Veteran: WW II (navy)
PLEASE NOTE:
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Find A Grave contributor, Judy Young, within her over 36,000 controls seventeen of well over forty Find A Grave 'memorials' of this McDaniel-Morrow family (none listed on her nearly 60,000 person worldconnect tree, so likely NOT related) and refuses to add documented genealogical facts concerning "Red"'s ancestors beginning with his paternal great,grandmother Nancy L (McDaniel) Morrow. Other contributors have most willingly cooperated. BB
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h/o Norma Lee Holdinghausen
Birth: Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.
Census: 1930, age 5 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with parents & two older siblings at 1427 Grand avenue.
Red was later raised on south Maple street in what was the Judge Walter Bailey house, attending Mark Twain grammer school, (site of the old Carthage Collegate Institution). He had a 1932, V8, Ford four door convertible, hand painted Robin egg blue, in high school when graduating in Class of 1942. He joined the navy and after service attended Rolla School of Mines before he married Norma.
I recall a 4th of July in the 1960's when we were floating a creek in southern Missouri and Tom brought along a cannon from which he would shoot beer cans using Cherry bombs, while we lunched on a sand bar.
"Red" Morrow and some friends in the late 1950's started to embark into a new direction, developers of apartment buildings. To that end, went to Tulsa, Oklahoma approaching former Carthage resident Bob Boots, whose father Art & wife Ilda, built Boots Court, and Boots Drive-In on old "Mother Road", Route #66, with Bob later owning and operating the drive-in for fourteen years. To that end, Bob arranged to obtain an option on 10 acres of zoned land at 28th and south Harvard, enough land for about 100 apartment units. "Red" and his group had second thoughts of entering the unfamiliar development business, so never proceeded, as told me 1/15/2011 by Bob Boots of Tulsa.
Tom's ancestors were early Greene county, Missouri pioneers. His great grandmother, Nancy L (McDaniel) Morrow arrived by covered wagon from over six week, 1,000 mile journey from former home in North Carolina with mother, father and their seven known children before her teen years, around 1841, ~ ~ her husband, Napoleon Bonaparte Morrow, Red's great,grandfather, may have been raised by his uncle Robert Morrow, reportedly arrived earlier from Tennessee, settling in Finley township in what in 1859 became Christian county, Missouri near existing county seat, Ozark.
Napoleon and wife's older brother, Alfrod M McDaniel, were reportedly slain by bushwhackers near end of Civil War, now both with modern identical replacement headstones giving death date as 1861, ~ ~ however, Napoleon's wife had children in 1862, N Bona and 1864, Nancy Lula, so its believed the death dates may be incorrect on both stones and in cemetery's transcription.
Tom's grandfather, Samuel Oscar Morrow was 1st of six known children of that union who ended with what became, Morrow Mill from his uncle, youngest of seven reported known children, Francis Marion McDaniel who had moved to Carthage about 1865 after losing 1st wife & mother, during reconstruction with partner, next older brother William Jasper, a Springfield banker, owned the Glass Mill re-named McDaniel Mill, after 1929 known as the Morrow Mill.
That known as the Glass Mill was, according to Marvin L VanGilder, page 53, first built on left bank of Spring river in 1848, about two and one half miles upstream from what became City of Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri by Washington Woodrum, buried Fermont, Iowa, when he was allowed to build a dam across Spring river on his land purchased in 1847, with a mill trace on river's left bank to power the grinder. Indians would trade for finished product, camping near by, feeding off of neighbors crops and livestock, to the farmers displeasure. Many others having later ownership, such as John B Dale, a Missouri state representative and store owner on east side of square, then a Mr Johnson in 1860, next operated & renamed Glass mill, by Thomas Glass of Kentucky early part of Civil War, serving both confederate and union troops, his wife eight months pregnant when Battle of Carthage occurred JUL 1861 with son Sterling Price, whose namesake was ex-Missouri governor, Confederate General Sterling Price.
