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Bent’s Fort, Book Gives A Close-Up View of a Distant Relative

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Charles Bent (1799-1847); William Wells Bent(1809-1869); George Bent (1814-1846); Robert Bent (1816-1841).

Wouldn’t it be nice if every ancestor we researched had been investigated by a meticulous scholar, and written about in an exciting and readable book?  Definitely too much to ask for in most cases–but in the case of the Bent brothers and Bent’s Fort, we can read a close-up of their lives in a book.

When I was writing about the Bent family--relatives and descendants of my 7x great-grandmother, Martha Bent How— I made a brief reference to “Charles Bent and his brother.” Charles Bent and his siblings were descendants of Martha’s brother Peter and the sons of a high achiever who went west to St. Louis and became a judge.  As I wrote earlier:

The judge’s son, Charles Bent, served briefly as the first American Governor of the Territory of New Mexico.The National Park Service maintains a fur trading fort Charles Bent and his brother established on the Santa Fe Trail: Old Bent’s Fort.

Bent's Fort

Bent’s Fort

During the Mexican War, the fort served as a base for the troops of American General Kearney. General Kearney  appointed Charles Bent as Governor of New Mexico after the Mexican War. He served from September 1846 until soldiers of the Pueblo uprising killed him in January 1847. (For those keeping track, Charles is the 4x great-grandchild of John Bent through Peter Bent. That makes Charles my 5th Cousin, 4x removed.)

A Closer Look at Distant Relatives

That reference was enough to make me curious to get a look closer at the lives of Charles Bent and that “brother”, which it turns out included three brothers and a sister and the children of all the above.

After reading all about the place, in David Lavender’s book, Bent’s Fort. I also would like to get a close-up view of Bent’s Old Fort.  [Picture from The Boomer Culture.com]The reproduction  that is pictured above now stands as a National Historic site. It’s Colorado location, just north of New Mexico, would fall within the range of a reasonable road trip from my home in Arizona.

Others besides Historian David Lavender have written about the Bent brothers, but none as thoroughly and in such depth.  His book, a close-up not just of the Bent brothers–mainly Charles, William, George, and Robert focuses on the second son, William a bit more than Charles, but only because Charles life was cut short.  We also hear the fascinating stories of Williams half-Cheyenne sons, also named Charles, George and Robert, who to varying degrees “went native” in the bloody post Civil War period when Western Indians fought in their last gasp attempts to retain their land and way of life.

Bent’s Fort and Western History

Charles Bent’s first ventures west of St. Louis coincided with the enormous fur trade when beaver skins drew hunters and trappers–the rough mountain men and canny merchants–into uncharted territory.  Without realizing it, they were preparing the way for an influx of settlers and farmers who would follow the roads they developed and weave through the mountain passes they discovered and radically change the very idea of the United States.

This map shows the history in capsule form.

Soon after Charles started working in the fur trade, he decided to become an independent trader. His younger brother joined him on the westward treks from St. Louis to the territory still ruled by Spain, and called New Mexico.  That territory include most of today’s New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and a little Texas and Kansas, too.  But the traders, including the Bent brothers, were not only dealing with mostly roadless wilderness, and Indians who were hostile one day and wanting to trade the next, but they were also dealing with a foreign government if they proceeded into New Mexico.

William oversaw the building of Bent’s Fort and they settled there with surrounding Indians–mostly Cheyenne–to selling goods. The Bent’s kept expanding their business–Taos, Santa Fe, other trading post/forts, and constantly changing political situations.

Through this book, I learned about a slice of American history in the early 19th century that somehow had escaped me.  As Beavers became extinct and Beaver hats were no longer fashionable, the emphasis switched to buffalo skins.  Methods of transportation shifted from boat to foot and mule, to wagons pulled by mules, to wagons pulled by oxen, and eventually the railroads moved in about the time that the buffaloes disappeared. And Bent’s Fort, under the management of the Bent brothers, adapted to the changes.

The Conclusion for the Bents

The outcome for my relative, Charles Bent, was not so good.  After long years of trying to work fairly with the Indians and the governments of the United States and Mexico, he was made the first Territorial Governor of the newly American New Mexico.   It was a brutal time, medieval in the execution of “justice” and revenge on all sides.A few weeks later, Taos Pueblo men angered that some of their own were imprisoned, attacked Charles’ home in Taos. Although his wife and children escaped, Charles was brutally murdered.

