Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Elnora MORRISON

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Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, <rmontgomery@cishome.com> June 2005

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FALL PROVES FATAL TO MRS. MORRISON, 89

Funeral Services Will Be Held Here at 2 p.m. Today with Burial In
Janesville

Mrs. Elnora Morrison, 89, died at 11:30 p.m. Monday in the Madison General
hospital as a result of a broken hip sustained in a fall here on Wednesday
of last week. Funeral services are being held today at 2 p.m. in the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Edward Jones, with the Rev. G. C. Saunderson of the
Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be made in Oak Hill cemetery,
Janesville.

Mrs. Morison, formerly Miss Elnora Bowser, was born February 21, 1841 on a
farm in Allen county near Fort Wayne, Ind. She was married there to
Chalmers C. Morrison of Pennsylvania on March 18, 1861. Following her
marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Morrison lived on a farm near Logansport, Ind.,
coming to Wisconsin a few years later and settling in the town of Center.
Mr. Morrison died 29 years ago.

Mrs. Morrison was a member of the Methodist church. Besides a host of
friends she is survived by four sons, Elmer C., and Frank M., of Boneita
Springs, S. D., and George B. and Fred W. of Evansville; three daughters,
Mrs. Edward Jones and Mrs. Pliny Tolles, Evansville and Mrs. Conrad Hansen,
Madison; 17 grandchildren and eighteen great grandchildren.

July 3, 1930, The Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 2, Evansville, Wisconsin