Southampton-Campbell County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Morgan, Dr. Thomas A., 1964 

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DR. THOMAS ADDISON MORGAN

DR. T.A. MORGAN DIES LATE THURSDAY

   Dr. Thomas Addison Morgan, 52, died Thursday at 10:45 p.m. in Medical 
College Hospital, Richmond, after an illness since May 21.

   He was the husband of Mrs. Margaret Ellis Morgan and the son of the late 
Dr. Lucius Daniel and Mrs. Janie Moorman Morgan of Gladys.

   Dr. Morgan was a native of Gladys.

   He was a graduate of Randolph-Macon College and also of Medical College of 
Virginia.

   After graduation from Medical College in 1936, he came to Raiford Memorial 
Hospital and was associated with the late Dr. R.L. Raiford.

   To many Dr. Morgan was known as "Mr. Hospital."  He was the oldest member 
of the Raiford staff from point of service.

   He was radiologist at Southampton Memorial Hospital and medical examiner 
for Southampton County.

   He was publicly acclaimed in several foreign medical journals for his work 
in the legal aspects of medicine.

   He was a civil defense leader and gave lectures locally on the effects of 
atomic radiation.

   As coroner, he became interested in crime detection by x-rays and helped 
solve a number of crimes through this means.  Dr. Morgan spoke in Chicago and 
other cities on this subject.

   He was a member:
   Franklin Baptist Church, American Medical Association, Southern Medical 
Association, Radiological Society of North America, Virginia Radiological 
Society, Tidewater Radiological Society, Tidewater Radiological Society, the 
Medical Society of Virginia, Franklin Rotary Club, Hunterdale Ruritan Club, 
Tidewater Beagle Club, Association of Surgeons, Seaboard Airline Railway and 
Honorary member of Virginia Society of X-Ray Technicians.

   He was a veteran of World War II, serving for five  years in the Medical 
Corps, U.S. Army, as lieutenant colonel.

   Much of Dr. Morgan's service time was spent in the China-Burma-India 
theater.

   Dr. Morgan was responsible for the first Red Cross bloodmobile bank in 
Southampton County and acted as its first chairman.

   He also sponsored Hunterdale Ruritan Club Red Cross Bloodmobile.

   The July 6 visit of the Bloodmobile at Hunterdale, has been specially 
dedicated to Dr. Morgan.  Many pledges have been received in his honor.

   Surviving are his wife, two sons, Thomas Addison Morgan, Jr. and Leslie 
Daniel Morgan; one daughter Miss Margaret Ellis Morgan, all of Franklin; 
three sisters, Mrs. Norvin G. Maloney of Wilmington, Del., Mrs. James Richard 
Wooding of San Diego, Calif., and Mrs. Daniel K. Peak of Franklin; stepmother, 
Mrs. Willie Moorman Morgan of Gladys.

   A funeral service was to be conducted on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. in the 
Franklin Baptist Church by the pastor, the Rev. Ira D. Hudgins, and the Rev. 
Robert E. Fridley, pastor of the High Street Methodist Church.

   Burial was to be in Poplar Spring Cemetery, W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral 
Home in charge.

   In lieu of flowers, the family requested that donations be made to 
Southampton Memorial Hospital.

   Pallbearers are Dr. Kurt Hirsch, Dr. Henry L. Gardner, John E. Wright, 
Marion S. Whitfield, W. Tall Jones, George E. Pillow, Herbert E. Edwards and 
Robert A. Vaughan


Dr. Thomas Addison MORGAN [Sr.], Southampton Memorial Hospital radiologist, 
Army Medical Corps veteran of WW-II, Southampton Co. medical examiner, 
Gladys, Campbell Co. native, d. 16 Jun 1964, Richmond, age 52, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 138A*), Franklin, 
   21 Jun 1964, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 22, 1964, Sect. I, pp. 1 & 2 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

His widowed father 2m. Janie's sister Willie.  Her obit ("Tidewater News," 
   Mar. 9, 1972, B-2) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/m625w1ob.txt 

Lucius & both wives are buried in Kedron Baptist Church Cemetery, Gladys. 
   (Lucius' Find A Grave Mem. #133976321) 

His maternal grandparents, Dr. John Addison & "Kate" (PRICE) MOORMAN, 
   are buried in a MOORMAN family cemetery in Franklin Co. 
   (Find A Grave Mem. #154399491) 


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