Leslie
Boon Morris & Treulia Jane Gammon
Leslie & Treulia married 7 March 1898, Lamar, Prowers, Colorado, First Methodist Church
MORRIS-GAMMON MARRIAGE
Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa
Thursday, March l7, l898
Married -- On last Monday evening, March 7, by Rev. G.W. Corey of Lamar, L.B. MORRIS, one of May Valley's most estimable and prosperous young men, and MISS TREULIE J. GAMMON, of Decatur County, Iowa. O.A. Hunter acted as best man and Miss Janie Morris, bridesmaid. A bounteous supper of the delicious edibles of the land was served at the groom's home on the north side in the evening to his many friends, at which time they received congratulations and many beautiful and valuable presents. May peace, happiness and prosperity be their lot through life is the wish of their many friends.
--Lamar, Colorado, Sparks.
-----Copied by Cordelia Suzann************
"With permission from the Leon Journal Reporter"
November 30, 2002
Leslie, Treulia & Children
(Seated L-R) Leslie Boone Morris, Hershel Gammon Morris, Treulia Jane Gammon
(Standing L-R) Opal Ardell Morris, Treulia Zoma Morris, Lola Naomi Morris, Mary Delilah Morris
(Not in picture) Winslow Claire (Hamilton) Morris
Leslie
Boon Morris, Treulia Jane Gammon & Family
(Some last names and/or details may have been omitted for
privacy reasons)
Leslie Boone Morris (M)
Born: 2 February 1870 Circleville,
Franklin, Ohio
Died: 13 August 1946 Lamar,
Prowers, Colorado
Buried: 15 August 1946 Lamar,
Prowers, Colorado; Fairmount Cemetery
Occupation: Farmer, Saddlery, Canal Construction,Farm Equipment
Occupation: Farmer, Saddlery, Canal Construction,Farm Equipment
Married: Treulia Jane Gammon 7 March
1898 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado, First Methodist Church
Treulia Jane Gammon (F)
Born: 21 December 1878 Leon, Decatur, Iowa
Treulia Jane Gammon (F)
Born: 21 December 1878 Leon, Decatur, Iowa
Died:
7 February 1978 Las Animas, Bent, Colorado, (Bent County Nursing Home)
Buried:
10 February 1978, Lamar, Prowers, Colorado; Fairmount Cemetery
Occupation: Housewife
Occupation: Housewife
Child #1: Lola Naomi Morris (F)
Born:
25 January 1899 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Died:
25 July 1986 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Buried: 28 July 1986 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado; Fairmount Cemetery
Occupation: Housewife, Telephone Operator-AT&T
Occupation: Housewife, Telephone Operator-AT&T
Married:
Alva Lawrence Crabill, 29 August 1920
Born:
9 June 1891
Died:
19 February 1963 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Buried:
(date unknown) Lamar, Prowers, Colorado; Fairmount Cemetery
Occupation: Carpenter
Occupation: Carpenter
Service:
COLORADO, PVT CO K, 133 INFANTRY, WORLD WAR I
Child: Beryle Louise (F)
Born:
1921 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Died:
1991 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Buried:
(date unknown) Lamar, Prowers, Colorado; Fairmount Cemetery
Occupation: Housewife, Radio Personality
Occupation: Housewife, Radio Personality
Married: Bruce N.
