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MORROW ANCESTRY


Irish Morrow Crest


Morrow history

On the Lancaster-Charlotte Highway is the above marker. And a little farther north on the Lancaster Hwy is the New Six Mile Cemetery off to the right on 6 Mile Rd and Waxhaw Presbyterian Cemetery south of the New Six Mile Cemetery farther off the Lancaster Hwy. Both are great places to visit. 2008 I made the trip to Union, North Carolina to another cemetery where Morrow kin are buried

MORROW HISTORY FACTS

As compiled by Janelle Morrow Walker Warden, 2006

The Morrow Clan came from Northern Ireland to Pennsylvania, Somerset County, Maryland and Norfolk, Virginia stopping off in Prince Edward Co., Virginia as well as Guilford County, North Carolina and Buffalo Creek ; (1780-1790 Lancaster was a part of Mecklenburg, NC being in the panhandle of what is now South Carolina). It is uncertain as to how many and who of the MORROWS went West to North Carolina; however, they did seem to stay in groups of people who migrated from Ireland and Scots-Irish to America. Some may have been more adventurous and decided to strike out on their own to other parts. Morrow DNA show that James McKnight Morrow and David Morrow Sr. are related but we were missing a generation of kin ; both of these families made their move south to Mecklenburg-Lancaster-Waxhaw. James Morrow born 1765 of David & Martha Brashear Morrow was not well documented and was somewhat of a mystery in our researching. Our James McKnight Morrow 1765-1829 was certainly following David & Martha Morrow and family all around Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Library , Charlotte, NC has a Genealogy Department with the Record and History of descendants of James McKnight Morrow & Allen Watson Morrow, c1968 by Azalee Morrow Lentz. Also found in the Lancaster County Public Library in Lancaster, SC was additions to the Morrows by Louise Pettus along with information posted by Worth S. Ray who has numerous materials about the Morrows. [Worth Ray has some good material in his book "Tennessee Cousins" but you do have to figure out which Morrow is the correct one. With the help of these researchers and their publications, I have formed my own theory to my MORROWS while living in the Carolinas before making their way to East Tennessee

As told by my family: the Morrows were originally from Northern Ireland as early as 1700. They made their way to the Eastern Shores of Maryland and Prince Edward County and Lunenburg, Virginia. Some emigrated to Guilford County, North Carolina. It is in Guilford County on Buffaloe Creek where David Morrow established a home with Martha Brashear Morrow. DNA testing shows that David Morrow is the son of James Morrow born 1715 Colerain twsp., Pennsylvania and died 1775 Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania and married to Ann (possibly GLENN). My Tennessee Morrows had said David and Martha were the parents of James McKnight Morrow. Our James McKnight Morrow and Susannah Watson got their license to wed December 31, 1785 in Prince Edward Co., Virginia and wed January 1, 1786 (some records say they married in Surry Co., NC but I believe this is a wrong record or the county properties changed) and by Fall of 1786 a movement was made to Lancaster County, South Carolina on the Six Mile Creek or "Bel Aire" as the community was called. In 1790 in Mecklenburg County, the Morrows, Maxwells and McKnights were living in districts #1 and #7 ; that is, Steel Creek and Beatties Ford Section. That area of Mecklenburg and Lancaster were much considered to be North Carolina


James McKnight Morrow was in Indian Land, Lancaster, SC by October 1786 and had settled there when their first child Sarah was born ; he helped to organize the Old Six Mile Creek Church, an old log church on the Henry Harris Rd. just off the Lancaster-Charlotte Highway. The old church is no longer there, but the Six-mile Cemetery has been restored and some of the grave stones have been re-erected; some have stood through the years. There may be a hundred graves there; many are unmarked. James M. Morrow and wife Susannah Watson Morrow and also some of the children are buried there. It was noted that James M. Morrow and wife received a land grant of six hundred and fifty acres. The old cemetery was called the Morrow Cemetery years ago. Today, the property around the land and the cemetery is well kept. As the present owner of the land told Janelle, the road was once called the Old Charlotte Highway and people would camp on Six Mile Creek


  • 1. DAVID MORROW the first son of James McKnight and Susannah Watson Morrow is my brick wall. David was born January 4, 1788 most likely in Indian Land, Lancaster Co., South Carolina. I believe I found David with a wife, two daughters and a son David Morrow Jr. living in Mecklenburg, North Carolina. If I am on the right track David Sr. may have gone to Missouri with a daughter in 1850. His wife probably died before 1850.
    [Another interesting David Morrow died before November 19, 1832 in Rutherford Co., Tennessee. Silas Tucker was appointed guardian for William Morrow, Sally Morrow, John Robert Morrow, Nancy Morrow and Silas Morrow, minor heirs of David Morrow. Silas Morrow was later in Missouri. Does anyone know who this family descends from?]