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Person · Artie Morrison
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationArtie Morrison
- LLines13 surname pages
The evidence
- DDocuments896 thumbnails, filterable
- SSourcesS1–S1207, with where each is cited
The findings
- How the wall came downProeger line
- The glass patentsProeger line
- How the Caffey half was closedCaffey line
- What the DNA saysits own page
- Four routesMigration
- The asymmetryLines
- Open questions20 questions
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proves, what the weight of evidence suggests, and what nobody has found yet. A fourth marks
what the family stated directly, where no document has been retrieved at all — it is kept
separate on purpose and is never quietly promoted to confirmed. A fifth, added on
13 September 2026, marks biological evidence: a DNA result is not a document, and it is not
testimony either. Two further labels mark where this page withholds information
rather than lacking it.
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or a chain of consistent circumstances. Believable, not proven.
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it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands
apart from the three record tags above S24.
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not by itself establish a person or a link. Note the bar rather than a dot or a diamond:
no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
was read for it S46.
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- Born
- 18 October 1867
- Died
- 7 December 1930
- Parents
- Orange Morrison
- Married
- Henry W. Henderson
- Children
- James Henderson
- Sources
- 11
Life in the order the records give it
Census1870
In 1870, aged 3, in her father's farm household at Ryegate with her sisters Winona, Marion and Margaret
S360.
Death1930
Died at Ryegate on
7 December 1930, aged 63, as Harriet Artimiza Henderson, of lobar pneumonia
S359.
Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Parents1890
Named as the mother of
Bessie Hill Henderson on Bessie's Vermont birth record, Ryegate,
10 December 1890: father
Henry Henderson, farmer; mother
Artie Morrison of Topsham S195Marriage1887
Married
Henry W. Henderson at Ryegate on
1 January 1887 S357; in 1930 at Ryegate with Henry and their daughter Winona Sulham's family
S358.
Parents1867
🆕 Her Ryegate birth return of 1867 names her as Artemiza, daughter of
Orange Morrison, farmer, and Lizzie Miller, both born at Ryegate
S832. In 1880 she was 12, at school, in their household at Ryegate
S833, and a FamilySearch index of her marriage names her parents as O. G. Morrison and Elisabeth Miller
S834. added 28 September 2026.
Marriage1887
🆕 The bride's card for her 1887 marriage gives her age as 19 and her parents as O. G. Morrison and Elizabeth (Miller)
Confirmed S949. In January 1920 she was
Artemiza, 52, on Henry's dairy farm at Ryegate with their son James and daughter Winona
Confirmed S950. added 29 September 2026
Parents1898
🆕 Her son
James Henderson, born in Vermont on 7 February 1898, died at Woodsville, New Hampshire, on 16 March 1968; his death certificate gives his mother’s maiden name as
Morrison Confirmed S1147.
In the record
Generation 5 — the immigrants and the frontier
- S195Vermont birth record — Bessie Hill Henderson, Ryegate, 10 December 1890. Ancestry record 925685. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Bessie Hill Henderson, born 10 December 1890, Ryegate; father Henry Henderson, farmer; mother Artie Morrison of Topsham.
- S357Vermont marriage card (groom) — Henry W. Henderson and Artie H. Morrison, Ryegate, Vermont, 1 January 1887. Ancestry record 925750. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Henry W. Henderson, 22, farmer, born Ryegate, son of William J. Henderson and Carrie K. (Gilfillan), married Artie H. Morrison; C. H. Farnsworth, clergyman; Alex Cochran, town clerk. The first image of the marriage and of Henry's parents. His age, 22 on 1 January 1887, fits a birth of 12 June 1864.
- S3581930 U.S. Federal Census — Henry W. Henderson household, Ryegate, Caledonia Co., Vermont (ED 3-19, sheet 7A). Ancestry record 124392317. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Henry W. Henderson, 65, dairy farmer; wife H. Artmiza, 62; their daughter Winona Sulham and her husband Perley, with four grandchildren. The grandchildren are not named here in case any is living.
