Charles Leroy Morgan
C. L. Morgan did not applied for or draw a pension for service in the Confederate Army.
I have compiled a bit of genealogical data about his family ...
Col. Charles Leroy Morgan was
born 24 August 1840 in Bastrop County, Texas. He died 11 March
1924 at Ballinger, Texas, buried at Coleman, Texas.
He was the son of:
Hiram Settle Morgan (9 July 1797, Sumner County, Tennessee - 9 July 1841, Bastrop County, Texas) and
Rebecca Woods Estill (about 1803, Kentucky - 1885, Texas), who married 6 April 1820 in Lincoln County, Tennessee.
Charles Leroy Morgan married, about 1867, Mary Anderson Duval, born 6 October 1846, died 3 April 1904, buried at Coleman.
Their children were:
1)
Lula Worth Morgan, born 13 August 1868, died 6 January 1918.
Married William Lincoln Vining. First child born in Pennsylvania.
2) Alice F. Morgan, born 19 March 1867, died 23 January 1944, buried at Coleman, never married.
3) Mary Clay Morgan, born 1870, died 1950, buried at Coleman, married Jordan W. Leeper, buried at Coleman.
4) Kate Bright Morgan, born 8 April 1872, married William J. Coulson.
5) Charles Leroy Morgan, born about 1876, died before 1900.
6) Susie G. Morgan, born 27 Aug 1878, married J. A. Weeks.
7) James DuVal Morgan, born 16 June 1883, died 27 April 1915, buried at Coleman.
His daughters married into prominent Coleman families.
He is shown in the:
1850
Bastrop County, Texas census: R. W. Morgan, age 47, female, $4500
in real estate, born in Kentucky; Hiram Gilespie, 32, male, $1700 in
real estate, merchant, Tennessee; E. Morgan, female, 18, Tennessee;
Hiram S. Morgan, 15, male, clerk, Tennessee; J. H. Morgan, 12, male,
Tennessee; and C. L. Morgan, 10, male, Texas. (NOTE:
Apparently his father had died and R. W. Morgan was his mother.
In comparing the 1860 census, the census taker incorrectly wrote the
Gilespie name, as it was probably James.)
1860 Bastrop County, Texas census.
1900 Hill County, Texas census, at Hubbard.
1920 Runnels County, Texas census at Ballinger.
Following are some items of interest about Col. Morgan.
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Death of Col. Morgan; Was Youngest Colonel in Confederate
Service
The death of Colonel C. L. Morgan, which
occurred in Ballinger Tuesday morning, March 11, 1924, removed from the walks of
life a distinguished citizen and one of the youngest colonels who served in the
Confederate service.
Col. Morgan was born in Bastrop County,
Texas, August 24, 1840 and was living in his 84th year when called over there.
At the beginning of the war between the states Mr. Morgan, not yet of age,
entered the services of Terry's Texas Rangers. In later months of the service
he was one of one hundred men who became the body guard of General Hindman. At
the age of 21 years, as a member of the 8th Texas Regiment, he was given the
commission of Colonel of Morgan's Regiment. He was presented to Gen. Hindman as
the youngest colonel in the Confederate service. Following the war, the
greater part of his life was spent in Bastrop County where he was engaged in the
mercantile business. With his family he came to Coleman during the eighties
where he was engaged in the mercantile business and later in the flour mill
business. He was later engaged in the mercantile business at Hubbard, Texas,
and returned to Coleman the second time and was engaged in the drug
business.
The last years of his life Col. Morgan was a
citizen of Ballinger, living with his daughter, Miss Alice Morgan. He was the
last member of a large family to pass to the great beyond. His wife, Mary
Duvall Morgan, died in Coleman about twenty years ago. The surviving children
are, Miss Alice Morgan of Ballinger, Mrs. Clay Leeper of Dallas, Mrs. W. J.
Coulson of Coleman, Mrs. J. A. Weeks of Ballinger.
