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m. 8 Oct 1829
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[Source: family bible] Received into Wattensas Church on the 3rd Sunday in May, 1860 with wife, daughters Henrietta, Nancy, Susan and Margaret, and son William. John served as an elder until at least 1881. Blurb in Prairie County History for Stringtown: Mr. J. D. Morrow was born in 1804. He married Miss Elizabeth Henderson. She was five years younger than her husband. They lived at Tishomingo County, Mississippi. They had nine children before coming to Arkansas but one was dead. Two more children were born after they came to Prairie County. They came down the Mississippi River and up the White River to Buck's Landing, near De Valls Bluff. Before Mr. Morrow came to this state, he had bought probably a hundred acres upon which he settled and started a nursery. He owned considerable land as time went on out there. His nursery was four miles due west of Buck's Landing. The community was known as String Town because it grew up along a road. It stretched roughly from the present Iron Bridge to two miles eastward. At the east end, the very end of the community, there stood a fine old church. It was painted white with a balcony for the negroes. The church was plastered and calcimined white on the inside. This Presbyterian Church was the nucleus from which both the Des Arc and De Valls Bluff Presbyterian churches sprang. The old church stood at String Town until 1903. Mr. J. C. Morrow bought it, tore it down and used the lumber. He said he could not stand to see the old building fall in ruin and decay. There remains the old graveyard. Across from this old church was a school house. The graveyard, with it's elegant black wrought-iron fence, is all that is left of this community, today. References
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