Daughter of Jonathan Morgan and Submission Camfield.
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First wife of Lemuel C. Wrisley (who moved to Clinton Co., NY).
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"At the age of twenty-one, [Mary] married a respectable and wealthy traveling peddler named Wrisley, whose home was in Massachusetts. They went to his father's home on their wedding tour, and remained about six weeks, when they returned to her father's house in Poultney. They returned quietly; he left her with her parents, and resumed his occupation selling dry goods. . . He came often to see her at her parents. She did not appear in public; she was insane. Her parents were proud spirited and said little about it. She had a well furnished room by herself and her mother waited on her with the tenderest care. In December 1838 or 1839 it was my lot to go from Middletown to Poultney and take my oldest sister in a sleigh. She was about the same age as Mary then, and they had been intimate friends. Going on the morning of a cold day, we stopped at Mr. Morgan's to warm; they seemed to have a fire in another room, away from the family, but no mention was made of Mary, nor did we know that she had returned from her wedding tour. At Dr. Porter's, in the east village we learned that she...had returned to her old home, and that she was acting strangely; she was being guarded and watched closely lest she should take her own life.

"On our way home to Middletown we stopped again at Mr. Morgan's to warm, for it was a most bitter cold day. It was about seven o'clock in the evening and we remained half an hour . . . While sitting to warm we noticed that the little boy, Isaac, entered a north room from the room in which we were all sitting. A bright light as of a candle was burning in that room when we came in at the gate. As the boy opened the door into that north room we noticed that the light had been blown out, and the fire which was in an old-fashioned fireplace had been partly extinguished and covered with ashes. No mention of Mary had as yet been made by anyone. The little boy came out of the room and pretty soon Jane, a fifteen year old girl entered the room. She remained some minutes, when we heard her speaking to someone in a low voice. A minute or two of silence followed. We were preparing to leave, when a wild cry arose, followed by the shrieks of Jane. 'Oh! Mother! Mary's hung herself! Mary's hung herself!' Mrs. Morgan sprang for the room followed by all of us. In one corner with her knees resting on the pillows of a bed, Mary was hanging by the neck. She had hung herself by a silk handkerchief supported by two nails near together . . . Mr. Morgan seemed paralyzed and helpless; he could not lift a hand to his head, so much was he shocked by this occurrence. But Mrs. Morgan sprang like a cat upon the bed and released Mary from her situation. Ever effort possible for an hour was made to resuscitate her, but life had fled; the boy was in the room fifteen minutes before, and at that time, she was lying on the bed apparently asleep . . . Mr. Wrisley was sent for but it took three or four days to find him. The shock almost killed the husband, and for weeks and months afterwards it was a sorry home at Mr. Morgan's. It was my lot to break the news to Elmer's family and summon them to the sad home . . He wept like a child and so did his wife at the news of Mary's suicide."
[Source: Recollections of Orin Linden Ray retrieved from Hance, Dawn D. & Joann H. Nichols: Historical Sketches Published in the Poultney Journal, 1884-1889; privately published, Brattleboro, VT, 2004, p. 78]
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