City: Cedar Hill
MORRIS, Gideon Lee, farmer; born near Cedar Hill, Tenn., Feb. 25, 1866; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Thomas E. and Elizabeth (Mathews) MORRIS, father’s occupation farmer; paternal grandfather Jesse MORRIS; paternal grandmother Mary (Nichols) MORRIS, maternal grandfather Thomas B. MATHEWS, maternal grandmother Fannie POWELL; educated common schools and Bell Academy Springfield, Tenn.; graduated Commercial College Kentucky University 1888; married Fannie BENTON May 21, 1890; member Knights of Pythias; early business occupation, traveling salesman for Walter A. Wood Machine Co., and later teaching school; member of board of education for Robertson county and also present representative for Robertson county in the lower house and general assembly of Tennessee.
