This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Morse, Hackett, Shoemaker, Proctor Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1568 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. December 24, 1931. "A Pioneer at the End of Life Journey".--Charles Fremont Morse, aged 75 years, all of whose life save twelve years was spent in this county, died at the home of his son, Fred Morse, three-fourth mile north of Anderson, at 6:00 o'clock Tuesday morning following a period of declining health of some three or four years, serious for the past six months. The funeral services will be held at the Morse home this afternoon at 1:00 o'clock, conducted by Rev. John W. Todd of Shenandoah, and burial will be in the Grandview cemetery. Mr. Morse was born at Howell, Michigan, October 2, 1858, came to Sidney with his parents October 12, 1868, and has spent the remainder of his life here. He formerly resided on a farm west of Sidney, but some fifteeen years ago moved to town and built the Mutual telephone line, which he operated for a number of years. This spring he and his son moved to the E.W, Hutchison farm a short way above Anderson. On October 26, 1880, he was married in Fremont county to Miss Lucy Hackett, who, with two of the three children born to them, survives. The children are the son, Fred, and Mrs. R.B. Shoemaker of Red Oak. The other daughter, Mrs. A.E. Proctor of Shenandoah, died last June. He also leaves one brother, Dr.S. E. Morse, who resides at Dixon, California.