Church Worker Dead
Mrs. Margaret F. C. Morrison, Pioneer of Mt. Pleasant, Succumbs to Death.
(Special to The Herald-Republican.)
Mt. Pleasant, Jan. 12 - Mrs. Margaret F. C. Morrison died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ericksen yesterday morning. Mrs. Morrison was a pioneer of this city and had a host of friends here and throughout the state. She was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, June 5, 1823, where she married William Morrison, December 22, 1843. Then moving to Woolwich, Kent, England, she joined the Mormon Church and came to America with her husband in 1854, living in St. Louis two years.
At St. Louis they lost three children in one week from cholera.
In 1856 they came to Salt Lake. In 1858 they moved to Ephraim, where Mr. Morrison joined the soldiers who were sent out to meet Johnson's army. In 1859 they moved to Mt. Pleasant, being among the first families to settle here. May 11, 1868, Mrs. Morrison was called to preside over the Relief Society, being the first president of that society here. She held that position until May 11, 1908, making a total of forty years, thereby gaining the distinction of holding that office longer than anyone else in Sanpete county.
The funeral services will be held at 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon in the South ward meeting house.
Salt Lake Herald article 1/13/1910
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