OBITUARY

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21176, 27 July 1940, Page 8

OBITUARY

LATE MR R. T. REID FUNERAL ON MONDAY The funeral of the late Mr R. T. Reid will take place on Monday afternoon at 2.30 o’clock from Tongue’s Chapel, Symonds Street, Auckland for the Waikumete Crematorium. MRS ELIZA HORN The death occurred after a short illness of a well-known and highly respected pioneer resident of the Eastport district, near Te Aroha, Mrs Eliza Horn, aged 77 years. Bom in Cornwall, England, in 1863, Mrs Horn came with her parents to New Zealand in the sailing ship Charlotte Gladstone, and landed at Lyttelton in 1872. The family eventually worked its way north to Thames, where Mrs Horn met her husband during the days of the gold rush. Even at that time she was actively interested in church work and played a great part in the establishment and development of the Methodist Church in that district.

In 1890 her husband was appointed to the Kuaotunu mine, near Mercury Bay, as manager. In 1892 Mr Horn was appointed mine manager at Thames, and Mrs Horn and her family took up farming in the Eastport district. Only during Christmas holidays was Mr Horn enabled to spend any lengthy period with his family, and it was during one of these vacations that her husband, who was a ship’s carpenter by trade, erected the original portion of the house which serves as the homestead to this day. The house was built of heart kauri and brought in sections to Paeroa by barge and thence overland to Eastport Road. The parlour of this house was the first and only preaching place in the district until the present Methodist Church was built in 1911, since when Mrs Horn has been an office-bearer.

Mrs Horn is survived by three sons, Charles Fredrick, George Walter and James Russell, all of Eastport, and two daughters, Mrs George Bellamy, of Te Poi, and Mrs Samuel Clarke, of Taupiri. Mr Horn predeceased his wife by 12 years. There are 21 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. MR E. C. MORGAN The death has occurred in the Waikato Hospital of Mr Edward Charles Morgan, an old Thames resident. When quite a young man Mr Morgan was taken by his parents, the late Mr and Mrs E. C. Morgan, to the goldfields in Thames, where he spent the greater part of his life. After marrying Miss Elizabeth Faulkner, he settled in Paeroa, for a number of years being engaged in the cordial manufacturing trade, acting as local manager for Messrs Grey and Menzies. Later he went into partnership with his brother. Then followed a further period in the Thames, before lie finally moved to Hamilton, living in retirement with his daughter, Mrs W. Graham. In his younger days Mr Morgan was a keen bandsman, as well as taking an active interest in the affairs of the Druids' Lodge and the Methodist Church. He enjoyed perfect health until shortly before his Mr Morgan is survived by his wife and two children, Mrs W. Graham (Frankton) and Mr E. C. Morgan (Thames).