During reconstruction era following the Civil War it became McDaniel Mill, operated by Francis Marion McDaniel (1835NC-1903MO) in 1778/9 they sold interest to John Ruffin, in 1883 brother Wm Jasper died, so nephew S O Morrow bought Ruffin's share about 1884, finally owning it around 1900 with partner Richard Taaffe, former Carthage Agent for St Louis & San Francisco RR, "Frisco" working 1890 to 1897 with District Freight Agent, who become Division Freight Agent in 1897, then Senior Vice-President & General Manager in 1909 Carl R Gray, A great enhancement occurred when the Mill was served by the White River division of the Missouri-Pacific Railroad, (Carthage end built by The McNerney Bros, Martin and younger brother P J), when its 239 mile trackage between Batesville, Arkansas and Carthage was completed 29 December 1905, which enhanced its distribution of first, its Queen & Delmonico flour later its MOCO Feeds. ~ ~ Samuel & Richard reportedly started a lumber business during recession of 1907 when in payment for flour they accepted lumber from their Arkansas customers, so Morrow-Taaffe Lumber yard was formed in Carthage ending with Samuel Oscar's son William Thomas, an uncle of Joe's. Following Uncle Francis 1900 construction of his reported $70,000, five building mill in Carthage's Frisco bottoms of north Main street, owned in part by his nephews and nieces. Samuel Oscar Morrow and Richard Taaffe operated the mill under name of Morrow-Taaffee Mill, but when his son Samuel Roy Morrow (1886-1958), a veteran of WW I, once an engineer at Missouri Public Service joined him, Taaffe left and name Taaffe was dropped around 1920. Samuel Oscar Morrow, working with him at the mill who sixteen years later took charge in 1915 when it was known as Morrow & Taaffe Mill, the Mill was later, after World War 1, known from 1921 to 1929 as Morrow-Kidder Milling company, Edward W Kidder coming from Kansas City was vice-president and chief salesman, whose wife in 1928 died in Carthage, then after the 1929 fire and 1928 loss of wife, he returned to Kansas City to his father's milling company. The mill was thereafter known as Morrow Mill following Sam's son Samuel Roy Morrow, a World War I veteran, moving his family back to Carthage, then folding in with his father at the mill. Mill was replaced after 1929 fire then following W W II, S R Morrow's sons returned from serving in the military, "Sam", Samuel Roy Morrow, jr (1920-2010) in Navy, Joesph M Morrow (1923-2004) in Marines and Tom from the Navy, they particapted in Morrow Mill operation ending owning it which they sold in 1976, it was closed in 1978 and burnt down, except the concrete elevators in 1981.
Tom continued on with the emerging company, ConAgra Turkey Company for fourteen more years until retirement in 1990.
Tom, as other Morrow family members, was active in public & private oversight boards lending advise and chairman of some.
Now, 2013, the access road is known as Morrow Mill road extending south from old U S highway #66, The Mother Road, to Fairview, with new bridge over Spring river and the Mill's damn removed.
Death: in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with home at 814 east Highland avenue.
To read obituary, 'click' below photo of his headstone!
Father: Samuel Roy Morrow b: 27 JUL 1886 in Carthage, Jasper oounty, Missouri
Mother: Amelia Monnig b: 26 JUL 1889 Jefferson City, Cole oounty, Missouri
Marriage: Norma Holdinghausen
Married: April 14, 1951 in Crystal City, Jefferson county, Missouri
Known Children
Kathryn Amelia Morrow
Thomas Homer Morrow II
Grandparents of Sam Morgan and his wife, Brandi, Tommy Morgan, Amelia Morgan, Scott Morrow, Doug Morrow, & Chelsea Morrow.
Revised: 20 FEB 2015.
Transferred in 2011 then prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
PLEASE NOTE:
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Find A Grave contributor, Judy Young, within her over 36,000 controls seventeen of well over forty Find A Grave 'memorials' of this McDaniel-Morrow family (none listed on her nearly 60,000 person worldconnect tree, so likely NOT related) and refuses to add documented genealogical facts concerning "Red"'s ancestors beginning with his paternal great,grandmother Nancy L (McDaniel) Morrow. Other contributors have most willingly cooperated. BB
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h/o Norma Lee Holdinghausen
Birth: Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.
Census: 1930, age 5 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with parents & two older siblings at 1427 Grand avenue.
Red was later raised on south Maple street in what was the Judge Walter Bailey house, attending Mark Twain grammer school, (site of the old Carthage Collegate Institution). He had a 1932, V8, Ford four door convertible, hand painted Robin egg blue, in high school when graduating in Class of 1942. He joined the navy and after service attended Rolla School of Mines before he married Norma.
I recall a 4th of July in the 1960's when we were floating a creek in southern Missouri and Tom brought along a cannon from which he would shoot beer cans using Cherry bombs, while we lunched on a sand bar.
