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Joseph Smith Morrison Sr. was born April 1, 1863 in Fairfield County, Ohio. The son of William Theodore Morrison and Mother Martha Ann Alexander-Morrison.
His father was a Civil War Veteran, and an aide to General Ulysses S Grant, injured in the Battle of Shiloh he was given a Honorable Medical Discharge, he was a School Teacher and is buried at the Lake Bethel Cemetery Syracuse, Kosciusko County Indiana. Joe's mother died in 1869 while they were heading West by wagon train, they made it to Lexington, Missouri where she died of Cholera along with Joe's sister and brother and they are buried at the Machpelah Cemetery, in Lexington, Missouri.
Joe was known as Job or Joe when he was younger, his Uncle was named Job Morrison. Joe never went to school as his father William taught him at home but Joe was very well educated and very smart as he became a mining engineer.
In 1870 Joe lived in Noble County, Indiana where they moved when Joe was about 7 years old after his mother died. At the time Joe thought he was born in Noble County, Indiana but later found out from his father that he was actually born in Fairfield County, Ohio where his mother's family lived. When Joe was about 14 he set out on his own. His father William had remarried at the time to Lydia A Sloan-Morrison.
Joe said he traveled East to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and told his children that he nearly starved to death but found a watch on the street and was able to sell it for food.
For several years we knew nothing about Joe's life. But in March of 2014, 4 different Autosomal DNA's and two different 37 marker male line Y-DNA test proved with 100% certainty that Joe was first married Emma Harrington in Michigan in 1883 and had 3 children, Frank Lyman Morrison, Charles Lewis Morrison, and Frances Jennie Morrison. We don't know if they actually divorced or what happened but Emma was listed as a widow 1898-1904 city directory for Grand Rapids, Michigan, even though we know that Joe didn't die until 1944. But we do know that being a divorcee was frowned upon in the 1890's. Frank Lyman Morrison, Joe's oldest son must have known the whereabouts of his father for awhile because he'd told his children that his father was living out West on a Indian Reservation which is true.
When Joe was 21 in about 1884 he went to see his father William Theodore Morrison and said he had many 1/2 siblings. Joe spent one night and left the next day, but Joe must have married Emma Harrington-Morrison before this because he was 21 on April 1, 1884 and married Emma on April 11, 1883.
We're not sure when Joe went to Canada, he was a mining engineer but 2 of his children were born in St.Paul Minnesota and we think he might have gone to Canada at that time. He worked in a mining camp and for the railroad in Canada and had a Canadian patent for a piece of mining equipment he designed.
In about 1893 Joe married Annie Pierre She was full blooded Siletz Indian. Annie and Joe lived on her land granted to her by the tribe. Annie died in 1897 her obituary say's she died of consumption also known as Tuberculosis but Joe told his children that it was during the birth of their first child which the Tuberculosis could have been the cause. Annie is buried at Paul Washington Tribal Cemetery in Siletz, Oregon with the child who also died. Annie had a sister Sarah Pierre and they were educated and nurses in Portland, Oregon. She owned quite a bit of land which Joe inherited but after her death, he left to work in Idaho for a short time and when he came back found someone had moved on the land and Joe just left and never pursued legal action against them.
We know that Joe was a steam shovel operator and he worked for George McCabe a General Contractor in Portland, Oregon.
Joe said he dug most of the rock for the Portland Customs House which was completed in about 1901.
Joe said that a brother came to see him in Portland, Oregon. about 1903, We're not sure which brother it was but most likely his 1/2 brother Marion Nathaniel Morrison, but it also could have been Charles Morrison. Joe's only full blooded brother had died in 1869.
Joe owned a Saloon in San Francisco during the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. After the earthquake all he had left was a cash register and a Victrola phonograph, he took them and headed back up north to Oregon.
