- Title
- Morehead family of North Carolina and Virginia
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- Date
- 1600 - 1915
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- Creator
- ["Morehead, John Motley, 1870-1965."]
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- Place
- ["Virginia, United States","North Carolina, United States"]
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Morehead family of North Carolina and Virginia
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THE MOREHEADS OF NORTH CAROLINA
(8) Letilia Johnston, who went to England and married Captain
L. G. Firth, after she knew he was wounded by the loss of a leg at
the front in France.
Marie Louise Morchead, born June 2, 1830, and deceased in 1877,
was married to Rufus Lenoir Patterson. Their children are:
Carrie (Mrs. Albert Coble), Jesse Lindsay (who married Lucy Pat¬
terson), Lellie Walker (Mrs. Frank Fries), and Louise. After Mrs.
Patterson’s death, Mr. Patterson married a second time and had
six sons, one of whom, Rufus Lenoir Patterson, Jr., married Miss
Madge Morehead. This latter family is mentioned in the sketch
of Eugene Lindsay Morehead.
John Lindsay Morehead (I) (January 15, 1 833-No vember 31,
1901), the eldest son of Governor John Motley Morehead, was born
at “Blandwood,” Greensboro, North Carolina. After attending
preparatory schools, he entered the University of North Carolina
at the age of sixteen and led his class during his whole course,
winning the valedictory oration when he graduated. Two years
later he married Miss Sarah Smith Phifer of Charlotte, and for
several years made his home on his wife’s plantation in Cabarrus
County, after which lie spent his remaining years in Charlotte,
except that late in life he also had a residence in Washington.
By his first marriage lie had five children: 'Annie S. Phifer, who
died quite young; ''Maggie Smith, who married Simmons Baker
Jones; ’Louie Morehead, who married John G. Bryce; and fJohn
Motley Morehead of Charlotte. Colonel Morehead served four
years of the Civil War on the stall of Governor Vance, but at its
close he entered upon a business life in which he became promi¬
nently identified with large affairs in which he was essentially a
financier. He was a man of sound judgment, exact justice, robust,
strong willed and purposeful, as well as a respected patriot. Hos¬
pitable, kindly and considerate, he was also deeply interested in
religious life and was a member of the First Presbyterian Church.
In 1870 his second marriage occurred. His wife, Louise d’An ti¬
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