William also had worked so well with Indians that no less than Kit Carson declared him the man who knows the Indians better than anyone.  Nevertheless, the U.S. government dragged its feet on a peaceful settlement with the Indians that William proposed.  The Army had already taken advantage of his good will by camping at the fort without paying rent, and when they proposed buying the fort, he burned it down, moved upstream and built a new, smaller trading home.

William tried to civilize his children, but the book shows that  sending them to St. Louis for their education wound up having little effect on two half-breed young men. His daughter who married a trader, also wound up living with Indians, and the results for the children were devastating.  Except for his son George, who lived to dictate his memories of the stories that came from Bent’s Fort.  Those memories fuel much of the book by Lavender, although he disproves many of the details of George’s family legends.

The Book

Many of the names of traders and soldiers who passed through the Bent territory were familiar to me. You’ve heard of Kit Carson and perhaps of Jedidiah Smith or Jim Bridger and  General Kearney. All these passed through Bent’s Fort from time to time. But that just scratches the surface of the men (mostly men) whose stories we hear.  Perhaps some of your ancestors were there, too?

If you want to learn about the beginning of the Mexican war that finally made the United States an ocean-to ocean country; if you are curious about the lives and wars of the Native Americans in the west; if you had ancestors who joined the great western migration–you will learn much from Bent’s Fort.

For a guide to all the stories I have written about the Bents, go here.

How I Am Related

  • Vera Marie Kaser Badertscher is the daughter of
  • Harriette Anderson Kaser, the daughter of
  • Vera Stout (Anderson),the daughter of
  • Hattie Morgan (Stout), the daughter of
  • Mary Bassett (Morgan),the daughter of
  • Elizabeth Stone (Bassett) the daughter of
  • Elizabeth Howe (Stone), the daughter of
  • Israel Howe, the son of
  • David How, the son of
  • Martha Bent How, the daughter of
  • John Bent, Sr., who is the 4x great-grandfather of Charles, William, Robert and George Bent, sons of Silas Bent (1768-1827)

A Family of Achievers and Characters

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Louise Morgan, born in October, 1833, was the third of my great-great-grandfather Jesse Morgan and his first wife Mary Pelton Morgan’s family– four children who lived past childhood.  Louise, also called Louisa, lived a mobile life. She moved around not just because she was the child of a wandering father, but because she was the wife of a preacher who relocated frequently.

To start at the beginning, Louise was born while Jesse and his first wife still lived in Chautauqua County, New York, the same place that her three siblings, older brothers Charles and Carlos and younger sister, Malvina were born.  And with her parents and siblings, she moved to  Ohio at a young age.  At four years of age, Louise and the Morgan family moved to the small village of Killbuck, Ohio.

Louise’s mother died the following year and I have not found a clear record of where she lived before her father married my great-great-grandmother, Mary Bassett Platt Morgan.  Jesse and Mary Bassett Platt Morgan continued to live in Killbuck, but older brother Charles went to New York to live with his mother’s family and Carlos may have moved in with relatives as well.  We only know that in 1850, younger sister Malvina was living with Mary Morgan  in Killbuck.

I did find an intriguing possible connection in the 1850 census of Westfield, Chautauqua, New York.  There is a Loiza Morgan living with a Dr. Carlton Jones.

Louise Morgan

“Loiza” Morgan, 16 with Dr. Carlton Jones family. 1850 census Westfield NY

Since Louise or Louisa Morgan is not an uncommon name, why do I think this matches, despite the lack of details? Well, the census locates her in Westfield, her birthplace, near the place her parents had spent many years. When Louise’s mother died, Jesse was not prepared to take care of a toddler so she might have gone back to New York State. I’m just betting that Luisa, the wife of Dr. Carlton Jones, is a cousin of Jesse’s, or that they lived in close proximity to the Morgan family, but I have not proven that. Another possibility would have her serving as a maid in the house, not unusual for 16-year-old girls at the time.

In 1855, a Louise Morgan is living alone in an apartment in Brooklyn New York. The birthplace is listed as Westchester rather than Westfield, but that could very well be an error. This Louise has been living in Brooklyn for two years and works in dry goods. Again, I cannot be totally certain.

