Clarissa H Morris1
#11979, (1 March 1803 - )
| | Clarissa Morris-Hensley Obituary: Clarissa Hensley was born 1 Mar 1803 in Gallatin County, Kentucky. She was the oldest of 12 children, only of whom is living – Mrs. Emily Clifton of Rochester, Minn. She was converted and united with the Baptist Church at age 17, two years later she was united in marriage to James C. Hensley. The same year 1822 her parents, General John H. Morris and Delia Morris migrated to Illinois and settled in Lawrence County about five miles south of Lawrenceville, where six years later, she and her husband and family followed and joined the new settlement. She and her husband united with the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1831, of which she remained a member over 55 years. She lived a constant Christian Life until her day. Left a widow at age 37 with six children to feed, cloth and educate in a new and comparatively undeveloped country, she strove hard with the difficulties of such a task never losing heart and always believing God would help her bear her burdens. She was not disappointed, always in her later years talked much of the Goodness of God to her in those years of struggle and hardship, always spoke with Motherly pride of her children, and affectionately clung to them until the last. They now arise and call her blessed, she has for over 8 years been an invalid most of the time in great pain all of which time she has never mummered. All who knew her during those years of pain and suffering speak of her unclouded Christian experience. Thus, she lived and on Tuesday morning January 17, 1888 at 8:30 A.M., she died in peace. The funeral took place Thursday January 19th at 2:00 P.M. from the residence of her son Moses Hensley of Olney, Illinois. The services wee conducted by Rev. Pierce and Elder Morrel. (Transcribed by Joanne Crawford Ikeda). Source: Hensley Book p. 38.2 |
| | Her married name was Hensley.3 |
| Birth* | 1 March 1803 | She was born on 1 March 1803 at Gallatin Co., KentuckyG.1 |
| Marriage* | 20 March 1822 | She married James Hensley on 20 March 1822 at Jeffersonville, Clark Co., IndianaG.3,4 |
| 1830 | She and James Hensley appeared on the census of 1830 at Lawrence Co., IllinoisG.5 |
| 25 October 1850 | She appeared on the census of 25 October 1850 at Lawrence Co., IllinoisG.6 |
| 17 August 1860 | She appeared on the census of 17 August 1860 in the household of Delia Hensley and Joseph C Hiskey at Lawrenceville, Lawrence Co., IllinoisG, as Clarissa Hensley, age 57, b. KY.7 |
| 4 June 1880 | She appeared on the census of 4 June 1880 in the household of Moses Hensley and Caroline Turner, mother, age 77, b. KY, father b. VA, mother b. NJ.8 |
Citations
- [S880] Dr. Cornelius N. Hoagland, History and Genealogy of the Hoagland Family in America (New York: privately published, 1891), images online Ancestry.com, p. 107. Hereinafter cited as Hoagland Family.
- [S1163] My Big Family Family Tree, JoanneIkeda, owner, online Ancestry.com.
- [S198] Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 [database], Jordan Dodd, Liahona Research and Works Progress Administration, compilers, online Ancestry.com, Hensley, James married Morris, Clarissy on 20 Mar 1822 in Clark County, IN.
- [S1605] Indiana Select Marriages Index 1748-1993, online Ancestry.com, Clarissy Morris and James Hensley, marr. Jeffersonville, Clark Co. IN, 20 Mar 1822; citing FHL Film 1415852, ref. Vol. B, p. 26.
- [S116] 1830 U.S. Federal Census. Jas. C (30-39); F (20-29) [Clarissa]; M (20-29); m (5-9); m (<5); f (5-9).
- [S20] 1850 U.S. Federal Census. Clarissa (47), b. KY.
- [S19] 1860 U.S. Federal Census. Jos B (40), carpenter, b. PA; Delia (35), b. KY.
- [S17] 1880 U.S. Federal Census. Moses (45), b. and parents b. KY, R.R. carpenter; Caroline (40), b. and mother b. IL, father b. TN, keeping house.
- [S19] 1860 U.S. Federal Census.
- [S20] 1850 U.S. Federal Census.