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1838 - WILL OF RICHARD BASSETT SR: "I give to my daughter Sarah Morris my negro woman Milley her child Liddy together with all her future increase." ... "Codicil to this my last and Testament. It is my will and desire & I wish it distinctly understood that the negro woman and her children Liddy and all her increase which I have willed to my daughter Sarah Morris is to be considered exclusively her property so long as she may live and then to be equally divided amongst all her children and no other person or persons whatsoever. Given under my hand the 11th September 1840." (Harris County Georgia Will Book A, 1833-1859, pages 59,60)
Fifteen Southern Families by Marymaud Killen Carter (1974): Sarah Bassett, a daughter of Richard Bassett, Sr., was born July 18, 1807 in Morgan Co., Ga.; married Spencer Morris in 1823 in Pike Co., Ga. Her husband was co-executor fo her father's will. It is her Morris children that are mentioned in the will of Richard Bassett, Sr. It is not known if they were the only ones of her children living when Richard Bassett, Sr. died or if perhaps they were just his favorites and that was why he willed them something separately. No further record have I been able to find on the children of Sarah Bassett Morris other than for Luisa (Eliza) Morris who married John Floyd Mackey, and the one son, George Washington Morris, whose descendents own the Bible from which the Morris records were copied that appear in this Morris family history. We do not know the date of the death of Sarah (Bassett) Morris, but do know that she was still living in Randolph Co., Ala. at Tolburt in 1893.
[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 19, Ed. 1, Tree #1055, Date of Import: Jan 24, 1999]