"Red" Morrow and some friends in the late 1950's started to embark into a new direction, developers of apartment buildings. To that end, went to Tulsa, Oklahoma approaching former Carthage resident Bob Boots, whose father Art & wife Ilda, built Boots Court, and Boots Drive-In on old "Mother Road", Route #66, with Bob later owning and operating the drive-in for fourteen years. To that end, Bob arranged to obtain an option on 10 acres of zoned land at 28th and south Harvard, enough land for about 100 apartment units. "Red" and his group had second thoughts of entering the unfamiliar development business, so never proceeded, as told me 1/15/2011 by Bob Boots of Tulsa.
Tom's ancestors were early Greene county, Missouri pioneers. His great grandmother, Nancy L (McDaniel) Morrow arrived by covered wagon from over six week, 1,000 mile journey from former home in North Carolina with mother, father and their seven known children before her teen years, around 1841, ~ ~ her husband, Napoleon Bonaparte Morrow, Red's great,grandfather, may have been raised by his uncle Robert Morrow, reportedly arrived earlier from Tennessee, settling in Finley township in what in 1859 became Christian county, Missouri near existing county seat, Ozark.
Napoleon and wife's older brother, Alfrod M McDaniel, were reportedly slain by bushwhackers near end of Civil War, now both with modern identical replacement headstones giving death date as 1861, ~ ~ however, Napoleon's wife had children in 1862, N Bona and 1864, Nancy Lula, so its believed the death dates may be incorrect on both stones and in cemetery's transcription.
Tom's grandfather, Samuel Oscar Morrow was 1st of six known children of that union who ended with what became, Morrow Mill from his uncle, youngest of seven reported known children, Francis Marion McDaniel who had moved to Carthage about 1865 after losing 1st wife & mother, during reconstruction with partner, next older brother William Jasper, a Springfield banker, owned the Glass Mill re-named McDaniel Mill, after 1929 known as the Morrow Mill.
That known as the Glass Mill was, according to Marvin L VanGilder, page 53, first built on left bank of Spring river in 1848, about two and one half miles upstream from what became City of Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri by Washington Woodrum, buried Fermont, Iowa, when he was allowed to build a dam across Spring river on his land purchased in 1847, with a mill trace on river's left bank to power the grinder. Indians would trade for finished product, camping near by, feeding off of neighbors crops and livestock, to the farmers displeasure. Many others having later ownership, such as John B Dale, a Missouri state representative and store owner on east side of square, then a Mr Johnson in 1860, next operated & renamed Glass mill, by Thomas Glass of Kentucky early part of Civil War, serving both confederate and union troops, his wife eight months pregnant when Battle of Carthage occurred JUL 1861 with son Sterling Price, whose namesake was ex-Missouri governor, Confederate General Sterling Price.
During reconstruction era following the Civil War it became McDaniel Mill, operated by Francis Marion McDaniel (1835NC-1903MO) in 1778/9 they sold interest to John Ruffin, in 1883 brother Wm Jasper died, so nephew S O Morrow bought Ruffin's share about 1884, finally owning it around 1900 with partner Richard Taaffe, former Carthage Agent for St Louis & San Francisco RR, "Frisco" working 1890 to 1897 with District Freight Agent, who become Division Freight Agent in 1897, then Senior Vice-President & General Manager in 1909 Carl R Gray, A great enhancement occurred when the Mill was served by the White River division of the Missouri-Pacific Railroad, (Carthage end built by The McNerney Bros, Martin and younger brother P J), when its 239 mile trackage between Batesville, Arkansas and Carthage was completed 29 December 1905, which enhanced its distribution of first, its Queen & Delmonico flour later its MOCO Feeds. ~ ~ Samuel & Richard reportedly started a lumber business during recession of 1907 when in payment for flour they accepted lumber from their Arkansas customers, so Morrow-Taaffe Lumber yard was formed in Carthage ending with Samuel Oscar's son William Thomas, an uncle of Joe's. Following Uncle Francis 1900 construction of his reported $70,000, five building mill in Carthage's Frisco bottoms of north Main street, owned in part by his nephews and nieces. Samuel Oscar Morrow and Richard Taaffe operated the mill under name of Morrow-Taaffee Mill, but when his son Samuel Roy Morrow (1886-1958), a veteran of WW I, once an engineer at Missouri Public Service joined him, Taaffe left and name Taaffe was dropped around 1920. Samuel Oscar Morrow, working with him at the mill who sixteen years later took charge in 1915 when it was known as Morrow & Taaffe Mill, the Mill was later, after World War 1, known from 1921 to 1929 as Morrow-Kidder Milling company, Edward W Kidder coming from Kansas City was vice-president and chief salesman, whose wife in 1928 died in Carthage, then after the 1929 fire and 1928 loss of wife, he returned to Kansas City to his father's milling company. The mill was thereafter known as Morrow Mill following Sam's son Samuel Roy Morrow, a World War I veteran, moving his family back to Carthage, then folding in with his father at the mill. Mill was replaced after 1929 fire then following W W II, S R Morrow's sons returned from serving in the military, "Sam", Samuel Roy Morrow, jr (1920-2010) in Navy, Joesph M Morrow (1923-2004) in Marines and Tom from the Navy, they particapted in Morrow Mill operation ending owning it which they sold in 1976, it was closed in 1978 and burnt down, except the concrete elevators in 1981.
