Person:Robert Morrow (11)

“Maj. Robert Morrow (father) was born in Path valley in 1777, and was brought by his parents to Sinking valley, where he resided on the homestead until his death, which occurred in 1855, when he was in the seventy-eighth year of his age. He was a good farmer for his day, and cleared out a large part of his farm. He was a whig and republican in politics, and served as a major in the Pennsylvania militia. He married Margaret Moore, and they had eight children, six sons and two daughters. Mrs. Morrow, who died in 1866, at eighty-eight years of age, was a daughter of Joseph Moore, who was of Irish descent, and settled, before the revolutionary war, in Sinking valley, where he had several times to defend his home against the attacks of Indians. He died about 1807, and left a family of six daughters.” (From Wiley, profile of John H. Morrow)

1. ↑ Wiley, Samuel T. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair County, Pennsylvania. (Philadelphia, 1892).