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Notes: Copied from bound copies of the newspaper held by El Dorado County Historical Museum, Placerville, CA. Submitted by: Martha |
Rowland R. Morris, 80, for more than thirty years a rancher and stockman
of the Greenwood district, died Wednesday morning at the family home. His health had been failing for several weeks. The funeral services will be at the Methodist Episcopal church at Georgetown on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. Charles W. Null, of Placerville, will have charge. Mr. Morris held the esteem and good will of a large circle of friends and neighbors among whom he had made his home for thirty-three years and they join with the family and with friends throughout the county in mourning the passing of a sterling character, a good husband and father. A native of Cardiff, Wales, born on Christmas Day of 1854, Mr. Morris came to the United States in early life and was married on December 11, 1884, at Malvern, Kansas. About six years later the couple moved to the southern part of this state, later coming to El Dorado County and settling in the Greenwood district. The golden anniversary of their wedding, which they celebrated on December 9, last, was a happy family reunion with all of their six children and their grand-children in attendance. Mr. Morris is survived by his widow, Mrs. Rosa Morris, and by four daughters, Mrs. James Barnett of Martinez; Mrs. William Melchior, of Placerville; Mrs. Sam Galbreath of Auburn, and Mrs. Albert Gardner, of Greenwood; two sons, John of Hanford, and M. D. Morris, of Placerville, and by fourteen grand-children. |
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