The age-herald., 1901-04-24
DR. EDWARD MORRIS
 HAS PASSED AWAY
He Died Early Y s'erday Morn
 ing of Pneumonia
BRAVE HERO 10 HIS DUTY
While Attending Faithfully To His Patients Contracted His Illness, and Perished Quickly-A Good
 and Brilliant Man-FuneraI.

Dr Edward Waits Morris died at the Morris private sanitarlum in Eighteenth street at o'clock yesterday morning af- ter brief illness of pneumonia.
 pr. Morris, who was a very busy man and who was constantly exposed to the recent severe weather, which has pro- duced almost al epidemic of pneumonia in Birmingham, became afflicted with a very painful cold. At the outset of this attack he was in constant attendance upon pneumonia patients, especially upon the late Ben Mayer and his mother, Mrs H. c. Mayer, both of whom died within three days of one another of malignant pneumonia. 5
 Within a day or two after Mrs. Mayors death, which occurred a week ago, Dr. Morris also fell i'll of pneumonia, and the impression has obtained and still obtains that the doctor contracted the deadly malady. through his skilful, gentle and faithful mnistrations 10 the sufferers. However that may have been in precise terms, he unquestionably sacrificed him- self to the cause of relieving human suf- fering, in which he was skilled above most physicians oip, the world.
 Dr. Morris was1 born in Virginia six and thirty years ago, and came to Bir- mingham to practice medicine in 1ssS He received q thorough classical education and his wide knowledge of medicine he obtained in Baltimore, graduating while still very young man. Some years later he was joined in Birmingham by his younger brother, pr. Lewis Coleman Nor ris, and since that time the brothers have practioed together and been re- markedly successful Two years ago they associated with themselves pr. F. A. Lupton, also a Virginian, and in 1900 built the present spacious Morris Sani- tarium in Eighteenth street, where pr. Edward Morris died.
 Dr. Morris came of one of the oldest of the colonial families of Virginia. and was related to the Riveses. the Pages and other noted families; Thomas Nelson Page being his brotherin-law. He is sur vived by his brother, Dr. Lewis Coleman Morris of Birmingham, and by three sis ters one of whom, Mrs. Wood of Char lottesvile, Va, arrived in Birmingham last night. Mrs. Woods daughter, Miss Wood, who was officially taken as the best type of American beauty for the Pan American fair. at Buffalo, has been for several weeks the guest of the Doc tors Morris.
 Dr. Morris was man of wonderful brilliancy of mind and depth of learning. and. was one of the most accomplished physicians in the South He had been a close and painstaking student and a great reader, and his accomplishments covered a wide range of literature, biography history and sceiencea In him tho art of conversation survived as it survived in the best of companions and most stead fast of friends ts
 Moreover, Edward ; Morrison "Dr Eddie" as many of his patients and friends aff1ectionately called him-was one of the best and most generous souls upon the earth. Great in learning and skill, he was greatest in good-hearted- ness. Every patient he ever had, and many a friend who never needed his skill in physical treatment. mourn him as brother gone before his time.
 He was a noble type of physical man, tall and stalwart and of powerful face Ten days ago he was out with a large party playing golf, and they marked that he could drive ball farther than any other member of his club.
 The funeral of Dr. Morris will take place in the Episcopal Church of the Ad- vent, Sixth avenue and Twentieth street, at 3:30 O clock this afternoon. Interment will take place in Oakhill cemetery. The pallbearers will be: Dr. W. E. B. Davis, James Weatherly, Otto Marx. E.. A. de- Funiak, P Sid Jones, Dr. Edward Dren- nen, Lew Lazarus, and R. Preston