Joseph Morford    

JOSEPH MORFORD, farmer, post-office Greenville, was born in Pymatuning Township, Mercer Co., Penn., December 30, 1819. His father, Richard Morford, came to Mercer County with his parents, John and Mary Ann (Cox) Morford, about 1803-04, who settled in Hickory Township, where both died. John Morford was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. After coming to this county Richard was married to Elizabeth Morford, a sister of Joseph Morford, then living in the south part of West Salem Township, of which union five sons and one daughter grew to maturity: James, deceased; John, William, deceased; Ann, deceased wife of Jeffrey Bentley, of Hickory Township; Joseph and Isaac. Mrs. Morford died July 26, 1826, and her husband married Mrs. Mary Brown, nee McLaughlin, widow of Andrew Brown, and removed to West Salem Township. She bore him four children: Emeline, deceased; Eliza, deceased; Andrew and Judson. She died July 20, 1873, and her husband September 1, 1874, both in the faith of the Baptist Church. Politically Richard Morford was first a Whig and afterward a Republican. Our subject was reared in West Salem Township, and has always followed farming. He was married August 14, to Elizabeth, daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth (Atchison) Hunter, and granddaughter of Alexander Hunter, a pioneer surveyor, who settled in West Salem Township in the spring of 1812. Mrs. Morford is a native of this township, and has reared three children: Maggie J., Wellington and Orlando. Mr. Morford and wife are members of the Baptist Church, and politically he is a Republican.

History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania : its past and present : including its aboriginal history, its early settlement and development, a description of its historic and interesting localities, sketches of its boroughs, townships and villages, neighborhood and family histories, portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc. : also, a condensed history of Pennsylvania. Chicago, Ill.: Brown, Runk & Co., 1888, page 1193.  Read this book on line - Free Trial  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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