In about 1910 Joe owned a saloon in Portland, Oregon at what we believe was 40 N 6th Street it was called "Morrison's Steam Shovel Saloon." We know this address from postcards sent to Joe and newspaper articles written about his saloon. The temperance movement was in full force at this time and many judges frowned on the use of alcohol. We believe Joe sold the Saloon or closed it due to prohibition which was instituted in Oregon in 1915 and repealed in 1933. We're not sure which saloon it was, the Portland Saloon or the San Francisco Saloon but Joe told his children that he won a Saloon in a card game.
After being single for 18 years Joe married again to Mary Adeline "Addie" Taylor of Portland, Oregon on Apr 3, 1915 Addie was 21 and Joe was 52 but Addie was blind and it mattered little to her. They moved to Walport, Oregon where his first child with Addie was born, Alice Edith Morrison was born on April 15, 1916. Joe was working as an Engineer in a mine at the time.
In 1918 Joe and Addie had a 2nd child, Joseph Smith Morrison Jr. he was born in Portland, but this is where Joe's mother-in-law lived and Addie may have gone there to have their child Joe Jr.
On the 1920 census they still lived near Walport at Alsea, Oregon where Joe was working his own mining claim. Later that year they moved to Empire, Oregon where their sons Russell Wesley Morrison and Philip Alfred Morrison were born. In 1926 they bought a house in Charleston, Oregon where Joe and Addie had 3 more children, In 1926 Charles Morrison was born and died at birth, in 1927 Fred Williams Morrison and in 1928 their last child Bertha May Morrison was born.
Joe worked as a fisherman in Charleston, Oregon and owned a fishing boat that he built called the "Rainbow". His son Fred said that they took fish and seafood to the valley and traded it for fruits and vegetables, that they ate good food during the depression years with all the fish, crab & clams they could catch and dig.
In 1938 his wife Mary "Addie" died due to complications of gall bladder surgery, Joe was about 75 at the time and never remarried.
Everyone has said that Joe was a wonderful, jovial and loving Father and Grandfather and he had many friends that he had made throughout his life.
(Obituary)
Funeral services for Joseph Smith Morrison Sr. 80, of Charleston, who died Sunday at Keizer Hospital of a stroke will be held at 2pm Tuesday from the Campbell funeral home, with interment at Sunset cemetery. Rev. Gilbert H. Newland will officiate. Mr. Morrison was born April 1, 1863 in Fairfield, County Ohio and had been a resident of Coos County for more than 20 years.
He is survived by the following children: Alice Edith Armacost, Bertha May Morrison, both of Marshfield, Oreg. Sons, Joseph Smith Morrison Jr., Fred Williams Morrison both of Marshfield, Oreg. Russell Wesley Morrison of Charleston, Oreg. and Philip Alfred Morrison, of North Bend, Oreg. Mr. Morrison had three Grandchildren Louise B., Gerold D., and Joseph S. III. Mr. Morrison was preceded in death by his wife Mary A. Morrison in 1938 and a son Charles Morrison who died at birth in 1926.
Joseph Smith Morrison Sr. was 65 when his last child was born.
At far left almost to the end of the cemetery, go down to bottom of steps, down the hill about 20 steps to Joseph S. Morrison's grave.
A few of Joe's Grandchildren:
Joseph Smith Morrison III - Littrell
Fred Williams Morrison Jr.
Louise Billie Day Armacost Williams
Garold Douglas Day "Gary" Armacost
NOTE:
Recently 6 different Autosomal and Y-DNA tests were done and the results show with 100% certainty that Joseph Smith Morrison was father of Frank Lyman Morrison, daughter Frances Jennie Morrison and a son Charles Lewis Morrison. Records show that he married Emma Harrington on 11 Apr 1883 in Kent County Michigan. Frank Lyman was born in Michigan, and Charles and Frances were born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Joseph Smith Morrison Sr. was born April 1, 1863 in Fairfield County, Ohio. The son of William Theodore Morrison and Mother Martha Ann Alexander-Morrison.
