Newhanover County NcArchives Obituaries.....Morton, George L October 19, 1930
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Wilmington Moring Star, Wilmington, NC  Wed. Oct. 22, 1930
FUNERAL TODAY FOR COL. MORTON
Prominent Former Wilmingtonian Will Be Buried at Bellevue Cemetery
	
   Funeral services for Col. George L. Morton, of Atlanta, formerly of 
Wilmington, who died last Sunday night in New York from a heart attack, are to 
be held this faternoon at 3 o’clock from the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence 
D. Maffitt, 219 South Fifth street.  The Rev. C. H. Storey, pastor of the St. 
Andrew’s Presbyterian church , will hold the services.  Interment will be at 
Bellevue cemetery.
   Honorary pallbearers will be: Lyman Delano, H. C. McQueen, F. H. Fectig, D. 
L. Eubanks, C. McD. Davis, Judge George Rountree, P. R. Albright, M.W. Divine, 
Geo. B Elliott, M. J. Corbett, Walter Bucknor, H. H. McIlhenny, J. V. Grainger, 
J. O. Carr, Walker Taylor, Benjamin Solomon, John Hill Brown and W. H. Sprunt.
   Active pallbearers, members of Col. Morton’s office staff, will be W. J. 
McGee, F. J. Vestal, C. A. Joiner, J. S. Brown, T. Turney and L. K Morrison.


Additional Comments:
George Lee Morton, Sr. was the son of Stephen H. Morton (originally of Onslow 
County and then Wilmington, NC).  Mrs. Clarence D. Maffitt was a sister of 
Mildred Gracey Thompson, Col. Morton’s second wife.

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