Brief Life History of William Edwin
When William Edwin Morris was born on 18 August 1857, in Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States, his father, Hyrum Bowles Morris , Sr., was 35 and his mother, Eleanor Crawford Roberts, was 26. He died on 2 June 1860, in Genoa, Nance, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 2, and was buried in Genoa, Nance, Nebraska, United States.
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- William Edwin Morris, "Find a Grave Index"
- William Edwin Morris, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
- Legacy NFS Source: William Edwin Morris -
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1858 · A House Divided
Abraham Lincoln's goal was to be different than the previous Senators of Illinois and voice his opinion in how he saw the State and the United States start to drift apart in the different ideology on what was right and what was wrong. Even though it would become an unsuccessful campaign strategy to win the senate seat, to this day it is one of the most famous speeches of US politics.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from Maurice, an Old French personal name introduced to Britain by the Normans. It is derived from Latin Mauritius, a derivative of Maurus (see Moore ). This was the name of several early Christian saints. In some cases it may be a nickname of the same derivation for someone with a swarthy complexion.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muirghis, a variant of Ó Muirgheasa (see Morrissey ).
Welsh: Anglicized form of the personal name Meurig (from Latin Mauritius), which was gradually superseded in Wales by Morus, Morys, a derivative of the Anglo-Norman French form of the name (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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William Edwin Moris, born 18 August 1857 in Quincy, Adams, Illinois; died 2 June 1860 in Nebraska on the Mormon Trail. Remembered at the Pioneer Children’s Memorial; Stone 9 William Moris was the s …
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