Tom continued on with the emerging company, ConAgra Turkey Company for fourteen more years until retirement in 1990.
Tom, as other Morrow family members, was active in public & private oversight boards lending advise and chairman of some.
Now, 2013, the access road is known as Morrow Mill road extending south from old U S highway #66, The Mother Road, to Fairview, with new bridge over Spring river and the Mill's damn removed.
Death: in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with home at 814 east Highland avenue.
To read obituary, 'click' below photo of his headstone!
Father: Samuel Roy Morrow b: 27 JUL 1886 in Carthage, Jasper oounty, Missouri
Mother: Amelia Monnig b: 26 JUL 1889 Jefferson City, Cole oounty, Missouri
Marriage: Norma Holdinghausen
Married: April 14, 1951 in Crystal City, Jefferson county, Missouri
Known Children
Kathryn Amelia Morrow
Thomas Homer Morrow II
Grandparents of Sam Morgan and his wife, Brandi, Tommy Morgan, Amelia Morgan, Scott Morrow, Doug Morrow, & Chelsea Morrow.
Revised: 20 FEB 2015.
Transferred in 2011 then prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
Veteran: WW II (navy)
PLEASE NOTE:
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Find A Grave contributor, Judy Young, within her over 36,000 controls seventeen of well over forty Find A Grave 'memorials' of this McDaniel-Morrow family (none listed on her nearly 60,000 person worldconnect tree, so likely NOT related) and refuses to add documented genealogical facts concerning "Red"'s ancestors beginning with his paternal great,grandmother Nancy L (McDaniel) Morrow. Other contributors have most willingly cooperated. BB
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h/o Norma Lee Holdinghausen
Birth: Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.
Census: 1930, age 5 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with parents & two older siblings at 1427 Grand avenue.
Red was later raised on south Maple street in what was the Judge Walter Bailey house, attending Mark Twain grammer school, (site of the old Carthage Collegate Institution). He had a 1932, V8, Ford four door convertible, hand painted Robin egg blue, in high school when graduating in Class of 1942. He joined the navy and after service attended Rolla School of Mines before he married Norma.
I recall a 4th of July in the 1960's when we were floating a creek in southern Missouri and Tom brought along a cannon from which he would shoot beer cans using Cherry bombs, while we lunched on a sand bar.
"Red" Morrow and some friends in the late 1950's started to embark into a new direction, developers of apartment buildings. To that end, went to Tulsa, Oklahoma approaching former Carthage resident Bob Boots, whose father Art & wife Ilda, built Boots Court, and Boots Drive-In on old "Mother Road", Route #66, with Bob later owning and operating the drive-in for fourteen years. To that end, Bob arranged to obtain an option on 10 acres of zoned land at 28th and south Harvard, enough land for about 100 apartment units. "Red" and his group had second thoughts of entering the unfamiliar development business, so never proceeded, as told me 1/15/2011 by Bob Boots of Tulsa.
Tom's ancestors were early Greene county, Missouri pioneers. His great grandmother, Nancy L (McDaniel) Morrow arrived by covered wagon from over six week, 1,000 mile journey from former home in North Carolina with mother, father and their seven known children before her teen years, around 1841, ~ ~ her husband, Napoleon Bonaparte Morrow, Red's great,grandfather, may have been raised by his uncle Robert Morrow, reportedly arrived earlier from Tennessee, settling in Finley township in what in 1859 became Christian county, Missouri near existing county seat, Ozark.
