Waitman T. Morris (1862-1888)

MORRIS

Posted By: Barry Mateer (email)
Date: 1/15/2018 at 23:59:54

Waitman Morris was born in Harrison county, West Virginia, October 27, 1862, … asleep in Christ at 2 o’clock January 10, 1888. In the spring of 1865, with his parents and their family, he removed to Clarke county, Iowa. At a protracted meeting held at Liberty by Rev. George Clammer, he was converted and joined the M.E. Church at the age of thirteen years, and has loved to honor God and his cause in the classroom, in the prayer meeting and the Sabbath school, where he has been entrusted with the responsible duties of superintendent, secretary, etc., which he faithfully discharged.

He had only laid down his labor as teacher in the public school twelve days before he departed this life and went home to die no more.
His thirst for higher attainments and broader education has always been too great for his physical strength. He entered Simpson College in the spring of 1883 and continued to make steady advancement until feeble health in his fifth and sixth terms compelled him to desist.

His unswerving determination, tireless energy, thorough fidelity to work as a student promised success, while his loyalty to Christian principles, his sympathetic nature and noble purpose assured his usefulness. But nobler, grander things have been planned by our Heavenly Father, who doeth all things well. These active energies have been transformed to a glorious field of usefulness, and will there honor God who endowed him with these faculties and redeemed him through the precious blood of his son. We bow in submission before the providence which we cannot fully explain until we know as we are known.

The funeral took place from the M.E. Church at Liberty on Thursday, January 12, 1888, at 10:30 o’clock, a.m., Rev. D.C. Franklin officiating, after which the remains were laid in the family lot in the cemetery.
The Osceola Weekly Sentinel, January 19th, 1888 Page 3

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Osceola Weekly 1888, April 26

Mr. McNichols was down here Saturday and erected a fine monument at the grave of W. T. W. Morris, and now side by side two marble slabs mark the last resting place of Michael and Waitman Morris, two as fine young men as lived in this country, both striving for a good education, one expected to enter the ministry, both went down to their death within a few months. Life looked bright and seemed to hold out great inducements to each. Both are gone – shall we ask why?
Osceola Weekly 1888, April 26

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