Joshua Morris Sr.
Revolutionary War soldier Joshua Morris is
buried in the Union Memorial Cemetery.
1752 -- 1824
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Joshua Morris, a native of Virginia, was one of the pioneer
settlers in what is now Cabell County,
West Virginia, and he developed a large landed estate, and was one of the
progressive
pioneer exponents of farm industry in Cabell and Kanawha counties. He had
served in the early Indian wars and was also a patriot soldier in the
War of the Revolution. In Orange County, Virginia,
was solemnized his marriage to Frances Simms.
Joshua is buried in Old Union Cemetery at Milton, West
Virginia. He came with his
family to Kanawha Valley in 1773; but, returned to Culpepper County, Virginia
because the land he had selected and claimed was in the western end of the
Teays Valley and the Indians were still troublesome there. A
monument in the Cabell County courtyard lists him as a
Revolutionary War Soldier. He returned
to the Kanawha Valley in 1800.