Morin - WIlliam T.
Source: The Darlington Herald, Thursday, June 7, 1934
William T. Morin, father of Ray Morin of this community, was
instantly killed at 1:10 o'clock Monday afternoon, when the Ford
truck he was driving was struck by a Big Four passenger train on
a Colfax crossing, one block south of the Colfax elevator. Mr.
Morin was alone at the time of the accident, and his body was
taken to the Coyner funeral parlor in Colfax. Mr. Morin was about
70 years of age and was a prominent citizen of Lafayette. At the
time of his death he was serving as a Tippecanoe jury
commissioner, having taken the office on January 1, 1933, and
previously he had served on the Lafayette city school board and
had been a member of the Boy Scout executive committee. He was
also formerly a member of the firm of Morin and Mason, doing a
livestock commission business at the Lafayette union stockyards.
He was born in Montgomery county, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton
Morin, and for the past fifty years he has lived in Tippecanoe
County. He owned a farm north of Darlington, tenanted by the son
Ray which he visited almost daily. It is presumed he had gone
from the farm on a business errand, when the accident occurred.
Surviving are five children, Mrs. E. T. Mitchell of Romney; Ray
of near Darlington; Louise and Clark, students at Purdue and John
Milton, a pupil at Jefferson High School; two sisters, Mrs. Anna
Peak of Gladdens Corner and Mrs. Nancy Harbin of Darlington and a
brother Fielden Morin of Linden. Funeral services were held
yesterday afternoon at two o'clock at the home in Lafayette.
Burial was in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Darlington. - typed by kbz