MOURNED SWEETHEART 100 YEARS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3523, 9 July 1920, Page 3

MOURNED SWEETHEART 100 YEARS.

l Tlmmas Morris, 126 years of age,‘ died. on Ma.y 1, at Ansley, Nebraska, where he lived nearly half-a-century. 1-lis age was :luthellfitzafer] by I'm3ol'd.~; in his possession, which showed he was, born in Scotland in 1794. He lived and died :1 bachelor, his first and only swo<>llheal'lj (lying more than one hung dyed. years agc). Except on business, MlOl-1-is had not spoken to a woman outside the family for half-a-century. Morris w:-Is in London when the Battle of Waterloo vms fought, and distixmfly remembered ’rh:l.t battle and the homecominr; <?elel)l':xtion for the Duke of \Vellington. Sox'(‘nf’_y years ago ‘l\l-l)Z'I'lF auloptecl a boy named C}lm'les Mitrml, and when Morris became too 3 old to worlt I.\l‘il'ton took «i:n"(‘. of him. lllig rleath was :11 Mit:ten‘s lxonw.