Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1913 — Grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Morgan Dead. [ARTICLE]

Grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Morgan Dead.

News has been received here by his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George L. Morgan, of the death of Hamilton Payne Morris, at the age of 15 years, 8 months and 22 days, at Moline, Kansas, May sth. He was the son of Charles Morris, a former resident of Rensselaer, and the son of Mrs. Morgan. The boy’s death was caused by congestion of the brain, resulting from an attack of carbuncles and boils. The Moline Advocate has the following to say of his death: “While his death was not unlooked for, the Anal end came as a shock to the community, and especially so to his young associates and schoolmates. Payne was a universal favorite with both young and old. His quiet habits and sturdy usefulness, coupled with his respect for older people, made them his friends. His love of fairness with his young associates made them respect him for that one great virtue so quickly recognized by youth. “The funeral was an unusually large one, and the Aoral offerings in their profusion seemed especially appropriate and suggestive of the young man’s life gone out. A place of honor was accorded the teacher and students of the room in which he was a (fellow student, each carrying a white carnation. The schools were dismsised and students and teachers followed his remains in sorrow to his last resting place in Moline cemetery, where they Bled past his open tomb and dropped one by one their Aoral offering' upon his sleeping dust."