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GEORGE WILLIAM (BILL) GILLETT FAMILY HISTORY |
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Children of Great-Grandparents
Erwin Chamberlin and Adaline (Curry) Morlan
Oliver - George - Ida - Samuel - Cora
Cora Morlan
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Born: February 15, 1871, in Dublin, Barton County, Missouri
Died: February 15, 1945, in Kansas City, Missouri, at the age of 74 Married: Stephen Waller on November 27, 1895 Stephen was born on January 5, 1872 in Guersey County, Missouri - he was a merchant in Marceline, Linn County, Missouri, where they lived - Stephen died October 24, 1930, at the age of 58 Children: none |  Cora (Morlan) & Stephen Waller |
Ida Morlan |
Born: October 16, 1873, in Dublin, Barton County, Missouri
Died: February 9, 1929, at age 55 Married: William Lane on December 30, 1892 The Lanes were farmers in Jasper County, Missouri Children: 3 sons Robert Richard Lane - born: January 24, 1893; died: January 14, 1970, in Pittsburg, Kansas William Erwin Lane - born: January 12, 1899 died: March 1985 in Kansas City, Missouri Theodore Underhill Lane - born: January 11, 1908 died: January 30, 1975, in Canoga Park, California |  William, Robert & Ida (Morlan) Lane |
| Oliver Morlan | Born: October 20, 1874, in Dublin, Barton County, Missouri Died: March 15, 1939 at the age of 64 - Oliver was kicked in the head by a horse early in his married life and lived most of his life in the home for the mentally ill in Nevada, Missouri - he is buried in the Morlan family plot in Waters Cemetery (about 11 miles southwest of Lamar, Missouri and about 4 miles northwest of Jasper, Missouri) Married: Emma Jane Benford on December 29, 1895, at Lamar, Missouri - she was born September 3, 1874, and died January 15, 1910 at Topeka, Kansas, of tuberculosis at the age of 35 - she left her two children, Frank and Eunice (14-and 10-years-old), to be raised by relatives - Eunice first lived with George and Lyda Morlan and then with Cora (Morlan) Waller - Frank also came down with tuberculosis, and was housed at Camp Cook in South Dakota Children: 1 son and 1 daughter, both born in Dublin, Missouri Frank Emmett Morlan - Born: September 15, 1896 Died: June 13, 1917 at Camp Cook, South Dakota, of tuberculosis when he was only 20 years old Eunice Olive Morlan - Born: June 3, 1900 - Married: William Dale Brewer May 31, 1921, at New Cambria, Missouri - Wiliam was born September 12, 1896, at Marceline, Missouri - Eunice and William had 1 son - William Dale Brewer died May 1976, at the age of 79 - Eunice (Morlan) Brewer died November 1979, at Kansas City, Missouri, at age 79 - she was cremated. |
 Emma (Benford) Morlan  Eunice Morlan  Frank Morlan |
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Stephen Richard Morlan |
Born: January 3, 1876, in Dublin, Barton County, Missouri
Died: January 3, 1878, exactly 2 years after his birth He is buried in the Morlan family plot in the Waters Cemetery (11 miles southwest of Lamar, Missouri, and 4 miles northwest of Jasper, Missouri) - the oldest grave in the family plot | |
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George Emmett Morlan -- Bill's Grandfather |
Born: September 8, 1880, in Dublin, Barton County, Missouri
Died: December 29, 1965, in Butler, Missouri, at the age of 85 Married: Lyda May Kelly on October 24, 1907, in Fort Madison, Iowa - she was born April 12, 1886, the daughter of Freeman and Sarah (McClane) Kelly - she died November 26, 1973, in Butler, Missouri, at the age of 87 Children: 1 son and 1 daughter George Erwin Morlan - Born: February 14, 1909; Died: November 28, 1982, in Excelsior Springs, Missouri Atha Arthela Morlan - Bill's mother - Born: October 4, 1914; Died: July 20, 1994, in Kansas City, Kansas | |
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Samuel Fredrick Morlan |
Born: September 13, 1884, in Dublin, Barton County, Missouri - went by his middle name, Fred Died: June 14, 1959, at Nevada, Missouri, at the age of 74 Married: Sylvia Cora Saunders in Marceline, Missouri, on October 24, 1906 (one year to the day before his brother, George, married) - Fred Morlan was 22 years old at the time; his bride was 19 years old - she was born August 29, 1887, at Lingo, Missouri, the daughter of James and Jeanette Luella (Braley) Saunders - Sylvia (Saunders) Morlan, passed away November 29, 1975, in Kansas City, Missouri, at the age of 88 Children: 3 daughters, all born at Marceline, Missouri Madeline Murlee Morlan - Born August 8, 1907 - married George Miller Canine on April 14, 1928, in Kansas City, Missouri - she was age 20 at the time; he was age 29 - he was born May 3, 1898, in Kansas City, Missouri, at 1326 Euclid - George and Madeline (Morlan) Canine were the parents of four children - George Miller Canine died May 14, 1990, in Bolivar, Missouri, at age 92 - Madeline Murlee (Morlan) Canine died November 26, 1995, in Bolivar, Missouri, at age 88 Mary Marcella Morlan - Born July 30, 1909 - married Maxwell Emerson Kelley October 24, 1930 at Kansas City, Missouri - (this was 24 years to the day after her parents were married) - Maxwell was born September 7, 1909, at Kansas City, Missouri - at the time of their marriage, both were 21 years old - Maxwell and Marcella (Morlan) Kelley were the parents of two children, both born in Kansas City, Missouri - Maxwell Emerson Kelley died November 4, 1991, at the age of 82 - Mary Marcella (Morlan) Kelley died October 7, 1997, in Independence, Missouri, at the age of 88 Marjorie Maxine Morlan, - Born November 27, 1911 - married John Leroy Steele on July 6, 1930 at Olathe, Kansas - John Steele was born January 30, 1912, at Topeka, Kansas - Marjorie & John were both 18 years old at the time of their marriage - they were the parents of nine children - Marjorie Maxine (Morlan) Steele died in September 1986 in El Dorado Springs, Missouri, at age 74 - John LeRoy Steele died September 20, 1998, in Grandview, Missouri, at age 86 |
 Marjorie, Sylvia (Saunders) Madeline, & Mary Morlan |