Funeral services
were conducted Wednesday, 3:30 o'clock, at the home of Mrs. W. J. Coulson, and
interment made in Coleman cemetery. Rev. B. D. Kennedy of the Presbyterian
Church and Rev. T. S. Armstrong of the Methodist Church, conducted the
services. Pall-bearers were Dr. G. B. Beaumont, D. A. Paddleford, B. H.
Pittman, T. J. White, L. E. Collins, R. V. Wood, B. Martin, L. S. White, Charles
Polk.
(The Democrat-Voice,
Coleman, Texas March 14, 1924, Page 6.) |
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Coleman
Cemetery, Coleman, Texas
Map Page
7, block 29 - lots 4 and 1
(Morgan -
Leeper Family)
SNODGRASS, Clay Belle Leeper - 1891 -
1920
LEEPER, Corinne M. - Oct 2, 1893 - Aug 13, 1914 -
"sister"
LEEPER, Jordan W. - 1860 - 1904 - "Papa" -
(Common Stone)
LEEPER, Clay M. - 1870 - 1950 -
"Mama" - (DAR flag holder) (Common Stone)
MORGAN, Mary
Anderson - Oct 6, 1846 - Apr 3, 1904 - "Mamma"
MORGAN, Charles
LeRoy - 1840 - 1924 - "Papa"
MORGAN, Jas. D. "Jimmie" - June
16, 1883 - Apr 27, 1915
MORGAN, Alice F. - Mar 19, 1867 - Jan 23, 1944 |
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Charles LeRoy Morgan stone is shown on left.
The above image shows the
Morgan - Leeper lot.
Charles LeRoy is the second from the right on the back
row.
His wife, Mary Anderson Morgan is at the right, back row.
Jas D.
Morgan and Alice F. Morgan are to the left of C. L.
The Leeper family are in
the front row.
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MORGAN, CHARLES LEROY (1840-1924)
Charles Leroy Morgan, Confederate lieutenant
colonel, son of Hiram and Rebecca (Gillespie) Morgan, was born in Bastrop
County, Texas, in August 1840. When the Civil War began, he joined the Eighth
Texas Cavalry, known as Terry's Texas Rangers. He served as a lieutenant with
the command in Tennessee but returned to Texas in December 1861. When the
Eighteenth Texas Cavalry was organized in the spring of 1862, he enlisted in a
company raised by his brother Hiram and was elected regimental major. The
Eighteenth Texas was among those Confederate units captured at Arkansas Post in
January 1863, but Charles Morgan was not with the regiment. By September 1862
he had command of an independent squadron of around 150 men. He was popular and
talented, and his squadron eventually grew to a regiment. His command was
attached to William Henry Parsons's Texas Cavalry Brigade and served with
distinction in Arkansas, Missouri, and Louisiana. The war ended before Morgan
received official recognition of his regiment from Richmond; thus he was paroled
a lieutenant colonel at the age of twenty-four, at Houston. About 1867 he
married Mary A. Duvall, and they had six daughters and one son. After the war
Morgan engaged in the merchandising business and was active in the Parsons'
Brigade Association of Confederate veterans. He died on March 11, 1924, in
Runnels County, Texas.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: John Q. Anderson, ed.,
Campaigning with Parsons' Texas Cavalry Brigade, CSA (Hillsboro, Texas:
Hill Junior College Press, 1967). Anne J. Bailey, Between the Enemy and
Texas: Parsons's Texas Cavalry in the Civil War (Fort Worth: Texas Christian
University Press, 1989). B. P. Gallaway, The Ragged Rebel: A Common Soldier
in W. H. Parsons' Texas Cavalry, 1861-1865 (Austin: University of Texas
Press, 1988). William Heartsill, Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days in the
Confederate Army (Marshall, Texas, 1876; rpt., Wilmington, North Carolina:
Broadfoot, 1987). Parsons' Texas Cavalry Brigade Association, A Brief and
Condensed History of Parsons' Texas Cavalry Brigade (Waxahachie, Texas:
Flemister, 1892; rpt., Waco: Morrison, 1962).
(Handbook of Texas
Online - Anne J. Bailey)
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