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MORROW, JAMES was born in Pendleton county, South Carolina, in 1800. John Morrow, his father, was married to Jane Garvin about 1799. James Morrow is the oldest child of a family of eight, four brothers and three sisters, one sister and three brothers are living. He was married in 1831 to Elizabeth White, by whom he had seven children, three boys and four girls; and his second wife, Sarah Ann Hobbs, in 1851, by whom he has had four children, two boys and two girls. Both his wives have been kind and affectionate mothers. From his native state, when a lad, he went with his parents to Kentucky, then to Ohio, then to eastern Indiana, then to Wabash river. On this journey, but when thirteen, to the Wabash, the travelers were protected by soldiers from the troublesome Indians. His early days were spent on the frontier. His father, for years, used to keep loaded guns in his house to fight the Indians with. He knows by actual experience what hardships our early settlers endured. He has ground corn in a coffee-mill to get meal to make corn cakes. He came to Fort Clark, now Peoria, in 1831, and then went to Prince's Grove, now Princeville, the same year. The next year he went to Spoon river, but the Indians, during the Black Hawk war, molested the settler's there, and he re-returned to Prince's Grove. He is now living on section 19, in Princeville township. He has always been a farmer, and has never rode on the cars nor seen a steam engine. To do right has been his rule of life. In his decline of life we wish him much joy, and hope the friends of our oldest settlers will read these lines with tender feelings toward the memory of James Morrow, one of our oldest settlers.

Atlas Map of Peoria County, Illinois, 1873 page 62, submitted by Janine Crandell.
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Birth	6 Jun 1800	Pendleton, Pendleton, South Carolina, United States
Marriage	1831	Elizabeth A White
Marriage	1851	Sarah Ann Hobbs
Death	12 Feb 1878	Daytonville, Washington, Iowa, United States
Burial		Wassonville Cemetery, Daytonville, Washington, Iowa, United States

Spouse	Elizabeth A White (1808 - 1848)
Child	John Elliott Morrow (1831 - 1903)

Spouse

Sarah Ann Hobbs ( - )

Father	John Morrow ( - )
Mother	Jane Garvin ( - )