Mary Wells Morris is the person that Wellsboro, Pennsylvania

Wellsboro, Pennsylvania

Wellsboro is a borough in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, 52 miles northwest of Williamsport. Early in the twentieth century, Wellsboro was the shipping point and trade center for a large area...

 is named after. She was born in Burlington County, New Jersey

Burlington County, New Jersey

There were 154,371 households out of which 34.30% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.70% were married couples living together, 10.90% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.70% were non-families. 22.90% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.50% had...

. She moved to Tioga County

Tioga County, Pennsylvania

Tioga County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 41,981. Tioga County was created on March 26, 1804, from part of Lycoming County and named for the Tioga River. Its county seat is Wellsboro....

 with her husband Benjamin

Benjamin Wistar Morris (colonist)

Benjamin Wistar Morris was the founder of Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. Samuel Wells Morris, Morris' son, was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives...

, her son Samuel

Samuel Wells Morris

Samuel Wells Morris was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Samuel W. Morris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Benjamin Wistar Morris. He pursued an academic degree at Princeton College. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced...

, and her daughter Rebecca. They were Philadelphia Quakers. They became the first residents of the Wellsboro. She remained in Wellsboro until she died on November 6, 1819; she is buried with her husband in the Wellsboro Cemetery.

Recently a statue was erected in her honor; it is a life sized bronze statue. When they first started to design her they discovered that they didn’t really have a picture of Mary so they looked at her mother’s portrait and used facial likenesses.