History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 892-893, Union Township
Rev. Amos Morey, son of John Morey, was born Sept. 16, ’12, on
the Penobscot river, in what was then the Territory of Maine. His
parents removed with their family in 1815 to Oneida county, N. Y.,
thence to Huron county, Ohio, in 1831, and in 1837 Mr. M. came to
Fulton county. In 1838 he hauled wheat to Chicago, sold it for 50 cents
a bushel. He was married Sept. 16, ’33, to Lydia H. Wright, by whom he
had 10 children. Mrs. M. died April 8, ’76, and he again married, Oct.
22, ’76, to Elizabeth J. (Shoemaker) Little. They are members of the M.
E. Church; was Pastor of the Avon M. E. Church last year; is now a
superanuated minister. His son Geo. M. is Pastor of the M. E. Church at
Millersburg, and was Pastor of the M. E. Church at Lewistown 2 years.
His daughter Emily E. is the wife of Rev. George W. Martin, Pastor of
the Prairie City M. E. Church. His son, Amos F., is patentee of Morey’s
iron truck and of a sulky attachment for plows.
