Samuel Coleman Morriss - Greybeard's Ghosts

Commentary

"Samuel Coleman Morriss of Hanover County may have been the son of Samuel Morris of Hanover County, an early nonconformist who was one of the founders of the Presbyterian Church in Virginia." ... "Samuel Morris, whose date of death is given as "about 1770" in the National Cyclopedia of American Biography (New York, 1907, V, 516) was present as an elder at the meetings of the Presbytery of Hanover on December 3, 1755, March 18, 1756, and January 25, 1758."

Family

Claim	Detail	Evidence
Spouse	Susannah Wade (e1753-)
Child +	Nancy Morriss (e1769-~1867) [S2955]	memoir

Attributes

Claim	Detail	Evidence
Gender	Male
Name	Samuel Coleman Morriss [S2813] [S2955]	primary

Timeline

Claim	Date	Detail	Age	Evidence
Birth	est 1752 (1733-1757)

Sources

Index	Title
[S2813]	"Virginia Chancery Records" (https://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=089-1802-002).
[S2955]	"Alabama, U.S., Surname Files Expanded, 1702–1981", Ancestry.com.