Clara Elizabeth Morrison Carver (1870-1918)

CARVER, MORRISON, HALL

Posted By: Gail and Dennis Bell
Date: 5/28/2005 at 10:06:10

THE MAXWELL TRIBUNE, Maxwell, Story County, Iowa, Thursday, November 7, 1918, page 1. "CLARA ELIZABETH CARVER - Clara Elizabeth Morrison, daughter of T. J. and Anna Morrison, was born November _, 1870, in Jasper county, Iowa, and departed this life November 2, 1918, aged forty-seven years, eleven months and twenty-eight days. She was united in marriage to D. E. Carver December 22, 1889. To this union were born three sons, Harland J., Jesse E. and Tilghman J. She united with the M. P. church at the age of seventeen, living and ever faithful and earnest Christian life. Her greatest joy and ambition being to serve her blessed Master. With the exception of the first year of her married life, she has spent her entire life in and near her present home. Besides her husband and three sons, she leaves her mother, Mrs. Anna Morrison, three brothers, William, Telphman and Thomas Morrison, of Collins; one sister, Mrs. J. T. Hall, of Winterset, and two little grandchildren, Fern and Ralph to mourn her departure. She suffered much for the past year, and her fortitude was remarkable, always enduring the hardships of her illness as one who did not suffer as those that have no hope, but rather as one who had an abiding confidence in the hand which guideth the destiny of mankind. Her funeral was held from the family residence Tuesday, November 5th, at 10 a. m., Rev. J. C. McLain officiating: burial was in the Collins cemetery.