David Jesse Morley

David Morley's pension record

David Jesse Morley: Complexion: Fair, Eyes: Blue, Hair: Light, Height: 5 feet 10 inches

Civil War Company K 13th TN Cavalry, Union. Enrolled October 1, 1864 and honorable discharge September 5, 1865

Received Pension: suffered from brain fever at Knoxville, TN March 1864, suffered from Typhoid fever April 1865, inguinal hernia December 1864, rheumatism in shoulders and back , chronic diarrhea and small pox May 1865. He was very close to death during his illness.

November 24, 1884, David Morley states that he contracted rheumatism and diarrhea on the raid to the Virginia Malt works, in December 1864, but continued on duty until April 1865 when he contracted Typhoid fever in Hillsville, VA and was left in the hands of the enemy in a hospital at White Sulphur Springs, VA, also states that he received a rupture at Marion, VA in December 1864 by his horse blundering and pitched him against the pummel of his saddle. " The first symptoms I felt of rheumatism was while on the raid to the VA, Salt Works in December 1864 and after I came back. I was suffering with diarrhea and rheumatism but continued on duty and started out on the Salisbury raid into NC and went on until the Company was at Hillsville, VA in Carroll County after the 3rd of April 1865 which I got past traveling with typhoid fever and was left by Dr Cameron and Lt. Walker of my Company. After I recovered from the fever, I left and while on my way to rejoin my command was taken with small pox and lay at Aunt Peggy Duggers about 2 weeks with that disease. And finally returned to my command about the last of June 1865 while stationed at Lenoirs Station near Knoxville. I was almost past traveling after I left the White Sulphur Springs and suffered with diarrhea and rheumatism and every since that date."

The examiner asked about his symptoms of brain fever: " My head felt as big as a washing tub and my head felt like it would bust and I have had a hard hurting in my head at times ever since. My mind is not quick like it ought to be."

David Morely

Deposition A, Case of Roy P. Morley, Minor - No 569009

Deposition A, Case of Roy P. Morley, Minor - No 569009 On this 8th day of April at Baker, County of Baker State of Oregon, before me, J.H. Hines, a Special Examiner of the Bureau of Pensions, personally appeared Rosa O. Wagner, says: My age is ... was born July 30, 1871, P.O and residence 147 Bridge St, Baker Oregon. I am the wife of Albert H. Wagner - I have lived here since May 22 last. Roy P. Morley is my brother. My father was David J. Morley. When he was young, he enlisted under the name of David J. Copley. He served in Company K 13th TN Vol Cav., He was a pensioner. My mother was Sarah E Clawson. My father and mother were married when she was nineteen years old and she was born July, 23, 1846. I did have the record of births and deaths in our family as recorded in our family Bible. My sister, Iris L. Pierce, Clinton, Indiana, wrote to me for the family Bible and I sent it to her last winter. Before sending her the family Bible, I had a copy made of the births and deaths in our family as follows:

Births: David J. Morley Born June 12, 1844, Sarah E. Morley Born July 23, 1846, William W. Morley born November 19, 1866

Robert C. Morley born June 18, 1868, Rosa O. Morley born July 30, 1871, Artie L. Morley born Febr. 20, 1874

Disey C. Morley born March 20, 1876, Iris L. Morley born September 2, 1881, Roy P. Morley born May 22, 1889

Deaths: David J. Morley died Feb. 23, 1892, Sarah E. Morley died July 23, 1892

The record doesn't show any other deaths - Artie L. Morley is dead - died about 1894 at High Health, TN. The Dicy Morely referred to in the claim is identical with the Dicey C. Morley of the record. Her full name was Dicy Cylvesta Ivalee Morley. She married Samuel Stout, now at McKinley, Coos County, Oregon. She died Sept. 19 about twelve years ago. The I.L. Morley of the claim is my sister Iris Lucella Morley now the wife of Samuel Pierce, Clinton, Ind. I was at home at the time and remember the circumstances and know she is my sister and the child of my mother and father. I am not sure that my father died February 22 or 23, 1892. The record gives it as Febr. 23, 1892 and I believe that to be correct. I was home at the time of my father's death. My mother died July 23, 1892. July 23 was her birthday and I remember she died on her birthday and I always thought she died exactly five months after my father's death. My father and mother had two children not mentioned above, Allen F. Morley and Ulysses Simpson Grant Morley, but they were both dead when my father died.

Rosa Wagner

February 1912 affidavit of Iris Morley Pierce

A February 1912 affidavit of Iris Morley Pierce age 30, states: " The record of her fathers family was made in the year 1891 by Elihue Crumley school teacher of Carter County, TN She asked her teacher to come to her home for the purpose of making a the record. The record was made in the presence of her mother and father and in the presence of herself. Her sister Rose Morley Wagner of Oregon has possession of said record ( Bible)

In David J. Morley's Civil War Pension file - case of minors Iris and Roy‑ Dated May 21, 1913, Iris states:"I was 31 the 2nd day of last September, being born in 1881, My address is Clinton Indiana. I am an applicant for pension as the minor child of David Morley. Father served in the 13th TN cavalry. My mother was Sarah E. Clawson. Father died in 1892 when I was 10 years old. The family bible shows that he died Feb. 23, 1892. Mother died the same year that father died. The bible record gives July 23, 1892 as the date of her death. Dr Roy Butler of Butler TN doctored mother when she died. Father and mother are buried in the Morley graveyard at High Health, TN the postoffice of which is Butler. There is a tombstone on father's grave but not over mothers. The tombstone was erected since we left there in 1900. Father owned a farm when he died but it was mortgaged and sold after he died. There were 3 children under 16 when father died. There were Dicy Cylvesta Ivalee Morley born March 20, 1876, then myself Iris L. Morley. I do not know the spelling of my middle name. The bible shows I was born Sept. 2, 1881. The bible shows Roy was born May 22 1889. There was no doctor when Roy was born. The midwife was Matilda Rainbow. I have married Samuel Pierce in January 8, 1897. The license was secured at Mountain City, Johnson County, TN I have no marriage certificate.

signed Iris L Pierce