Date of birth: 11 Jul 1923
Date of death: 25 May 1943

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Burial Information

Section 04 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0248-02
Status: Occupied

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Notes

Obituary

Elizabeth Morris Is
Buried Here Today

Young Girl Victim
Of Appendicitis
In Natchez 25th

Funeral services were held this morning at ten o’clock for Miss Elizabeth Louise Morris, 19, daughter of Mr. and, Mrs. Otto Morris, of Jackson, former residents of Lexington, who died Tuesday, May 25th, at a Natchez hospital, after an emergency operation for appendicitis.

The Rev. Roberson and Rev. Brown conducted the services at the First Baptist church in Lexington, of which the deceased was a member.

Miss Morris was taken ill suddenly on a bus on which she was traveling and was taken off at Natchez and rushed to the hospital there where she was operated on for acute appendicitis. She would have been 20 her next birthday, July 19.

The young lady was well known in Lexington where she was graduated from high school two years ago and the family has a wide circle of friends who will regret the tragedy. Only her parents and grandfather, J. W. Williams survive.

Interment was at Odd Fellows Cemetery with Southern Undertaking Association conducting.

Pallbearers were Denton Rosamond, Leon Armstrong, S. E. Henry, S. B. Taylor, W. H. Fincher and P. H. Williams.

The Lexington Advertiser – Lexington, MS
May 27, 1943, Vol. 106, No. 5, Pg. 1

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Family Members

Parents
Otto Ogden Morris
1894–1978 (m. 1916)

Addie Louise Williams Morris
1898–1974 (m. 1916)

Siblings
Robert Harrell Morris
1917-1938

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