John Morris Nelms married (m.1) Hannah R. Morphis, b. abt. 1819 TN, d. 18 Nov. 1846. Children of their union were: William Riley, 1837, TN; Joseph Matthias 1839, TN; Mary Susan 1841, TN; James Jones 1844, TN.
John Morris married (m.2) Mary Susan McBride on June 19, 1847 in Hardeman co., TN. Children of their union were Nancy Jane Nelms Walker 1849, TN; Frances Ann Nelms Nelson 1851; Thomas Hearlson Nelms 1853, AR; John Morris Nelms, Jr. 1856, AR; Eliza Gertrude Nelms Sharpe 1859, AR; David Samuel Nelms 1861, AR; Abner Peter Nelms 1865, AR; Sarah Ann Nelms McClain 1869, AR.
"Robert Franklin Nelms related the following information to his grandson, Dale Roy Nelms: His paternal grandfather, John Morris Nelms, had been in the Union Army during the Civil War. John Morris was killed after the war when an argument in a country store turned violent and he was struck on the head with a "stick of stove-wood." [Note: the 1860 and 1870 census shows his occupation as farmer.
Louise Beckett Cotton, daughter of Mary Gertrude Nelms and Roy Beckett told that when John Morris went to war, Mary Susan stayed with her McBride relatives who were "well off." After the war, John Morris became a U.S. Marshall. He was taking a prisoner to the court house. The prisoner hit John Morris in the head with a rock and he was in a coma for 3 weeks before he died.
John Morris married (m.2) Mary Susan McBride on June 19, 1847 in Hardeman co., TN. Children of their union were Nancy Jane Nelms Walker 1849, TN; Frances Ann Nelms Nelson 1851; Thomas Hearlson Nelms 1853, AR; John Morris Nelms, Jr. 1856, AR; Eliza Gertrude Nelms Sharpe 1859, AR; David Samuel Nelms 1861, AR; Abner Peter Nelms 1865, AR; Sarah Ann Nelms McClain 1869, AR.
"Robert Franklin Nelms related the following information to his grandson, Dale Roy Nelms: His paternal grandfather, John Morris Nelms, had been in the Union Army during the Civil War. John Morris was killed after the war when an argument in a country store turned violent and he was struck on the head with a "stick of stove-wood." [Note: the 1860 and 1870 census shows his occupation as farmer.
Louise Beckett Cotton, daughter of Mary Gertrude Nelms and Roy Beckett told that when John Morris went to war, Mary Susan stayed with her McBride relatives who were "well off." After the war, John Morris became a U.S. Marshall. He was taking a prisoner to the court house. The prisoner hit John Morris in the head with a rock and he was in a coma for 3 weeks before he died.
John Morris Nelms married (m.1) Hannah R. Morphis, b. abt. 1819 TN, d. 18 Nov. 1846. Children of their union were: William Riley, 1837, TN; Joseph Matthias 1839, TN; Mary Susan 1841, TN; James Jones 1844, TN.
John Morris married (m.2) Mary Susan McBride on June 19, 1847 in Hardeman co., TN. Children of their union were Nancy Jane Nelms Walker 1849, TN; Frances Ann Nelms Nelson 1851; Thomas Hearlson Nelms 1853, AR; John Morris Nelms, Jr. 1856, AR; Eliza Gertrude Nelms Sharpe 1859, AR; David Samuel Nelms 1861, AR; Abner Peter Nelms 1865, AR; Sarah Ann Nelms McClain 1869, AR.
"Robert Franklin Nelms related the following information to his grandson, Dale Roy Nelms: His paternal grandfather, John Morris Nelms, had been in the Union Army during the Civil War. John Morris was killed after the war when an argument in a country store turned violent and he was struck on the head with a "stick of stove-wood." [Note: the 1860 and 1870 census shows his occupation as farmer.
Louise Beckett Cotton, daughter of Mary Gertrude Nelms and Roy Beckett told that when John Morris went to war, Mary Susan stayed with her McBride relatives who were "well off." After the war, John Morris became a U.S. Marshall. He was taking a prisoner to the court house. The prisoner hit John Morris in the head with a rock and he was in a coma for 3 weeks before he died.
John Morris married (m.2) Mary Susan McBride on June 19, 1847 in Hardeman co., TN. Children of their union were Nancy Jane Nelms Walker 1849, TN; Frances Ann Nelms Nelson 1851; Thomas Hearlson Nelms 1853, AR; John Morris Nelms, Jr. 1856, AR; Eliza Gertrude Nelms Sharpe 1859, AR; David Samuel Nelms 1861, AR; Abner Peter Nelms 1865, AR; Sarah Ann Nelms McClain 1869, AR.
"Robert Franklin Nelms related the following information to his grandson, Dale Roy Nelms: His paternal grandfather, John Morris Nelms, had been in the Union Army during the Civil War. John Morris was killed after the war when an argument in a country store turned violent and he was struck on the head with a "stick of stove-wood." [Note: the 1860 and 1870 census shows his occupation as farmer.
Louise Beckett Cotton, daughter of Mary Gertrude Nelms and Roy Beckett told that when John Morris went to war, Mary Susan stayed with her McBride relatives who were "well off." After the war, John Morris became a U.S. Marshall. He was taking a prisoner to the court house. The prisoner hit John Morris in the head with a rock and he was in a coma for 3 weeks before he died.
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