Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Metcalfe County.

JERMAN B. MORRIS was born March 5, 1827, in Patrick County, Va., and is 
the eldest of five sons and six daughters, seven lived to be grown, born 
to Samuel C. and Susan D. (Baker) Morris. Samuel C. Morris was born and 
reared in Patrick County, Va.  He was a farmer and immigrated with his 
family to Barren County, now Metcalfe, Ky., in March, 1837. He located 
on 200 acres of land, near Sulphur Well, which he improved. He was born 
in July, 1800, was a son of Samuel Morris and died March 18, 1884.  
Samuel Morris was born and reared in Goochland County, Va. He was a 
soldier in the war of 1812 and served as quartermaster; was also 
quartermaster in the Florida war. He was an extensive planter and slave 
owner, resided in different parts of Virginia, and family, about 1841, 
moved to west Tennessee, where he died, aged about seventy-eight years. 
He was a son of Samuel Morris, who married Susannah Wade. They were both 
natives of Virginia.  Samuel was a farmer, of English descent, and a 
firm Methodist.  Mrs. Susan D. Morris, mother of Jerman Morris, was a 
daughter of Jerman Baker, who married Mildred James. They were also 
natives of Virginia, born, respectively, in Louisa and Franklin 
Counties. Jerman Baker was a farmer; was a member of the Virginia 
Legislature when the Richmond theater was burned in 1813. He was a son 
of William Baker, who married Nancy Thompson. Jerman Morris was reared 
on a farm and remained with his parents until he was twenty-one, when he 
went to Fulton County, Ky., and entered a store as salesman. Four years 
later he returned to Metcalfe, then Barren County, where he engaged in 
the mercantile business at Knob Lick, for five years; he then engaged at 
farming. September 21, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Twenty-first 
Kentucky, Federal; was commissioned as captain to enlist a company.  He 
was in all the engagements, etc., until his resignation.  September 16, 
1862, he was discharged on account of ill health, and now draws a 
pension.  He was engaged for six years at the mercantile business at 
Horse Cave, then engaged in farming. In 1879 he moved to Sulphur Well 
postoffice, Metcalfe County, where he purchased a small farm and engaged 
in the general merchandise business, also keeping hotel.  He served a 
postmaster for two years and was elected police judge of Sulphur Well 
for two terms of two years each.  He owns 105 acres of good land 
improved with a fine residence, etc., also seventy-five acres two miles 
above Sulphur Well; also owns his old home of sixty-nine acres on Green 
River, Hart County.  Mr. Morris married, September 25, 1853, Elizabeth 
Clack, of Barren County, Ky., a daughter of William W. and Isabella 
(Petty) Clack. William W. Clack was a farmer and was sheriff and deputy 
for thirteen years. He was a son of John Clack, who married Elizabeth 
Wood. They were born and reared in Virginia.  John was an extensive 
farmer and slave owner, and an early settler of Barren County, having 
moved there about 1795.  To Mr. and Mrs. Morris the following children 
were born:  Mary A. King, Susan I. Owen, William L. (at Junction City), 
Martha E., Elizabeth L., Katie Masters, James S. (at Junction City), 
Martha E., Elizabeth L., Katie Masters, James S. (at Junction City), 
Hattie, Jerman B. B. and Jane Wood (deceased). Mr. Morris and wife are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He is a Mason, was formerly 
a Granger; in politics is a Republican and cast his first presidential 
vote for Taylor in 1848.

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