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- The
Norman Shepard Morton Family
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Morton School name was derived from the family of Norman Shepard
Morton.
- Norman
S. Morton, was born in the town of Amhurst, Massachusetts on
- August
12, 1808 to
John and Rebecca (Moody) Morton. Norman's mother was
- an
educated and religious woman who taught Norman how to read
his way
- through
the Bible when he was eight. When he was nine, Norman and his
family
- left
Amhurst and moved to Gorham, New York (Ontario County). At 17
Norman
- left
New York for Ohio. On December 2, 1830 he registered land with
the
- land
grant office in Wooster, Ohio arriving in the New London area
out side
- of
Shelby, Ohio on New Year's day 1830. On June 19, 1839 Norman
sold the
- original
land grant property to Jacob Clark and purchased the land
- where
the Morton School now stands.
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- After
arriving in the Shelby, Norman married Elizabeth Ann Gamble,
a child of
- Judge
Hugh Gamble's (born 1789 and died 1880) second marriage (to Mary
Unknown).
- This
marriage which took place sometime prior to 1815 and brought
forth two known children:
- Elizabeth
Ann and Hugh Gamble II. Mary died prior to 1823 and Hugh in 1823
married a third
- time
to Mary Disbro and they had a family of seven children: Delia,
Lucy, Sarah Amanda,
- John
Henry, Mary, Adelaide, and Katherine.
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- Norman
and Elizabeth Ann Gamble Morton were to have a family of six:
- Linus
Eugene, John H., Norman, Salma, Caroline, Moses Lewis and William
B.
- Elizabeth
Ann died September 6th 1841. On November 22nd, 1841
- Norman
married his second wife, Ann Elizabeth Duling. To this second
- marriage
were born 2 sons and 6 daughters: Orrilla "Rillie",
Linus Eugene,
- Louisa,
Matilda Angeline, Sarah Jane "Jennie", Harriet, and
Charles.
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was on the 16th day of November 1883 (according to documents
on file
- in
the Tax Department of Richland County, Mansfield, Ohio) that
Norman and
- Ann
Elizabeth Morton leased the land where the present day school
is located
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the Board of Education, Sharon Township, Richland County, Ohio.
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School Board at that time was comprised of Samuel F. Ekis, William
H.
- Smith,
Eugene Cattey, E.D. Beckingham, Jacob Molder and John Wirtz.
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- Norman
Morton died January 30, 1891. He was described by his friends,
- neighbors
and fellow citizens as honest, upright and kind. People said
to have
- found
him obliging and the kind of father who taught his children the
same
- pioneer
morals that had been instilled in him by his own parents. Norman
- left
39 grandchildren and 20 great Grand Children the decedents of
which
- still
populate the surrounding area and counties.
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- The
above Norman S. Morton Family history appears on the Shelby Genealogy
- Website
https://www.shelbyohiohistory.com and was supplied
by:
- Mr.
Kim Butler Histed -
- kbhisted@yahoo.com
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- If you have further
questions on the Norman Shephard Morton Family, or if you would
- like to add to
the page, please email us.
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