Morrows of North Carolina, Illinois, Texas,
New Mexico, California and Arizona

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As is typical of just about any family tree, mine has roots in a number of different ethnic backgrounds: Irish, Scottish, Dutch, Spanish, American Indian, etc., etc.. Until recently, the Morrow branch of the family that immigrated to Arizona in the late 1890s could trace its origins back only as far as a Thomas Henry Morrow, who served as a rifleman and artilleryman in the Confederate Army, then later became a Baptist Preacher. This unlikely individual was my great-great-grandfather.

Since originally posting the genealogy I pasted together from from my father's interviews with his aunts and uncles, I have gotten several updates and corrections in email messages from folks who came across this site. Among these are:

• Data from a second cousin of my father's named Zella Flohr Morrow; Zella filled in some previously leafless patches on "Sam Morrow's" (brother of great-grandfather "William King") branch of the tree.
     
• Corrected information about the parents and siblings of Thomas H. Morrow from a correspondent I know only as "CindyHMB" from Dallas: previously, based on erroneous leads from an earlier correspondent who called herself "Lady Mustang," I had listed Thomas's father as the colorfully-named "Lewis 'Lord Byron' Morrow"; Cindy had done some more careful work with the 1850 & 1860 census data and clued me in to his true parents, namely, Joseph S. Morrow and Nancy Finley.
     
• A marvelously-annotated version of a typewritten letter from my great-uncle John Morrow.  This was done by Texas über-researcher Theresa Hodge, who further expanded on census data from the 1800s with her own extensive historical excavations.
     
• Some additional names and specific dates that hail from the excellent Family Search Internet Genealogy Service maintained by the Mormon Church.
     
• Some real "heavy lifting" by Cousin Francine (niece of Zella Flohr Morrow), whose "Morrows Nut House" family-tree page on Ancestry.com is a true wonder of Morrow genealogical detail and research.

I do plan to continue adding to this page when I feel plucky enough to dive into the sea of genealogical data available online; I especially want to flesh out the non-patrilineal roots, such as the Gutierrez family of Nacozari, Mexico.

Please feel free to contact me with any additional names, dates, places you may have uncovered.  As I mention above, I'm deeply indebted to those who have already taken the time to write me.

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