Veteran: WW II (Marines)
h/o Sally Josephine Porter
Birth: Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.
Census: 1930, age 7 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with parents & two male siblings at 1427 Grand avenue.
Joe was later raised on south Maple, in what was the Judge Bailey house, attending Mark Twain grammar school, (site of the old Carthage Collegiate Institution), graduating high school in Class of 1940. He then attended the University of Missouri at Columbia, Missouri, senior year attended Purdue University, playing football with the Missouri Tigers from 1941 to 1942, playing in the Sugar Bowl when Missouri won in 1942. In 1943 he also played for the Purdue Boilermaker's football team when they became National Champions.
He served during WW II as a 2nd Lt. in the 2nd Marion Division, United States Marine Corps, in Okinawa & Saipan, and involved in the Army occupation of Japan.
Joe'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 seven known children before her teen years, around 1841, ~ ~ her husband, Napoleon Bonaparte Morrow, Joe'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.
Joe'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 McDaniel children, Francis Marion McDaniel who removed to Carthage in 1865 following death of 1st wife & his mother, during reconstruction with next older brother William Jasper McDaniel, a Springfield banker. They had a large farm raising most farm animals and acquired the 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, pages 53 & 54, 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 race 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 when its 239 mile trackage between Batesville, Arkansas and Carthage was completed 29 December 1905, in part built by McNerney Brothers, Martin & P J of Carthage, which enhanced its distribution of first, its Queen & Delmonico flour later its MOCO Feeds. ~ ~ secondly, 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 reportedly sold out to S O Morrow and around 1900 constructed 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, Thomas Homer Morrow (1924-2006) in Navy and Joe from the Marines, they participated 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.
Joe, as other Morrow family members, was active in public & private oversight boards lending advice 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 at Saint Luke's Nursing Center, with home at 719 Euclid Boulevard.
~ OBITUARY:
Joseph M. Morrow
Joseph M. Morrow, 81, Carthage, Mo., passed away at 9:30 a.m. July 29, 2004, in St. Luke’s Nursing Center, Carthage.
Mr. Morrow was born Jan. 23, 1923, in Carthage, to S.R. Morrow and Amelia Monnig Morrow, and grandson to S.O. Morrow. He was a graduate of Mark Twain Elementary, Carthage Senior High School (Class of 1940), University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. (Class of 1944), finishing his senior year with Purdue University.
He played football for the Missouri Tigers from 1941 to 1942, playing in the Sugar Bowl when Missouri won in 1942. In 1943, he was playing for the Purdue University Boilermaker’s football team when they became national champions. He was a veteran, serving as a 2nd Lt. in the 2nd Marine Division USMC, in Okinawa and Saipan. He was involved in the Army occupation of Japan.
He married Sarah Josephine Porter on Dec. 19, 1944, in Riverside, Calif. She preceded him in death on June 3, 2003. He and his brothers with their father owned and operated Morrow Milling Co. from 1946 to 1976. Joe was active in civic and community affairs serving two terms on the Carthage R-9 School Board, past president of Missouri Turkey Federation and past president of the National Turkey Federation. He was a member of St. Ann’s Catholic Church, Carthage.
Survivors include a son, James Peter Morrow and wife, Melanie, Phoenix, Ariz; two brothers, Tom Morrow and wife, Norma, Carthage, and Sam Morrow and wife, Jean, Carthage; brother-in-law, James Porter and wife, Kay, Springfield, Mo.; and two grandchildren, Charlie Morrow and Amy Morrow, Phoenix. He was preceded in death by his parents and wife, Sally.
Visitation will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 3, at Knell Mortuary, Carthage. Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 4, in Park Cemetery, Carthage. Father Bill Hodgson will officiate.
Father: Samuel Roy Morrow b: 27 JUL 1886 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Mother: Amelia Monnig b: 26 JUL 1889 Jefferson City, Cole county, Missouri
Marriage: Sally Josephine Porter b: 11 OCT 1923 Joplin, Jasper county, Missouri
Married: 19 DEC 1944 at Riverside, Riverside county, California
Known Child
James Peter Morrow b: Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Revised: 22-FEB-2015.
