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My Great Grandmother--Wife of James Monroe Morton--She was 17 when she married and her husband was 54-She died young when her children were still minors from an accidental overdose of a drug(Belladona or Laudnum)used to control "Spells" (probably seizures)--She was the Gr-Gr-Granddaughter of Capt. Robert Blackwell(1742-1813) a Revolutionary War Soldier and His Wife Zillah Rice Blackwell(1746-1823)daughter of Thomas Rice (1725-1800).The Blackwells' and Rices' both came to Caswell Co.,NC from Hanover Co.,Va.--15 Years after Cannie's death,her husband James Monroe Morton who everybody called "Pug" was kicked in the head by a horse and never recovered from that accident. He laid in bed for a month or two in a kind of coma until he died in 1924,leaving his Daughters Hattie & Gladys as orphans.
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