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Tennessee. And her husband died during the Civil War in Arkansas He [died} at Helena,
Arkansas. Joe Morgan was his name.2 He died during the Civil War, just as it was over. And
my grandma got on a steamboat on the Mississippi River; went back to Tennessee where her
people was. She had three children. She put them on a steamboat, and started back to
Tennessee and they all taken the smallpox. Them days, smallpox killed over fifty percent of
them that had them. They put her off the steamboat in an old vacant house beside the
Mississippi River. They stayed there and got well and it didn't scar any of them. The smallpox
didn't. Open air is what cured them, I guess. They didn't take any medicine even. But they
survived.
JUNE: Who were the children?
FRANK: That was Bill, my daddy; "Lizzie"; and Jim, Uncle Jim.3
JUNE: Was your daddy the oldest?
FRANK: Yeah, he was the oldest. He was eight years old when the war was over. And his
mother hired him out to work in a saloon; not a saloon either, but a still; a government still
making whiskey. He was just a boy, but he carried this mash from the barrels to the cookery,
you know. He said that old mash would be working like it had worms in it. That yeast would
get to working, you know. Said he never could drink whisky or beer on that account! He
would just think how nasty it looked.
JUNE: Where did they go back to?
FRANK: They went back in '65 to Tennessee.4
JUNE: Your dad got married in Tennessee?5
FRANK: Yeah, and we came to Texas when I was two years old; stayed here two years; and
went back to Tennessee. Stayed there a year. Made two cotton crops and got ahold of a little
money. He never had any money. Didn't any of those people in east Tennessee have any
money hardly. He had seven children. When a long winter began to come on, he told me, "We
got plenty potatoes, plenty corn, plenty everything, but," he said, "I don't have any money to
buy these children any shoes or clothes." Said, "I'm going somewhere and get me a job. Hunt
a job. I'll write you where I'm at. You sell this place to Mr. Wright, one hundred acres of
land, worth $250." He said he would buy it from him. And he stopped at Joplin, Missouri,
working in a lead and zinc mine. And he wrote her. She sold that place to Mr. Wright. He
came up there and laid the money out on the dining room table. There was one $10 gold piece,
and the rest was all silver dollars, quarters and half-dollars, dimes. There wasn't any nickels in
it; it was all silver.
2 Sistler, Byron and Barbara. "Early East Tennessee Marriages," Vol. 2. Brides. c1987, p. 92. Susannah married
Joseph Z. Morgan. June 8, 1853, Jefferson Co., Tennessee.
3 1860 McMinn County Tennessee Census, p. 274. Joseph Morgan, 33; Susan, 29; Mary E., 6; William, 4; James
L., 1.
4 1870 McMinn County Tennessee Census, p. 111. Morgan, Susan, 34, F.W. Domestic Servant; William, 14
M.W. [Susan Morgan and son, William, were in the home of William Brock. Unable to locate other
children, Lizzie and Jim, in 1870.]
5 1880 McMinn County Tennessee Census, p. 574: Morgan, Sue, 45; Lizzie, 28; Jim, 21. p. 582; Morgan, Will,
22; Mary, 17 [Noted as married within the census year.]5
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