Newhanover-Onslow County NcArchives Obituaries.....Morton, Eliza Ward December 30, 1893
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Wilmington Morning Star Vol. LIII - No.84 Sunday, 31 Dec 1893
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DIED
MORTON -- Saturday afternoon, at 5:00 o'clock, ELIZA WARD MORTON, wife of G. L. 
Morton, in the 25th year of her age.
  Funeral Sunday afternoon, at 3:30 o'clock, from St. Andrew's Presbyterian 
Church, thence to Bellevue Cemetery.

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Death of Mrs. Geo. L. Morton.
  Many persons in this community will sympathize with Mr. Geo. L. Morton in the 
sad affliction which has fallen upon him and his family in the death of his 
wife, which occurred yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock at the residence of the 
family in this city.  Mrs. Morton was a daughter of Dr. Richard W. Ward, of 
Onslow county, and was in her twenty-fifth year.  Her death resulted from an 
attack of pneumonia, with which she had been suffering for two weeks.  She 
leaves two children, one an infant of a few weeks.
  The funeral will take place to-day at 3.30 o'clock p.m. from St. Andrew's 
Church.

Additional Comments:
Eliza Ward was the first wife of George Lee Morton (originally of Onslow 
County).  Their eldest daughter, Carrie Ward, born in 1892, died in 1899.  
Their youngest daughter, Eliza Ward, born 18 Dec 1893, lived to be almost 96 
years old.

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