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Joshua Elliot “Uncle Josh” Morrison

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Joshua Elliot “Uncle Josh” Morrison

Birth
Scott County, Arkansas, USA
Death
24 Nov 1918 (aged 66)
Santa Rita, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
Burial
Portales, Roosevelt County, New Mexico, USA Add to Map
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Josh Morrison kept a general supply store in the Big Salt Lake area, sowtheast of Portales Springs. According to Mrs. Lurline (Paul) Morrison, whose husband was the son of "Uncle Josh", the store catered to the DZ ranch headquarters trade and also to the wagons which followed the trail by the spring from Lubbock toward Ft. Sumner. In 1898 when the railroad was built up from Roswell and trade shifted to the tent settlement which has sprung up near the tracks, Morrison then lifted his shed of a store on skids, secured by a chain to his wagon, and relocated it to become the first businessman in the new town of Portales. Moving the store was not hard to do as it was necessarily small and flimsy construction; "no bigger than a shirt-tail" is the way Clint Fairly described it. Page 75 "Roosevelt County History and Heritage"

Joshua Elliot Morrison had the first store in Portales in 1899 and later had the first post office along with his son, Seth Morrison, who served as the first Postmaster of Portales.
Page 55-56 "Roosevelt County History and Heritage"
Josh Morrison kept a general supply store in the Big Salt Lake area, sowtheast of Portales Springs. According to Mrs. Lurline (Paul) Morrison, whose husband was the son of "Uncle Josh", the store catered to the DZ ranch headquarters trade and also to the wagons which followed the trail by the spring from Lubbock toward Ft. Sumner. In 1898 when the railroad was built up from Roswell and trade shifted to the tent settlement which has sprung up near the tracks, Morrison then lifted his shed of a store on skids, secured by a chain to his wagon, and relocated it to become the first businessman in the new town of Portales. Moving the store was not hard to do as it was necessarily small and flimsy construction; "no bigger than a shirt-tail" is the way Clint Fairly described it. Page 75 "Roosevelt County History and Heritage"

Joshua Elliot Morrison had the first store in Portales in 1899 and later had the first post office along with his son, Seth Morrison, who served as the first Postmaster of Portales.
Page 55-56 "Roosevelt County History and Heritage"

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