Morgan, Nathaniel Alexander, 1823-1907.

Nathaniel Alexander "Alex" Morgan was born in Mecklenberg County, North Carolina, on August 24, 1823, to Reverend N.R. and Mary Alexander Morgan. When Alex was ten years old, the family moved to Eutaw, Alabama. At 24, Alex graduated from the Jefferson Medical Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1850, in Marshall, Texas, he married Eugenia Frances "Fanny" McCown, daughter of Colonel James McCown, a former member of Texas' first legislature.

In the 1860 census, Alex and Fanny were living in Mansfield, Louisiana, and they had four children at the time of Alex's enlistment: Jim, 11, Ross, 8, Mary Elizabeth "Pet," 3, and baby "Fanny." Alex is listed as a "physician/farmer."

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