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
h/o Sally Josephine Porter
Birth: Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.
Census: 1930, age 7 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with parents & two male siblings at 1427 Grand avenue.
Joe was later raised on south Maple, in what was the Judge Bailey house, attending Mark Twain grammar school, (site of the old Carthage Collegiate Institution), graduating high school in Class of 1940. He then attended the University of Missouri at Columbia, Missouri, senior year attended Purdue University, playing football with the Missouri Tigers from 1941 to 1942, playing in the Sugar Bowl when Missouri won in 1942. In 1943 he also played for the Purdue Boilermaker's football team when they became National Champions.
He served during WW II as a 2nd Lt. in the 2nd Marion Division, United States Marine Corps, in Okinawa & Saipan, and involved in the Army occupation of Japan.
Joe'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 seven known children before her teen years, around 1841, ~ ~ her husband, Napoleon Bonaparte Morrow, Joe'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.
Joe'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 McDaniel children, Francis Marion McDaniel who removed to Carthage in 1865 following death of 1st wife & his mother, during reconstruction with next older brother William Jasper McDaniel, a Springfield banker. They had a large farm raising most farm animals and acquired the 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, pages 53 & 54, 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 race 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 when its 239 mile trackage between Batesville, Arkansas and Carthage was completed 29 December 1905, in part built by McNerney Brothers, Martin & P J of Carthage, which enhanced its distribution of first, its Queen & Delmonico flour later its MOCO Feeds. ~ ~ secondly, 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 reportedly sold out to S O Morrow and around 1900 constructed 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, Thomas Homer Morrow (1924-2006) in Navy and Joe from the Marines, they participated 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.
Joe, as other Morrow family members, was active in public & private oversight boards lending advice 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 at Saint Luke's Nursing Center, with home at 719 Euclid Boulevard.
~ OBITUARY:
Joseph M. Morrow
Joseph M. Morrow, 81, Carthage, Mo., passed away at 9:30 a.m. July 29, 2004, in St. Luke’s Nursing Center, Carthage.
Mr. Morrow was born Jan. 23, 1923, in Carthage, to S.R. Morrow and Amelia Monnig Morrow, and grandson to S.O. Morrow. He was a graduate of Mark Twain Elementary, Carthage Senior High School (Class of 1940), University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. (Class of 1944), finishing his senior year with Purdue University.
He played football for the Missouri Tigers from 1941 to 1942, playing in the Sugar Bowl when Missouri won in 1942. In 1943, he was playing for the Purdue University Boilermaker’s football team when they became national champions. He was a veteran, serving as a 2nd Lt. in the 2nd Marine Division USMC, in Okinawa and Saipan. He was involved in the Army occupation of Japan.
He married Sarah Josephine Porter on Dec. 19, 1944, in Riverside, Calif. She preceded him in death on June 3, 2003. He and his brothers with their father owned and operated Morrow Milling Co. from 1946 to 1976. Joe was active in civic and community affairs serving two terms on the Carthage R-9 School Board, past president of Missouri Turkey Federation and past president of the National Turkey Federation. He was a member of St. Ann’s Catholic Church, Carthage.
Survivors include a son, James Peter Morrow and wife, Melanie, Phoenix, Ariz; two brothers, Tom Morrow and wife, Norma, Carthage, and Sam Morrow and wife, Jean, Carthage; brother-in-law, James Porter and wife, Kay, Springfield, Mo.; and two grandchildren, Charlie Morrow and Amy Morrow, Phoenix. He was preceded in death by his parents and wife, Sally.
Visitation will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 3, at Knell Mortuary, Carthage. Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 4, in Park Cemetery, Carthage. Father Bill Hodgson will officiate.
Father: Samuel Roy Morrow b: 27 JUL 1886 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Mother: Amelia Monnig b: 26 JUL 1889 Jefferson City, Cole county, Missouri
Marriage: Sally Josephine Porter b: 11 OCT 1923 Joplin, Jasper county, Missouri
Married: 19 DEC 1944 at Riverside, Riverside county, California
Known Child
James Peter Morrow b: Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Revised: 22-FEB-2015.
