Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1900-04-24
Ar REST.
The Remains of Capt w. H, Morrow in
tered Sunday,


The following are clippings from Louisi-
ana, Pike Co., Mo, papers relative to the
death of Capt w. II. Morrow.
The funeral of Capt. w II. Morrow, who
died Thursday at $50 o'clock a. m, took
place Sunday at 10 o'clock at Centenary
church and was conducted by the pastor,
Rev. J. i. Vaughan. The services were, as
the reverend gentleman stated was the wish
ofdeceased, without eulOgy or ostentation,
but he took occasion to pay loving tribute
to the virtues of his character. The services
consisted OF singing by the Centenary choir,
assisted by other friends, reading oil scrip
ture, a prayer and short address. The
floral offerings were especially beautiful.
The members of the bar in this county and
several from Bowling Green, met at resi-
dence and marched to the church and from
there to the cemetery. The following attor-
neys acted as pail bearers: Eugene Pearson,
r. a. May and ]. w. Reynolds of this city
and Dalton Biggs, l.. q. Blair and Il. l..
Motley of Bowling Green.
William Hamilton Morrow was the sou
of Joseph and Ellen Lock) Morrow and was
bora near Charles Town, the county seat of
Jefferson county, West Virginia, November
], 1887, where he was reared and lived with
his parents until he was nineteen. He WIS
educated at Charles Town academy and at
the Agricultural institute at Aldie, Virginia.
When he left home in 1856 he came to Mis-
souri, and engaged in teaching school at
Louisiana, following it some two years,
when he began the study of law in the office
of Dryden IL LipScomb, at Palmyra, Mo-,
and was admitted to the bar at the same
place in 1860, when he began the practice.
InlS61 he returned to Charlestown, West Vir-
giUia, where he enlisted in the confederate
service as a member of Company A, Twelfth
regiment, Virginia cavalry, and served dur
ing the war. He was promoted through all
the various grades from private up to captain
of his company. He participated in many
battles, the most important being Bull Run,
Winchester, Manassas Junction, Antietam,
Gettysburg, Fredericksburg and Petersburg.
When his brigade was retreating from Peters
burg to AppomattoX he was wounded and
left at country residence and could not be
present at the general surrender to General
Grant but when he had partially recovered
he went to Charles Town, West Virginia,
where he surrendered to Major General Ea-
gan, to whom he was indebted for kind
treatment and generous aid As soon he
had recovered from his wounds he began
teaching private school in Charles Town,
West Virginia. and continued it up TO 1865,
when he had accumulated means enough to
return to Louisiana and resume the practice
of law. In 1870 he became associated with
Thomas l.. Anderson, Sr., and Thomas l.
Anderson, Jr., in the law practice in the
firm name of Anderson, Morrow 81 Ander-
son; they remaining together until 1873. In
1876 lie BECAME associated with w. q. Gray,
forming the law firm of Morrow ~ Gray.
February IL, 1864, he married Julia, daugh-
ter of a. Wilson of West Virginia They
have two children, Minnie Ola and Norvillc
He was Master Mason and member of Per
severance lodge No. o. A. F. Il A NJ, oi
Louisiana. He was member of the NJ 4
Church, South, and was superintendent oi
the Sunday school for seventeen years.