Nancy Sue (Morton) Ross (1924 - 2021)

Born 21 Mar 1924 in Greenville, Muhlenberg, Kentucky 42345, USA

Ancestors

Daughter of Ross Morton and Bessie (Atherton) Morton

Descendants

Died 21 Jan 2021 at age 96 in Alpharetta, Fulton, Georgia, United States

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Biography

Nancy Sue Morton, my mother, was born on Friday, March 21, 1924 at 4:00am. She was born at the small Morton home in a mining town in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Her father (Ross Morton) in his autobiography recalled the name of that place as Nonnel, Kentucky. Mom’s birth certificate calls that place Tarma, Ky. Neither Nonnel nor Tarma still exist. Both “towns” were probably nothing more than a group of makeshift “shanty’s” that temporarily housed transient coal miners and their families. Both places were east of what was then called Bevier-Cleaton, Kentucky and today just Cleaton. It is midway between Central City and Drakesboro and very close the the famous Paradise Coal Mines where my grandfather Ross Morton was working at the time.

Sources

• Ancestry.com. Kentucky, Birth Index, 1911-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2006.
• Michigan Department of Community Health, Division of Vital Records and Health Statistics; Lansing, MI, USA; Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952; Film: 330; Film Description: Wayne (Dates TBD)
• Ancestry.com. Nevada, Divorce Index, 1968-2015 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
• First-hand information. Entered by Nancy Morton at registration.