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
Veteran: WW II (Marines)
h/o Sally Josephine Porter
Birth: Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.
Census: 1930, age 7 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with parents & two male siblings at 1427 Grand avenue.
Joe was later raised on south Maple, in what was the Judge Bailey house, attending Mark Twain grammar school, (site of the old Carthage Collegiate Institution), graduating high school in Class of 1940. He then attended the University of Missouri at Columbia, Missouri, senior year attended Purdue University, playing football with the Missouri Tigers from 1941 to 1942, playing in the Sugar Bowl when Missouri won in 1942. In 1943 he also played for the Purdue Boilermaker's football team when they became National Champions.
He served during WW II as a 2nd Lt. in the 2nd Marion Division, United States Marine Corps, in Okinawa & Saipan, and involved in the Army occupation of Japan.
Joe'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 seven known children before her teen years, around 1841, ~ ~ her husband, Napoleon Bonaparte Morrow, Joe'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.
Joe'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 McDaniel children, Francis Marion McDaniel who removed to Carthage in 1865 following death of 1st wife & his mother, during reconstruction with next older brother William Jasper McDaniel, a Springfield banker. They had a large farm raising most farm animals and acquired the 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, pages 53 & 54, 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 race 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 when its 239 mile trackage between Batesville, Arkansas and Carthage was completed 29 December 1905, in part built by McNerney Brothers, Martin & P J of Carthage, which enhanced its distribution of first, its Queen & Delmonico flour later its MOCO Feeds. ~ ~ secondly, 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 reportedly sold out to S O Morrow and around 1900 constructed 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, Thomas Homer Morrow (1924-2006) in Navy and Joe from the Marines, they participated 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.
Joe, as other Morrow family members, was active in public & private oversight boards lending advice 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 at Saint Luke's Nursing Center, with home at 719 Euclid Boulevard.
~ OBITUARY:
Joseph M. Morrow
Joseph M. Morrow, 81, Carthage, Mo., passed away at 9:30 a.m. July 29, 2004, in St. Luke’s Nursing Center, Carthage.
Mr. Morrow was born Jan. 23, 1923, in Carthage, to S.R. Morrow and Amelia Monnig Morrow, and grandson to S.O. Morrow. He was a graduate of Mark Twain Elementary, Carthage Senior High School (Class of 1940), University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. (Class of 1944), finishing his senior year with Purdue University.
He played football for the Missouri Tigers from 1941 to 1942, playing in the Sugar Bowl when Missouri won in 1942. In 1943, he was playing for the Purdue University Boilermaker’s football team when they became national champions. He was a veteran, serving as a 2nd Lt. in the 2nd Marine Division USMC, in Okinawa and Saipan. He was involved in the Army occupation of Japan.
He married Sarah Josephine Porter on Dec. 19, 1944, in Riverside, Calif. She preceded him in death on June 3, 2003. He and his brothers with their father owned and operated Morrow Milling Co. from 1946 to 1976. Joe was active in civic and community affairs serving two terms on the Carthage R-9 School Board, past president of Missouri Turkey Federation and past president of the National Turkey Federation. He was a member of St. Ann’s Catholic Church, Carthage.
Survivors include a son, James Peter Morrow and wife, Melanie, Phoenix, Ariz; two brothers, Tom Morrow and wife, Norma, Carthage, and Sam Morrow and wife, Jean, Carthage; brother-in-law, James Porter and wife, Kay, Springfield, Mo.; and two grandchildren, Charlie Morrow and Amy Morrow, Phoenix. He was preceded in death by his parents and wife, Sally.
Visitation will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 3, at Knell Mortuary, Carthage. Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 4, in Park Cemetery, Carthage. Father Bill Hodgson will officiate.
Father: Samuel Roy Morrow b: 27 JUL 1886 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Mother: Amelia Monnig b: 26 JUL 1889 Jefferson City, Cole county, Missouri
Marriage: Sally Josephine Porter b: 11 OCT 1923 Joplin, Jasper county, Missouri
Married: 19 DEC 1944 at Riverside, Riverside county, California
Known Child
James Peter Morrow b: Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Revised: 22-FEB-2015.
