MORRISON, Jacob
Source: Greencastle Daily Journal,
Putnam County, Indiana 25 July 1939 p 5
“I saw the first locomotive that ran
upon the Monon railroad. It was the ugliest thing I ever saw. I used to walk the streets of Cloverdale ..
when they were knee deep. My boy, Will,
brought me a roasting ear for my dinner today and it was the best thing I ever
ate. These were some of the highlights
of a recent conversation of Jacob Morrison, 95 years old next September. He lives with his daughter and her husband,
Mr. and Mrs. Jones, several miles west of Cloverdale. Not long ago he lost the
use of his limbs, and, for that reason, he is kept in bed, but his strong mind
is active. He does not hesitate to name dates and persons of old days, but he
himself says, he is not as keen of late happenings as he used to be. Mr. Morrison was born September __ 1844 on
the farm homesteaded by his father, “Uncle Billy” Morrison who came in from
Tennessee as one of the earliest settlers of Cloverdale township. That land is
a mile or so south of the Jones farm on which Jacob Morris lives now. The father, so the son recalled, worked on
the grade of the National Road at the time it was being built, for 25 cents a
day. Jacob Morrison’s wife was Miss Lyon. Her death occurred some years ago.
The ceremony was performed by Elder Brint Wright. Among the children of Jacob
Morrison are Homer C, who is clerk of the Putnam Circuit Court; William,
postmaster of Cloverdale; Mrs. Olive Jones; Mrs. Arthur Cubit, Greencastle;
Mrs. Louis Greenlee, Parke County; Mrs. Ethel Gray, employed in the Veteran’s
Bureau at Washington; Hubert Morrison of Cloverdale and the late Louis
Morrison, former owner of Hoosier Highlands. Jacob Morrison joined the Doe
Creek Regular Predestinarian Baptist Church, west of Cloverdale, when he was 40
or 50 years old and now has the rather calm acceptance of whatever the future
has in store for him, an attitude developed, it may be, from the teachings of
his church concerning the inexorable divine foreordinations concerning us human
beings. - kbz
