Brief Life History of Alma Adelbert
Alma A. Morriss Alma A. Morriss, 80, of 5 South Garden street, died at his home late Saturday following a long illness. Born Sept. 14, 1876, in Salt Lake City, Mr. Morriss was married to Sarah Kate Armstrong Jan. 23, 1907, in the LDS temple in Salt Lake City. He farmed in the Burley area for 35 years and then moved to Boise where he farmed until ill health caused his retirement. A member of the LDS church, Mr. Morriss served on a mission for the church in Australia. He was a member of the high priests quorum of the West Boise stake. Surviving in addition to Mrs. Morriss are six daughters, Mrs. Emma M. Combs of San Leandro, Calif., Mrs. Margaret K. Storey of Midway City, Calif., Mrs. Lydia A. Ricks of Nampa, Mrs. Helda M. Rose of Heyburn, and Mrs. Myrtle A. Wuelfkin and Mrs. Dorothy R. Snow, both of Caldwell; three sons, Adelbert A. Morriss of Heyburn, Joseph R. Morriss of Moses Lake, Wash., and William L. Morriss of Halfway, Ore.; a sister, Mrs. Allie Hill of Hunter, Utah; a brother, Leo Morriss of California, and 30 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren. Services will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the LDC Eighth ward chapel with Bishop Morgan Grover officiating. Interment will be at Cloverdale under the direction of the Relyea chapel. The Idaho Daily Statesman Boise, Idaho, Monday Morning, March 4,1957 Page Nine Newspaper Clipping, SOURCE: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSL7-B6X7?cc=2860782&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQ5SM-44K7
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- Alma Morriss, "United States 1950 Census"
- Alma A. Morris, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Alma Adelbert Morriss, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1877
Australia and England play the first-ever cricket Test match in Melbourne.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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English: variant of Morris 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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