page_title: John W. Morton (Tennessee politician)
section_title: Personal life and death
hierarchical_section_title: John W. Morton (Tennessee politician) / Personal life and death
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial at Brice's Crossroads (2005), Mississippi.
context_page_description: John Watson Morton was an American Confederate veteran, farmer and politician. He served as captain of artillery under General Nathan Bedford Forrest in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, and he was the founder of the Nashville chapter of the Ku Klux Klan after the war. He served as the Tennessee Secretary of State from 1901 to 1909.
context_section_description: Morton was married twice. He first married Annie Humphreys, the daughter of Confederate Judge West Hughes Humphreys and granddaughter of Congressman Parry Wayne Humphreys, on September 15, 1868. He married Ellen Bourne Tynes on August 6, 1901. He had two sons, John W. Morton, Jr., an attorney in Nashville, and West H. Morton, the register of Davidson County, Tennessee, and a daughter, Mrs Samuel A. Stout of Memphis. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He was also a Freemason and an Elk.
  Morton died on November 21, 1914 in Memphis, Tennessee. He was buried in his Confederate uniform at the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee.
caption: A memorial to Nathan Bedford Forrest and John W. Morton in Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site.
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