Napoleon and wife's older brother, Alfrod M McDaniel, were reportedly slain by bushwhackers near end of Civil War, now both with modern identical replacement headstones giving death date as 1861, ~ ~ however, Napoleon's wife had children in 1862, N Bona and 1864, Nancy Lula, so its believed the death dates may be incorrect on both stones and in cemetery's transcription.
Tom's grandfather, Samuel Oscar Morrow was 1st of six known children of that union who ended with what became, Morrow Mill from his uncle, youngest of seven reported known children, Francis Marion McDaniel who had moved to Carthage about 1865 after losing 1st wife & mother, during reconstruction with partner, next older brother William Jasper, a Springfield banker, owned the Glass Mill re-named McDaniel Mill, after 1929 known as the Morrow Mill.
That known as the Glass Mill was, according to Marvin L VanGilder, page 53, first built on left bank of Spring river in 1848, about two and one half miles upstream from what became City of Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri by Washington Woodrum, buried Fermont, Iowa, when he was allowed to build a dam across Spring river on his land purchased in 1847, with a mill trace on river's left bank to power the grinder. Indians would trade for finished product, camping near by, feeding off of neighbors crops and livestock, to the farmers displeasure. Many others having later ownership, such as John B Dale, a Missouri state representative and store owner on east side of square, then a Mr Johnson in 1860, next operated & renamed Glass mill, by Thomas Glass of Kentucky early part of Civil War, serving both confederate and union troops, his wife eight months pregnant when Battle of Carthage occurred JUL 1861 with son Sterling Price, whose namesake was ex-Missouri governor, Confederate General Sterling Price.
During reconstruction era following the Civil War it became McDaniel Mill, operated by Francis Marion McDaniel (1835NC-1903MO) in 1778/9 they sold interest to John Ruffin, in 1883 brother Wm Jasper died, so nephew S O Morrow bought Ruffin's share about 1884, finally owning it around 1900 with partner Richard Taaffe, former Carthage Agent for St Louis & San Francisco RR, "Frisco" working 1890 to 1897 with District Freight Agent, who become Division Freight Agent in 1897, then Senior Vice-President & General Manager in 1909 Carl R Gray, A great enhancement occurred when the Mill was served by the White River division of the Missouri-Pacific Railroad, (Carthage end built by The McNerney Bros, Martin and younger brother P J), when its 239 mile trackage between Batesville, Arkansas and Carthage was completed 29 December 1905, which enhanced its distribution of first, its Queen & Delmonico flour later its MOCO Feeds. ~ ~ Samuel & Richard reportedly started a lumber business during recession of 1907 when in payment for flour they accepted lumber from their Arkansas customers, so Morrow-Taaffe Lumber yard was formed in Carthage ending with Samuel Oscar's son William Thomas, an uncle of Joe's. Following Uncle Francis 1900 construction of his reported $70,000, five building mill in Carthage's Frisco bottoms of north Main street, owned in part by his nephews and nieces. Samuel Oscar Morrow and Richard Taaffe operated the mill under name of Morrow-Taaffee Mill, but when his son Samuel Roy Morrow (1886-1958), a veteran of WW I, once an engineer at Missouri Public Service joined him, Taaffe left and name Taaffe was dropped around 1920. Samuel Oscar Morrow, working with him at the mill who sixteen years later took charge in 1915 when it was known as Morrow & Taaffe Mill, the Mill was later, after World War 1, known from 1921 to 1929 as Morrow-Kidder Milling company, Edward W Kidder coming from Kansas City was vice-president and chief salesman, whose wife in 1928 died in Carthage, then after the 1929 fire and 1928 loss of wife, he returned to Kansas City to his father's milling company. The mill was thereafter known as Morrow Mill following Sam's son Samuel Roy Morrow, a World War I veteran, moving his family back to Carthage, then folding in with his father at the mill. Mill was replaced after 1929 fire then following W W II, S R Morrow's sons returned from serving in the military, "Sam", Samuel Roy Morrow, jr (1920-2010) in Navy, Joesph M Morrow (1923-2004) in Marines and Tom from the Navy, they particapted in Morrow Mill operation ending owning it which they sold in 1976, it was closed in 1978 and burnt down, except the concrete elevators in 1981.
