Migrated to Lafayette County, Missouri in 1826 (Family History of the
"Morehead")

The following is a letter written by the Past Grand Master of the Grand
Lodge of Kentucky F. & A. M. to C. R. Morehead, Jr. of El Paso, Texas.

To C. R. Morehead, El Paso, Texas.

Dear Sir:- Yours of the fourth inst., duly received and in reply will say
that I have examined the records of the Bowling Green Lodge No. 73, which
was instituted in 1821 by Grand Master Henry Clay, and find that C. R.
Morehead was made a Mason in our Lodge, January 11th, 1822. Also find
that James Turner Morehead was initiated in same Lodge in August, 1821.
Do not know if this is the Turner Morehead you refer to or not. In 1823
it appears that James Turner Morehead was Master, Chas. R. was Secretary.

Yours truly,

(Signed) F. C. Gerard, Past Grand Master,

and Past M. Bowling Green Lodge No. 73.

P. S. -- Charles R. Morehead was a Royal Arch Mason.

1. Pruitt-Johnson-Hooe-Wanstall Genealogy (Ancestry.com),
2. LDS Family Group Record familyid=6802113,
3. Fowler-Olander Genealogy ancestry.com,

William Morehead joined Captain J. R. Hendlay’s Company, Ray County,
Missouri Mounted Volunteers, July, 1846, at the age of seventeen years.

In a letter written by Captain Hendlay to his father, C. R. Morehead,
dated Counsel Grove, Kansas, twenty-sixth of August, 1846 he states,
"William's horse stands the trip so far very well. He takes great care of
his horse. He is well and does his duty like a man. I find the young men
the most tractable and I think they will make fine soldiers."

Captain Hendlay was killed at the battle of Moro, New Mexico. His remains
were brought back to Richmond by his Company and buried there. William’s
horse was shot and killed at that battle, which put him on foot for a
time.

Later in a letter from Captain William Jacobs, who succeeded Capt.
Hendlay, dated Santa Fe, New Mexico, tenth of October, 1846, to C. R.
Morehead, Sr., he states as follows: "William stands the trip and
climate, first-rate. He has never missed a single roll call and has had
perfect health. All the time he has done more service up to this date
than any member of the Company. He is always well and willing to do his
duty."

William started to California in 1850 and together with Mr. John Benson,
who was a partner of his father in the mercantile business in Lexington,
Missouri, bought and started with a drove of mules to California, which
were at that time in great demand in California. Mr. Benson, himself and
others in the party took the cholera and died at Fort Barnard near Fort
Laramie, on the fourth day of May, 1850.