Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2013, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and used with permission of Fred Smoot ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. ========================================================================== The Goodspeed Publishing Company, History of Tennessee, 1887 JONATHAN M. MORTON, county trustee and farmer, was born in this county May 6, 1837, and is the son of STEPHEN G. and MARY (MORRELL) MORTON, the former born in North Carolina on July 5, 1811, who in turn was the son of GEORGE, a North Carolinian, who came to Tennessee when STEPHEN was a child. The father was a farmer, and came to this county and settled on the Houston River. He began with no capital, but at the time of his death, May 25, 1880, he was considered wealthy. The mother, born in this county in 1815, was the daughter of NATHAN MORRELL, and died in 1877. Our subject, the eldest of five children, received a fair education, and followed farming until October 17, 1862, when he, joined Company E, Sixty-third Tennessee (Confederate) Infantry, and was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga. He served throughout the war, and then resumed farming. Besides a fine estate of 256 acres, he owns other tracts of 280 and 110 acres, respectively. He became a magistrate in 1870, and served for six years, and in 1884 was elected county trustee, and has served ever since. In 1860 he married SARAH A., the daughter of HENRY and LOUISA BULLOCK; she was born in this county February 12, 1844. Of their eleven children, one is deceased. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church. ===========================================================================