McCurtain Co. OK - OBIT:    B. M. MORRIS

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::Broken Bow Cemetery--Broken Bow OK

McCurtain County Local Newspaper:

February 13, 1930

AGED CITIZEN DIED LAST THURSDAY

B.M. Morris, late of this city, 96-years-old, died at his home in
Whitfield addition last Thursday and was buried in the Broken Bow cemetery
late Friday afternoon.

Mr. Morris was a soldier in many of the wars between the government and
the Indian Tribes and was a member of Gen. Custer's Command at the time of
the massacre, but escaped the fate of his comrades by being detailed that
morning to bring up the army supplies.  He said when he arrived with the
command's camping equipment the ground was strewn with dead soldiers and
not a living soul could be seen.

During the Civil War he enlisted with Quantrell's gorilla band and for
that reason, was never able to secure a pension, notwithstanding the fact
that he made repeated applications for a pension.

He leaves a wife who is 75 years old and a daughter who lives near 
Millerton in the county.
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