Mordica C. Morgan (1912)

JOICE, KENNEDY, METZGER, MORGAN, SHOCKLEY, WOODS

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:03:13

Osceola Sentinel
Osceola, Iowa
Thursday, March 7, 1912
Page 1, Column 6

Mordica C. Morgan was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, in April of the year 1844, and died at the home of his nephew, Charles F. Woods, March 2, 1912, at the age of sixty-seven years, eleven months.

He came to Iowa in 1866, locating in Cedar county, and there he was united in marriage to Fredrica Metzger in 1868. He moved to this community in the fall of 1875, where he made a host of friends.

He later removed to Green county settling in Grand Junction, and there met with the loss of his companion, who passed away January 1, 1892. To them were born eight children, namely: Mrs. Ella Shockley of Walnut Grove, Minn.; Mrs. Anna Joice of Omaha, Neb.; Mrs. Viola Kennedy of Columbus, Ohio; Harry and Edward Morgan of Jamaica, Iowa, who are left to mourn the loss of a kind and loving father, Laura, Della and Charles, having preceded him in death. Mrs. Shockley and Mrs. Kennedy were unable to be present at the funeral which was held at Union M. P. church on Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock, conducted by the Rev. R. S. Tague, and was very largely attended. The interment took place at the cemetery near.
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Transcriber’s note: Mordica Morgan was in the Madison county, Iowa census records in 1880, 1885, and 1900. Typed as printed in the Osceola Sentinel.