Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Morris, William S   August 4, 1908
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Norfolk Landmark, Wed., Aug. 5, 1908, pg. 2  

William S. Morris Popular Traveling Salesman is Dead
William Sherwood Morris died at the Norfolk Protestant Hospital at 5:45 o’clock 
yesterday afternoon. He was in the sixty-first year of his age. Mr. Morris was 
well and favorably known in Norfolk, and had many friends. He was regarded as a 
man of the highest integrity. He was a native of Norfolk. He lived at No. 464 
Freemason Street, and was a number of years a traveling salesman for 
Oberndorfer & Co. He traveled through North Carolina and Virginia. He was a 
member of Norfolk Lodge, No. 9, Knights of Pythias and of the Cumberland Street 
Methodist Church. Surviving are his widow and son, W.S. Morris, Jr.
The funeral will take place from the Cumberland Street Church at 5 o’clock this 
afternoon. The interment will be in Elmwood Cemetery.


Norfolk Landmark Thurs., Aug. 6, pg. 4 

The funeral of William Sherwood Morris, who died at the Protestant Hospital 
Tuesday afternoon, in the 61st year of his age, was held yesterday afternoon 
from the Cumberland Street Methodist Church, the Rev. Dr. William G. Starr 
officiating. Interment was in Elmwood Cemetery. The members of the Norfolk 
Lodge No. 9, Knights of Pythias, attended, and there were many floral tributes.
Floral offerings for the funeral were both numerous and beautiful, among them 
being a standing anchor from the house of Oberndorfer and Company and the 
house’s employees.
The pall-bearers for the funeral were W.T. Webb and Walter A. Edwards, 
representing Pythians, and B.E. Oberndorfer, J.E. Davenport, Lee Lewellyn and 
Jerome McBride.


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Elmwood

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