Morley – Page 8 – Family Preserves

Brief Sketch of Thomas E. Morley

Thomas E. Morley was a man of large stature, weighing over two hundred pounds. He was a wheel wright by trade, was considered a temperate man, though he used tobacco and drank tea. He took no intoxicants. His family belonged to the Presbyterian church. In the year of 1829 he moved to Kirtland, Ohio, where he and his wife Editha spent the last 17 years of their lives on a farm. He worked mostly at his trade.

A short time before his death he walked five miles to see his oldest daughter, Arthusa… Returning about dark that night he retired to his bed never to rise again. It was the first time he had ever been ill. In a few days he died, being 78 years old. In six weeks his loving wife died.

In a noble ship with wide spread sails our Morley ancestors came to this land. As their ship came plowing through the rough waves of the mighty Atlantic, roughest of all the oceans, they landed in the salem harbor of Massachussets Bay. They had come here to America to make a home and to live their religion as they saw fit. Because of the tyranny of King Charles the First of England. Thousands left their native land to come here for the freedom this country offered. A latter govenor of New England said of this great movement: “God sifted, a nation that he might send choice seed to this wilderness.” Dr. Muzz’s history of the US, and what a choice seed: The Morley Ancestry have great characters and our Novle Grandfather Isaac Morley was of this stock.