Obit of Morris, Walter G. - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 29 May 2005 Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: Morris, Sesse Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/5902 On Monday Morning, February 6, 1905, Walter G. Morris passed away. He had been sick for a number of years of pulmanary tubereulosis and many sharp attacks had threatened his life. He was taken severly worse last week, but partially rallied Sunday. A relapse Sunday night rapidly progressed to disolution about 11 o'clock Monday morning. Impressive funeral services were held at the Methodist church Tuesday, after which he was buried at the Cheyenne cemetery. He was born in Swindon, England, fifty-three years ago. He came to this county in 1872 and entered his trade, that of a printer, in New York where he labored a good many years. He came west in 1884, settling in Mobeetie, Texas, from which place he came to Cheyenne in 1893. He has lived here since, owning and operating the Sunbeam until some eighteen months ago, when he retired on account of ill health. He was married in 1892 to Miss Georgia Sesse whom he leaves a widow with five little boys. He was open and above board in life and character, subtlety and subterfuge finding no place in his thoughts or actions. The strietest and straightest integrity marked his dealings and his relation to affairs and to men, and he had no sympathy and little patience with metal or moral littleness or with personal or practical dishonesty. He was a man of much dignity and self poise. Reserved in his bearing, his intimates were never numerous, considering the extent of his acquaintence; but those who knew him best and most intimately wre his sincerest and most loyal friends. He was careful and systematic in his business. This characteristic he preserved to the end, having made his will and wound up his business a few hours before his death. He lived his life without turmoil and finished his coursew without excitement. Calm, careful, peacewful, patient he lived, and with equal evenness of demeanor he faced the grim mesmessenger of death. He accepted the fortunes of life without elation and its misfortunes without repining; and with equal philosophy, with the same equanimity, he surrendered life's burdens and lay down to rest. The Sunbeam mourns the loss of him as its father. His was the brain and muscle to nurse and nuture the Sunbeam through many years of adversity, and he live to lean upon it in the days of prosperity. The town of Cheyenne mourn for an honored citizen. Through good and evil report he stood firmly for his town, holding her up with dignity and firemness in all her trials. The county mourns a broad-minded citizen, who was constant and true to every duty of his citizenships as he saw it, and who was faithful and efficient to the extent of his ability to every true reposed in him. The sympathy of the entire community is with the bereaved. They, and all of us, bear with patience the weight of affliction which life is sure to lay upon every heart; and may memory always delight to keep green the virtues of him who surrendered without flinching to the dread summons of death, and who in every relation earned the applause of "well done". Sunbeam, Cheyenne, Ok -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html