His father was a Civil War Veteran, and an aide to General Ulysses S Grant, injured in the Battle of Shiloh he was given a Honorable Medical Discharge, he was a School Teacher and is buried at the Lake Bethel Cemetery Syracuse, Kosciusko County Indiana. Joe's mother died in 1869 while they were heading West by wagon train, they made it to Lexington, Missouri where she died of Cholera along with Joe's sister and brother and they are buried at the Machpelah Cemetery, in Lexington, Missouri.
Joe was known as Job or Joe when he was younger, his Uncle was named Job Morrison. Joe never went to school as his father William taught him at home but Joe was very well educated and very smart as he became a mining engineer.
In 1870 Joe lived in Noble County, Indiana where they moved when Joe was about 7 years old after his mother died. At the time Joe thought he was born in Noble County, Indiana but later found out from his father that he was actually born in Fairfield County, Ohio where his mother's family lived. When Joe was about 14 he set out on his own. His father William had remarried at the time to Lydia A Sloan-Morrison.
Joe said he traveled East to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and told his children that he nearly starved to death but found a watch on the street and was able to sell it for food.
For several years we knew nothing about Joe's life. But in March of 2014, 4 different Autosomal DNA's and two different 37 marker male line Y-DNA test proved with 100% certainty that Joe was first married Emma Harrington in Michigan in 1883 and had 3 children, Frank Lyman Morrison, Charles Lewis Morrison, and Frances Jennie Morrison. We don't know if they actually divorced or what happened but Emma was listed as a widow 1898-1904 city directory for Grand Rapids, Michigan, even though we know that Joe didn't die until 1944. But we do know that being a divorcee was frowned upon in the 1890's. Frank Lyman Morrison, Joe's oldest son must have known the whereabouts of his father for awhile because he'd told his children that his father was living out West on a Indian Reservation which is true.
When Joe was 21 in about 1884 he went to see his father William Theodore Morrison and said he had many 1/2 siblings. Joe spent one night and left the next day, but Joe must have married Emma Harrington-Morrison before this because he was 21 on April 1, 1884 and married Emma on April 11, 1883.
We're not sure when Joe went to Canada, he was a mining engineer but 2 of his children were born in St.Paul Minnesota and we think he might have gone to Canada at that time. He worked in a mining camp and for the railroad in Canada and had a Canadian patent for a piece of mining equipment he designed.
In about 1893 Joe married Annie Pierre She was full blooded Siletz Indian. Annie and Joe lived on her land granted to her by the tribe. Annie died in 1897 her obituary say's she died of consumption also known as Tuberculosis but Joe told his children that it was during the birth of their first child which the Tuberculosis could have been the cause. Annie is buried at Paul Washington Tribal Cemetery in Siletz, Oregon with the child who also died. Annie had a sister Sarah Pierre and they were educated and nurses in Portland, Oregon. She owned quite a bit of land which Joe inherited but after her death, he left to work in Idaho for a short time and when he came back found someone had moved on the land and Joe just left and never pursued legal action against them.
We know that Joe was a steam shovel operator and he worked for George McCabe a General Contractor in Portland, Oregon.
Joe said he dug most of the rock for the Portland Customs House which was completed in about 1901.
Joe said that a brother came to see him in Portland, Oregon. about 1903, We're not sure which brother it was but most likely his 1/2 brother Marion Nathaniel Morrison, but it also could have been Charles Morrison. Joe's only full blooded brother had died in 1869.
Joe owned a Saloon in San Francisco during the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. After the earthquake all he had left was a cash register and a Victrola phonograph, he took them and headed back up north to Oregon.
In about 1910 Joe owned a saloon in Portland, Oregon at what we believe was 40 N 6th Street it was called "Morrison's Steam Shovel Saloon." We know this address from postcards sent to Joe and newspaper articles written about his saloon. The temperance movement was in full force at this time and many judges frowned on the use of alcohol. We believe Joe sold the Saloon or closed it due to prohibition which was instituted in Oregon in 1915 and repealed in 1933. We're not sure which saloon it was, the Portland Saloon or the San Francisco Saloon but Joe told his children that he won a Saloon in a card game.
