The following article was found in the Wilkes-Barre (PA) Record, 9 Dec 1895, Page 7. If anyone is interested in receiving a copy of this obituary, please send me your mailing address. (Long article. Only most relevant points stated below.) (Instead of submitting this to any specific Mailing List, I am submitting it to the General list in the hopes that it will be seen by a more diverse group.) "Rev. J.J. Morris, one of the oldest and best known ministers of the gospel in this section of the State, died on Saturday at 3:20 p.m. He was in good health up to within a few days of his death. "Rev. Mr. Morris was born in Llanelly, South Wales in 1823, and in 1854 he emigrated to America and made his home for a time at Ashland, where he worked in the mines as a miner. ... He was considered the oldest miner in Pennsylvania, having worked in the mines sixty-five years, and always in gangways, and what speaks well of him as a careful miner is the fact that he never was hurt. ... In 1878, he was ordained a minister of the Baptist Church at Jermyn, Pa., where many were made happy through his preaching. ... He visited Wales twice during the last twenty years. "A wife, seven sons and two daughters survive him - Thomas, a merchant in California; Matthew A., superintendent of coal mines in Virginia; Jesse A., Coal and Iron detective in Olyphant; Paul, a city pumpman in Johnstown; Silas, a car inspector at Fairview for the Lehigh Valley; Benjamin, bookkeeper for Lehigh Valley R.R. Co. at Sugar Notch; John R., a fire boss for Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. at Sugar Notch; Mrs. John B. Magee of Plymouth; Mrs. John H. Thomas, of Phillipsburg, Pa., wife of late mine inspector D.H. Thomas. ..." (The rest of the article involves the funeral at Hanover Green Cemetery and praises Rev. Morris' reputation.) Nancy Cook Pasadena, MD, USA