Larry: Just wanted you to know I think your website is wonderful!! Diane MORPHEW put me up to it when I was asking her questions about how to research in UK for John MORPHEW b 1679 Ipswich Suffolk England m Mary WHITE (Don't have anything on her!!) who's child was: Joseph MORPHEW b 1718 Suffolk m Mary Burk (BURKE).
Anyway I descend
from them and more currently from James Blaine Morphew, SR.>Ganer
Prince>Aaron>Silas>Joseph>John.
James Blaine Morphew b 03 May 1893
Comanche Co., TX d 25 Jan 1951 Long Beach, CA, married in TX (1st)
Margaret Teague b TX. Issue:
Elna b 1915 TX
Kathleen b 1918 TX
After divorce James m 15 Jun 1933 in Santa Ana, CA (2nd) Leona Margaret
Pederson b 1909 Sauk Co., WI. Issue:
Gaynor Ann b 15 Mar 1935
James Blaine Jr. b 18 Dec 1938 Long Beach, CA. d 13 Apr 1954 Wilmington,
CA
Linda Louise Morphew dob 24 March 1941 in Long Beach, CA. (ME!!) m William B. Dottery 1960
in Las Vegas, NV
May God Bless you for having this website for all MORPHEW researcher's to
'check in.' I think you are doing a wonderful job. Melissa Morphew
mentioned me on her e-mail to you. Yes, you certainly have my permission
to include this on your website. Please allow me to list my e-mail in
the event anyone would like to 'get in touch.'
Linda Dottery MORPHEW from Watkinsville, GA e-mail: lindot@home.com
This post (e-mail) received 5-31-00
Should have mentioned earlier that my immediate family is in book 2 on page 66A (301a). Arlie wasn't aware (nor was I!) of the proper spelling of my grandfather: Gainer... Gaynor....it's really Ganer Prince Morphew. I found the correct spelling on his military pension record after he fought in the Civil War.
His records were listed as Ganer and also Gainer. When he wanted to collect his pension he had to prove that he was one and the same man who served in the Civil War. He had to go through extensive paperwork on which he had to list all of his children, dates of birth, who they married etc. It was a wonderful, genealogical find for his descendants!
It listed his wife Catherine Cantrell; when her death date occured; and his 2nd wife's name was Peg Teague. I wasn't aware that he married again late in life!
I guess what I'm trying to say is check out the military records if you even think there could have been a possibility of your family member serving in any war. Sometimes you will have delightful results!
During the Civil War, while on furlough at home 'harvesting the crops', two of Ganer's brothers, Elihu and Jeremiah and a neighbor with the last name of Lentze, were killed by bushwackers and buried in the a common grave by the 'womenfolk.'
I have researched Elihu and Jeremiah's military records and they are listed as "deserted."
I would like to put the record straight as far as the US Gov't is concerned but really don't know how to even begin.
Linda MORPHEW Dottery
This brings up a very good point which someone out there may be able to help with. How does one "set the record straight" with the US Government regarding an ancestor's military record? I'm with Linda, I wouldn't know how to even begin. Also, it may be of interest to some of you Civil War Buffs that my brother Clark Morphew (Clark writes for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch and is nationally syndicated) recently wrote and published a civil war book based upon the diarys of Eli Merrit Hutchinson who fought for the Union army during the fray in the 27th Iowa Infantry (and others). Hutchinson isn't a Morphew but he is Clark's and my great-grandfather on the other side of our lineage. This book is an exciting read and covers some of the 'forgotten battles of Iowa soldiers'. Entitled "Never Repulsed, Never Defeated", you can order the book through me by sending $20.00 plus $5.00 s/h. Send to Larry Morphew, POBox 334, Estherville, Iowa 51334 (5-31-00 ed.)