Charles Robert Morehead and Lemira Morris

Charles Robert Morehead Jr

Charles Robert Morehead Jr was the son of Charles R. Morehead Sr and Fanny Warder of Virginia and the grandson of Turner Morehead, a Revolutionary War Patriot.  He is our first cousin three times removed!  Charles was born in 1836 in Missouri. He married a distant cousin Lemire, sometimes seen as Lemira, Morris in 1859.   Lemire Morris' family was related to a financier of the American Revolution, William Morris. On a side note one of the Moran girls was named after her Morehead relatives, Fannie Lemira Moran.

Charles Morehead was many things.  He was a businessman in Leavenworth and the mayor from 1868-1869. He worked for a freight company that supplied Army posts as an assistant wagon master.   He was at a meeting in 1858 with President Buchanan and others to discuss the proposed Pony Express and he was on the planning commission as well.  He was a banker, pioneer and the mayor of El Paso Texas from 1903-1905.  In addition he was a 33rd degree Mason and a Knight Templar.  Charles Robert Morehead Jr was an architect of the West and an El Paso pioneer and civic leader.

Lemire Morris Morehead

In family life, Charles and Lemire had three children: Ida Morehead (1859-1898), Fanny Morehead (1863-1865), and William Morris Morehead (1865-1865). Their daughter Ida married Byrd Nebeker and lived in Los Angeles.  She and Byrd had four children.

Ida Morehead

Lemire died in 1910 in Los Angeles.  After the death of Lemire, Charles married Mary Gates, a local El Paso school teacher.  Charles died in 1921 in El Paso.






Related blog entry:  Fanny Ann Morehead, sister of Charles Robert Morehead Jr.