Rob Morris (Freemason)

All three children were born in New York City where their father, Robert, worked as an accountant at 99 Greenwich at a marble yard.

In 1825 Robert Peckham died in a NY hospital and the two sons went to live with their mother and sister.

Throughout most of Morris's adult life, he continued correspondence with this brother, John and sister Charlotte.

He was teaching school at the DeSoto Academy in northwest Mississippi when he met his wife, Charlotte Mendenhall.

James M. Howry, past grand master and high priest of Mississippi, initiated the 28-year-old Morris into freemasonry.

In 1866, because of his planned travel abroad, he handed over the organizational authority of Eastern Star to Robert Macoy.

Because of his many works on Masonic subjects, on December 17, 1884, he was crowned the "Poet Laureate of Freemasonry", an honor which had not been granted since the death of Robert Burns in 1796.