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==Personal life== Morrison was married twice. His first wife, Lottie May Tomlinson, gave birth to four children but only one, [[Angelia Lawrance Morrison Harris|Angelia Lawrance Morrison]], survived infancy.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://archives.ncdcr.gov/morrison-cameron/open|title= GOVERNOR CAMERON MORRISON, n.d., 1921-1926|author= <!--Not stated-->|date= April 14, 2008|website= [[North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources]]|access-date= October 8, 2023|archive-date= November 10, 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231110175529/https://archives.ncdcr.gov/morrison-cameron/open|url-status= live}}</ref> Tomlinson died in 1919.<ref name= ham>{{cite book |last1= Ham|first1= Marie Sharpe|last2= Blake|first2= Debra A.|last3= Morris|first3= C. Edwards|date= 2000|title= North Carolina's First Ladies 1891-2001, Who Have Resided in the Executive Mansion At 200 North Blount Street|location= [[Raleigh, North Carolina]]|publisher= The North Carolina Executive Mansion Fine Arts Committee and the North Carolina Executive Mansion Fund, Inc.|pages= 31β33|isbn=0-86526-294-2}}</ref> In 1924, while serving as governor, Morrison married a second time to [[Sara Virginia Ecker Watts]], the widow of [[George Washington Watts]].<ref name= moore>{{cite book |last1=Moore |first1=Jeanelle Coulter|last2=Hamrick |first2=Grace Rutledge |date=1981 |title=The First Ladies of North Carolina, First Ladies from 1776-1889; Brief Biographies of the First Ladies Who Have Lived in the Present Mansion (1889-1981)| location= [[Raleigh, North Carolina]] |publisher= The Executive Mansion Fine Arts Committee, The Bicentennial Foundation, and the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation| pages= 35β37}}</ref> Their wedding ceremony was held at [[Harwood Hall]].<ref name= moore/> With his second wife, Morrison built [[Morrocroft]], a large estate in Charlotte.<ref name= moore/> In his will, or possible before he passed away, Governor Morrison gave the back section of his personal home for the black congregation of Sharon Road Methodist Church. The land currently hosts unmarked graves of the black partitioners.
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