In 1860 I spot a Louise Morgan teaching school in Bloomington, Indiana and living with the family of the principal of the school.  This probably tracks with our Louise, since it places her in the state where she met her husband. She married Rev. Thomas Hopkins in Indiana in February 1861, and her first son is born in December of that year, also in Indiana.

Louise’s Family 1861 to 1909

While they lived in Indiana, besides the first son James (1861), Louise and Thomas have three more children–daughter Caroline/Carrie (1863)  and sons Edwin (1866) and Addison (1868). Between April 1868 and 1870, Thomas Hopkins moves his family to Piqua, Ohio.

In the next five years, Louisa gave birth to three more children, Thomas Jr. (1871), namesake Louise M.(1873), and Wilbur (1875).

In 1880, the Reverend moved his family to Xenia, Ohio, just 45 miles away from Piqua.

Before 1900, Rev. Thomas and Louisa moved to Denver. Four of their adult children still lived with them: Thomas, Carolyn, Addison and Louise. Carolyn and Louise were school teachers, Thomas was a doctor, and Addison an attorney. A promising group of offspring, indeed.

When Rev. Thomas died in 1901, Louisa continued to live in Denver.

Most of the children stayed together after their father died in 1901. They pursued a variety of lifestyles and occupations. As in most families, Louise had children who she could be proud of and others who must have been a continual source of worry. Mother Louise died in 1909 and was buried in Fairmount Cemetery in Denver.

Jesse Morgan’s Grandchildren–The Children of Louise Morgan Hopkins

The Doctor

One who surely inspired pride –oldest son James G. Hopkins became a physician. He practiced medicine in Iola, Kansas when he answered the 1900 census. James moved to Las Animas in eastern Colorado in 1910 and to nearby Eads, Colorado by 1920. He still lived in Eads in 1930, but the trail ends there. James never married, which no doubt concerned his mother.

The Carpenter

Edwin Kirkwood Hopkins, who married in 1896, followed a twisting path. He worked as a carpenter, a miner, and a minister in various places in Kansas and Colorado. He and his wife had five children, presenting Louise with her first grandchild in 1897.

Soon after his marriage, Edwin struck out for Clear Creek, Colorado seeking gold. Clear Creek would have been a typical rough mining town at that time. What a place to raise a young family! Edwin’s family was joined by his brother according to the 1900 census.Perhaps the most interesting, and certainly the least tethered member of the family, youngest brother, Wilbur Lewis Hopkins, worked and lived  with his brother in the gold mines.

The experience at the gold mining camp apparently wrought changes in Edwin’s life, as he made a startling career change. In 1910, we find him working as a minister in Sedgwick, Colorado. Mother Louisa surely would have been relieved to see her son leave the rough life of a gold miner for his father’s profession in the church. She could have died content that he was on the right path. But the path changed before long.

Edwin’s wife died before 1920,  and he went back to his earlier occupation of carpenter. A single father of five children, he now lived in Udall Kansas. In the 1930s and at least until 1940, Edwin lived with a daughter and her family in Garden, Kansas, working as a carpenter until he retired.

School Teacher Sisters

We might call Carrie Dixon Hopkins an  “old maid school teacher”, but sister Louise narrowly escaped the title when she married at almost 40. Both women lived with their parents in Denver at least through 1890. In 1891, Louise Morgan Hopkins attended the University of Denver. In 1892 (she would have been 19) the school’s catalogue lists her as a second year student. According to a year book from the school where she taught, Caroline attended Cooper Academy.

By 1897, the family has moved to another residence in Denver, (Fillmore Street) and Louise is now a teacher.  They remain at the Fillmore Street address until 1902, after their father dies, when they move to 2710 East 12th Avenue. During that time, their brother Wilbur lives with them at various times. (See below). After nine years at the 12th Avenue address, the sisters move in 1911 to 1048 Milwaukee.  During their years of teaching, Caroline teaches math at West High School and Louise at Ashland School.

Louise married in late 1911 or early 1912, and Caroline probably lived alone until her death in 1929.  Her record in the City Directories picks up in 1913, the probable year after her sister’s marriage, living on Washington Street.  Poor Caroline can’t seem to settle down. She is in a different place in 1918, and yet another in 1919 when she lives at 933 Corona in Denver, still teaching. She moved to a yet another address in 1920, and stayed there for at least five years. Her final address seems to be 526 Steele, where she lived in 1925, 27 and 28.  Caroline is buried in the Fairmount Cemetery in Denver. She died in 1929.

