Lee J Ballard

Southern Accents Lee J Ballard

In this timely exploration of Southern genealogy and history, Lee traces the ancestry of one of his great-grandmothers, Lena Morgan. Starting in Scotland and pre-Revolutionary Carolinas, the extended clans of Morgans, Hares, Champions, and Wests moved to Alabama just after the War of 1812. In the Antebellum period, these pioneering families hacked a living out of the pines and hills of Wilcox, Clarke and Marengo Counties. A great number of them went off to fight for their Southern heritage. When they returned, they found a world completely changed. Through the violence of the late nineteenth century, the family pressed on, until, in 1929, Lena and her husband moved to Texas. With biographies and historical context for the following people: James Morgan (c.1772-c.1820) & Elizabeth Sheffield (c.1775-c.1826) John C. Hare (c.1785-c.1823) & Mary Sheffield John Champion (1785-c.1852) & Eleanor McKee (c.1790-c.1832) Martin Morgan (c.1796-1848) & Cynthia Elizabeth Hare (c.1809-c,1860) Hugh Shaw (c.1776-?) & Elizabeth Finley (1783-1820) John D. Morgan (1802-1860) & Sarah Sheffield (1805-1863) John H. West (1831-1903) & Julia M. Champion (1837-1900) Rufus Randalph King Henry Rhodes (R. R.) Morgan (1867-1944) & Viola West (1877-1912) Lena N. M. Morgan (1896-1996) & Pierce S. Walker (1879-1964)