Cramb,
Born: 1 May 1920
Two Buttes, Baca, Colorado
Died:
9 November 2012 Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado
Buried:
(date unknown cremation) Lamar, Prowers, Colorado; Fairmount Cemetery
Occupation: Sailor, Business Man
Occupation: Sailor, Business Man
Service:
World War II Veteran, United States Coast Guard, (Honorably
discharged November, 1945)
Marriage #2:
Donna D. Cramb (maiden name unknown)
Child: Joyce Lynn Cramb
Born:
(date & place unknown)
Died:
(date & place unknown)
Buried:
(date & place unknown)
Occupation: Housewife
Occupation: Housewife
Married #1:
(first name unknown) Hawkins
Child:
Jeff Hawkins
Married #2: Don Stegman
Married #2: Don Stegman
Child #2: Opal Ardell Morris (F)
Born: 11 December
1900 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Died:
14 March 1988 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Buried: 16 March 1988 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado; Fairmount Cemetery
Occupation: Housewife, Clerk
Occupation: Housewife, Clerk
Married:
Chesington Brown, 23 April 1936 (marriage #2 for Chet)
Born:
Springhill, Kansas, 14 March 1897
Died:
26 January 1968 near Las Animas, Colorado
Buried: (date unknown) Lamar, Prowers, Colorado; Fairmount Cemetery
Occupation: Soldier, Auto Mechanic, Orderly at Ft. Lyon Veterans Hospital
Occupation: Soldier, Auto Mechanic, Orderly at Ft. Lyon Veterans Hospital
Service: KANSAS, PFC 212 AERO SVC SQ, WORLD WAR
I
Marriage
#1: (name, date & place unknown)
Child: Dale Brown (M)
Born:
(date & place unknown)
Died:
(date & place unknown, may be living)
Buried:
(date & place unknown, may be living)
Child: None
Child #3: Mary Delilah Morris (F)
Born: 2 April 1902
Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Died:
18 February 1980 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Buried: 20 February 1980 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado; Riverside Cemetery
Occupation: Housewife, Clerk
Occupation: Housewife, Clerk
Married:
Clemen Henry Holtcamp, 20 November 1920
Born:
18 September 1893, Higginsville, Lafayette, Missouri
Died:
18 September 1957, Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Buried:
Lamar, Prowers, Colorado; Riverside Cemetery
Occupation: Soldier, Clerk, Baker
Occupation: Soldier, Clerk, Baker
Service:
PVT 796 CO MTC, World War I (Enlisted 14 June 1918,
Discharged 10 June 1919, HONORABLE)
Child
#1: Emma Jane Holtcamp (F)
Born:
28 August 1921 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Died:
7 February 1922 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Buried:
Lamar, Prowers, Colorado; Riverside Cemetery
Child
#2: Clemen Henry Holtcamp Jr. (M)
Born:
23 May 1923 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Died:
16 December 2012 Denver, Denver, Colorado
Buried:
20 December 2012 Denver, Denver, Colorado; Fort Logan National Cemetery
Occupation: Soldier, Teacher
Occupation: Soldier, Teacher
Service:
SGT US ARMY WORLD WAR II & KOREA
Married: Edith M.
Adams (place unknown)
Born: (date &
place unknown)
Died: (living)
Buried: (living)
Child #1: Michael
Brent (M)
Born:
(unknown)
Died:
(living)
Buried:
(living)
Married:
(mate, date & place unknown)
Children
(unknown)
Child #2: Kent (M)
Born:
(unknown)
Died:
(living)
Buried:
(living)
Married:
(mate, date & place unknown)
Children
(unknown)
Child #4: Alma Zane Morris (F)
Infant
Born: 29 September
1903 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Died:
11 December 1904 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Buried:
Prowers County, Colorado; Crawford Cemetery (North of Lamar)
Receipt for a burial plot for infant daughter Alma Zane Morris at Crawford Cemetery from two individuals named Crawford to L. B. Morris for the sum of five dollars. The receipt states
Dec. 12 - 1904
Received of L. B. Morris for
one lot in Crawford cemetery.
The sum of five dollars
($5.00) in full payment.
C E Crawford
M D Crawford.
First initial for M D Crawford is is unclear on the receipt.
Child #5: Treulia Zoma Morris (F)
Born: 29 November
1905 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Died:
19 November 1989 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Buried: 21 November 1989 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado; Fairmount Cemetery
Occupation: Housewife, Clerk
Occupation: Housewife, Clerk
Married:
Floyd Lee Ellenberger, 24 October 1924
Born:
1 September 1900 (place unknown)
Died:
2 January 1966 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Buried:
(date unknown) Lamar, Prowers, Colorado; Fairmount Cemetery
Occupation: Business, Clerk
Occupation: Business, Clerk
Child #1: Wendell
(Rusty) Morris Ellenberger (M)
Born:
22 July 1925 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Died:
23 April 2005 Littleton, Arapahoe, Colorado
Buried:
(date unknown) Denver, Denver, Colorado; Fort Logan National Cemetery
Occupation: Soldier, Newspaper Typesetter
Occupation: Soldier, Newspaper Typesetter
Service:
CPL US MARINE CORPS WORLD WAR II
Married: Helen
Burnett, 3 September 1950 to 1994
Born: 3 September 1928 Dumas, Texas
Died: 30 April 2014 Arvada, Colorado
Buried:
10 May 2014 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado; Fairmount Cemetery (Cremated)
Father: Jim Burnett
Mother: Maysel Burnett
Child
#1: Terry Jean Ellenberger (F)
Married: Mike
Born:
Unknown
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Child
#1: Scott (M)
Child
#2: Keith (M)
Child
#2: Jimmie Lee Ellenberger (M)
Married: Robin
(maiden name unknown)
Born:
(date & place unknown)
Died:
Living
Buried: Living
Child #1:Jessica (F)
Buried: Living
Child #1:Jessica (F)
Child
#2: Reuben (M)
Child
#2: Dale Lee Ellenberger (M)
Born:
12 June 1934 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Died:
28 April 2014 Granbury, Hood, Texas
Buried:
17 May 2014 Granbury, Hood, Texas
Education:
Lamar Union High School, Lamar Junior College, Lamar, Colorado
Education:
Southwestern University, Winfield, Kansas, Bachelor of Divinity –
1970
Education:
St. Paul Seminary, Kansas City, Kansas, Masters of Divinity - 1973
Lived
In: Lamar, Colorado; Healy, Shields, Meade, Syracuse, Santana, Wichita,
Kansas, Granbury, TexasOccupation: Sailor, U.S.