Tom continued on with the emerging company, ConAgra Turkey Company for fourteen more years until retirement in 1990.
Tom, as other Morrow family members, was active in public & private oversight boards lending advise and chairman of some.
Now, 2013, the access road is known as Morrow Mill road extending south from old U S highway #66, The Mother Road, to Fairview, with new bridge over Spring river and the Mill's damn removed.
Death: in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with home at 814 east Highland avenue.
To read obituary, 'click' below photo of his headstone!
Father: Samuel Roy Morrow b: 27 JUL 1886 in Carthage, Jasper oounty, Missouri
Mother: Amelia Monnig b: 26 JUL 1889 Jefferson City, Cole oounty, Missouri
Marriage: Norma Holdinghausen
Married: April 14, 1951 in Crystal City, Jefferson county, Missouri
Known Children
Kathryn Amelia Morrow
Thomas Homer Morrow II
Grandparents of Sam Morgan and his wife, Brandi, Tommy Morgan, Amelia Morgan, Scott Morrow, Doug Morrow, & Chelsea Morrow.
Revised: 20 FEB 2015.
Transferred in 2011 then prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
PLEASE NOTE:
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Find A Grave contributor, Judy Young, within her over 36,000 controls seventeen of well over forty Find A Grave 'memorials' of this McDaniel-Morrow family (none listed on her nearly 60,000 person worldconnect tree, so likely NOT related) and refuses to add documented genealogical facts concerning "Red"'s ancestors beginning with his paternal great,grandmother Nancy L (McDaniel) Morrow. Other contributors have most willingly cooperated. BB
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
h/o Norma Lee Holdinghausen
Birth: Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.
Census: 1930, age 5 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with parents & two older siblings at 1427 Grand avenue.
Red was later raised on south Maple street in what was the Judge Walter Bailey house, attending Mark Twain grammer school, (site of the old Carthage Collegate Institution). He had a 1932, V8, Ford four door convertible, hand painted Robin egg blue, in high school when graduating in Class of 1942. He joined the navy and after service attended Rolla School of Mines before he married Norma.
I recall a 4th of July in the 1960's when we were floating a creek in southern Missouri and Tom brought along a cannon from which he would shoot beer cans using Cherry bombs, while we lunched on a sand bar.
"Red" Morrow and some friends in the late 1950's started to embark into a new direction, developers of apartment buildings. To that end, went to Tulsa, Oklahoma approaching former Carthage resident Bob Boots, whose father Art & wife Ilda, built Boots Court, and Boots Drive-In on old "Mother Road", Route #66, with Bob later owning and operating the drive-in for fourteen years. To that end, Bob arranged to obtain an option on 10 acres of zoned land at 28th and south Harvard, enough land for about 100 apartment units. "Red" and his group had second thoughts of entering the unfamiliar development business, so never proceeded, as told me 1/15/2011 by Bob Boots of Tulsa.
Tom's ancestors were early Greene county, Missouri pioneers. His great grandmother, Nancy L (McDaniel) Morrow arrived by covered wagon from over six week, 1,000 mile journey from former home in North Carolina with mother, father and their seven known children before her teen years, around 1841, ~ ~ her husband, Napoleon Bonaparte Morrow, Red's great,grandfather, may have been raised by his uncle Robert Morrow, reportedly arrived earlier from Tennessee, settling in Finley township in what in 1859 became Christian county, Missouri near existing county seat, Ozark.
Napoleon and wife's older brother, Alfrod M McDaniel, were reportedly slain by bushwhackers near end of Civil War, now both with modern identical replacement headstones giving death date as 1861, ~ ~ however, Napoleon's wife had children in 1862, N Bona and 1864, Nancy Lula, so its believed the death dates may be incorrect on both stones and in cemetery's transcription.
Tom's grandfather, Samuel Oscar Morrow was 1st of six known children of that union who ended with what became, Morrow Mill from his uncle, youngest of seven reported known children, Francis Marion McDaniel who had moved to Carthage about 1865 after losing 1st wife & mother, during reconstruction with partner, next older brother William Jasper, a Springfield banker, owned the Glass Mill re-named McDaniel Mill, after 1929 known as the Morrow Mill.
