Erin Inez (Cline) Morris (1891 - 1986)

Born 3 Jul 1891 in Catawba, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Died 15 Jul 1986 at age 95 in Gastonia, Gaston, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Erin Inez Cline was born on July 3, 1891 in Catawba County, North Carolina, United States to parents Pinkney Cline and Dora Miller.^[1]

On November 13, 1913 Erin married Manley Thomas Morris in Caldwell, North Carolina. ^[2]

1. Harry Thomas (1914 - ) ^[3]
2. Mac Glenn (1922 - ) ^[4]

Although she had suffered with bladder cancer and various infections, it was a cerebral thrombosis ^[5] that caused her death at age 95 on July 15, 1986 in Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina, USA. Two days later ^[6] her body was interred at Gaston Memorial Park.^[7]

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Facts

Marriage Notice

• (copied and pasted verbatim from reprinted and publicly posted marriage announcement from the Asheville newspaper)

"MARRIED AT LENOIR",

"LENOIR, Nov. 20,-Yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Presbyterlan manse Mr. M. T. Morris, of Whitney, and Miss Erin Cline, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Cline, who reside two miles north of Lenoir were quietly married by Rev. Charles T. Squires, pastor of the First Presbyterian church. It was not generally known by the friends of Miss Cline who is a charming young woman. that she was to be married, as she had sald very little to any one about her matrimonial Intentions. Some weeks ago she came home on a visit to her father and mother and in a qulet way began to prepare for the coming nuptial event in such a manner as to not even arouse the curtosity of some of her most intimate friends. For some time Mies Cline held a position as stenographer with the Southern Aluminum Company, in Whitney, and it was during her stay at that place she met her husband..."

from Asheville Citizen Times, November 21, 1913. Page 2.

Sources

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• "North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VHTN-H5H : 8 December 2014), Erin Inez Cline, ; from "North Carolina, Birth and Death Indexes, 1800-2000," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); citing vol. 3, p. 233, Catawba, North Carolina, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.

Birth Record Image: [9]

• "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSTK-74F : Thu Aug 03 07:21:05 UTC 2023), Entry for Pinkney E Cline and Dora A Cline, 1900.

• "United States Census, 1910", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLSX-7FV : Tue Jul 18 20:33:08 UTC 2023), Entry for Pinkney E Cline and Dora A Cline, 1910.

• "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP9R-Q9W2 : 9 March 2021), M T Morris and Erin Cline, 19 Nov 1913; citing Caldwell, North Carolina, United States, p. , North Carolina State Archives Division of Archives and History; FHL microfilm .

• "North Carolina, Center for Health Statistics, Vital Records Unit, County Birth Records, 1913-1922", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CT8M-VYT2 : Thu Jul 20 23:06:49 UTC 2023), Entry for Harry Thomas Morris and Manly Thomas Morris, 7 Nov 1914.

• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZKV-SYN : 8 August 2023), Erin Morris in entry for Manley Morris, 1920.

• "North Carolina, Center for Health Statistics, Vital Records Unit, County Birth Records, 1913-1922", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:8VT6-VK3Z : Thu Jul 20 22:38:41 UTC 2023), Entry for Mac Glenn Morris and M. T. Morris, 24 Jan 1922.

• "United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X339-5CX : Fri Aug 04 17:16:34 UTC 2023), Entry for M T Morris and Erin C Morris, 1930.

• "United States Census, 1940", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KW92-8V1 : Sat Jul 29 18:05:17 UTC 2023), Entry for Manly T Morris and E*ne C Morris, 1940.

• "United States 1950 Census", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FM3-YF8R : Mon Jul 24 22:06:05 UTC 2023), Entry for Manly T Morris and Erin C Morris, 10 April 1950.

• "North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGHL-VL1 : 29 September 2022), Erin Cline Morris, 1986.

Death Certificate Image: [10]

• "North Carolina, Department of Archives and History, Index to Vital Records, 1800-2000," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP5P-M659 : 13 November 2019), Erin Cline Morris, 14 Jul 1986; citing Death, North Carolina State Archives, Division of Archives and History, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 102321390.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176971763/erin-inez-morris: accessed 08 August 2023), memorial page for Erin Inez Cline Morris (3 Jul 1891–15 Jul 1986), Find a Grave Memorial ID 176971763, citing Gaston Memorial Park, Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina, USA; Maintained by carol griffin (contributor 47850743).

Memorial Page Here: [11]

Acknowledgments

• Becky Elizabeth Simmons