Obit for Roscoe Conklin Morgan b.1888, Ramsey Co., MN

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Undated original news clipping from my grandmothers scrapbook:

Mr. Roscoe Conklin Morgan of 2530 Territorial Rd. was born at Belknap, 
Iowa, on February 6, 1888.  He resided in the state of Iowa until 1908, 
at which time he removed to Saint Paul.

He was united in marriage to Miss Ida Millhouse at Ottumwa, Iowa, on 
June 17, 1907.  To this union three children were born, Mrs. Robert 
Lloyd Jones, Miss Alice Morgan and Harold, all of this city.

Mr. Morgan was a millwright and for a number of years has been engaged 
by the Flax-linum Co. of St. Paul.  While in discharge of his duties 
about 11 A.M. of April 26, he was caught in some transmission machinery 
and sustained injuries from which he died about five hours later.

Apparently no one witnessed the accident and as he suffered a 
concussion of the brain he did not recover consciousness.  Mr. Morgan 
was a member of Court Transfer No. 1577, Independent Order of
Foresters.  
Besides his children he is survived by his widow, his mother of Chicago, 
Ill., four brothers, William D. of St. Paul, John K., Jay and Mark of 
Chicago.  Also four sisters, Miss Alice Morgan, Mrs. J.J. Hohman of 
Chicago, Mrs. Leo Natke, of Detroit, Mich., and Mrs. Leslie Owen of 
Davenport, Iowa.

"Mr. Morgan was a very hard-working man, very kind and nice to his 
family, and always a man who attended to his own business.  All I know 
about him is good."

Life's sorrows come like thunder-bursts out of a clear sky.  We plan 
and prepare for something and just at the critical moment our plans 
fall to bits and all our preparations prove in vain.  There are many 
things which we cannot explain.  Our lives reach out into the infinite.  
All we may do is to bow in humble submission and say with meekness as 
our blessed Saviour did, "Thy will, not mine, be done."

"Oh anguished heart, nigh breaking for the dead, Leave him with God."

The funeral service was at Union church on Tuesday at 2:30, and Rev. 
W.L. Meikle gave the sermon.  Mr. W.L. Masters sang three numbers.  
The floral offerings were wonderful.  The crowd could not be 
accommodated in the church.  Burial was at Elmhurst.