Obit of Morris, Walter G. - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 15 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/5901 Walter G. Morris was born in Swindon, Enland, March 2, 1852, and died at his residence at Cheyenne, O.T. February 6th, 1905, aged 52 years, 9 months and four days. Mr. Morris came to this country in 1872 and worked at his trade in New York for several years, coming west in 1884. He was married to Miss Georgie Sesse, May 9, 1892 and during the year 1893 located at Cheyenne, where he engage in the newspaper business, as manger of the Cheyenne Sunbeam. He purchased the Sunbeam shortly after taking charge of the same as manager, and was editor and purblisher of that paper until the year of 1903, when he disposed of the plant to the present proprietor, on account of ill health. Mr. Morris was well and favorably known to all the old residents of this county, and had the respect and eseem of all. Honorable and uprigh in all his dealings, generous to a fault, energetic and enterprising, he was one of the men who did much to make western Oklahoma the empire of the west. Mr. Morris had been in febble health for the past two years, but bore his suffering with fortitude and resignation. He leaves a wife and four small children, besides a host of friends to mourn his loss. The funeral serices were held at the Methodist church Tuesday afternoon and the remains were interred in the Cheyenne Cemetery. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html