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B.S. Morgan

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Death Date: July 5, 1911
Age at Death: 67

Marriages

Adelaid Horton - 1889

Burial Details

Cemetery Name: Sunset View
Cemetery Location: Eagle CO

Obituaries

Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - July 7, 1911

Another Eagle county pioneer passed away. B.S. Morgan, who for the past eight months has been suffering from miner's consumption, at the home of A.L. Fulford in Eagle succumbed to the disease late Wednesday afternoon , July 5 th . Mr. Morgan has been a resident of Colorado since 1878. Thirty three years ago he left Lawrence, Kas, for South Park, whe he engaged in ranching supplying hay to the booming mining camp of Leadville. He is a native of the state of Maine . _IieavlnR thorn at _tho ago of nine yeara . ho took up his _residence at I _^ _swrence . _Frow South Park he went to work b the mines at Lcadville and lnt « T eame on to Beil Cliff . In 1887 be started to prospect at Kulford » n < l _locMtfid several claims , which woro _sttlll in hi * possession before his departure from this life . At Pulford in the fall at 18 S 0 , he . _jnrirricd Afrs . Ailelaid Horton , _•*!)•• survives him . He was 67 years o _« _ige . nt the time of h . _s death . Ho titt » no relatives _oufaide of Eagle , _excepting a sister at Ijawrence , Km , whom he had not heard from for _i

number of years . He . has _numberlesg friends throngliout Eaglo and Lake counties who will regret to learn of his . demise . The funeral wan held _trota the Fulfor « residence at 2 : 00 o clock Wednesday afternoon _acd was largely attended by friendp gathered to pay their last tribute . Eev . J . T , Coulter held short _Berviees . Interment was made in _JBacrfe

cemetery . Ralph J . Meyer of Grand Junction , _stepped off in Eagle today to visit relatives on his way to Denver . He will stop nt Pando entoute . Mr . Meyer is the inventor of a rotary pump which is bound to meet with success .

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