Postal Worker, Methodist
Ordained Minister
Service: U.S. Navy (Submarines) Korean War
Veteran
Married: Loretta Mae Orr 10 August 1957 Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
Born: 30 June
1935 Wiley, Prowers, Colorado
Died:
31 July 2013 Granbury, Hood, Texas
Buried:
10 August 2013 Granbury, Hood, Texas
Lived
In: Lamar, Colorado; Kansas, Granbury, Hood, Texas
Occupation:
Housewife, Music Teacher
(Order of Children may not be correct)
Child
#1: Mark Ellenberger (M)
Married:
Anita (Last name and date unknown)
Child
#2: Melody Ellenberger (F)
Child
#3: Andrew Ellenberger (M)
(Deceased)
Child #6: Herschel Gammon Morris (M)
Born: 9 January
1908 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Died:
2 April 1953 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Buried: 4 April 1953 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado; Fairmount Cemetery
Occupation: Accountant, City Employee, Business Man
Occupation: Accountant, City Employee, Business Man
Married:
Jessie Lee Dotson, 6 June 1931 Syracuse, Hamilton, Kansas
Born:
(date & place unknown)
Died:
(date & place unknown)
Buried:
(date & place unknown)
Occupation: Housewife, Clerk
Occupation: Housewife, Clerk
Child: James
Dotson Morris (M)
Born:
23 December 1934 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Died:
11 January 2007 Clinton, DeWitt, Illinois
Buried:
Cremated and ash spread over a lake.
Occupation: Sailor, Business Man
Occupation: Sailor, Business Man
Service: U.S. Navy (Signal Corp)
Marriage #1: Nancy
Gertrude Stone 2 March 1957 Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts (Divorced)
Born:
29 November 1937 (place unknown)
Died:
15 February 1995 Lakewood, Jefferson, Colorado
Buried:
Cremated, Crown Hill Cemetery
Occupation: Housewife
Occupation: Housewife
Child
#1: Sherri Morris (F)
Born:
1957 Denver, Denver, Colorado
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Marriage
#1: Tim June 1976 (Divorced)
Child
#1: Angela Lee (F)
Born: 1977
Born: 1977
Marriage
#2: Patrick 1988
Children:
None
Child
#2: Michelle “Micky” Morris (F)
Born:
1961 Ft. Morgan, Morgan, Colorado
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Married:
Robert “Bruce” 20 June 1987
Child
#1: Samantha Ann (F)
Born: 1989
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Child
#2: Francesca Lee (F)
Born: 1994
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Child
#3: Rachelle “Ricki” Morris (F)
Born: 1961 Ft. Morgan, Morgan, Colorado
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Occupation: Housewife, Business Woman
Occupation: Housewife, Business Woman
Marriage
#1: Kevin Jensen 1981 (Divorced)
Child
#1: Brittany Nancy (F)
Born: 1988
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Marriage
#2: Bradley Charles 14 October 1994
Child
#1: Alexandra Lynn (F)
Born: 1995
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Child
#4: Jeffery Morris (M)
Born:
1962 Denver, Denver, Colorado
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Married:
Toni (Divorced)
Child
#1: Chad (M)
Marriage #2: Nancy
remarried Paul Witt
Born: (date &
place unknown)
Died:
(unknown)
Buried:
(unknown)
Children
none
Marriage #2: James
remarried (name not known)
Born: (date &
place unknown)
Died:
(unknown)
Buried:
(unknown)
Children none
Children none
Child #7: Edith Leslie Morris (F)
Infant
Born: 6 April 1914
Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Died:
15 April 1914 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Buried:
Prowers County, Colorado; Crawford Cemetery (North of Lamar)
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| (L-R) Winslow, Larry, Richard, Roger, Berniece Morris |
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| Winslow Claire (Hamilton) Morris Senior H.S. Picture |
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| Berniece Clare King (Married Name "Morris) Senior Picture 1936 |
Child #8: Winslow Claire Morris (M)
(Adopted [last
name was Hamilton] at age two. His
birth mother was Clara
Zane Gammon Hamilton, a younger sister of Treulia
Jane Gammon)
Born: 13 September
1915 Leon, Decatur, Iowa
Died:
6 February 1997 Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado
Buried: 10 February 1997 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado; Fairmount Cemetery
Education: High School - Lamar Union High School - 1935
Occupation: Athlete, State Highway, Construction Worker, City Utility Electrical Lineman, Plumber, Football-Basketball-Baseball