After being single for 18 years Joe married again to Mary Adeline "Addie" Taylor of Portland, Oregon on Apr 3, 1915 Addie was 21 and Joe was 52 but Addie was blind and it mattered little to her. They moved to Walport, Oregon where his first child with Addie was born, Alice Edith Morrison was born on April 15, 1916. Joe was working as an Engineer in a mine at the time.
In 1918 Joe and Addie had a 2nd child, Joseph Smith Morrison Jr. he was born in Portland, but this is where Joe's mother-in-law lived and Addie may have gone there to have their child Joe Jr.
On the 1920 census they still lived near Walport at Alsea, Oregon where Joe was working his own mining claim. Later that year they moved to Empire, Oregon where their sons Russell Wesley Morrison and Philip Alfred Morrison were born. In 1926 they bought a house in Charleston, Oregon where Joe and Addie had 3 more children, In 1926 Charles Morrison was born and died at birth, in 1927 Fred Williams Morrison and in 1928 their last child Bertha May Morrison was born.
Joe worked as a fisherman in Charleston, Oregon and owned a fishing boat that he built called the "Rainbow". His son Fred said that they took fish and seafood to the valley and traded it for fruits and vegetables, that they ate good food during the depression years with all the fish, crab & clams they could catch and dig.
In 1938 his wife Mary "Addie" died due to complications of gall bladder surgery, Joe was about 75 at the time and never remarried.
Everyone has said that Joe was a wonderful, jovial and loving Father and Grandfather and he had many friends that he had made throughout his life.
(Obituary)
Funeral services for Joseph Smith Morrison Sr. 80, of Charleston, who died Sunday at Keizer Hospital of a stroke will be held at 2pm Tuesday from the Campbell funeral home, with interment at Sunset cemetery. Rev. Gilbert H. Newland will officiate. Mr. Morrison was born April 1, 1863 in Fairfield, County Ohio and had been a resident of Coos County for more than 20 years.
He is survived by the following children: Alice Edith Armacost, Bertha May Morrison, both of Marshfield, Oreg. Sons, Joseph Smith Morrison Jr., Fred Williams Morrison both of Marshfield, Oreg. Russell Wesley Morrison of Charleston, Oreg. and Philip Alfred Morrison, of North Bend, Oreg. Mr. Morrison had three Grandchildren Louise B., Gerold D., and Joseph S. III. Mr. Morrison was preceded in death by his wife Mary A. Morrison in 1938 and a son Charles Morrison who died at birth in 1926.
Joseph Smith Morrison Sr. was 65 when his last child was born.
At far left almost to the end of the cemetery, go down to bottom of steps, down the hill about 20 steps to Joseph S. Morrison's grave.
A few of Joe's Grandchildren:
Joseph Smith Morrison III - Littrell
Fred Williams Morrison Jr.
Louise Billie Day Armacost Williams
Garold Douglas Day "Gary" Armacost
NOTE:
Recently 6 different Autosomal and Y-DNA tests were done and the results show with 100% certainty that Joseph Smith Morrison was father of Frank Lyman Morrison, daughter Frances Jennie Morrison and a son Charles Lewis Morrison. Records show that he married Emma Harrington on 11 Apr 1883 in Kent County Michigan. Frank Lyman was born in Michigan, and Charles and Frances were born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Joseph Smith Morrison Sr. was born April 1, 1863 in Fairfield County, Ohio. The son of William Theodore Morrison and Mother Martha Ann Alexander-Morrison.
His father was a Civil War Veteran, and an aide to General Ulysses S Grant, injured in the Battle of Shiloh he was given a Honorable Medical Discharge, he was a School Teacher and is buried at the Lake Bethel Cemetery Syracuse, Kosciusko County Indiana. Joe's mother died in 1869 while they were heading West by wagon train, they made it to Lexington, Missouri where she died of Cholera along with Joe's sister and brother and they are buried at the Machpelah Cemetery, in Lexington, Missouri.
Joe was known as Job or Joe when he was younger, his Uncle was named Job Morrison. Joe never went to school as his father William taught him at home but Joe was very well educated and very smart as he became a mining engineer.