A grave in the Denver Fairmont Cemetery lists Louise Hopkins Davis, B. 1873, D. 1918. It appears that Louise Morgan, daughter of Louis Morgan Hopkins, married late in life–probably about 1911, a couple of years after her mother died. She would have been nearing forty when she married and not yet fifty when she died in 1918. The same stone bears an inscription for a John Thomas Davis 1913-1922.  This must be Louise’s child, who unfortunately died at the age of nine, four years after his mother.

Mother Louise did not live to see Louise married, and I have no doubt that having two unmarried daughters was a source of worry, although she would have been glad to have them living in the same city during her lifetime.

The Surgeon

Thomas Mayes Hopkins became a physician, like his older brother James.  He practiced surgery, specializing in the throat. He was the most settled of all of Louisa’s children.

After Thomas’ marriage in 1904 in Salt Lake City, he settled in Denver where he stayed the rest of his life. Thomas not only had a distinguished career and a settled life, but he had the perfect little family of one boy and one girl.  His family buried him in Denver Fairmont Cemetery when he died in 1940. Mother Louise lived long enough to greet the little girl named after her as well as he new grandson William.

The Seeker of Gold

In 1900, Addison A. Hopkins still lived with his parents at the age of 32. However, he had become an attorney, which seemed to promise a settled life. While his father was alive, he lived with his parents and worked as an attorney in Denver (from at least 1895 through 1901).  His life record becomes puzzling after that. He seemed to wander in search of riches much like his grandfather, Jesse Morgan.

In 1910, the year after his mother died, we find Addison in Tucson Arizona, employed in a railroad shop. The census report says he is married, but the census lists no wife with him in the boarding house where he lives. And even more confusing, by the time of the next census in 1920, he is in Oregon,a widower working as a quartz miner. Obviously the man  inherited the wanderlust of his grandfather Jesse Morgan, Addison made a trip to Canada in 1929 and in 1930 the census lists him as a prospector for precious metals, living in Oroville, Washington, quite near the Canadian border. By 1935, he has moved to Talent, Oregon, another gold mining town. Although he’s been listed as single or a widower in the past, the 1940 census says he is divorced. Several marriages? Perhaps. Addison at seventy-one years old lived in Gold HIll,  Oregon, yet another gold mining community and that is the last we hear of him.

The Unsettled Son

But if you think Addison had an unusual life, take a look at the youngest son, Wilbur Hopkins. I am quite tempted to label him a free-loader.

As mentioned above, in 1900 Wilbur was counted living with his brother Edwin and also with his father.  The brothers Edwin and Wilbur were gold mining.  From 1895 to 1910, Wilbur lived with his parents or with sisters Caroline and Louise in Denver variously described as a miner or a student. In 1910 Wilbur apprenticed with a florist, a reputable job for the young brother of the two school teachers. But whatever he had been studying off and on, including flowers, fell by the wayside.

By 1917, according to his World War I draft card, and in 1920, according to the census, he lived and worked on a farm in Arapahoe, Colorado. Moving again, but still listing farm work as his occupation, in 1930 Wilbur lived with his brother, the surgeon Thomas Hopkins in Denver. Wilbur continued to live with Thomas and in 1940 reports that he is working as a handyman. Wilbur never married and never lived in a home–or even an apartment, of his own.

Surely this youngest son’s life would have caused much concern for his mother, Louise Morgan Hopkins, had she lived long enough to see him turn away from his abortive training as a florist.

Family Members Living Together

I had to make a table of locations, based on Denver City Directories to figure out where these people were in relationship to other members of their family.

In 1895, Louise Jr. was a student and she was living with Carrie, now a teacher and Addison a lawyer with their parents at 1243 South 14th Street.

From 1897 through 1901, the adult children Louise, Caroline/Carrie, Addison and Wilbur lived with their parents at 1135 Filmore Street in Denver.

In 1899, Wilbur was not at the Fillmore Street address, presumably mining with htis brother Edwin.

In 1902 and 1903, after the father died, Louise, Carrie, their mother and Wilbur live at 2710 E. 12th Street.

From 1904 through 1910, Wilbur lives with Carrie and Louise at 2710 E. 12th, but their mother is not listed in the Denver directory.

Summarizing Jesse Morgan’s Grandchildren–My First Cousins 2 x Removed.

