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MARGARET MORWOOD
MRS. MORWOOD SR.
Welland’s Oldest Inhabitant Dies in Her Ninetieth Year
“Weep not for the Dead”
[Welland Tribune, 5 April 1895]
Ninety years is a long lease of human life nowadays. It is twenty years in excess of the allotted span of life. Twenty-one lives of that length would reach back to the time of Christ on earth.
“Grandma” Morwood, as she was familiarly known, was in her ninetieth year, and was as far known the oldest resident of Welland town. Until about three years ago she was in fair health for one so aged, and was able even so late as last summer to attend church. For some months; however, she had been confined to the house, and the end came on Friday last, 30th March. Contrary to the usual in extreme old age, the final struggle was both severe and prolonged.
Deceased, whose maiden name was Margaret McPherson, was a native of Scotland. When about thirteen years of age she came to New York State with her parents, living there for some time, and being there married to her late husband-John Morwood. About fifty-five years ago deceased and her husband and their then young family came to St. John’s, this county, where Mr. Morwood was engaged in a woollen factory. Subsequently the family removed to Welland town, where our subject’s husband died. One son and two daughter’s still survive; James Morwood, Welland; Mrs. Charles Currey, Dunnville, and Mrs. Barber of Kansas City. The late Richard Morwood, who was also her son, was Welland’s principal pioneer business man, and built up the large business carried on by his sons at the present time under the firm name of “The R. Morwood Co.”
Mrs. Morwood’s funeral took place on Sunday, from the residence of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Richard Morwood, and was very largely attended. The services were conducted by Rev. Mr. Dobson, of the Methodist church, of which deceased had been a life-long and devoted member. The text chosen for the occasion was Jer. 22, 10: “Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him that goeth away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country. “As the Reverend speaker said, this was not an occasion for weeping, but rather an event of emancipation and glory, referring to the deceased as having gone to the glorious reward for seventy years spent in the loving and faithful service of the Lord.” The pall-bearers were the nearest relatives of deceased-James Morwood, son, C. Currey, son-in-law, and Albert, John and Frank Morwood, and Wm. Drake (Dunnville), grandsons and grandson-in-law. Interment at Fonthill cemetery. “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.”
Died: 30 March 1895
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