In 1870 Joe lived in Noble County, Indiana where they moved when Joe was about 7 years old after his mother died. At the time Joe thought he was born in Noble County, Indiana but later found out from his father that he was actually born in Fairfield County, Ohio where his mother's family lived. When Joe was about 14 he set out on his own. His father William had remarried at the time to Lydia A Sloan-Morrison.
Joe said he traveled East to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and told his children that he nearly starved to death but found a watch on the street and was able to sell it for food.
For several years we knew nothing about Joe's life. But in March of 2014, 4 different Autosomal DNA's and two different 37 marker male line Y-DNA test proved with 100% certainty that Joe was first married Emma Harrington in Michigan in 1883 and had 3 children, Frank Lyman Morrison, Charles Lewis Morrison, and Frances Jennie Morrison. We don't know if they actually divorced or what happened but Emma was listed as a widow 1898-1904 city directory for Grand Rapids, Michigan, even though we know that Joe didn't die until 1944. But we do know that being a divorcee was frowned upon in the 1890's. Frank Lyman Morrison, Joe's oldest son must have known the whereabouts of his father for awhile because he'd told his children that his father was living out West on a Indian Reservation which is true.
When Joe was 21 in about 1884 he went to see his father William Theodore Morrison and said he had many 1/2 siblings. Joe spent one night and left the next day, but Joe must have married Emma Harrington-Morrison before this because he was 21 on April 1, 1884 and married Emma on April 11, 1883.
We're not sure when Joe went to Canada, he was a mining engineer but 2 of his children were born in St.Paul Minnesota and we think he might have gone to Canada at that time. He worked in a mining camp and for the railroad in Canada and had a Canadian patent for a piece of mining equipment he designed.
In about 1893 Joe married Annie Pierre She was full blooded Siletz Indian. Annie and Joe lived on her land granted to her by the tribe. Annie died in 1897 her obituary say's she died of consumption also known as Tuberculosis but Joe told his children that it was during the birth of their first child which the Tuberculosis could have been the cause. Annie is buried at Paul Washington Tribal Cemetery in Siletz, Oregon with the child who also died. Annie had a sister Sarah Pierre and they were educated and nurses in Portland, Oregon. She owned quite a bit of land which Joe inherited but after her death, he left to work in Idaho for a short time and when he came back found someone had moved on the land and Joe just left and never pursued legal action against them.
We know that Joe was a steam shovel operator and he worked for George McCabe a General Contractor in Portland, Oregon.
Joe said he dug most of the rock for the Portland Customs House which was completed in about 1901.
Joe said that a brother came to see him in Portland, Oregon. about 1903, We're not sure which brother it was but most likely his 1/2 brother Marion Nathaniel Morrison, but it also could have been Charles Morrison. Joe's only full blooded brother had died in 1869.
Joe owned a Saloon in San Francisco during the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. After the earthquake all he had left was a cash register and a Victrola phonograph, he took them and headed back up north to Oregon.
In about 1910 Joe owned a saloon in Portland, Oregon at what we believe was 40 N 6th Street it was called "Morrison's Steam Shovel Saloon." We know this address from postcards sent to Joe and newspaper articles written about his saloon. The temperance movement was in full force at this time and many judges frowned on the use of alcohol. We believe Joe sold the Saloon or closed it due to prohibition which was instituted in Oregon in 1915 and repealed in 1933. We're not sure which saloon it was, the Portland Saloon or the San Francisco Saloon but Joe told his children that he won a Saloon in a card game.
After being single for 18 years Joe married again to Mary Adeline "Addie" Taylor of Portland, Oregon on Apr 3, 1915 Addie was 21 and Joe was 52 but Addie was blind and it mattered little to her. They moved to Walport, Oregon where his first child with Addie was born, Alice Edith Morrison was born on April 15, 1916. Joe was working as an Engineer in a mine at the time.
