Biographical Sketch (1881):2445, p. 747. "William Morey, farmer, Miller township, was born in Licking county, Ohio, September 13, 1826. About a year after his parents, David and Harriet C. Morey, nee Reynolds, moved to Clinton township on a farm three miles south of Mt. Vernon, on the Utica road. Here they lived and died. She had a family of eleven children. The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm and attended the district schools. From sixteen to twenty-one years he was at Cincinnati, where he learned the baking and confectionery business. He worked for a few years in Ohio and Illinois; the remainder of his time he has spent on the farm, except three months, when he was a member of company C, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, Ohio National guards. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Ann Myers, daughter of John Myers, of Milford township, January, 1856. They had seven children, six of whom are living, viz: Marion S., Aldon D., Halleck J. (deceased), Carrie O., Dora D., Ida May, and Eddie Chase."

Biographical Sketch (1982):659, p. 234. "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."

1826 Birth:924, v. 1, p. 361. Birth date of 13 September 1826 taken from 1902 tombstone in Brandon Cemetery, Miller Township, Knox County, Ohio.

1866 Board of Education:2445, p. 446. "The first election was held in Mt. Vernon, and all subsequent elections until April, 1866, when the voting place was changed to the brick schoolhouse south of the Owl Creek bridge. At the last election Samuel Davis, John Boyd, and William McFadden were chosen trustees; R N. Kindrick, treasurer; L. E. Huntsberry, clerk; Edward M. Knight and W. L. Vance, constables; F. M. Shaffer, assessor; W. L. King, Norman L Wall, Ezra Thayer, Thomas Spearman, C. D. Rinehart, William L. Morey, and J. B. Steinmetz, board of education."

1870 U.S. Census:2409
Knox County, Ohio (Miller Township)
Enumerated 3 June 1870
Wm. L. Morey •• 44, male, white, farmer, real estate value $5,000, personal property value $500, born in Ohio, male over the age of 21
Elizabeth A. •• 28, female, white, keeps house, born in Ohio
Smith M. •• 11, male, white, born in Ohio, attended school within the year
David A. •• 9, male, white, born in Ohio, attended school within the year
Carrie •• 2, female, white, born in Ohio

1902 Tombstone:924, v. 1, p. 361. Brandon Cemetery, Miller Township, Knox County, Ohio.
Wm. L. Morey
son of David & Harriett
b. 13 Sep. 1826
d. 1 Nov. 1902