Referee & Umpire, Baseball Coach
Education: High School - Lamar Union High School - 1935
Occupation: Athlete, State Highway, Construction Worker, City Utility Electrical Lineman, Plumber, Football-Basketball-Baseball
Referee & Umpire, Baseball Coach
Married:
Berniece Clara King, 19 December 1937 Syracuse, Hamilton, Kansas
Born:
20 August 1917 Walters, Cotton, Oklahoma
Died: 13 June 2015 (In her Home) Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Buried: 17 June 2015 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado; Fairmont Cemetery
Education: High School - Frederick High School, Frederick, Oklahoma
Occupation: Housewife; Seamstress; Clerk in County Office; Clerk at U.S. Agricultural, Stabilization, Conservation Office
Education: High School - Frederick High School, Frederick, Oklahoma
Occupation: Housewife; Seamstress; Clerk in County Office; Clerk at U.S. Agricultural, Stabilization, Conservation Office
Child #1: Larry
Gammon Morris (M)
Born:
28 July 1940 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Education: B.S Colorado University - Boulder; M.E. Colorado State University - Fort Collins, Colorado
Occupation: College Athlete - Basketball, Jr. High & Sr. High Teacher, Software & Project Engineer
Education: B.S Colorado University - Boulder; M.E. Colorado State University - Fort Collins, Colorado
Occupation: College Athlete - Basketball, Jr. High & Sr. High Teacher, Software & Project Engineer
Married: Janice
Cordelia Ingram, 22 November 1962 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Born: 28 February 1944 Washington, D.C, Doctors Hospital
Born: 28 February 1944 Washington, D.C, Doctors Hospital
Died: 20 January 2005 (In her Home) Henderson, Clark, Nevada
Buried: 22 January 2005 Bountiful City Cemetery Bountiful, Davis, Utah
Education: Colorado University - Boulder
Occupation: Clerk, Housewife, Sunday School Teacher, Florist, Floral Business Owner
Education: Colorado University - Boulder
Occupation: Clerk, Housewife, Sunday School Teacher, Florist, Floral Business Owner
Child
#1: Shauna Lynn Morris (F)
Born:
14 August 1966 Longmont, Boulder, Colorado
Died:
4 April 1992 (Inher parents home) Bountiful, Davis, Utah
Buried: 8 April 1992 Bountiful, Davis, Utah; Bountiful City Cemetery
Education: Dixie College, Weber State College Nursing Program - 1990
Occupation: Registered Nurse at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City
Married: No
Education: Dixie College, Weber State College Nursing Program - 1990
Occupation: Registered Nurse at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City
Married: No
Child
#2: Suzanne Morris (F)
Born:
24 March 1969 Longmont, Boulder, Colorado
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Education: Weber State College, Piedmont Community College (Charlottesville, VA
Occupation: Housewife, Horse Woman
Education: Weber State College, Piedmont Community College (Charlottesville, VA
Occupation: Housewife, Horse Woman
Married:
Darin, 28 October 1989 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Born: 8 September
1962 Murray, Salt Lake, Utah
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Education: University of Utah Medical School, Residency at the University of Virginia
Occupation: Medical Doctor
Education: University of Utah Medical School, Residency at the University of Virginia
Occupation: Medical Doctor
Child
#1: Katherine Elizabeth (F)
Born:
26 March 1992 Charlottesville, Albemarle, Virginia
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Education: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Grad. 17 May 2014 BS Biology (magna cum laude), Medical school UMHS and residency at Univ. Southern Illinois in Carbondale, Ill.
Occupation:
Education: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Grad. 17 May 2014 BS Biology (magna cum laude), Medical school UMHS and residency at Univ. Southern Illinois in Carbondale, Ill.
Occupation:
Child
#2: Sarah Emily (F)
Born:
21 May 1994 Charlottesville, Albemarle, Virginia
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Education: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Masters degree in ElementaryEducation Va. Tech
Occupation: Teacher, house wife
Married: Joseph Rodas June 9, 2017, Charlottesville, VA.
Education: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Masters degree in ElementaryEducation Va. Tech
Occupation: Teacher, house wife
Married: Joseph Rodas June 9, 2017, Charlottesville, VA.
