03 Apr Search for ancestors- March 20, 2021
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John Morris was a Daguerrotypist, meaning he used an early photographic process employing an iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor. Before John enlisted in the Arkansas 4th Confederate Infantry, he had a color tintype photograph made of own family- wife Nancy, and toddler son, Thomas Ruffin Morris. After the color tintype was made, John left his wife and child in the care of his parents, Harrison Ruffin Morris & Martha Ann Cheatham Morris because Nancy's parents were both dead and her sister had a large family of her own and was unable to have Nancy and her son live with them. John...
