Morgan - Elizabeth Powers - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Last Saturday about 9 o’clock Mrs. D. N. Morgan died at the family residence on East Main Street. She had been ill for a long time and for the past few weeks it had been realized that the end was not far off. Still it was sudden when it came and her death was so peaceful that it really seemed a passing into sleep. The funeral occurred at the residence on Monday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. The services were conducted by Rev. S. W. Goss and the interment took place at Oak Hill Cemetery.  Elizabeth Powers was born in Crawfordsville on May 29, 1839, and was the daughter of Jonathan Powers, a pioneer settler and leading citizen of the county. On November 10, 1863, she was married to David Newton Morgan. Two children, both girls, were born to them, one of them dying at a tender age, the other Mrs. Harry T. Mahorney, of this city. Two sisters of Mrs. Morgan survive, being the only living members of a family of twelve children. They are Mrs. Ellen Hall, of Des Moines, Iowa, and Mrs. Elizabeth Lebo, of Parke County. Mrs. Morgan united with the Methodist Church in 1855 and during her after life, was a devoted communicant. Next to her family and, indeed, sharing with it her devotion and her work, was her church and her death comes as a loss to that institution. Never a woman of rugged health, Mrs. Morgan was ever cheerful and attracted to herself an unusually large circle of devoted friends. By nature very sympathetic she was interested and assisted largely in charitable work and will long be remembered by the poor to whom her life was a distinctive blessing. Her life was an example of what was best and the cheerfulness and brightness in it was imparted to all about her. - kbz