Sara Virginia Ecker Watts Morrison

Sara Virginia Ecker Watts Morrison (March 14, 1868 – May 26, 1950) was an American nurse, heiress, philanthropist, and civic leader.

She was first married to financier George Washington Watts, whom she met while working as a nurse at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Morrison was also active in Welcome Wagon and the YWCA and served on the board of Watts Hospital, which was named after her first husband.

[1] Morrison provided funding for local and international missions of the Presbyterian Church and for Christian educational endeavors.

[1] Morrison married the widower George Washington Watts in 1917, becoming a member of Durham's high society.

[1][5] She remained in Harwood Hall as a widow, then owned by her stepdaughter Annie Louise Watts Hill, and continued her late husband's philanthropic endeavors.

[2] On April 2, 1924, she married a second time to the widowed politician and lawyer Cameron A. Morrison, who was serving as Governor of North Carolina.

[3] The couple married at Harwood Hall and honeymooned in New York before returning to live at the North Carolina Executive Mansion in Raleigh.

[2] During this time, Governor O. Max Gardner appointed Morrison's husband to fill a vacant seat for North Carolina in the United States Senate, and the couple moved to Washington, D.C.[2][1] After her husband lost a bid for election for a full term in the senate, they moved back to Morrocroft.

Morrocroft, the Morrison estate in Charlotte, North Carolina.