Child
#3: Amanda Brooke (F)
Born:
6 June 1997, Henderson, Clark, Nevada
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Education: BA Univ. of Virginia May, 2019
Occupation:
Education: BA Univ. of Virginia May, 2019
Occupation:
Child
#4: Julia Claire (F)
Born:
8 September 2003, Henderson, Clark, Nevada
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Education:Covenant High School, Charlottesville, VA.
Occupation:
Education:Covenant High School, Charlottesville, VA.
Occupation:
Child #2: Roger King
Morris (M)
Born: 8 July 1943
Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Died: 24 March 2017 (at his home) Evergreen, Jefferson, Colorado
Buried: Cremation and ashes at Wiley, Prowers, Colorado grave site
Education: B.S. Colorado University - Boulder
Occupation: College Athlete - Football & Track, Sr. High School Teacher & Football Coach, Business Man
Education: B.S. Colorado University - Boulder
Occupation: College Athlete - Football & Track, Sr. High School Teacher & Football Coach, Business Man
Married: Cathy
Elaine Ellenberger 14 July 1963 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Born: 29 June 1944
Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Died: 4 Jan 2017 (at her home) Evergreen, Jefferson, Colorado
Buried: Cremation and ashes at Wiley, Prowers, Colorado grave site
Education: High School
Occupation: Housewife, Business Woman, Accountant
Education: High School
Occupation: Housewife, Business Woman, Accountant
Child
#1: Gregg Winslow (M)
Born:
20 May 1967, Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Occupation: Business Man
Occupation: Business Man
Married:
Theresa Martinelli 31 March 2000
Child
#2: Scott Roland (M)
Born:
24 August 1970 Lakewood, Jefferson, Colorado
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Occupation: Business Man
Occupation: Business Man
Married:
Shannon Long 11 September 1996 (divorced)
Child
#1: Colby Roger (M)
Born:
27 May 1996 (place unknown)
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Education: High School
Occupation: U. S. Army
Education: High School
Occupation: U. S. Army
Child
#3: Christopher (M)
Born:
9 May 1974
Died:
9 May 1974 (infant)
Buried:
(unknown)
Child #3: Richard
Leslie Morris (M)
Born:
6 July 1949 Lamar, Prowers, Colorado
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Education: B.S. Colorado State University - Fort Collins, M.S. Arizona University - Tucson
Occupation: Athletic Trainer; High School Teacher; College Athletic Director, College Professor & Coach Lubbock, TX., New Mexico Junior College, Hobbs, NM.
Retired: 2019 now lives in Canyon, TX.
Education: B.S. Colorado State University - Fort Collins, M.S. Arizona University - Tucson
Occupation: Athletic Trainer; High School Teacher; College Athletic Director, College Professor & Coach Lubbock, TX., New Mexico Junior College, Hobbs, NM.
Retired: 2019 now lives in Canyon, TX.
Married: Belinda McLeod
Leftwich 26 October 1974 Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas
Born: 29
September 1949
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Education: Texas Tech University - Lubbock
Occupation: Housewife, Elementary & Secondary Teacher, Director of Special Education
Education: Texas Tech University - Lubbock
Occupation: Housewife, Elementary & Secondary Teacher, Director of Special Education
Child
#1: Leslie Belinda (F)
Born: 19 March
1976 Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Education: B.S. West Texas A&M University - Canyon
Occupation: Housewife, Elementary Teacher, Horse Woman
Education: B.S. West Texas A&M University - Canyon
Occupation: Housewife, Elementary Teacher, Horse Woman
Married: Jared 18
December 1999
Child #1: Jaxon
Don (M)
Born: 1 June 2006
Amarillo, Potter, Texas
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Child #2: Bentley
Grace (F)
Born: 5 August
2011 Amarillo, Potter, Texas
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Child
#2: Natalie Clair (F)
Born: 5 May 1979
Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas
Died:
Living
Buried:
Living
Education: B.S. West Texas A&M University - Canyon
Occupation: Housewife, Elementary Teacher, Horse Woman
Education: B.S. West Texas A&M University - Canyon
Occupation: Housewife, Elementary Teacher, Horse Woman
Married: Jimmy 29
March 2003
Child #1: Teagan
Clair (F)
Born: 11 June
2010 Amarillo, Potter, Texas
Died:
Living
Buried: Living
Child #2: Truitt Lane (M)
Born: 15 March 2014 Amarillo, Potter, Texas
Died: Living
Child #3: ( )
Born:
Died: Living
Buried: Living
Child #2: Truitt Lane (M)
Born: 15 March 2014 Amarillo, Potter, Texas
Died: Living
Child #3: ( )
Born:
Died: Living
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(L-R) Chet Brown, Alva Crabill, Lola (Morris) Crabill, Opal (Morris) Brown, Mary (Morris) Holtcamp, Treulia Jane (Gammon) Morris, Zoma (Morris) Ellenberger, Winslow Claire Morris
(L-R Standing) Clemen H. Holtcamp Sr., Larry Gammon Morris, Alva Crabill (L-R Seated) Winslow Claire Morris, Bruce Cramb, Chet Brown Treulia Jane (Gammon) Morris, Floyd Ellenberger
MEMORIES
Leslie Boon Morris
Les as he was called, came to Lamar, Colorado in a covered
wagon from Iowa and went on to Oregon.
