Simon Bolivar Buckner
On June 14, 1883, Belknap married Lily Buckner, the daughter of Confederate general Simon Bolivar Buckner. The couple had four children – Gertrude, Walter Kingsbury, Lily, and Morris, Jr. Lily Belknap died in 1893. After her death, Belknap constructed a stone bridge – dubbed Belknap Bridge – in Louisville's Cherokee Park in her honor.