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1 1850 US Census (Kirtland, Lake County, Ohio). Repository: Ancestry. Surety: 4. Lists John Morse (age 80, b. MA), wife Temperance [Hamlin] (age 79, b. NY) and daughter Clarissa (age 38, b. MA), living in Kirtland, Ohio. John is listed as a "farmer." Notation is made that Temperance is "dumb" and cannot read or write. Living next door is their son, Harvey H. Morse, and his family.

2 1870 US Census (Kirtland, Lake County, Ohio). Repository: Ancestry. Surety: 4. Lists Harvey H. Morse (age 64, b. MA), wife Ann H. (age 57, b. CT) and children Belle G. [Isabella] (age 34, b. OH), John H. (age 30, b. OH), Fred H. (age 26, b. OH) and George H. (age 22, b. OH), living in Kirtland, Ohio. Also in the household are Harvey's sister, Clarissa Morse (age 70, b. MA), and "domestic servant" Mary Henry (age 45, b. NY). Harvey is listed as a "farmer." John H. and Fred H. are listed as "carpenters." George H. is listed as a "farm laborer." Notation is made that Clarissa Morse is "deaf & dumb."

3 Morse, J. Howard & Leavitt, Emily W., Morse Genealogy: Comprising the Descendants of Samuel Anthony, William, and Joseph Morse, and John Moss: Being a Revision of the Memorial of the Morses Published by Rev. Abner Morse in 1850. (The Morse Society: New York, 1903.), p. 221-222. Surety: 4. 1632: Captain John6 Morse, son of John5 (Issac4, Captain Joseph3, Joseph2, Samuel1) Morse, was born in Pittsfield, Mass., January 7, 1771. He removed to Kirtland, Ohio. He married March 4, 1799, Temperance, daughter of Isaac and Damaris (Grummon) Hamlin, who was born October 4, 1771. He was the first captain who refused to allow his company to use intoxicating drinks; he died at Kirtland, June 5, 1852; she died there January 23, 18---.

They had children:

I. Clarissa, born January 1, 1800; she was a mute and became a skilled musician; was trained at a school in Hartford, Conn.

II. John Flavel, born in October, 1801, married October 16, 1824, Mary, daughter of John Granger; resided at Painesville, O.; she was his cousin.

III. (Captain) Harvey H., born October 15, 1805, married October 16, 1834, Ann Holbrock; resided at Kirtland.

IV. Aurelia, born April 10, 1807, married, November 9, 1834, Christopher G. Crary, a farmer of Kirtland, born in Becket, Mass., January 22, 1806; he was county commissioner; they resided for a while at Marshalltown, Iowa; she died in Kirtland, August 5, 1843; he died there March 13, 1895; they had Children:

(1) Marion Amira Crary, born October 22, 1835,
(2) Virginia Crary, born August 23, 1837, married, May 6, 1882, W.P. Whelpel [Whelpley],
(3) Octavia Crary, born July 29, 1841, married October 28, 1868, Edward D. Billings.

4 South Kirtland Cemetery Inscriptions (Section DA, Row 8, Stone 2). Surety: 4. Morse monument: [W side] John Morse./ Died June 5, 1852,/ Aged 81 Yrs./ Tempe, His wife/ Died Jan. 23, 1856,/ Aged 85 Yrs./ Clarissa Daughter of/ J. & T. Morse/ Died Sept. 18, 1871,/ Aged 71 Yrs.

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