Moreton, Hugh Berkeley 1891-1938

MORETON, RICHARDS

Posted By: Tom Baack-Volunteer (email)
Date: 10/16/2014 at 07:40:21

Le Mars Semi Weekly Sentinel April 5, 1938

Hugh B. Moreton Ex-Service Man Taken By Death
Was Member Of Well Known Family Which Helped Put Le Mars On Map

Friends in Le Mars have received word of the death of H. B. Moreton at his home in Minneapolis March 24. He was born in Le Mars and was a son of Henry J. Moreton, who was engaged in the banking business with the late W. H. Dent and G. C. Maclagan in the late eighties and nineties. His grandfather was Capt. Raynolds Moreton, who came to Le Mars in 1879, and conducted a ranch a mile and a half north of Le Mars for several years. The ranch attained widely flung notoriety and "Moreton's pups" was a generic term for scions of English aristocracy, who came to northwestern Iowa and paid the captain a generous sum to be cultivated into the occupation of farming. A Minneapolis paper has the following obituary:

Hugh Berkeley Moreton, 46, a resident of Minneapolis for 40 years, died Thursday, March 24, at the Glen Lake sanatorium after a long illness. He was born in Le Mars, Iowa, and came to Minneapolis as a child, attending the public schools and graduating from Central high school. During the World War he served overseas with the ambulance corps and was given the service medal with five bars and the Order of the Purple Heart. He is survived by a son, Henry John Moreton, a daughter, Miss Carrie Ann Moreton, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Moreton, all of Minneapolis, and a brother, Theodore R. Moreton of Jersey City. Funeral services were at Lakewood chapel Saturday. The Rev. A. B. Knickerbocker, pastor of St. Paul's Episcopal church, officiated.

Note:
DOB March 12, 1891
Mother Carrie Cecelia Richards