He came back to Lamar to settle in 1891. He homesteaded north of Lamar, Prowers, Colorado on land
described as follows:
The
Northeast Quarter (NE 1/4) of Section Twenty-three (23) in Township Twenty-one
(21) South,
of Range Forty-six (46) West of the Sixth Principal Meridian, containing one
hundred sixty (160) acres more or less.
Soon after he came back to Lamar, Colorado his parents William
Henry Morris and Delilah Screna Beavers arrived in December (1891) and lived
until their deaths.
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| Recorded: Leslie B. Morris Homestead Certicate, 1908, signed by Theodore Roosevelt |
After living in the dugout on the homestead (North of Lamar) for a short time
they moved about a half mile east and lived in a log cabin until Mary Delilah
Morris was born, then moved into town (Lamar) living several place close to downtown,
eventually moving in to their home at 510 East Olive (U.S. Highway 50) (which
they built) where they lived until his death in 1946 and shortly before
Treulia’s death in 1978. In a
taped interview with her in July of 1973 she told us (Larry & Jan Morris) that she had lived in the
home on Olive Street since just before 1905. Lola Naomi Morris (Crabill), Opal Ardell Morris (Brown), Mary
Delilah Morris (Holtcamp), as well as infant Alma Zane Morris (who lived only a
short time) were all born while they lived out in the country. Truelia Zoma Morris (Ellenberger) born
in 1905 was the first born in town.
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| TREULIA AND CHILDREN WITH BUGGY (L-R) ZOMA, TREULIA, LOLA, OPAL, MARY |
Leslie’s father William H Morris; Leslie’s brothers Ottie
Ismail Morris and John Gurley Morris; Leslie’s two sisters Mary Orpha and Oma
Jane as well as Alonzo L. Beavers all lived with or close to them and helped
farm and take care of the land.
In 1892 Leslie Morris is shown in the following picture
working on the Fort Lyon Canal, which as one can see was dug using horses and
plows. His name is written on the
picture as one of the workers. The
Big Timbers Museum in Lamar, Colorado presented this picture in one of their
presentations called “Big Timbers History Corner #18 – Fort Lyon Canal”.
Besides farming and canal building Les worked in town in the
saddlery and farm implement business.
Other than working he liked to play checkers and loved kids. He was a hard working man and had very
little to show for it as far as material things are concerned. But he provided for his large family and
I (Larry Morris) remember him chasing my brother and I down the hallway of my parent’s
home on West Oak Street. I can still see him as an
older, relative short, whiteheaded man who loved to play with his grand kids. Berniece King Morris remembered her
father-in-law as a sweet, kind and gentle man. He died in 1946 when I (Larry) was only six years old.
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| (L-R) Larry G. Morris & L.B. Morris - 1942 |
When Winslow Claire Morris (Hamilton) was adopted from
Treulia’s younger sister (Clara Zane [Gammon] Hamilton), Treulia wanted to
adopt an older child. But Les
loved little children so much he wanted a baby. So Winslow a two year old, traveled to Lamar with Treulia on
a train to live with Les, Treulia and family.
Treulia Jane Gammon
What a lady? In
her life time she saw people travel in covered wagons, trains, automobiles and
space modules to and land on the moon.
She lived in a dugout with a dirt floor and an outhouse, and in a house
with carpet and indoor plumbing.
She had a modern gas, cooking stove and a 1905 coal and wood stove that
she used to bake on and keep her family warm. She saw the birth and death of her children and lived with
the emotions that are involved with each event. She saw the roaring twenties, the depression of the nineteen
thirties, the wars of the forties and fifties and the good economic times of
the sixties and seventies. She saw
the town of Lamar, Colorado grow from a small town with dirt roads and buggies
to a city with paved roads and gas powered cars.
The gold medallion attached to the stove reads:
Grand Prize
Highest Possible Award
Majestic Ranges
World's Fair
1904
St. Louis USA
She counted every penny and made each penny buy the most it could
buy. (I have small books that
showed what she purchased, how much it cost and where she bought the item. She also kept track of her monthly
bills to the penny.)
