John Thomas Morgan

PROOF CLASS: BOTH PARENTS = INFORMANT (insufficient), reviewed 7 Sep 2026, flag stays 0/0 - his 1932 Travis Co. certificate field 13 reads "DON'T KNOW", 14-16 ditto; nothing read names either parent. Reopens on a Travis Co. probate (K504 Q3/Q4). Audited 27 Jul 2026 - Junction #9. His Travis County death certificate (file 14222, reg. 8689, Ancestry coll. 2272 image 40394_b062034-01198) was read in full. It CONFIRMS his identity superbly: birth 19 Jan 1847 exactly matching the date the tree already carried but had never cited, birthplace South Carolina matching, death 30 Mar 1932 at Austin matching. Occupation "Retired Farmer" and burial at "Boggy" Cem. on 31 Mar 1932 are new from this record. RECORDED NEGATIVE - so that nobody re-hunts this document. Field 13, father's name, reads "DON'T KNOW", and fields 14-16 carry ditto marks, i.e. also unknown. This certificate therefore does NOT corroborate Hampton Morgan [3134] as his father. That link still rests on the single 1880 census line it rested on before, and must be answered somewhere else - a Travis County probate, or the questions Q3/Q4 in morgan-osburn-junction.md section 3. Identification chain shared with his wife [348]: the informant here is their son B. E. Morgan [1168]; on her 1937 certificate it is their son John Morgan [1167]; same undertaker C. B. Cook, same burial ground, adjacent West 5th Street addresses five years apart. --- Audited 27 Jul 2026 (second note, added with the [348] birth correction). AGE DISCREPANCY - FLAGGED, NOT RESOLVED, AND NOT ACTED ON. The 1880 U.S. Census, Travis Co., dwelling 212 (coll. 6742 rec. 7301735, image read) records him as "John Morgan, 29, Self, birthplace S C". Age 29 in 1880 implies birth ~1851, but his 1932 death certificate gives 19 Jan 1847, which this record's own birthplace column (South Carolina) corroborates. The same census under-ages his WIFE by a comparable margin - she appears at 27 (b. ~1853) against the 1848 her certificate claims. A roughly 4-5 year offset affecting BOTH spouses in the same household is a systematic feature of that enumeration, not two independent errors, so it must be resolved as ONE question rather than person by person. His birth date is therefore left at 19 Jan 1847 and nothing has been changed here. Note the asymmetry that justified changing hers and not his: for HER, the census and the certificate disagree on BIRTHPLACE as well as year (Arkansas vs Mississippi), and a second census agrees with the first. For HIM, census and certificate AGREE on birthplace (South Carolina) and only the age differs, with no second record in conflict. --- Audited 25 Aug 2026 (housekeeping, no new evidence). The certificate field readings recorded above were COPIED into C6916.ActualText, which was empty. Reason: an empty ActualText put this citation into research-board.py section C, "CITED BUT NEVER READ" — a false positive, since the document was read on 27 Jul 2026. Nothing was removed from this note and no fact, flag or proof was changed; F744 remains 0/0. --- Audited 7 Sep 2026 - the 1900 census of his household, read on the image. Register K504. 1900 U.S. Census, Justice Precinct 1, Travis Co., Texas, ED 0108, sheet 8, dwelling 127 family 134, roll 1673, image 4118572_00614 (Ancestry coll. 7602, index records 44327578 to 44327585). Read 7 Sep 2026 in ONE FRAME spanning the printed column headers through Mother's Birthplace, so the row mapping is anchored at the head of the table. Columns read: line, dwelling, family, name, relation to head, race, sex, birth month, birth year, age, marital status, years married, children born, children living, birthplace, father's birthplace, mother's birthplace. Occupation, literacy and tenure were NOT read. THE HOUSEHOLD. Line 15 'Morgan, John', Head, white male, born Jan 1853, aged 47, married 31 years, birthplace South Carolina, father South Carolina, mother South Carolina. Line 16 'Cynthia C.', Wife, born Apr 1856, aged 44, married 31 years, 6 children born and 5 living, birthplace Mississippi, father Georgia, mother Georgia. Lines 17 to 20, all Son, all born Texas with father South Carolina and mother Mississippi: 'Pink' b. Mar 1870 aged 30, 'Wm M' b. Aug 1880 aged 19, 'John P.' b. Apr 1883 aged 17, 'Ben' b. Nov 1890 aged 9. Line 21 'Carter, Martha', M in law, born Oct 1820 aged 80, Widowed, 6 children born and 3 living, birthplace Georgia, father Georgia, mother Georgia. Line 22 'Andrews, Wm', Boarder, aged 18. THE ROW-ALIGNMENT CONTROL, named before the reading rather than after it: the wife's mother's-birthplace column reads Georgia and Martha Carter's own birthplace reads Georgia; the four sons' mother's-birthplace column reads Mississippi and the wife's own birthplace reads Mississippi. Both pairs go red under a one-row shift in either direction. Both are green. WHAT THIS CENSUS ADDS. (a) His mother-in-law is named on the page - Martha Carter, born Oct 1820 in Georgia, widowed - which is the first record in this tree to name his wife's mother. (b) Years married 31, so this marriage begins about 1869, which the tree's recorded marriage date of 8 Dec 1867 does not match; both figures are recorded here and neither is preferred. (c) Six children born and five living matches the six children the tree holds for F154, with Nora (1875-1878) as the one dead. THE AGE DISCREPANCY FLAGGED IN THE SECOND NOTE ABOVE IS NOW SEEN TWICE. That note records him at 29 in the 1880 census against a certificate birth of 19 Jan 1847, records that the same enumeration under-ages his wife by a comparable margin, and concludes it must be resolved as ONE question. In the 1900 census he is 47, implying 1853, and she is 44, implying 1856 against her own certificate's 1848. A second enumeration twenty years later, taken by a different enumerator, repeats the pattern - which is a property of this family's own reporting rather than of one enumerator. NOTHING HAS BEEN CHANGED ON HIM. NO CITATION HAS BEEN CREATED for this census. The record is identified above by collection, roll, enumeration district, sheet, dwelling and image so that it can be attached later without being re-hunted.