That known as the Glass Mill was, according to Marvin L VanGilder, page 53, first built on left bank of Spring river in 1848, about two and one half miles upstream from what became City of Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri by Washington Woodrum, buried Fermont, Iowa, when he was allowed to build a dam across Spring river on his land purchased in 1847, with a mill trace on river's left bank to power the grinder. Indians would trade for finished product, camping near by, feeding off of neighbors crops and livestock, to the farmers displeasure. Many others having later ownership, such as John B Dale, a Missouri state representative and store owner on east side of square, then a Mr Johnson in 1860, next operated & renamed Glass mill, by Thomas Glass of Kentucky early part of Civil War, serving both confederate and union troops, his wife eight months pregnant when Battle of Carthage occurred JUL 1861 with son Sterling Price, whose namesake was ex-Missouri governor, Confederate General Sterling Price.
During reconstruction era following the Civil War it became McDaniel Mill, operated by Francis Marion McDaniel (1835NC-1903MO) in 1778/9 they sold interest to John Ruffin, in 1883 brother Wm Jasper died, so nephew S O Morrow bought Ruffin's share about 1884, finally owning it around 1900 with partner Richard Taaffe, former Carthage Agent for St Louis & San Francisco RR, "Frisco" working 1890 to 1897 with District Freight Agent, who become Division Freight Agent in 1897, then Senior Vice-President & General Manager in 1909 Carl R Gray, A great enhancement occurred when the Mill was served by the White River division of the Missouri-Pacific Railroad, (Carthage end built by The McNerney Bros, Martin and younger brother P J), when its 239 mile trackage between Batesville, Arkansas and Carthage was completed 29 December 1905, which enhanced its distribution of first, its Queen & Delmonico flour later its MOCO Feeds. ~ ~ Samuel & Richard reportedly started a lumber business during recession of 1907 when in payment for flour they accepted lumber from their Arkansas customers, so Morrow-Taaffe Lumber yard was formed in Carthage ending with Samuel Oscar's son William Thomas, an uncle of Joe's. Following Uncle Francis 1900 construction of his reported $70,000, five building mill in Carthage's Frisco bottoms of north Main street, owned in part by his nephews and nieces. Samuel Oscar Morrow and Richard Taaffe operated the mill under name of Morrow-Taaffee Mill, but when his son Samuel Roy Morrow (1886-1958), a veteran of WW I, once an engineer at Missouri Public Service joined him, Taaffe left and name Taaffe was dropped around 1920. Samuel Oscar Morrow, working with him at the mill who sixteen years later took charge in 1915 when it was known as Morrow & Taaffe Mill, the Mill was later, after World War 1, known from 1921 to 1929 as Morrow-Kidder Milling company, Edward W Kidder coming from Kansas City was vice-president and chief salesman, whose wife in 1928 died in Carthage, then after the 1929 fire and 1928 loss of wife, he returned to Kansas City to his father's milling company. The mill was thereafter known as Morrow Mill following Sam's son Samuel Roy Morrow, a World War I veteran, moving his family back to Carthage, then folding in with his father at the mill. Mill was replaced after 1929 fire then following W W II, S R Morrow's sons returned from serving in the military, "Sam", Samuel Roy Morrow, jr (1920-2010) in Navy, Joesph M Morrow (1923-2004) in Marines and Tom from the Navy, they particapted in Morrow Mill operation ending owning it which they sold in 1976, it was closed in 1978 and burnt down, except the concrete elevators in 1981.
Tom continued on with the emerging company, ConAgra Turkey Company for fourteen more years until retirement in 1990.
Tom, as other Morrow family members, was active in public & private oversight boards lending advise and chairman of some.
Now, 2013, the access road is known as Morrow Mill road extending south from old U S highway #66, The Mother Road, to Fairview, with new bridge over Spring river and the Mill's damn removed.
Death: in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with home at 814 east Highland avenue.
To read obituary, 'click' below photo of his headstone!
Father: Samuel Roy Morrow b: 27 JUL 1886 in Carthage, Jasper oounty, Missouri
Mother: Amelia Monnig b: 26 JUL 1889 Jefferson City, Cole oounty, Missouri
Marriage: Norma Holdinghausen
Married: April 14, 1951 in Crystal City, Jefferson county, Missouri
Known Children
Kathryn Amelia Morrow
Thomas Homer Morrow II
Grandparents of Sam Morgan and his wife, Brandi, Tommy Morgan, Amelia Morgan, Scott Morrow, Doug Morrow, & Chelsea Morrow.
Revised: 20 FEB 2015.
Transferred in 2011 then prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
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