Treulia produced gardens of vegetables and flowers to feed
her family and sell. She planted
the garden by the phases of the moon and as a result reaped the benefits.
She once told me a story of how she helped people during the
depression that road the trains.
(Bums, Hobos, people down on their luck, etc.) The Santa Fe Railroad
track was only a block north of her home.
Word got out that if anyone that rode the rails and needed something to
eat, they could stop at the house on Olive Street and the lady there would not
turn them away. She was a very
spiritual, soft-spoken little lady with a big heart. She truly followed the words of the Lord and was a member of
the First Methodist Church in Lamar for over ninety years
My father, Winslow C. Morris and I (Larry) & two brothers would often visit
grandma during weekday nights to see if she needed the wood and goal
brought into the house and to see if she was generally ok. She always had time to set down to talk
and visit. You see there was no
television in those days. Grandma
knew how important education was. Treulia would sit down at her kitchen table and help me (Larry) with
my homework, especial my spelling words. She would have me write each word ten times on paper and then
test me on each one at the end. She
often would say in so many words that she wished that she had had a better
education. She was wise and
educated in her own way. Grandma
taught me more then just spelling words.
She taught me about kindness and how to treat people by example.
Her house was a great place to go for the Thanksgiving and
Christmas holidays. All of her
children and their families would converge on her home, bring dishes of food to
share and eat. She would bake the
turkey and others would bring the dressing, green beans, gravy, cakes and pies,
etc. We never went home
hungry. One uncle would put turkey
gravy on his apple pie. It was
strange and family members said he did that because he was from Missouri. Everyone would find their way to the
kitchen before the feast and try to taste their favorite food. All the men of the family would gather
around the large dining room table and be served by the ladies. That is just the way it was in those
days. When the men had finished
dinner, the ladies would serve themselves, and visit around the dinner
table. All the young kids had a
special table in a room next to the kitchen where they had to eat. It was around a card table so they
would not bother the elders of the family. In the mean time while the ladies ate and did their visiting,
the men would play cards in the living room. They played pitch and pinochle. They would play way into the evening. Occasionally some of the women would jump
in for a hand or two or more. The
kids would play outdoors (weather permitting) or get bored. We would try to look over the shoulders
of the card players and try to figure out how they played the game. Sometimes we would go to the movie
theater. The price of a ticket (in the1950's) was
fifty cents.
In the spring, summer and fall we would often sit on
grandma’s porch swing and watch people and cars go down the highway. U.S. Highway 50, which at the time was
the main highway from the east through Kansas, Colorado, (there was no
interstate highway system at that time) ran in front of grandma’s house. We would often read the licence plates
on the cars that drove by to see how many out of state cars we could find and
the state they were from.
Grandma Treulia’s house was a special place. It no longer exists because after her
death the property was sold and the house was torn down with a modern metal
building built in its place. A car
repair shop is in residence there now.
It’s a shame how the character of a very special place can change. That is called progress, I guess.
Lola Naomi Morris and
Alva Lawrence Crabill
Lola and Alva lived on the east side of Lamar, Colorado just
about two blocks from grandma. Alva
was a carpenter, who I (Larry) worked with one summer as a carpenter’s helper. He had a large workshop in his back yard
made from adobe bricks full of all kinds of carpenter tools. It stayed warm in the winter and cool
in the summer. He had an x-ray of
his chest for some reason and they found a galvanized roofing nail, which he
lived with. I guess he had it in
his mouth as he was nailing shingles and sucked it done by mistake. He was very good with helping other
family members with wood projects.
One other trait that I remember was he always had a pipe in his mouth or
hand and did that tobacco really smell good. Alva was a veteran, COLORADO, PVT CO K, 133 INFANTRY, WORLD
WAR I. Lola was the oldest child
and was born in the family dugout (house) north of Lamar. She was a telephone operator for
AT&T in Lamar. I remember her
as being very dainty and very soft-spoken.
Opal Ardell Morris
and Chesington Brown
Chet and Opal lived on some acreage west of Fort Lyon,
Colorado where Chet was an orderly at Fort Lyon Veteran’s Hospital located east
of Las Animas, Colorado. He was
also an auto mechanic and had a small auto business at his home. They raised chickens, pigs and a few
cows. For many years they had no
indoor toilet, just an outhouse. I
(Larry) remember helping feed and butcher pigs; feeding chickens and gathering their
eggs. Chet and other family
members (Larry) would go to the Blue Lakes northeast of Fort Lyon and bring
home gunny sacks full of fish (Carp), which we had speared in the shallow
waters of the lake. They would can
(food process) the fish and store them in their basement. I would often go pole fishing with Chet
and Opal and would have a great time and would always catch a few fish. Opal was known for her Christmas gifts
such as a Daniel Boone Raccoon hat, etc. and we loved to help her make cinnamon
and crescent rolls. They tasted
great and smelled good too. A
number of times at Thanksgiving and Christmas Opal would bring to grandma
Truelia’s house a piglet that the Sow (a mother pig) would not nurse. All the kids would feed the piglet with
a bottle of milk with a nipple.