- S359Vermont death return — Harriet Artimiza Henderson, Ryegate, 7 December 1930. Ancestry record 216231. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Harriet Artimiza Henderson, married, housewife, aged 63 years 1 month 19 days, born at Ryegate 18 October 1867, daughter of Orange G. Morrison and Elizabeth J. Miller, both born at Ryegate; died of lobar pneumonia after 7 days. Certified copy by Clarence J. McLam, town clerk. This settles her full name, which the site had only from a shared tree.
- S3601870 U.S. Federal Census — Orange G. Morrison household, Ryegate, Caledonia Co., Vermont (P.O. McIndoes Falls), p. 14. Ancestry record 36852849. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Orange G. Morrison, 38, farmer, real estate $3,150; Elizabeth, 37; Winona, 14; Marion, 9; Margaret, 5; and Artemiza, 3, with $4,000 real estate and $1,500 personal estate entered in her own name. The property on a three-year-old's line is larger than her father's; it may have been settled on her, but the page does not say why.
- S832Vermont birth return — Artemiza Morrison, Ryegate, 18 October 1867. Vermont Vital Records 1720–1908, Ancestry collection 4661, record 441247 (image 41599_312395-00307), p. 275; Alex. Cochran, town clerk. Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed “Artemiza”, female, born 18 October 1867; mother's maiden name Lizzie Miller, born Ryegate; father Orange Morrison, born Ryegate, farmer. Her birth return, written at the time; the same birth date as her 1930 death record (S359).
- S8331880 U.S. Federal Census — Orange G. Morrison household, Ryegate, Caledonia Co., Vermont, SD 137, ED 51, p. 14. Ancestry collection 6742, record 22412260 (image 4244814-00289); enumerated 12 June 1880, dwelling 126, family 134. Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed Morrison, Orange G., 48, farmer, born Vermont; Elisabeth J., wife, 46, keeping house, born Vermont (her father born Vermont, her mother born Scotland); Marion E., daughter, 19; Maggie J., daughter, 14, at school; Artemiza, daughter, 12, at school. The relationship column makes Artemiza a daughter of the head and Elisabeth J. his wife.
- S834FamilySearch index — Vermont marriage of Henry W. Henderson and Artie H. Morrison. FamilySearch 1:1:QPQX-4GVF (Vermont Town Clerk Vital Records) and 1:1:XF7D-2BX (Vermont Vital Records). Checked 28 September 2026. Probable Bride Artie H. Morrison, born Ryegate; her parents Orange G. (O. G.) Morrison and Elisabeth Miller. Index entries only, with no image read here; independent of the birth return (S832) and the death record (S359). The index gives her birth year as 1868. The marriage card itself is S357.
- S949Vermont marriage card (bride) — Artie H. Morrison and Henry W. Henderson, Ryegate, Vermont, 1 January 1887. Ancestry record 850463. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed Bride Artie H. Morrison of Ryegate, 19, first marriage, born Ryegate; father O. G. Morrison; mother Elizabeth (Miller). Groom Henry W. Henderson. Married 1 January 1887 by C. H. Farnsworth, clergyman; town clerk Alex Cochran. The bride's card for the marriage on the groom's card (S357). Her parents match her 1867 birth return (S832). Collection: Vermont, U.S., Vital Records, 1720–1908.
- S9501920 United States Federal Census — Ryegate, Caledonia County, Vermont, ED 13, sheet 9A, lines 45–50 (January 1920). Ancestry record 37186200. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed Farm, owned, mortgaged: Henderson, Henry, head, 55, dairy farmer; Artemiza, wife, 52; James, son, 21, farm labourer; Winona, daughter, 14, at school; with a boarder and a hired man. All born Vermont. Ages fit Artie born October 1867 and Henry born June 1864. Collection: 1920 United States Federal Census.
- S1147New Hampshire certificate of death, state file 68-1328, Haverhill, 1968 — James Henderson. Ancestry record 75791217. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed James Henderson, white, married, of Woodsville, born in Vermont on 7 February 1898; died 16 March 1968, aged 70, at Cottage Hospital, Haverhill (Woodsville), Grafton County; surviving spouse Hazel; father Henry Henderson; mother’s maiden name Morrison, given name blank. Entombed at Horsemeadow, Haverhill, 18 March 1968. The informant was the hospital’s medical records office, so the parents’ names are weaker than a family informant’s.