She was the Gr-Gr-Granddaughter of Capt. Robert Blackwell (1742-1813) a Revolutionary War soldier and his wife Zillah Rice Blackwell (1746-1823) daughter of Thomas Rice (1725-1800).The Blackwells and Rices both came to Caswell County,North Carolina, from Hanover County, Virginia -- fifteen years after Cannie's death her husband James Monroe Morton (whom everybody called "Pug") was kicked in the head by a horse and never recovered from that accident. He was in bed for a month or two in a kind of coma until he died in 1924, leaving his daughters Hattie and Gladys as orphans.