In 1918 Joe and Addie had a 2nd child, Joseph Smith Morrison Jr. he was born in Portland, but this is where Joe's mother-in-law lived and Addie may have gone there to have their child Joe Jr.
On the 1920 census they still lived near Walport at Alsea, Oregon where Joe was working his own mining claim. Later that year they moved to Empire, Oregon where their sons Russell Wesley Morrison and Philip Alfred Morrison were born. In 1926 they bought a house in Charleston, Oregon where Joe and Addie had 3 more children, In 1926 Charles Morrison was born and died at birth, in 1927 Fred Williams Morrison and in 1928 their last child Bertha May Morrison was born.
Joe worked as a fisherman in Charleston, Oregon and owned a fishing boat that he built called the "Rainbow". His son Fred said that they took fish and seafood to the valley and traded it for fruits and vegetables, that they ate good food during the depression years with all the fish, crab & clams they could catch and dig.
In 1938 his wife Mary "Addie" died due to complications of gall bladder surgery, Joe was about 75 at the time and never remarried.
Everyone has said that Joe was a wonderful, jovial and loving Father and Grandfather and he had many friends that he had made throughout his life.
(Obituary)
Funeral services for Joseph Smith Morrison Sr. 80, of Charleston, who died Sunday at Keizer Hospital of a stroke will be held at 2pm Tuesday from the Campbell funeral home, with interment at Sunset cemetery. Rev. Gilbert H. Newland will officiate. Mr. Morrison was born April 1, 1863 in Fairfield, County Ohio and had been a resident of Coos County for more than 20 years.
He is survived by the following children: Alice Edith Armacost, Bertha May Morrison, both of Marshfield, Oreg. Sons, Joseph Smith Morrison Jr., Fred Williams Morrison both of Marshfield, Oreg. Russell Wesley Morrison of Charleston, Oreg. and Philip Alfred Morrison, of North Bend, Oreg. Mr. Morrison had three Grandchildren Louise B., Gerold D., and Joseph S. III. Mr. Morrison was preceded in death by his wife Mary A. Morrison in 1938 and a son Charles Morrison who died at birth in 1926.
Joseph Smith Morrison Sr. was 65 when his last child was born.
At far left almost to the end of the cemetery, go down to bottom of steps, down the hill about 20 steps to Joseph S. Morrison's grave.
A few of Joe's Grandchildren:
Joseph Smith Morrison III - Littrell
Fred Williams Morrison Jr.
Louise Billie Day Armacost Williams
Garold Douglas Day "Gary" Armacost
NOTE:
Recently 6 different Autosomal and Y-DNA tests were done and the results show with 100% certainty that Joseph Smith Morrison was father of Frank Lyman Morrison, daughter Frances Jennie Morrison and a son Charles Lewis Morrison. Records show that he married Emma Harrington on 11 Apr 1883 in Kent County Michigan. Frank Lyman was born in Michigan, and Charles and Frances were born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Joseph Smith Morrison Sr. was born April 1, 1863 in Fairfield County, Ohio. The son of William Theodore Morrison and Mother Martha Ann Alexander-Morrison.
His father was a Civil War Veteran, and an aide to General Ulysses S Grant, injured in the Battle of Shiloh he was given a Honorable Medical Discharge, he was a School Teacher and is buried at the Lake Bethel Cemetery Syracuse, Kosciusko County Indiana. Joe's mother died in 1869 while they were heading West by wagon train, they made it to Lexington, Missouri where she died of Cholera along with Joe's sister and brother and they are buried at the Machpelah Cemetery, in Lexington, Missouri.
Joe was known as Job or Joe when he was younger, his Uncle was named Job Morrison. Joe never went to school as his father William taught him at home but Joe was very well educated and very smart as he became a mining engineer.
In 1870 Joe lived in Noble County, Indiana where they moved when Joe was about 7 years old after his mother died. At the time Joe thought he was born in Noble County, Indiana but later found out from his father that he was actually born in Fairfield County, Ohio where his mother's family lived. When Joe was about 14 he set out on his own. His father William had remarried at the time to Lydia A Sloan-Morrison.
