Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, pp 668-669 [Fulton] WALTER W. MORRIS. The extensive business interests of Fulton place Mr. Morris among the leaders in industrial circles, and he has achieved that success which comes as the result of enterprise and straightforward methods. He was born in Obion county, Tennessee, on the 10th of November, 1856, a son of G. Woodson and Willie F. (Lightner) Morris, both natives of Virginia. The father, who followed the tilling of the soil as a life occupation, passed away in death in Obion county in 1879, when sixty-five years of age, and the mother survived until 1896, her death occurring at the age of sixty-three years. They were the parents of four children, of whom but two are now living--our subject and his sister. Walter W. Morris spent the days of his boyhood and youth upon a farm, his education being received in the common schools of the neighborhood. When twenty years of age he took charge of his father's homestead, having ever since been engaged in farming and stock-raising. He is the owner of eight hundred acres, the most of which is under a fine state of cultivation, and in addition he is also engaged in the raising of tobacco. Since 1885 Mr. Morris has maintained his residence in Fulton, where he has since been largely connected with banking interests, having served as the first president of the First National Bank of Fulton, continuing in that position for three years, and since that time has served the same institution in the capacity of vice-president. The marriage of Mr. Morris was celebrated on the 12th of February, 1885, when Miss Florence Martin became his wife, she being a native of Weakley county, Tennessee, and four children were born to brighten and bless their home, but two are now deceased. In his political affiliations Mr. Morris is a Democrat, and was a member of the sixteenth district committee for Tennessee. In South Fulton he has served as an alderman. Religiously he is a member of the Christian church. Morris Lightner Martin = Obion-TN VA Weakley-TN http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/fulton/morris.ww.txt