Uriah Jackson Morton

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Biographical Sketches

• MORTON, URIAH JACKSON (1846-1937). Handbook of Texas Online.
• Biographical sketch, U.J. Martin, p. 149. Index pp. 4 and 6 notes name should be Morton instead of Martin. Texas State Government: A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, 25th Legislature, 1897.

Military Service Notes

• Confederate States Army, Company F, 8th Alabama Cavalry, June 1864-April 1865. U.J. Morton of Comanche County, age 67 as of soldier's application dated 1/21/1914, born in Alabama. Pension File No. 27397, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Ancestry.com.
• Confederate States Army, Private, Company J, 8th Alabama Cavalry. Military grave marker, Uriah Jackson Morton, birth date 6/21/1846, death date 8/3/1937, burial in De Leon Cemetery, De Leon, Comanche County. Rev. U.J. Morton (Uncle Jack). Find a Grave.
• Confederate States Army, Private, Company F, 8th Alabama Cavalry. "Uriah grew up assisting his father on the family farm in Alabama and as a teenager enlisted with the Confederate Army in the Civil War. He held the rank of private under Capt. Samuel Henry in Company F of the Eighth Alabama Cavalry (though his CSA gravestone indicates service in Company J). He was captured when his company surrendered to Union forces at Citronelle, Alabama, on May 4, 1865; service records indicate Morton was paroled ten days later." Handbook of Texas Online.

Other Resources

• Uriah Jackson Morton, birth date 6/21/1846 in Alabama, death date 8/3/1937 in Comanche County, Texas, minister-farmer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976.

Photographs

• Photograph. U.J. Morton, 25th Legislature, State Preservation Board

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

• 25th session composite photo of House members (House chamber gallery, east wall. 3W.2). State Preservation Board.

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