From The Box Elder News (Brigham City, UT) - Friday, March 16, 1928:
Funeral services for Wilson Kirkwood Morrison, 68, of this city, will be held on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Second ward chapel. Interment will be in the city cemetery.
Mr. Morrison had been ill since before Christmas and confined to the hospital since January 29th. He died Tuesday afternoon at the LDS hospital in Salt Lake City of bronchial asthma, caused by sinus infection. While his condition was somewhat critical, his death came as a shock to the family and his many friends. Mrs. Morrison was at his bedside the end came.
Mr. Morrison was born October 23, 1859 in Fairfield, Iowa, a son of Abram and Sarah Gorsuch Morrison. He came West when a young man of 21 years in company with a Mr. Hooper, both being linemen. This was at the time the Western Union Telegraph Company was building a line across the continent. Mr. Morrison assisted in the construction of the line and is said to have climbed every other pole between Omaha and Ogden. He had been employed as a lineman on the O.S.L. railroad company for the past forty-seven years. He worked on many of the telephone and telegraph lines in Utah and has been instrumental in the building up of this communication service and witnessing its development for the very beginning.
Mr. Morrison came to Brigham City in the early eighties and on June 22, 1892 married Elizabeth Boden of this city. He was a member of the Woodmen of the World Lodge. He was blessed with a most congenial nature and was a good mixer, his acquaintanceship extending all over the intermountain county, especially in railroad circles.
Surviving are his widow, two daughters, Mrs. Eli F. Lee and Mrs. Ruel M. Eskelsen, a son, Wilson B. Morrison, together with eight grandchildren, all of this city.
Funeral services for Wilson Kirkwood Morrison, 68, of this city, will be held on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Second ward chapel. Interment will be in the city cemetery.
Mr. Morrison had been ill since before Christmas and confined to the hospital since January 29th. He died Tuesday afternoon at the LDS hospital in Salt Lake City of bronchial asthma, caused by sinus infection. While his condition was somewhat critical, his death came as a shock to the family and his many friends. Mrs. Morrison was at his bedside the end came.
Mr. Morrison was born October 23, 1859 in Fairfield, Iowa, a son of Abram and Sarah Gorsuch Morrison. He came West when a young man of 21 years in company with a Mr. Hooper, both being linemen. This was at the time the Western Union Telegraph Company was building a line across the continent. Mr. Morrison assisted in the construction of the line and is said to have climbed every other pole between Omaha and Ogden. He had been employed as a lineman on the O.S.L. railroad company for the past forty-seven years. He worked on many of the telephone and telegraph lines in Utah and has been instrumental in the building up of this communication service and witnessing its development for the very beginning.
Mr. Morrison came to Brigham City in the early eighties and on June 22, 1892 married Elizabeth Boden of this city. He was a member of the Woodmen of the World Lodge. He was blessed with a most congenial nature and was a good mixer, his acquaintanceship extending all over the intermountain county, especially in railroad circles.
Surviving are his widow, two daughters, Mrs. Eli F. Lee and Mrs. Ruel M. Eskelsen, a son, Wilson B. Morrison, together with eight grandchildren, all of this city.
From The Box Elder News (Brigham City, UT) - Friday, March 16, 1928:
Funeral services for Wilson Kirkwood Morrison, 68, of this city, will be held on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Second ward chapel. Interment will be in the city cemetery.
Mr. Morrison had been ill since before Christmas and confined to the hospital since January 29th. He died Tuesday afternoon at the LDS hospital in Salt Lake City of bronchial asthma, caused by sinus infection. While his condition was somewhat critical, his death came as a shock to the family and his many friends. Mrs. Morrison was at his bedside the end came.
Mr. Morrison was born October 23, 1859 in Fairfield, Iowa, a son of Abram and Sarah Gorsuch Morrison. He came West when a young man of 21 years in company with a Mr. Hooper, both being linemen. This was at the time the Western Union Telegraph Company was building a line across the continent. Mr. Morrison assisted in the construction of the line and is said to have climbed every other pole between Omaha and Ogden. He had been employed as a lineman on the O.S.L. railroad company for the past forty-seven years. He worked on many of the telephone and telegraph lines in Utah and has been instrumental in the building up of this communication service and witnessing its development for the very beginning.
Mr. Morrison came to Brigham City in the early eighties and on June 22, 1892 married Elizabeth Boden of this city. He was a member of the Woodmen of the World Lodge. He was blessed with a most congenial nature and was a good mixer, his acquaintanceship extending all over the intermountain county, especially in railroad circles.
Surviving are his widow, two daughters, Mrs. Eli F. Lee and Mrs. Ruel M. Eskelsen, a son, Wilson B. Morrison, together with eight grandchildren, all of this city.
Funeral services for Wilson Kirkwood Morrison, 68, of this city, will be held on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Second ward chapel. Interment will be in the city cemetery.
Mr. Morrison had been ill since before Christmas and confined to the hospital since January 29th. He died Tuesday afternoon at the LDS hospital in Salt Lake City of bronchial asthma, caused by sinus infection. While his condition was somewhat critical, his death came as a shock to the family and his many friends. Mrs. Morrison was at his bedside the end came.
Mr. Morrison was born October 23, 1859 in Fairfield, Iowa, a son of Abram and Sarah Gorsuch Morrison. He came West when a young man of 21 years in company with a Mr. Hooper, both being linemen. This was at the time the Western Union Telegraph Company was building a line across the continent. Mr. Morrison assisted in the construction of the line and is said to have climbed every other pole between Omaha and Ogden. He had been employed as a lineman on the O.S.L. railroad company for the past forty-seven years. He worked on many of the telephone and telegraph lines in Utah and has been instrumental in the building up of this communication service and witnessing its development for the very beginning.
Mr. Morrison came to Brigham City in the early eighties and on June 22, 1892 married Elizabeth Boden of this city. He was a member of the Woodmen of the World Lodge. He was blessed with a most congenial nature and was a good mixer, his acquaintanceship extending all over the intermountain county, especially in railroad circles.
Surviving are his widow, two daughters, Mrs. Eli F. Lee and Mrs. Ruel M. Eskelsen, a son, Wilson B. Morrison, together with eight grandchildren, all of this city.
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