MORROW COUNTY—Do you have ancestors who lived in Morrow County in 1850 or before?
You can honor your ancestors by recognizing them as First Families of Morrow County through the Morrow County Genealogical Society.
The deadline for 2022 First Families applications is March 31.
The purpose of “First Families of Morrow County” is to honor our pioneer ancestors who braved the wilderness to raise their families and their cabins.
“While we are one of the youngest counties, we have the advantage of using the 1850 census, which affords the opportunity of locating our ancestral family members by name, rather than by just a mark on the census form. But since our ancestors settled in parts of the four counties which surrendered land to establish our present boundaries, we must search for the earliest possible arrival in those areas,” the group said on its Facebook page.
The date of December 31, 1850, is established as the latest date you can claim your ancestor to be one of the “First Families,” but residents are encouraged to reach back to the very first.