When Mary Polly Morgan was born on 20 November 1828, in Rhea, Tennessee, United States, her father, Lewis Morgan, was 44 and her mother, Elizabeth Betsy Gothard, was 26. She married George Martin Morgan on 18 April 1849, in Rhea, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870 and Civil District 8, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States in 1880. She died in 1892, in Rhea, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Rhea, Tennessee, United States.
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Welsh (especially Glamorgan): from the medieval Welsh personal name Morgan, Morgant (Old Welsh Morcant, of uncertain etymology).
Irish: importation of the Welsh surname (see 1 above), to which has been assimilated more than one Gaelic surname, notably Ó Muireagáin (see Merrigan ).
Scottish: probably from a Gaelic personal name cognate with Welsh Morcant.
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