Mary Drusilla (Prickett) Morgan (1752 - 1817)

Born 1 Mar 1752 in Frederick County, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Morgan Morgan III — married 12 Dec 1768 (to 2 Aug 1817) in , Monongalia County, Virginia

Descendants

Died 2 Aug 1817 at age 65 in Buffalo Creek, Cabell County. Virginia, United States of America

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Biography

This profile is part of the Prickett Name Study.

Drusilla (Prickett) Morgan was born in Frederick County, Virginia.

Mary Drusilla (also spelled Drucilla and Druscilla) was born on 1 March 1752, the fourth or fifth child (she was a twin to Isaac) of eleven and the second of five daughters of Jacob and Dorothy Springer Prickett. Both her place of birth and place of death are in dispute. Her parents had probably moved to Virginia before she was born and, if so, she would have been born on Back Creek, Frederick County, just north of present-day Glengary, Berkeley County, West Virginia. By the time she was thirteen she had seven younger siblings. The family was remarkably healthy. Despite the rigors of frontier life, all the children lived well into the nineteenth century with the exception of Isaiah, who was killed and scalped by Indians when he was just seventeen.

Alternate birth information: 11 May 1751, Burlington County, New Jersey.^[1]

On 12 December 1768, when she was just sixteen, she married Morgan "Mod" Morgan in Frederick County, Virginia.^[2] The second son of her father's best friend, David Morgan, "Mod" was about five and a half years older than she. Over the next twenty-eight years she bore "Mod" fourteen children (eight sons, six daughters), all but one of whom lived (Cynthia, a twin to Elizabeth, may have died at birth).

Alternate marriage date: 12 Feb 1768.

Five of the children are listed below:

1. Achilles Morgan (1772 - 1860)
2. Morgan Morgan (1774 - 1868)
3. James Morgan (1778 - 1860)
4. Aaron Morgan (1784 - 1829)
5. David Page Morgan (1786 - 1870)

In the early 1770s Drusilla and her siblings followed (or accompanied) their parents to the Monongahela River Valley, where Morgan did some surveying, established a "fine farm" on White Day Creek near Prickett's Fort, and served as a justice on the Monongalia County Court.

It is sometimes said that Mod and Drusilla !moved to Brown County, Ohio, about 1792.

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Map showing location of White Day Creek

On 2 August 1817, when she was sixty-five Drusilla died of unknown causes, no doubt on White Day Creek, and is buried in Mount Zion Cemetery in Fairmont. (Her place of death is in dispute. It has been said that she died 1) at Prickett's Fort, 2) on White Day Creek (near Prickett's Fort), 3) on Buffalo Creek in present-day Wayne County, West Virginia. Since the Buffalo Creek area was not settled until later in the century and she and her husband were living on White Day Creek and she is buried nearby, I think it most likely that she died there. PPH 24 Aug 2016.

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Buffalo Creek, WV

Cemetery in which Drusilla is buried

From Findagrave.com

Mary Drucilla Prickett Morgan

Birth: Mar. 1, 1752, Burlington County, New Jersey; Death: Aug. 2, 1817, Marion ,[sic., i.e., Monongalia County, Marion County, Virginia, USA. The county was a part of Monongalia at the time of her death.

Family links: Parents: Jacob Prickett (1722 - 1797), Dorothy Springer Prickett (1726 - 1785); Spouse: Morgan Morgan (1746 - 1826); Children: Eli Morgan (1766 - 1767), Mary Morgan Suffix (1768 - 1855), Sarah Sally Morgan Bainbridge (1768 - 1839), Stephen Morgan (1769 - 1774), Achilles Morgan (1772 - 1860), Morgan Morgan (1774 - 1868), James Morgan (1778 - 1860), Aaron Morgan (1784 - 1829), David Page Morgan (1786 - 1870), Dorothy Morgan (1788 - 1885); Siblings: Josiah Prickett (1746 - 1807), Isaac Prickett (1751 - 1827), Martha Prickett Parker (1756 - 1820), Isaiah Prickett (1757 - 1774), Jacob Prickett (1758 - 1826), Dorothy Prickett Dunn (1760 - 1836), Nancy Ann Prickett Bunner (1762 - 1842).

Burial: Mount Zion Cemetery, Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia, USA^[3]

Alternate place of burial: Harperstown Cemetery, White Day Creek, Marion County, West Virginia.

Note: Geni.com has her married to Jacob Lucas, no date. I think this was scarcely possible as she was just 16 when she married "Mod" and he outlived her.

http:/www.geni.com/people/Drusilla-Morgan-Prickett6000000006954744474?through=6000000008101048374 (20141229pph)

Citations

1. ↑ Cook, Danny <azcook@cableone.net>, "Drusilla Pricket / Morgan Morgan, Sr." Prickett family Genforum Message #897. URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/prickett/messages/897.html
2. ↑ Elizabeth Burns, submitter, "Berkeley Co. WV Marriages --Various Brides" (Apr 2005 USGenWeb Archives "Special Projects > West Virginia Table of Contents > Berkeley > Marriages > Assorted Marriage Records, Alphabetical by Brides"). URL: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wv/berkeley/vitals/brides.txt. Rec. Date: 1 Dec 2012.
3. ↑ Kelley Ward, "Mary Drucilla Prickett Morgan." Findagrave.com. Record added: Aug 22, 2010. URL; https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=57493548. Accessed 4 Apr. 2017 by Patricia Prickett Hickin.

