MORRIS, ACHILLES, a cousin to Bishop Morris, of the M. E. church, was born in Kanawha county, West Virginia, married there, and came with his family to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1826, in what is now Loami township. He was a soldier in the Black Hawk war, and was afterwards elected as one of the representatives of Sangamon county in the State legislature. He raised a company in the vicinity of Loami, of which he became Captian, in the 4th Ill. Inf., under Col. E. D. Baker, and died of disease at Camargo, Mexico, in 1847. He left a widow and eleven children in Sangamon county. His eldest son--

JONATHAN, was born July 21, 1825, in Kanawha county, Va., married in Sangamon county, Jan. 23, 1846, to Martha E. Meacham. He enlisted in the company of which his father was Captain, int he 4th Ill. Inf. He was promoted to Major of the regiment in Mexico, and was one of the party that captured Santa Anna's cork leg. Served to the close of the Mexican war. Mr. and Mrs. Morris had nine children; four died under three years. Of the other five: NANCY married John Goldsmith, who is editor of the Waverly Times, and resides there.--1874. EDOM D., DOUGLAS, RICHARD N. and WILLIS GRANT live with their mother in Waverly. Jonathan Morris raised a company in Waverly, in 1861, and was commissioned Captain of Co.--, 14th Ill. Inf. He was promoted to Major of the regiment. After eighteen months service a horse fell with him and crushed an ancle, in consequence of which he resigned Sept., 1862, and died suddenly at Waverly, Nov. 12, 1871.

I have no history of the other members of the family of Achilles Morris.