So there are the children of Louise Morgan Hopkins–the grand-children of my great-great-grandfather, Jesse Morgan.  I tend to assign the wild streak in Wilbur and Addison to genes inherited from Jesse.  What would he have made of these grandchildren? And I can’t help wondering if my great-grandmother Mary Morgan met any of her step-grandchildren.

We met Jesse Morgan’s other children. Charles Morgan, a veteran of the Union army, had one daughter, Miranda (Leach) who in turn had two children. He also had six step-children although they were adults by the time he married his second wife, their mother. He followed his father, Jesse’s, footsteps moving to Illinois and finally to California.

Carlos Morgan also rambled westward. He married the beautiful Jane Warfield of Iowa. With her brothers family, they move to Bozeman Montana, where Carlos works as a tinner. To my knowledge, they had no children.

Malvina Morgan, the sibling closest in age to my great-grandmother Hattie Morgan (Stout), lived a typical wife-and-mother life in New York and Ohio until her husband, Austin Grimes, died. Then the independent Malvina moved to Colorado Springs where she worked in a shop of some sort according to family tradition. Malvina and Austin had two daughters, Emma and Eva.

So, counting Louise‘s seven children, I am related to the families of ten grand-children of my great-great grandfather.  Hellooooooo? Anybody out there???

How I Am Related

  • Vera Marie Badertscher is the daughter of
  • Harriette Anderson Kaser, who is the daughter of
  • Vera Stout Anderson, who is the daughter of
  • Harriet Morgan Stout, who is the daughter of
  • Jesse Morgan, who is the father of 
  • Louise Morgan Hopkins

Notes on Research–To Come

Malvina Morgan: Two Lives

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Of all four of Jesse Morgan’s children with his first wife, Malvina Morgan was closest in age to my great-grandmother, Harriet Morgan (Stout), her half-sister. She was probably also the closest emotionally to my great-great-grandmother, Mary Bassett Platt Morgan, her father’s second wife.

Malvina Morgan 1835-1917

I had high hopes of being able to flesh out the life story of Malvina, because my mother passed on family memories of Malvina. For instance, she said that Malvina owned a store in Colorado and that she came back to Ohio to visit her step-sister Hattie (Harriet Morgan Stout). It is possible that my mother even encountered Malvina on one of her visits to Harriet (Hattie) in Ohio, but mother would have been a very young girl.  It is more likely that mother’s beloved grandmother Hattie (Harriet Morgan Stout) talked to my mother about the Morgan siblings.

But the Colorado part of Malvina’s life that my mother knew about was the second chapter. The first chapter set in the East and the second chapter set in the West. In the last half of her life she lived an independent life, far from the life of her childhood and the first chapter of her life, when she was a wife and mother.

Malvina’s Childhood

Malvina was born in Chautauqua County, New York in 1835, and would have been a toddler when her parents, Jesse and Mary Pelton Morgan moved to Ohio.  When Malvina was about three years old, her mother died.  I have no evidence of where Malvina lived as a very young child, but in 1838, her father married Mary Bassett, the widow of Asahel Platt, and they set up housekeeping in Killbuck, Ohio.

Two years later, in 1842, Jesse and Mary Bassett Morgan had a baby girl, Harriet (Hattie). Malvina was seven years old, and probably living in Killbuck with her father (when he was not ‘on the road’) and her step-mother.

In July, the 1850 census counted Malvina, now fifteen years old, living with Mary Morgan and the eight-year-old Harriet in Killbuck. The census report says the Malvina was in school that year. Although it was not common for girls to get education into their teens, it is not surprising that the well-educated former teacher, Mary, would ensure her step daughter went to school. In October of that year, Mary received word that Malvina’s father, Jesse, had been killed in Sacramento California in the month of August.

Chapter One: Malvina’s Married Life

In 1854, when Malvina was only 18 years old, she married 20-year-old Austin Grimes from Mina, Chautauqua County, New York.  Since her mother’s family still lived in Chautauqua County, I can only speculate that she met him while visiting family, or perhaps moved back there to live at some point.  The 1855 New York census shows Austin and Malvina living in Mina, next door to an Andrew Grimes, who was Austin’s older brother.  Later that year, Malvina gave birth to their first daughter, Eva.

