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George Drury Morrill

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George Drury Morrill

Birth
Cedar City, Iron County, Utah, USA
Death
20 Jan 1919 (aged 61)
Torrey, Wayne County, Utah, USA
Burial
Torrey, Wayne County, Utah, USA
Plot
C-L7
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Son of Laban Morrill and Permelia Handmore Drury

Married Ethalinda Jane Young, 5 Dec 1877, St. George, Washington, Utah

Children - Leah Malinda Phelps Morrill; George William Morrill; Alice Jane Morrill; Margaret Permelia Morrill; Alfred Laban Morrill; Viva Rose Morrill; Myrtle Violet Morrill

MISSION: Hole-in-the-Rock, advance scout, Dec 1879-Jan 1880. George Washington Sevy, Lemuel Hardison Redd and George Hobbs were his companions to blaze a trail to Montezuma, Utah. This journey took 24 days instead of the planned eight. They became lost, suffered from starvation and witnessed a miracle of the mountain sheep at the Grey Mesa. Upon completion of this exploration, he returned home to his family.

George was a farmer and orchardist. During the summer of 1886, they kept hearing favorable accounts of a section of unclaimed country about twenty-five miles farther east. The Teasdale settlers were using this land as cattle range. John W. Young and George Drury Morrill looked it over, liked what they saw, and decided it would be a pleasant place to move permanently. They proceeded to homestead a large tract of land. They purchased water rights from Peter Brown, who owned land farther north on Sand Creek, the main source of water.

In March 1887, the two settlers, John W. and George Drury, made ditches to convey the waters of Sand Creek upon the present Torrey town site. The settlers succeeded that year in raising a very good crop of cereals, vegetables and some chickens.

They surveyed a canal to carry water from the Fremont River onto the bench. No move was made toward digging the said ditch. The settlers became discouraged and most of them moved away nine months later. The settlement almost broke up, John W. Young and George Drury Morrill being most that remained.

Biography of George Drury Morrill, compiled by Sherry M. Smith and Joy Clarke
Son of Laban Morrill and Permelia Handmore Drury

Married Ethalinda Jane Young, 5 Dec 1877, St. George, Washington, Utah

Children - Leah Malinda Phelps Morrill; George William Morrill; Alice Jane Morrill; Margaret Permelia Morrill; Alfred Laban Morrill; Viva Rose Morrill; Myrtle Violet Morrill

MISSION: Hole-in-the-Rock, advance scout, Dec 1879-Jan 1880. George Washington Sevy, Lemuel Hardison Redd and George Hobbs were his companions to blaze a trail to Montezuma, Utah. This journey took 24 days instead of the planned eight. They became lost, suffered from starvation and witnessed a miracle of the mountain sheep at the Grey Mesa. Upon completion of this exploration, he returned home to his family.

George was a farmer and orchardist. During the summer of 1886, they kept hearing favorable accounts of a section of unclaimed country about twenty-five miles farther east. The Teasdale settlers were using this land as cattle range. John W. Young and George Drury Morrill looked it over, liked what they saw, and decided it would be a pleasant place to move permanently. They proceeded to homestead a large tract of land. They purchased water rights from Peter Brown, who owned land farther north on Sand Creek, the main source of water.

In March 1887, the two settlers, John W. and George Drury, made ditches to convey the waters of Sand Creek upon the present Torrey town site. The settlers succeeded that year in raising a very good crop of cereals, vegetables and some chickens.

They surveyed a canal to carry water from the Fremont River onto the bench. No move was made toward digging the said ditch. The settlers became discouraged and most of them moved away nine months later. The settlement almost broke up, John W. Young and George Drury Morrill being most that remained.

Biography of George Drury Morrill, compiled by Sherry M. Smith and Joy Clarke

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