Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Thomas Burnside MORRIS
THOMAS BURNSIDE MORRIS, eldest son of William Ellis and Mary Nancy (Burnside) Morris, born at Wellsborough, Pennsylvania, May 13, 1842, followed the profession of his father and was chief engineer, having in charge erection of 250 miles of the Union Pacific Railroad over the Rocky Mountains, and also of several of the more important sections of the Northern Pacific Railroad. In 1874 he gave up regular practice of his profession and engaged in coal business in Washington Territory, now the State of Washington. Years later he removed to San Francisco, California, and became president of the Renton Coal Company, which position he filled at the time of his death, November 8, 1885, having been a resident of California for nine years, making his home at San Rafael, Oakland, where he was ruling elder of the Presbyterian church, and superintendent of the Sabbath school. He married, October 3, 1871, Sarah Arndt Sletor.
Issue of Thomas B. and Sarah Arndt (Sletor) Morris -
Mary Burnside Morris, b Nov 8, 1872, in June 14, 1899, Russell Duane,
ROLAND SLETOR MORRIS, b March ii, 1874, in Augusta Twigs Shippen West, of
whom presently,
Anna Lloyd Morris, b Aug 16, 1876, in April 14, 1904, Benjamin Coates
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