I think we've just about wrapped this one up.
I totally missed that attachment in the June 25 post on RootsChat. Now lots more makes sense. (I also totally forgot about Find-A-Grave as it's next to empty when it comes to searching in Canada, and particularly so in western Canada. I will be visiting there to see what I can see.)
In the event anyone else comes searching one day, here is a quick summary.
We don't know why the Morrisons would have gone to Georgia when most from North Uist were heading to Australia or Canada. Perhaps we'll never know.
We know emigration occurred before 1878 as that was when the Morrison burial plot was purchased. I also suspect that it was either John E Morrison's father or John E Morrison's uncle Angus that my Angus MacDiarmid worked for when he arrived in Georgia 1872.
The burial plot in Oakland Cemetery was purchased in 1878 by John Morrison (m. Marion Morrison nee MacLean) & his brother Angus Morrison (doesn't appear to have married). All were born on North Uist.
As John & Marion married in 1867 & daughter Ann wasn't born until 1878, I suspect there were a few other children in addition to Angus Jr. and John E. I suspect that Marion died following childbirth of John E. though I'm trying to double check that with a death certificate.
Darn that burned 1890 census as it may have shown more children for John & Marion, though perhaps not as they don't seem to appear in the Morrison burial plot. Perhaps I can try find the family in 1880.
The 1900 census incorrectly lists John as having been born in Georgia (so doesn't give a hint as to the year of emigration) with parents dying in Scotland. John Morrison, appears in the 1900 census with Ann, Angus Jr, & John E.
John E. Morrison married Mary Margaret "May" Knapp.
John & Angus' sister Effie shows up in Georgia in 1883 after her husband Alexander MacDiarmid dies on Benbecula in 1869. She has a monument in her honour on North Uist dated 1905, though there is no confirmation that she died in Scotland. There is a family letter that indicates that she went home to Scotland, but it could have confused the headstone in Scotland with a burial. The last public record of Effie is the 1900 census in Shake Rag, Fayette County, Georgia with her son Angus.
Effie comes to the USA to connect with her 2nd eldest son, Angus who came in 1872. She brings her eldest daughter Margaret "Peggy" who is married to a MacDonald. That couple have three children in the USA before returning to Benbecula where they appear in the 1891 census. Effie also brings sons: Archie, Donald John & John. Archie returns home abt 1894 & dies of TB in 1895. Donald John commits suicide in 1920, John dies of a heart attack on a train in Florida in 1921, and Angus dies a week after returning from a trip to Scotland in 1921.
I strongly suspect that Ann Travis is daughter of John Morrison & Marion MacLean.
I strongly suspect that Angus Jr. is the Angus Morrison in the burial plot who died in 1927.
In the meantime, Effie's eldest son, Donald, comes to Canada in 1883, dying in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1937. He married Jane MacDonald (d. 1949 Earlswood District, Saskatchewan), do. Roderick MacDonald (1828 South Uist-1909 Earlswood District, Saskatchewan) & Mary MacRury (b. Benbecula - d.1927 Earlswood District, Saskatchewan). Donald & Jane had 12 children.
Effie also had daughters Ann & Mary, both of who remained in Scotland, married & had children.
