Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Morse, Darius J. 1890 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net January 12, 2010, 1:14 pm Portland Observer, Wednesday October 15, 1890 Last week the Observer mentioned that Darius Morse was seriously ill at the home of his son, Grant M. Morse. [Unreadable words] since then Mr. Morse showed some signs of improvement; but was it only temporary and on last Monday morning about four o’clock he grew steadily worse, [unreadable] and at six o’clock passed away, the immediate cause of his death being the bursting of a blood vessel upon the brain, although he had suffered some time from pneumonia. Mr. Morse was a native of Michigan having been born at Lodi, Washtenaw county, Feb. 14, 1834 - being in the 57th years of his age at the time of his death. He came to Portland and settled upon section [unreadable] in 1853. His wife was taken from him in May, 1874, and he had never remarried. [The rest of the copy that I have is unreadable.] File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/m/morse2415nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb