This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Morton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/1AB.2ACI/3757 Message Board Post: I’ve been researching the Greenup County Morton’s for several years and recently came across an obituary which allowed me to determine how the three early Mortons (Josiah, John and Jonathan) living in the county 1800-1820 were related. I hope others may find it of use. This obituary for John Morton appeared in the May 17, 1879 edition of the Portsmouth Times: “Death of a Kentucky Pioneer John Morton, Sr., died at his residence in Springville, Ky., May 12th, 45 minutes past eleven o’clock P. M. Deceased was born at Boone Station in the year 1788. About the year 1803, his father, Jonathan Morton, removed from Clark County to Greenup County and settled his family on a tract of land six miles below the county seat, where he remained until his death which occurred in the year 1816. John Morton, the subject of this notice, enlisted in the war of 1812 and was among the disgusted troops who were compelled to lay down their arms when Hull so disgracefully surrendered to the British. For some years he followed the river as a keel boatsman, piloting such boats which were pushed by the means of poles as well as propelled by oars from New Orleans to Pittsburg. He was married in 1817 to Miss Mary Day, whose family then resided in the French Grant, went to housekeeping in Kentucky. Lived in Greenup, where for several years he was proprietor of the Timberlake House. Afterward, he removed to his farm six miles below Greenup. In 1840, finding it impossible to recover from embaressments occasioned by being obliged to pay the debts of a man named Weaver, for whom he had become security, he sold his farm and moved to Portsmouth, where he lived a few years, and then went to Springville, where he remained until his death. Before old age had unsettled his faculties, he was a genial, hospitable man, generous to a fault, scrupulously honest and upright in all his dealings. In politics he was an old line whig until the breaking out of the rebellion and the destruction of the party when he became a Democrat to which party he was an adherent until the time of his death. He leaves a wife now in her eightieth year, and four children, Mr. Willis Q.! Morton, Mrs. Amanda White, Mrs. R. Boughner and John D. Morton, all now residing in Springville. The funeral discourse was preached by Dr. E. P. Pratt and the remains brought to Green Lawn Cemetery for internment.” The Jonathan Morton mentioned in the second sentence of the obituary married Letitia McCargo in Prince Edward County, Virginia in 1784 and moved to Clark County some time before John’s birth in 1788. Jonathan was the son of Richard Morton and Judith Quinn. Richard had a brother, Captain John Morton who was the father of Josiah Morton who moved to Greenup County with his father-in-law Moses Fuqua around 1799. Bob Dunlap