John Morgan

MORGAN, COLTON, HALLIGAN, SWAILES, JARRARD, SCHOMBERG, MCLAUGHLIN, BELL, HOBEN, HENDRICKSON

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Date: 1/31/2019 at 10:46:06

Columbus Gazette, December 26, 1935

John Morgan, 76, a leading farmer of the Haskins community, died Thursday and the funeral services were held at 9:30 Saturday morning at the Catholic church at Washington. Burial was made in the Washington cemetery.

He was the last of the family as his father and mother, brother, Thomas and sisters, Mrs. Rosa Colton, Mrs. Mary Halligan and Kate Morgan, all preceded him in death.

Nephews and nieces surviving him are Lee Colton, Ainsworth; Larry, Ed and James Colton, Columbus Junction; Mrs. Carl Swailes, Nichols; Mrs. Chester Jarrard and Mrs. Henry Schomberg, Lone Tree; Thomas Halligan and Mrs. Rosa McLaughlin, Davenport and Larry Halligan, Denver, Colo.

Mr. Morgan was born and reared and always lived in the same community and was a farmer all of his life.

Among those from here who attended the funeral services were Mr. and Mrs. John Bell, Mrs. James Hoben, Mrs. and Mrs. James Colton, Larry Colton, Dorothy, Pearl and Merle, Ed Colton and Mrs. and Mrs. Herman Hendrickson.