Joe said he traveled East to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and told his children that he nearly starved to death but found a watch on the street and was able to sell it for food.
For several years we knew nothing about Joe's life. But in March of 2014, 4 different Autosomal DNA's and two different 37 marker male line Y-DNA test proved with 100% certainty that Joe was first married Emma Harrington in Michigan in 1883 and had 3 children, Frank Lyman Morrison, Charles Lewis Morrison, and Frances Jennie Morrison. We don't know if they actually divorced or what happened but Emma was listed as a widow 1898-1904 city directory for Grand Rapids, Michigan, even though we know that Joe didn't die until 1944. But we do know that being a divorcee was frowned upon in the 1890's. Frank Lyman Morrison, Joe's oldest son must have known the whereabouts of his father for awhile because he'd told his children that his father was living out West on a Indian Reservation which is true.
When Joe was 21 in about 1884 he went to see his father William Theodore Morrison and said he had many 1/2 siblings. Joe spent one night and left the next day, but Joe must have married Emma Harrington-Morrison before this because he was 21 on April 1, 1884 and married Emma on April 11, 1883.
We're not sure when Joe went to Canada, he was a mining engineer but 2 of his children were born in St.Paul Minnesota and we think he might have gone to Canada at that time. He worked in a mining camp and for the railroad in Canada and had a Canadian patent for a piece of mining equipment he designed.
In about 1893 Joe married Annie Pierre She was full blooded Siletz Indian. Annie and Joe lived on her land granted to her by the tribe. Annie died in 1897 her obituary say's she died of consumption also known as Tuberculosis but Joe told his children that it was during the birth of their first child which the Tuberculosis could have been the cause. Annie is buried at Paul Washington Tribal Cemetery in Siletz, Oregon with the child who also died. Annie had a sister Sarah Pierre and they were educated and nurses in Portland, Oregon. She owned quite a bit of land which Joe inherited but after her death, he left to work in Idaho for a short time and when he came back found someone had moved on the land and Joe just left and never pursued legal action against them.
We know that Joe was a steam shovel operator and he worked for George McCabe a General Contractor in Portland, Oregon.
Joe said he dug most of the rock for the Portland Customs House which was completed in about 1901.
Joe said that a brother came to see him in Portland, Oregon. about 1903, We're not sure which brother it was but most likely his 1/2 brother Marion Nathaniel Morrison, but it also could have been Charles Morrison. Joe's only full blooded brother had died in 1869.
Joe owned a Saloon in San Francisco during the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. After the earthquake all he had left was a cash register and a Victrola phonograph, he took them and headed back up north to Oregon.
In about 1910 Joe owned a saloon in Portland, Oregon at what we believe was 40 N 6th Street it was called "Morrison's Steam Shovel Saloon." We know this address from postcards sent to Joe and newspaper articles written about his saloon. The temperance movement was in full force at this time and many judges frowned on the use of alcohol. We believe Joe sold the Saloon or closed it due to prohibition which was instituted in Oregon in 1915 and repealed in 1933. We're not sure which saloon it was, the Portland Saloon or the San Francisco Saloon but Joe told his children that he won a Saloon in a card game.
After being single for 18 years Joe married again to Mary Adeline "Addie" Taylor of Portland, Oregon on Apr 3, 1915 Addie was 21 and Joe was 52 but Addie was blind and it mattered little to her. They moved to Walport, Oregon where his first child with Addie was born, Alice Edith Morrison was born on April 15, 1916. Joe was working as an Engineer in a mine at the time.
In 1918 Joe and Addie had a 2nd child, Joseph Smith Morrison Jr. he was born in Portland, but this is where Joe's mother-in-law lived and Addie may have gone there to have their child Joe Jr.
On the 1920 census they still lived near Walport at Alsea, Oregon where Joe was working his own mining claim. Later that year they moved to Empire, Oregon where their sons Russell Wesley Morrison and Philip Alfred Morrison were born. In 1926 they bought a house in Charleston, Oregon where Joe and Addie had 3 more children, In 1926 Charles Morrison was born and died at birth, in 1927 Fred Williams Morrison and in 1928 their last child Bertha May Morrison was born.
