from The Register, Berwick, March 1, 1945:
“Old Friends Carry Remains To Grave
Four long-ago neighbours carried to the cgrave in Lakeville Cemetery, last Thursday afternoon, the remains of William Edgar Morris, who passed away the previous Sunday morning (February 18), in Western Kings Memorial Hospital, Berwick, at the age of 93 years. Rev. Vincent Rushton, Pastor of United Baptist Church, Billtown, conducted the funeral services.
The late Mr. Morris was born at Harbourville, son of Joseph Morris, a native of Advocate, Cumberland County, and his wife, Sarah Hamilton, whose birthplace was Tyrone, Ireland. When he was a boy, the family removed to Lakeville, occupying for many years a farm that afterward passed to Ray Clarke, the present owner, and it was there he established the friendships that called three brothers--Ray, Blake and John Clarke--and George Chase to bear his body to its last resting place.
The family removed from Lakeville to Canard, there occupying another farm, where, as owner, a brother of William died five years ago. That was Hamilton Morris, named for the mother of four boys and a girl. Another brother, Lewis Morris, died at Hantsport, in recent years, leaving a son and daughter. The only living brother is Henry Morris, in Maine. The sister, Amanda, who became the wife of Hiram Ward, in Canard, died some years ago in the United States.
William Morris followed farming most of his life, carrying on that pursuit at Waterville and Weymouth, before migrating to Western Canada, where he lived for more than twenty years, and then returned to the land of his birth.
He was known as a friendly and interesting man, whose chief pleasure in late years was to recount his earlier experiences, and comment on the changing world in which he had lived so long.”
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