Iowa
Old Press
Iowa Citizen
Iowa City, Johnson co. Iowa
December 4, 1905
Death Calls D.B. Morrison
- Old Settler and Well Known Citizen Died Friday Evening After a
Long Sickness -
After a complicated sickness of five or six years, David B.
Morrison died last Friday evening in his old home three miles
east of West Branch. Mr. Morrison was 73 years of age and one of
the oldest and best known citizens of Cedar county. He leaves a
wife and five children to mourn his death. The children are May,
Edward and Carl Morrison who are still at home and Charles and
Frank Morrison, the latter being a well known resident of this
city. The funeral was held in the home today at 1 o'clock p.m.
Briefs.
-A marriage license was today issued by the county clerk to Grant
B. Munger and Miss Mabel E. Gee
-Dr. Chas. Ellyson of Fort Dodge was in the city Saturday night
enroute home after a few days with his parents at West Liberty.
Pratt Farm is Sold
William E. pratt has sold his farm in Graham township, five and
one half miles north of town, to Earnest Voelchers. The price
paid indicates that the right kind of Iowa real estate is not
going down very rapidly whatever the tread of the population. It
was sixteen thousand dollars. Mr. Pratt is one of the old
residents of Johnson county. He came to Iowa City fifty-one years
ago finding only a few log huts on the bank of the river. He
drove the oxen to break the ground at Crousetown in 1854 and
afterwards followed the carpenter trade until 1863. During that
year he married and moved on to a farm adjoining the present
"Pratt Farm" which he purchased three years later.
Since that time he has lived continuously upon "the old
place" as a prosperous and successful farmer. mr. Voelchers
is to be congratulated for having obtained a farm which has been
so carefully cultivated for thirty-nine years and which is one of
the best improved places in the country. He will move into his
splendid new home next spring. Mr. Pratt and his family will move
to the city in February.
[transcribed by S.F., January 2006]