Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....Willie Morris June 1889
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Middle Ga ARgus
Willie Morris

It is indeed with sadness that we peer the announcement of the horrible death 
of Mr. Willis Morris.  For two years Mr. Morris had been a conductor on the 
Louisville & Nashville railroad between Birmingham and Montgomery.  On 
Wednesday night at 9:30 o’clock he was arranging to start out on his regular 
run and on account of a misplaced switch he was caught between the tender of an 
engine and a passenger coach and his head crushed into a pulp.  He fell to the 
ground and died without moving a muscle.  His remains were brought to this 
county on Thursday and on Friday they were laid away in Sandy Creek cemetery, 
Rev. E. M. Hooten conducting the burial services.  Besides his young wife he 
was accompanied by Messrs. W. C. Rabb and H. McDough, fellow conductors, and 
Mr. W. H. Jones, a friend.  It can well be said that Mr. Morris was a good man, 
and his friends were numbered as all who knew him.  He was an honored member of 
the Order of Railway Conductors, of which Mr. W. C. Rabb, who accompanied his 
remains, is chief of the Birmingham division.

Two weeks ago Mr. Morris was happily married to Miss Lizzie Newton of this 
county, but was allowed but a few days of wedded bliss.  We trust that he who 
tempers the winds to the shorn lamb will console the bereaved ones in this 
their hour of deep sorrow.  He leaves a young wife and one sister, Mrs. T. L. 
Williams, and a widowed mother in Jackson and a sister at Concord, besides 
numerous friends to mourn his tragic and untimely death.

Middle Ga Argus – Week of June 25, 1889


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