Austin was working as a farmer and they continued to live in Chautauqua County, where their second daughter, Eva was born in 1858. The 1860 census shows the family in Ripley, New York, a town on Lake Erie and not far from their previous home in Mina.  By 1863, Austin (and probably the rest of the family) was living in Cornplanter, Pennsylvania and Austin had a new career in the oil fields.  His Civil War draft registration lists him as  “refiner”. However it also lists him as “single.”  Since the 1870 census lists the family together again, I can only assume the “single” is an error. The 1870 census again has Austin working in the oil fields in Cornplanter, this time as an “engineer.”  Emma (15) and Eva (12) are attending school, and the family has taken in two roomers to help make ends meet. One of those roomers is a 15-year-old nephew of Austin.

Austin clearly was interested in cashing in on the oil boom in Verango County, Pennsylvania, which started about 1860–the first major oil boom in the United States.  It becomes clear how important the petroleum industry was to that area when you look at some of the place names like Oil Creek, Petroleum Center and Pithole City.  The towns were rough and raw and the demand for labor must have been great for this farmer to suddenly turn into an oil refiner or engineer.  And by 1880, at the age of 46,he was a Fireman at an oil well.

If being a fireman on an oil well sounds dangerous–it was.  The job entailed removing dangerous gases building up in oil wells and putting out the sometimes explosive fires.

We know that in 1881 Austin Grimes died in Long Island, New York. The family had moved to Queens, New York, some time prior to the 1880 census. Whether it was an accident on the job or some other cause, he was just 47 years old when he died and left Malvina a widow at the age of 46. I was hoping to be able to find an obituary, or some confirmation of how he died, but it does seem probable that an accident on the oil fields caused his death.

Chapter II: Malvina Goes West as an Independent Woman

Because of the missing 1890 census reports, I do not know how long Malvina stayed in the east before moving to Colorado Springs, Colorado, but it turns out that mother was right–she lived in Colorado.  The Colorado Springs City Directories for 1900, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1910, 1912, 1914 and 1916 all list her. That means that all of the wandering Jesse Morgan’s four children from his first marriage followed in his footsteps and went west.  Carlos ended up in Montana, Charles in California, and Louise in Denver. Whether Malvina owned (or worked in) a gift shop as mother said, cannot be proven from the census reports or the City Directories, as no occupation is listed in any of them.

I did not spot any relatives near her at the addresses listed in Colorado Springs, although there are many Grimes’ in the Colorado Springs cemetery. Malvina moved at least four times, each time living in rented rooms.  She went from 837 W. Huerfano, to the Gough Hotel, spent at least one year at the YWCA in 1910 and then lived at the St. Charles Rooming House on South Tejon Street.  It seems to have been a lonely life, but perhaps she was able to travel frequently, since we know that she visited Mary Morgan in Killbuck Ohio more than once.

She outlived all three of her siblings and died in April 1917 in Colorado Springs.  She is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in that city, as Mrs. M. L. Grimes.

I have the feeling that one of the unidentified pictures in my great-grandmother’s photo album may be Malvina Morgan Grimes, but for now, I have only this sketchy information and my imagination.

I will tell the story of the fourth child of Jesse Morgan, Louisa Morgan, through the wanderings of her children.

How I Am Related

  • Vera Marie Kaser Badertscher is the daughter of
  • Harriette Anderson Kaser, who is the daughter of
  • Vera Stout Anderson, who is the daughter of
  • Harriette (Hattie) Morgan Stout, who is the daughter of
  • Jessie Morgan and Mary Bassett Morgan.
  • Jessie Morgan with his first wife Mary Pelton is the father of
  • Malvina Morgan Grimes

Research Notes

Federal Census Reports: 1850, Killbuck, Holmes, Ohio; 1860, Ripley, Chautauqua, New York; 1870, Cornplanter, Venango, Pennsylvania; 1880, Queens, New York, New York; 1900, Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado

New York State Census: 1855, Mina, Chautauqua, New York (on line at Ancestry.com

James Morgan and his Descendants, North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, Ancestry.com (on line)

Colorado Springs City Directories, U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989, Ancestry.com (on line)1900, 1902, 1904, 1905, 1910, 1912, 1914, 1916, Malvina Grimes, widow.

Find a Grave, M. L. Morgan, Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Civil War Registration, Austin Grimes, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General’s Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865); Record Group: 110, Records of the Provost Marsha

New York, New York, Death Index, 1862-1948, Austin Grimes, 1881, Long Island City, New York