My Great Grandparents in 1900: Enoch and Ella May Biddle
This is the 2nd post in a series looking at my great grandparents, focusing particularly on the 1900 census. In this case we'll be looking at Enoch Franklin Morris and Ella May Biddle. They were my great grandparents on my mother's side. Their daughter, Ethel, was my grandmother. Enoch Franklin Morris (1877-1938) was born in Jennings County, Indiana, as was his wife, Ella May Biddle (1872-1965). This is rural southern Indiana. The biggest city in Jennings County is North Vernon, which in 2020 had a population of 6608. In the 1900 census, the 23 year old Enoch Franklin Morris lived in Columbia Township (population today is still under 1000), in the northeast corner of the county. Enoch and Ella May got married in 1898. In the 1900 census Enoch is listed as a farmer. He can both read and write (not always a given). The same is true of Ella May. Their first child, daughter Lanora, is only nine months old at the time of the census. Enoch was a farmer and later also a trustee of th...