CORINNA L. MORTON

CORINNA L. MORTON 

            Daughter of Isaac Morton (1787 – aft 1870), a merchant, and Sarah “Sally” H. Shanks (1803 – 1869).   Corinna  was born about 1824, Ohio County, KY. Corinna died 10 Apr 1902 in Mount Vernon, Illinois and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Mount Vernon. 

            On 7 Jan 1845 Corinna married Dr. Willis Duff Green, who was born in the 1821 near Danville, Kentucky.  Dr. Green and Corinna lived in Mount Vernon, Illinois, where he practiced medicine and was prominent in business, including part ownership of the first railroad into Mount Vernon.  Dr. Green and Corinna had ten children: Alfred M., an attorney in Gainesville, Texas; Inez I., an instructor in Southern Illinois Normal University; Laura Reed; Minnie; William H., a Judge of the Circuit Court of Illinois; Earl, a physician in Mount Vernon; Duff, Cora Lee; Maidelyn F.; and Lucille. 

            Source: A History of Southern Illinois, by George Washington Smith, Vol. III, page 1352, published 1912.

            I suspect Corinna’s death was caused by cholera because one of her adult children, Cora Lee Green, died a few days after Corinna. 

            Dr. Green, Corinna’s husband, died in September 1904.