Biographical Sketch (1982):659, p. 234. "David married in 1815 to Harriet C. Reynolds. Her father, William, had been a member of the third advance party which came to lay out Granville prior to its settlement. He held Lot 8 of the original division of land, but died before 1810. His widow Theodocia married Enos Hurlbut and with the Reynolds boys, William and Loring, they moved to Wayne County, Indiana, before 1820, leaving very few records of this pioneer family in Licking County. The Moreys migrated north to Milford Township, Knox County, where William L. Morey (son of David and grandfather of Pansy) married Elizabeth Ann Myers of near Lock."

1798 Birth:2367 Birth year of 1798 estimated based on age (52 years) in the 1850 census enumeration; birth place listed as Connecticut.

1815 Marriage:2160 Marriage of David Morey and Harriet C. Reynolds on 23 November 1815 in Licking County, Ohio.

1830 U.S. Census:2423 Harriet enumerated in the household of her husband David Morey in Clinton Township, Knox County, Ohio as a female age 30 to 40; Harriet would have been about age 33.

1840 U.S. Census:2422 Harriet enumerated in the household of her husband David Morey in Milford Township, Knox County, Ohio as a female age 40 to 50; Harriet would have been about age 42. Seven children (5 sons and 3 daughters) also resided in the household.

1850 U.S. Census:2367 Harriet enumerated in the household of her husband David Morey in Clinton Township, Knox County, Ohio as a female, age 52, born in Connecticut. Children William, Maria, Perry, Lyman, and George also residing in the household.

1851 Letter:1293 Undated letter from Harriet C. Morey to sister-in-law Letutia and Juduthan D. Hopkins and their son Newman, who were living in Indiana, informing them of the death of Jane Morey, David Morey’s mother. Jane Morey died 9 June 1851 and was buried in Hall, Litzenburg, Patterson, Poppleton Cemetery, Milford Township, Knox County, Ohio.

Dear Brother and Sister,

I now take my pen in hand to write a few lines to let you know that we have not quite forgotten you. I have not written to you concerning mothers death. She departed this life the 9th day of last June. I went and stayed 10 days with her before she died she had her senses till the last. A few minutes before she died David ask her if she thought she was dying she could not spek for sometime before she dyed. She took hold of Davids hand and held it for sometime. She died very easy. I now send you a lock of her hair cap and her shroud. I think it is well with her, our neighbors are still leaving the shores of time on the right and left. There has been sixty of our neighbors buried in that place where your father lives.

I have not heard from Mercy in some time the last time we heard from them Lyman had seen Thomas in Delaware. He was in jail for fighting his cousin Perfect. He told him that his father had gone to the west. Thomas is a very bad boy.

The California fever rages in Mt. Vernon there is several going from here. I hope that you have not got the fever there where you live, it is a very bad complaint when it gets started.

I have no more but remain your sincere friend, Letutia Hopkins.

Harriet C. Morey

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