Acknowledgments

• This person was created through the import of Lynch-Tree.ged on 06 August 2010.

• WikiTree profile Prickett-44 was created through the import of Geni-export-Forest.ged on Nov 4, 2011 by Steven Mix.

• WikiTree profile Prickett-50 was created through the import of cora morgan.ged on Nov 7, 2011 by Karen Stewart.

• Pritchett-436 was created by David Hunsley through the import of 2015 08 17 Hunsley b0b851_744994qbs23d0y5n1b055m.ged on Aug 17, 2015.

Sources

• Boles, Harold W. and David B. comp., Ellis Ancestors: Some immigrants, colonists, and pioneers (Kalamazoo, MI:.: Harold W. Boles, 1994). Call Number: 929.2 EL59B

• Cook, Danny <azcook@cableone.net>. submitter, "Drusilla Pricket/Morgan Morgan, Sr.," Prickett Family GenForum #897 Genealogy.com URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/prickett/messages/897.html Accessed 11 Aug 2019.

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SBYY-W6J : accessed 2017-04-04), entry for Mary Drusilla PRICKETT.

• Martin, Robert <Rmmannington@aol.com>, comp. "Mary Drusilla Prickett, b1752," Robert Martin's Family Records URL: https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=robertmartin0729&id=I25129 Accessed 11 Aug 2019.

• Pedigree Resource File name: Mary Drusilla /PRICKETT/ submission date: 30 Aug 2007

• Jacob Prickett/Dorothy B Springer (F30860) URL: http://myrootsplace.com/familygroup.php?familyID=F30860&tree=mrptree 19 Nov 2012 Unable to access on 11 Aug 2019.

• Elaine Dunn Johnson <EJandAJ@aol.com>, submitter, "The Family of Allan & Elaine (Dunn) Johnson of Prather, CA:Information about Isaac Prickett" URL: http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/j/o/h/Elaine-Johnson-CA/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0225.html 26 Apr 2016 View Tree for Isaac Prickett

Isaac Prickett (b. 01 Mar 1751/52, d. 1827) Isaac Prickett (son of Jacob Prickett and Dorothy Springer) was born 01 Mar 1751/52 in Frederick, VA, and died 1827 in Brown, OH.He married Mary Campbell on 1794 in Mason, KY. Includes NotesNotes for Isaac Prickett: !RESEARCHER: Mary L. Henke, "Prickett Fences," Vol 1, issue 1.Family detailed in vol. 2, issue 4, p. 77. Married Mary Campbell in 1794 in Ky.There were several Campbell families in Mason Co.James, Mathew, Squire and William were the heads.We don't know Mary's father.She was born in Harrison Co. Virginia in 1770.She was 24 to his age of 45.There is no evidence that he had been married prior. Daughter of Abraham Prickett and Sarah H. Jolliffe. Isaac is listed as single in the Monongalia tax list for 1787. He is next found in Mason Co. KY. in the Tax list of 1792.He continues on the Ky. tax lists until 1797.The next couple of lists are missing, and apparently they moved over to Adams Co. Ohio about 1800.He is on their first tax list in 1803 along with James and John Prickett in Byrd Twp.See notes on brother John. He died in 1827 and is buried in Hillman Ridge Cemetery in Brown Co.No stone is found for Mary, but it is believed she is buried there as well.She was still alive on 1850 census. More About Isaac Prickett: Burial: Unknown, Hillman Ridge, Brown, OH. More About Isaac Prickett and Mary Campbell: Marriage: 1794, Mason, KY. Children of Isaac Prickett and Mary Campbell are: Dorothy Prickett, b. 1795, Mason Co., KY, d. date unknown. Drusilla Prickett, b. 1797, Mason Co., KY, d. date unknown. Sarah Prickett, b. 1799, Mason Co., KY, d. date unknown. Jesse Thomas Prickett, b. 17 Aug 1804, Adams, OH, d. 12 Nov 1883, Brown, OH. George Prickett, b. 1806, Adams, OH, d. date unknown. Enos Prickett, b. 1809, Adams, OH, d. date unknown. Elias Prickett, b. 15 May 1813, Adams, OH, d. 22 May 1888, Johnson, KY. Call Number: http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/j/o/h/Elaine-Johnson-CA/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0225.html

• Prickett Fence, vol. 1, iss. 1, p. 6.

• Prickett, Irene Teresa, comp., Lineage. Typescript. (I don't know where I acquired this. 31 Mar 2018.)

• Ward, Kelley. "Mary Drucilla Prickett Morgan," Findagrave.com. [1] Record added: Aug 22, 2010

• Wygle, Adam. "Druscilla Mary Morgan (Prickett)," Geni.com. URL: Drusilla Morgan curated by Ben M. Angel.

• Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.