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Joe Blanton Morgan

Husband of Daisy Bertha Atchley Morgan · 1916–1993

Joe Blanton Morgan

Probable

Husband of Daisy Bertha Atchley Morgan · 1916–1993

Born
on 29 July 1916
Died
on 8 June 1993
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE as the husband of Daisy Bertha Atchley Morgan. Her 1989 obituary names him as her husband, and her father’s 1957 funeral notice names a daughter Mrs. J. B. Morgan of Notrees S1743S1740. It stays Probable because both are the machine-read text of newspaper pages, no marriage record has been found, and his dates come from an index alone.

Evidence: His wife's 1989 obituary names Joe Blanton Morgan of Dudley as her husband (S1743), and her father's 1957 funeral notice names a daughter Mrs. J. B. Morgan of Notrees (S1740); the Find a Grave index gives a Joe Blanton Morgan, a veteran, born 29 July 1916 and died 8 June 1993, at Dudley Cemetery, Callahan County (S1746). Weak or missing: That the man of the memorial is Daisy's husband rests on the name and the cemetery alone; no marriage record has been found; his dates and burial are index text only, and no place of birth or death is known. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life in the order the records give it

Military1993
Joe Blanton Morgan died on 8 June 1993. He was born on 29 July 1916. Both dates are from the Find a Grave index, which lists a veteran of that name at Dudley Cemetery, Callahan County, Texas S1746. No record read gives a place of birth or of death.
Burial2026
History of this card. 12 Oct 2026
card written when he was added to the family tree as the husband of Daisy Bertha Atchley, from her 1989 obituary, her father’s 1957 notice and the Find a Grave index (S1743, S1740, S1746).

Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it

Probable
Probable confirm or correct → Husband of Daisy Bertha Atchley Morgan (1918–1989), and so a son-in-law of Leo Litton Atchley and Sue Mary Coffman Atchley. His parents are not in this record. His sons are not named here.
Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: that the man of the Dudley Cemetery memorial is Daisy’s husband rests on the name and the cemetery alone; no marriage record has been found; the burial is index text only; no place of birth or death is known. Know more, or think this is wrong? Use “Add to this record”.

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Joe Blanton Morgan · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

3 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S1740Indexes and newspaper notices — Sue Mary Coffman (Mrs. Leo Litton Atchley) and her husband, Taylor County, Texas, 1895–1979. FamilySearch: for her, Social Security claim index (6K7D-3QN2), Social Security Death Index (V3D3-MPN) and Find a Grave index (QVVF-7PPX); for him, Texas death records index (K338-3KH) and Texas Death Index (VZ62-DYP), First World War draft card index (7FHB-XDN2), Texas marriage index (QV1Z-3W5W) and 1920 census index (MHBZ-5LR). Newspapers.com, Abilene Reporter-News: 15 July 1957, p. 3 (image 761690549); 19 January 1979, p. 18-A (image 763138876); 20 January 1979, p. 30 (image 763140480). Indexes and machine-read text read on 4 and 5 October 2026; no image read. Probable Claim index: Sue Mary Coffman, born 10 May 1893 at Potosi, both parents named. Died 18 Jan 1979. 1979 obituary: died Thursday 18 January at Shady Oaks Lodge No. 2, aged 85; married Leo Litton Atchley at Potosi on 29 May 1917; of Dudley from 1919; two daughters, Daisy B. Morgan of Dudley and Etta Pearl Atchley of McAllen; funeral notice: burial at Dudley Cemetery. Leo: death index, born 2 Dec 1895 at Cumby, Hopkins County, died 14 Jul 1957 at Abilene. Marriage index: the couple, no date shown. 1957 notice, “Atchley Funeral At Dudley Church”: L. L. Atchley, 61, of Dudley since 1919, died 4 a.m. Sunday 14 July at Hendrick Memorial Hospital; funeral at the Dudley Church of Christ; survivors his wife, daughters Mrs. J. B. Morgan of Notrees and Mrs. George B. Dye of Dudley, a sister Mrs. Bertha Robinson of Sulphur Springs and a brother F. D. of Abilene. ⚠ Index and machine-read text only: no image has been read. The 1979 obituary does not name the town of her death and gives 1956 for her husband’s death, a year early. The 1957 notice does not name his wife and gives no burial place. The marriage date and her burial rest on the newspaper text alone. Their son is not named here. Serves the cards of Sue Mary Coffman Atchley, Leo Litton Atchley, Etta Pearl Atchley Dye, Daisy Bertha Atchley Morgan, David Emily “Dee” Coffman and Mary Jane “Mollie” Wright.
  2. S1743Indexes and obituary — Daisy Bertha Atchley (Mrs. Joe Blanton Morgan), 1918–1989. FamilySearch: Texas birth certificate index (X227-6XK); Social Security claim index (6K72-N3NY). Newspapers.com: Abilene Reporter-News, 23 February 1989, p. 28 (image 764660693). Indexes and machine-read text read on 4 to 6 October 2026; no image read. Probable Birth certificate index and claim index: Daisy Bertha Atchley, born 22 Apr 1918 at Sabinal, Uvalde County, both parents named. Obituary: Daisy B. Morgan, 70, of Dudley, died Tuesday 21 February 1989 in an Odessa hospital; born at Sabinal; Oplin High School; attended Abilene Christian College; Highway 36 Church of Christ; burial at Dudley Cemetery; survivors include her husband and a sister, Etta Pearl Atchley. ⚠ Index and machine-read text only: no image has been read, the certificate included. The claim index gives Abilene as the place of death; the obituary gives Odessa. The burial rests on the newspaper text alone. Her sons and her brother are not named here. Serves the cards of Daisy Bertha Atchley Morgan, Etta Pearl Atchley Dye, Leo Litton Atchley, Sue Mary Coffman Atchley and Joe Blanton Morgan, the husband.
  3. S1746Index — Joe Blanton Morgan, 1916–1993, Dudley Cemetery, Callahan County, Texas. Find a Grave index, memorial 53145202. Index text only; no image read. Probable Joe Blanton Morgan, a veteran, born 29 July 1916, died 8 June 1993, buried at Dudley Cemetery. The index does not name a wife. That he is the husband of Daisy Bertha Atchley Morgan rests on her 1989 obituary (S1743), which names her husband Joe Blanton Morgan of Dudley, and on her father’s 1957 notice (S1740), which names Mrs. J. B. Morgan of Notrees; no marriage record has been found.

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