Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1901-02-06
DEATH OF Dir. 8. b. MORRISON


Tuesday morning at his home at Rock
bridge Baths from q complication OF
diseases, the chief malady being the
effects of paralysis with which ne was
attacked nearly two years ago. Inere
were at his bedside his wife, TWO
daughters, Mrs. Hutcheson and MIS-
Bette Morrison, and one son, Dr. d.
X. Morrison. The funeral will take
place Thursday morning from Bethesda
Presbyterian Chulch, near Rockoridge
Baths, and the interment will be made
in New Providence cemetery. The heV'
Henry Miller, of Mt. Sterling' hyo
will ofiiciate.
DR.. Morri. on WAS horn near Browns
bug, kockbridiide county, September
18th, 1928. His parents were James
Morrison and Fannie Brown. bis
raternal ancestery were from North
Cerolina, while his mothers people
were from Bedford county, Va. His
parents settled in Rockbridgs county
in 1918. DR.. Morrison's grandmother,
Mary Moore, and one OF her brothers,
James, were the only survivors OF their
fathers family fron the Indian mas
sacre in Abs Valley, and they were
taken to Canada and held for five years
by their captors.
DIR. Morrison vas educa ed at Wash
ineton College (uow Washington and
Lee Unive sity) and at the University
of Virginia, gra iuating in medicine
from the latter institution. de was
recognized as one of the best surgeons
of his time and enjoyed lucrative
practice. In 1871 he was a member OF
the Vir yinia House of Delegate, his
collea ,ue being DIR. A. Graham. For
the past tw, nty years, with the excep-
ton Of the last yeas, he was the pro-
prietor of sanitarium at the Rock
bridge Blths, which was Largely at
tended. At the outbreak OF the Civil
War he enlist d in the 17lh Virginia
Co,olrv and WAS later made surgeon
the 5sth virginie, and fiually chiei
sur con OF General Ewel.'s Divisi,n
| He was called in consultation when
"Stonewall" Jackson was wounded
and that officer, on recognizing him
said. "rhat's an old, familiar face.
He wa, relative of Mrs. JACKSON,
| DR.. Morrison is survived by his wife
who was Mary L, daughter OF William
and Mary Gold, who lived near Browns
burg, and also by eight children-Mrs
liz. L. Hutcheson, of near Brownsburs
| Mrs. William Mop of Columbus
Is. c.: Mrs. Charles Gheselin, OF Shep
herdstow2, W. Va; Mrs. Robert elias
| Cow, of Lexington, Va; DR.. Ii. X
| Morrison, of Rockbri1-e Baths; Mrs
Charles Waite, OF Knoxville, Tenn
William G. Morton, OF Norfolk, Va
ond Miss Bette i. Morrison, of Rec
bridge Baths.
TuTwILER.-At her residence In TIL
place, Thursday morning, January 81
1901, of pneumonia, Mrs. Enmonia
Tutwiler, widow of the late Eli s. Tu
wller, aged 70 years. Mrs. Tutwil'
, was daughter of Thomas Stanhol
3 McClelland, an / her mother was iii
r Marea ret Caoell, of Union Hill, Nels'
county. She was born near Norwoo
Nelson county, in 1881, and marie
= Eli Shores Tutwiler, of Lexington,
!. lIS53, who died some ten years ae
All of her surviving children and b
erandniece, Mrs. John Dabney,
Lyncaburg, were with her duri
her Illness. Her children are: Tnom
Stanhope Tutwiler, of Savannah, q
=. James Bruce Tutwiler, OF Lexingtt
= Mrs. Mary Garland Garrett, ofLaure'
:. S. c.; Miss Argyle Travillian Tutwi'
:, of Lexington; Mrs. Mary Cabeil Lee
of Sherwood, this couaty, Harry
= Tutwiler, of Lynchburg; William v
= Henry Tu,wiler, Ct Baltimore, a
Darlington Cabsll 1utwiler, of Phi
= delphia. The funeral took place fir
= her late residence Friday afterro
the services being conducted by r
DIR. Thornton Whaling, of the Pres
terrain church. Interment was mi
. in Lexington cemetery.
LETcHER.-At the home of his P
ents in Lexington, Wednesday event
January 9Oth, 1901, Of cereoro-spi
'er meningitis, John, infant son Of Gre
l. II IL n