Clarke County GaArchives Obituaries.....Morton, William J   Colonel September 6, 1918
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The Banner, Friday morning, September 6, 1918, Athens, Georgia
OBITUARY OF COLONEL  WILLIAM J. MORTON
The Banner, Friday morning, September 6, 1918, Athens, Georgia
Transcribed by C. Epps Bond 10/2/2005


Morton, William J.  (Col) 

FUNERAL OF COL. 
WM. J. MORTON

Sunday afternoon at half past twelve o’clock at the home on Hull street 
occurred the funeral of the late Co. William J. Morton. 

Quite a large number of sorrowing friends gathered to pay the last tribute of 
respect and the many and lovely floral offerings testified in their sweet way 
the esteem and love in which the deceased was held. 

At the request of Col. Morton the Presbyterian burial services was used, the 
service being conducted by Rev. E. L.Hill, pastor of the First Presbyterian 
church, assisted by Rev. Causten Harrell, pastor of the Methodist church of 
Durham, N. C., who offered the closing prayer. 

The choir consisted of Mrs. J. F. Campbell, Mrs. Hugh Gordon, Miss Margaret 
Campbell and Miss Edith Hodgson, Prof. W. D. Hooper, Prof. C.M. Strahan and 
Prof. R. S. Pond. 

The remains were born to the hearse by the pallbearers, Messrs. W. F. Dorsey, 
H. J. Rowe, James Barrow, A. R. Nicholson, R. K. Reaves, R. A. Washburn, F. A. 
Lipscomb, Billups Phinizy, W. T. Forbes, and G. F. Stephenson. The interment 
was in Oconee cemetery.


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