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
h/o Sally Josephine Porter
Birth: Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.
Census: 1930, age 7 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with parents & two male siblings at 1427 Grand avenue.
Joe was later raised on south Maple, in what was the Judge Bailey house, attending Mark Twain grammar school, (site of the old Carthage Collegiate Institution), graduating high school in Class of 1940. He then attended the University of Missouri at Columbia, Missouri, senior year attended Purdue University, playing football with the Missouri Tigers from 1941 to 1942, playing in the Sugar Bowl when Missouri won in 1942. In 1943 he also played for the Purdue Boilermaker's football team when they became National Champions.
He served during WW II as a 2nd Lt. in the 2nd Marion Division, United States Marine Corps, in Okinawa & Saipan, and involved in the Army occupation of Japan.
Joe'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 seven known children before her teen years, around 1841, ~ ~ her husband, Napoleon Bonaparte Morrow, Joe'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.
Joe'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 McDaniel children, Francis Marion McDaniel who removed to Carthage in 1865 following death of 1st wife & his mother, during reconstruction with next older brother William Jasper McDaniel, a Springfield banker. They had a large farm raising most farm animals and acquired the 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, pages 53 & 54, 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 race 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 when its 239 mile trackage between Batesville, Arkansas and Carthage was completed 29 December 1905, in part built by McNerney Brothers, Martin & P J of Carthage, which enhanced its distribution of first, its Queen & Delmonico flour later its MOCO Feeds. ~ ~ secondly, 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 reportedly sold out to S O Morrow and around 1900 constructed 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, Thomas Homer Morrow (1924-2006) in Navy and Joe from the Marines, they participated 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.
Joe, as other Morrow family members, was active in public & private oversight boards lending advice 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 at Saint Luke's Nursing Center, with home at 719 Euclid Boulevard.
~ OBITUARY:
Joseph M. Morrow
Joseph M. Morrow, 81, Carthage, Mo., passed away at 9:30 a.m. July 29, 2004, in St. Luke’s Nursing Center, Carthage.
Mr. Morrow was born Jan. 23, 1923, in Carthage, to S.R. Morrow and Amelia Monnig Morrow, and grandson to S.O. Morrow. He was a graduate of Mark Twain Elementary, Carthage Senior High School (Class of 1940), University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. (Class of 1944), finishing his senior year with Purdue University.
He played football for the Missouri Tigers from 1941 to 1942, playing in the Sugar Bowl when Missouri won in 1942. In 1943, he was playing for the Purdue University Boilermaker’s football team when they became national champions. He was a veteran, serving as a 2nd Lt. in the 2nd Marine Division USMC, in Okinawa and Saipan. He was involved in the Army occupation of Japan.
He married Sarah Josephine Porter on Dec. 19, 1944, in Riverside, Calif. She preceded him in death on June 3, 2003. He and his brothers with their father owned and operated Morrow Milling Co. from 1946 to 1976. Joe was active in civic and community affairs serving two terms on the Carthage R-9 School Board, past president of Missouri Turkey Federation and past president of the National Turkey Federation. He was a member of St. Ann’s Catholic Church, Carthage.
Survivors include a son, James Peter Morrow and wife, Melanie, Phoenix, Ariz; two brothers, Tom Morrow and wife, Norma, Carthage, and Sam Morrow and wife, Jean, Carthage; brother-in-law, James Porter and wife, Kay, Springfield, Mo.; and two grandchildren, Charlie Morrow and Amy Morrow, Phoenix. He was preceded in death by his parents and wife, Sally.
Visitation will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 3, at Knell Mortuary, Carthage. Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 4, in Park Cemetery, Carthage. Father Bill Hodgson will officiate.
Father: Samuel Roy Morrow b: 27 JUL 1886 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Mother: Amelia Monnig b: 26 JUL 1889 Jefferson City, Cole county, Missouri
Marriage: Sally Josephine Porter b: 11 OCT 1923 Joplin, Jasper county, Missouri
Married: 19 DEC 1944 at Riverside, Riverside county, California
Known Child
James Peter Morrow b: Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Revised: 22-FEB-2015.
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
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