choice would be to sleep beneath that flag, the flag that beckoned to him when he was a youth, and which he followed to the very end of the bitter Struggle - the beloved flag, the flag of the "Lost Cause. He has kept his "rendezvous with death", and it is to be trusted that he found his triumphs, at the gathering at the river-the river that flows by the throne of God" -- Kate Longfield.
[edit] Oak Hill CemeteryOak Hill Cemetery is located in the northwest part of the city of Lampasas. It is the largest cemetery in the county and has over 5,000 identifiable graves. It has been enlarged several times in the past and has grown to about 35 acres in size. It is divided into twelves blocks, perpetual care, Oak Hill East, and several other smaller sections. This cemetery is city owned and maintained. Several people have taken a part in developing the following list of names. They are: Dr. Rush McMillin, Carlene Price, Jeff Jackson, Charlene Nash, and several city employees including the cemetery caretakers. This list was updated and corrected in December 1994 and January 1995. A Texas Historical Marker was placed in the cemetery in 1992. Five graves sites also have Texas Historical Markers; Thomas and Susan Pratt, Garrison Greenwood, James S. Gillett, James J. Beeman and Walter P. Acker. Oak Hill Cemetery (Texas Historical Marker) Hartwell Fountain sold ten acres of land to the City of Lampasas in 1872, to establish this cemetery. Originally known as City Cemetery, it was renamed Oak Hill Cemetery in 1908. The Ladies Cemetery Association, a group of concerned Lampasas women maintained the cemetery from 1891 to 1948, when the city assumed responsibility. Among those buried here are local pioneers, prominent business people, veterans of wars including the Texas Revolution and the Civil War, and their descendants. (1992) Image Gallery
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