Joe worked as a fisherman in Charleston, Oregon and owned a fishing boat that he built called the "Rainbow". His son Fred said that they took fish and seafood to the valley and traded it for fruits and vegetables, that they ate good food during the depression years with all the fish, crab & clams they could catch and dig.
In 1938 his wife Mary "Addie" died due to complications of gall bladder surgery, Joe was about 75 at the time and never remarried.
Everyone has said that Joe was a wonderful, jovial and loving Father and Grandfather and he had many friends that he had made throughout his life.
(Obituary)
Funeral services for Joseph Smith Morrison Sr. 80, of Charleston, who died Sunday at Keizer Hospital of a stroke will be held at 2pm Tuesday from the Campbell funeral home, with interment at Sunset cemetery. Rev. Gilbert H. Newland will officiate. Mr. Morrison was born April 1, 1863 in Fairfield, County Ohio and had been a resident of Coos County for more than 20 years.
He is survived by the following children: Alice Edith Armacost, Bertha May Morrison, both of Marshfield, Oreg. Sons, Joseph Smith Morrison Jr., Fred Williams Morrison both of Marshfield, Oreg. Russell Wesley Morrison of Charleston, Oreg. and Philip Alfred Morrison, of North Bend, Oreg. Mr. Morrison had three Grandchildren Louise B., Gerold D., and Joseph S. III. Mr. Morrison was preceded in death by his wife Mary A. Morrison in 1938 and a son Charles Morrison who died at birth in 1926.
Joseph Smith Morrison Sr. was 65 when his last child was born.
At far left almost to the end of the cemetery, go down to bottom of steps, down the hill about 20 steps to Joseph S. Morrison's grave.
A few of Joe's Grandchildren:
Joseph Smith Morrison III - Littrell
Fred Williams Morrison Jr.
Louise Billie Day Armacost Williams
Garold Douglas Day "Gary" Armacost
NOTE:
Recently 6 different Autosomal and Y-DNA tests were done and the results show with 100% certainty that Joseph Smith Morrison was father of Frank Lyman Morrison, daughter Frances Jennie Morrison and a son Charles Lewis Morrison. Records show that he married Emma Harrington on 11 Apr 1883 in Kent County Michigan. Frank Lyman was born in Michigan, and Charles and Frances were born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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"Father"
Joseph Smith Morrison
1863-1944
Family Members
Siblings
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Matilda A Morrison Scott
1861–1903
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Sarah E "Smiley" Morrison
1864–1869
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John William Harrison Morrison
1867–1869
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Sarah E. Morrison
1898–1902
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John W.H. Morrison
1900–1902
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Charles W Morrison
1871 – unknown
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Mary Ellen Morrison Girten
1873–1922
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Marion Nathaniel Morrison
1874–1937
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Ida May Morrison Brumbaugh
1876–1906
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Solomon S Morrison
1877–1881
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William I "Willie" Morrison
1878–1879
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Arthur G "Artie" Morrison
1879–1895
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James A Morrison
1880–1897
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Infant Female Morrison
1882–1882
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Infant Morrison
1884–1884
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Infant Morrison
1886–1886
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Elizabeth Alice Morrison Bricker
1887–1962
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Benjamin Morrison
1894–1912
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Frank Lyman Morrison
1883–1959
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Frances Jeannie Morrison Walton
1887–1989
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Charles L. Morrison
1891–1958
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Alice Edith Morrison Armacost
1916–1982
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Joseph Smith "Joe" Morrison Jr
1918–1996
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Russell Wesley "Russ" Morrison
1921–1973
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Philip Alfred "Phil" Morrison
1923–1994
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Charles Morrison
1926–1926
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Fred Williams "Freddy" Morrison Sr
1927–2014
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Bertha May Morrison Gallino
1928–1970
