Morris
lxvii. Marriage: 1871, KY.
lxviii. James married (2) Rachel Napier daughter of James Napier in 1871. Rachel was born on 7 Jun 1852 in Breathitt Co., KY. She died on 29 May 1925 in Lost Creek, Perry Co., KY. She was buried in Noble Cem on Cutches Branch.
Major George Morris was an early surveyor and prominently mentioned in the ancient records. He patented thousands of acres lxix.
Children of Rachel Napier and James W. Noble are:
of land in Old Rappahannock and New Kent counties. Major George Morris and Mr. John Long received a land patent for lxx.
George Washington Noble
1600 acres on July 29, 1667 (Land Patent Book #6, page 158). On April 1, 1685 George Morris of New Kent county conveyed lxxi.
b. 1824. d. 1862. Age 38.
his half interest in this 1600 acres to “Thomas Pettit and unto his sister Mrs. Catherine Longe” (Rappahannock County Record lxxii. m. Phoebe Campbell (Part Cherokee)
Book #7, page 179).
lxxiii. Notes from Genealogy.com: “Two Yankees, Nim McIntosh and Hen Kilburn waylaid George at his home on
George (Major) Morris (1572 - 1685)
Barge’s Branch, Breathitt Co., KY and when he came out they shot and killed him. His brother Lossen Noble was killed Birthdate: 1572
about the same time on John Little’s Creek. George went to Missouri in 1844 and came back to Kentucky and married
Birthplace: Norwich, , Norfolk, England
Phoebe Campbell, daughter of Lewis Campbell, and he named his first daughter Missouri for the state. George was a
Death: Died 1685 in New Kent Co., Va.
farmer.”
m. Eleanor Morris (1576 - d.)
lxxiv. Caleb Jacob Lovejoy Noble
m.Katherine Pettus (Morris) (1638 - c.1719)
lxxv.
b. 1859, KY. d. 1928. KY Age 78.
lxxvi. m. Sarah Jane Noble b. 1878. d. 1954. Daughter of James Noble and Rachel Napier
Birthdate: 1638
lxxvii. Ambrose Noble
Birthplace: Rappahannock Co., Virginia
lxxviii. b. circa 1896. d. 1963. Age 67.
Death: Died 1719 in Virginia , the son, born after the death of his father, was not entitled to any legacy by his father’s will. Major lxxix. m. Omega Noble
George Morris, his maternal grandfather, was an early surveyor and is prominently mentioned in the ancient records. He patented lxxx. Vesta Noble
thousands of acres of land in Rappahannock and New Kent counties. Major George Morris and Mr. John Long received a land lxxxi. b. 1921. d. 2003 Age 83.
patent for 1600 acres on July 29, 1667 (Land Patent Book #6, page 158). On April 1, 1685 George Morris of New Kent county lxxxii. m. Edward Fugate (1912-1964)
conveyed his half interest in this 1600 acres to “Thomas Pettit and unto his sister Mrs. Catherine Longe” (Rappahannock lxxxiii. Inez Fugate
County Record Book #7, page 179).
lxxxiv. b. 1948
Major George Morris was anxious to provide for Thomas Pettit, Jr. , and his half-sister Catherine Longe (born about 1668), lxxxv. m. Robert Liftig. 1971. b. 1947
who was a young maiden lady and styled “Mrs.” according to the custom of the day. Shortly thereafter she married Edmund
Anya Liftig
Tunstall (1691), and secondly Captain Richard Wyatt (1698).
lxxxvi. b. 1977
Children of Catherine (Longe) and Edmund Tunstall:
lxxxvii. m. Noel Hartman, 2011
Mary Tunstall circa 1692 - married Thomas Fox
lxxxviii. Dorothy Liftig
Catherine Tunstall circa 1694 married Samuel Mathews
lxxxix. b. 1981
Barbara Tunstall before 1698.
xc.
m. David Martin, 2009
Children of Catherine (Longe – Tunstall) and Richard Wyatt:
Thomas Wyatt
Henry Wyatt
Susannah Wyatt married (1) Solomon Day and (2) Thomas Davis
Richard Wyatt married Sarah Overstreet and they moved to Charlotte County, VA
Dorothy Pettit who married first in 1675 to James Fugett (recorded in Book D - 5; page 489 of Index to Marriages of Old Rappahnnock and Essex Counties, Virginia - 1655 to 1900 by Eva Eubank Wilkerson). She married secondly Godfrey Stanton in 1711 (recorded in Land Trials book; page 489 of Index to Marriages of Old Rappahnnock and Essex Counties, Virginia - 1655
to 1900 by Eva Eubank Wilkerson). By deed dated September 1714 Godfrey Stanton and Dorothy his wife deeded 280 acres in Essex county to Thomas Wyatt “our nephew and godson, the son of Richard Wyatt and Catherine his wife of King and Queen county and the Parish of St. Stephens”. This instrument recites that this land is a portion of a legacy left the said Dorothy by the last will and testament of her father Thomas Pettit dated September 20, 1663.
Ann Games (Gaines) was given a cow by her sister Dorothy (Pettit) Fugett on December 18, 1679.
Confirmation of this Pettit Arms was received by William Petyt and his brother, Sylvester Petyt, 27 May 1690, descendants of Gilbert Petyt, who died 10 September 1470.
Gilbert, and his brother Michael, were sons of Sir John Pettit [of similar Arms], and his wife Margareta, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Carminow.
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