Another Mother is Dead.
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth (Morton) Houk, daughter of J. Q. and Artimissa Morton, born on the old Morton homestead, 3 1/2 miles northeast of Pilot Grove, March 4, 1837, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Pauline Fischer, 437 South Quincy Ave., Kansas City, Mo., on December 22, 1921. She had been in failing health for the past two years but improved enough to go to Southwest Kansas last spring to spend the summer with nephews and nieces. She returned home in November much better but soon her health failed again and she passed away as stated above. She was the fifth member of a family of fifteen children.
Funeral services were conducted on December 24 at the residence in Kansas City by Rev. R. E. Riggs, followed by interment in Mt. Washington cemetery.
The subject of this sketch was united in marriage with John A. Houk on August 15, 1865, and seven children were born to the union. A son died in infancy and the second daughter died in August, 1905. The surviving children are: E. T. Houk, Mrs. W. F. Roberts, Robert L. Houk, Lewis H. Houk, and Mrs. Pauline Fischer, with whom Mrs. Houk made her home. She also leaves two brothers, Jas. M. Morton, Ault, Colo., and G. P. Morton, Bunceton, and a sister, Mrs. Tandy Dix, Blackwater.
Mrs. Houk is also survived by nine grandchildren, and five great grandchildren.
Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Houk lived near Bell Air for a number of years, later moving to Nelson, where they reared their family. Mr. Houk died July 21, 1897, after which Mrs. Houk made her home with her children. Mrs. Houk was a member of the Baptist church from early womanhood and ever lived a consistent christian life. Her wealth was not in dollars and broad acres but in stock of human kindness, heart room, and service. With the sick and the distressed her very presence was a soothing tonic for those she served. Many dark shadows fell across her way which was long and steep but she spent her life smoothing the way and placing flowers of kindness along the pathway of others. That is why we say, "Another mother is dead." -
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(Bunceton Eagle, Bunceton, MO 13 Jan. 1922, Pg 6)
Another Mother is Dead.
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth (Morton) Houk, daughter of J. Q. and Artimissa Morton, born on the old Morton homestead, 3 1/2 miles northeast of Pilot Grove, March 4, 1837, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Pauline Fischer, 437 South Quincy Ave., Kansas City, Mo., on December 22, 1921. She had been in failing health for the past two years but improved enough to go to Southwest Kansas last spring to spend the summer with nephews and nieces. She returned home in November much better but soon her health failed again and she passed away as stated above. She was the fifth member of a family of fifteen children.
Funeral services were conducted on December 24 at the residence in Kansas City by Rev. R. E. Riggs, followed by interment in Mt. Washington cemetery.
The subject of this sketch was united in marriage with John A. Houk on August 15, 1865, and seven children were born to the union. A son died in infancy and the second daughter died in August, 1905. The surviving children are: E. T. Houk, Mrs. W. F. Roberts, Robert L. Houk, Lewis H. Houk, and Mrs. Pauline Fischer, with whom Mrs. Houk made her home. She also leaves two brothers, Jas. M. Morton, Ault, Colo., and G. P. Morton, Bunceton, and a sister, Mrs. Tandy Dix, Blackwater.
Mrs. Houk is also survived by nine grandchildren, and five great grandchildren.
Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Houk lived near Bell Air for a number of years, later moving to Nelson, where they reared their family. Mr. Houk died July 21, 1897, after which Mrs. Houk made her home with her children. Mrs. Houk was a member of the Baptist church from early womanhood and ever lived a consistent christian life. Her wealth was not in dollars and broad acres but in stock of human kindness, heart room, and service. With the sick and the distressed her very presence was a soothing tonic for those she served. Many dark shadows fell across her way which was long and steep but she spent her life smoothing the way and placing flowers of kindness along the pathway of others. That is why we say, "Another mother is dead." -
Contributed.
(Bunceton Eagle, Bunceton, MO 13 Jan. 1922, Pg 6)
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Harriet Morton Franklin
1833–1901
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PVT Thomas Jefferson Morton
1834–1865
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James Monroe Morton
1835–1923
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John Rucker Morton
1839–1910
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William Harrison Morton
1841–1913
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Benjamin Hawkins Morton
1842–1864
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Robert Morton
1843–1891
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George Phillips Morton
1846–1932
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Nancy "Nannie" Morton Allison
1848–1879
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Mary Gibson "Mollie" Morton Rucker
1849–1916
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Artie Missy Morton Dix
1851–1938
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Minerva E. Morton Miller
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