Hon. Merida Morrison is a Tennessean, born in 1827, son of Edward and Lucy Morrison. The father was a wagon-maker by trade, but owned and lived on a farm. He was in the war of 1812, and after his death his second wife drew a pension. The mother died in 1847 and the father married Elizabeth Butler, and died in 1866. His second wife died in 1885. Our subject assisted his father in the shop and on the farm until his marriage, and since that time has devoted the most of his attention to farming. he purchased his present farm of 385 acres of land, and devotes it principally to the raising of stock. He served the people many years as justice of the peace, and in 1860 was elected to the State Legislature and served one term. In 1845 Mr. Morrison married Miss Lydia Hardin. She was born in Alabama in 1828, and came with her parents to Tennessee when quite young. She is the mother of the following children; Margaret A., William D., Mary A., Martha A., Sofina E., Nancy J., Merida (who died in 1868), Joseph C., and an infant deceased. Mr. Morrison and his wife are members of the Missionary Baptist Church.