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ROBERT MORRISON
[Welland Tribune, 5 February 1897]
After long years of painful suffering, borne with wonderful patience, Robert Morrison sank peacefully to rest at Welland on Saturday morning last at 11 o’clock, aged 61 years. Mr. Morrison was borne in County Sligo, Ireland, and when a young man went to England, where he was engaged in a drug store for several years. His father died when deceased was only 10 years old. At the age of 24 he came to this country with his mother, settling in Dunnville, where a brother and sister lived and where he received an appointment on the public works. The is held at Dunnville for eleven years, then he moved to Welland and was engaged on the canal here for twenty years-thirty-one years in all, much of which was spent in time-keeping, measuring timber, and in other departments in which a man so well versed in figures was required. He did much of the work office for Beemer & Sullivan, when the aqueduct was building, and also measured timber considerably for John McDonagh of Thorold. In 1860 Mr. Morrison was married to Mary Carns of Dunnville, who survives him, with two sons and a daughter-James Morrison of El Paso, Texas, and Frank Morrison and Mrs. Wm. Nixon of Welland. Two brothers and one sister survive-John Morrison of Mount Forest, James Morrison of British Columbia, and Mrs. M. Williams of Toronto. In his death an industrious and loving husband and father is removed from the family circle, and an honorable and upright citizen taken from our midst-deeply mourned by those near and dear to him and by the community in which he lived. Deceased’s father was sergeant of police in Ireland, and, like his son, was a pensioner. Robert Morrison died on the day his pension was due-Jan. 30th. The remains were buried in the family plot at Dunnville on Wednesday, Rev. Dr. Johnstone, rector of Holy Trinity, conducting service at residence here at 9.30 a.m. and accompanying the funeral to its destination. Mr. Morrison was a charter member of Thorold Home Circle, and a member of Welland Circle at his death, with an insurance of $2.000. He had been a member of the order for nearly twelve years. Welland Circle attended his funeral in a body. About five years ago, Mr. Morrison was troubled with a swelling in his throat, which was pronounced by physicians to be cancer. Dr. Park of Buffalo performed an operation for removal of the growth, and from that day deceased slowly but surely sank to death. The following named acted as pallbearers: John Phelps, Marcus Vanderburg, Thos. Blanchard, James Morwood, C.J. Page and James R. Stephens.
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