Butts County GaArchives News.....Morris Orphans December 1901
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Jackson Argus December 1901
Morris Orphans
Through the instrumentality of Clerk A. H. S. Davis, three Butts county orphans 
leave today for he Decatur Orphans Home.  Some time ago Mrs. Alonzo Lane Morris 
died, leaving five children and a husband.  The children were : Mary Morris, 
aged 20; Thomas Morris, aged 13; Lonnie Morris, aged 11; Addie Morris, aged 6; 
and Edwin Morris,  aged 4.  Shortly afterwards, the father, Alonzo L. Morris 
deserted the children, and a kind neighbor Mr4. T. F. Folas took care of them 
temporarily, and for him Clerk Davis wrote to Rev. H. L. Crumley, agent at the 
Orphans’ Home.  Mr. Crumley replied saying the Home would take them in if the 
Ordinary issued the order.  In the meantime, Miss Mary married a worthy farmer 
named Britton, and took her oldest brother with her.  Wednesday,  Judge Ham 
issued the order for the three youngest children and today they leave for 
Atlanta, where they will be met by Rev. G. D. Stone, of the Home, and carried on 
to Decatur.  What a grand institution is an orphan’s home, and how those of us 
who have been helping it do feel our hearts burn within us, when the good work 
done by it is seen almost at our doors.  Every……………………………..
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following pages of this issue)
Jackson Argus – Week of December 13, 1901


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