Many times when traveling on Sunday evening from Fort Lyon
to Lamar a Colorado State Patrolman would pull my dad’s car over because the
taillight was out on our Model A Ford. (In those days there was only one light
on the rear of the car.)
My dad and Chet loved to hunt and would often go deer
hunting somewhere in the mountains on the western slope of Colorado. They also would hunt geese and ducks
along the Arkansas River near Lamar and bring home lots of game. In 1946 there was a big snow that
totaled forty to forty-eight inches in depth. They went hunting east of Lamar on the river and got their
car stuck in the deep snow, so they had to walk back to town shooting and
carrying their game. Needless to
say they were tired and hungry but safe when they got back to town.
Chet was a
veteran of World War One; KANSAS, PFC 212 AERO SVC SQ, WORLD WAR I.
(L-R) Chet Brown, Elk/Deer, Winslow Morris
Mary Delilah Morris
and Clemen H. Holtcamp
Clem worked for Marx Master Bakers a bakery in Lamar. He was a veteran of World War One; PVT
796 CO MTC, World War I. Mary
worked part time also at the bakery and on Friday evenings she would call and
we would pick up what was called day old bake goods (donuts, rolls, caked, bread,
etc.)
Alma Zane Morris Infant
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Treulia Zoma Morris
and Floyd Lee Ellenberger
Zoma as she went by loved to play cards. She would have people over to play
bridge several times a week during the daytime. Winslow C. Morris, when in school would stop at his sister
Zoma’s house on his way home from school and she would have him wash the
dishes. She would put them in the
oven (that’s right, the oven) so the people that came to play cards could not
see the dirty dishes. Floyd
worked as an appliance salesman and also loved to play cards. He is also the man who on holidays
would pour turkey gravy on his apple pie then eat it. They also lived on Olive Street (also known as US 50) and
quite often we would sit on their porch and watch the cars from out of state
come through Lamar.
Herschel Gammon Morris
and Jessie Dotson
Hershel Jessie and Jimmy (their son) lived with grandma
Treulia and grandpa Les on Olive Street.
At one time Hershel was the City Treasurer for the City of Lamar,
Colorado. He was always good with
math and numbers. At some point of
is life he had an automobile accident and lost one of his legs. I (Larry) remember seeing sit in the
living room, putting on his artificial leg. He could walk pretty good but walked with a limp. He also owned a snack distribution
franchise. He would supply gas
stations, pool halls and other stores with candy and snack products. I enjoy helping him load and unload the
truck and run to the truck from the business to fetch boxes of candy and gum
that he needed.
Jessie worked as clerk at Applegate’s Jewelry located on the
west side of Main Street just south of Olive and Main. She really new her watches, ear rings
and diamond rings as I remember.
She was a sweet, quiet person with blonde hair.
(L-R) Herschel, James [Jimmy], Jessie Morris
Edith Leslie Morris
(F)
Infant
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Winslow Claire Morris
and Berneice Clara King
(Berneice’s name can be found spelled Berneice, Berniece, or
Bernice; some people just called her Barney. Her birth certificate spells her name “Bernice”. Winslow’s nick name was ”Hook”.)
Winslow was brought to Lamar from Leon, Iowa, by train, by
Treulia in 1917. Treulia’s younger
sister Clara Zane Gammon (Hamilton, married name) could not or was unable to
take care of him and his older sister, Laveta, and brother, Forrest. Les and Treulia later adopted him. As one can see from the list of Leslie
and Treulia children, Winslow was the youngest of the eight children. As a grown man he always took good care
of his adopted mother, father and family.
He was a strong tuff man, short in height but large in any thing he
attempted to do. He worked as a
truck driver for the state highway department and the company that built the
John Martin Reservoir located west of Lamar; he drove a truck and was a lineman
for the City of Lamar, electric utility; he worked as plumber at Moran Hardware
and Frank A Daugherty Plumbing in Lamar. Winslow was quite an athlete; playing football, baseball,
basketball and track. In the
spring of 1936 he attended the All-Star Baseball School in Hot Spring,
Arkansas. He desired to become a
professional baseball player, but finances and not wanting to be away from home
all played a part in his coming back to Lamar in the fall. He was a football and basketball
official in South Eastern Colorado as well as a baseball umpire. He loved all sports. But he loved fishing best of all in his
later life. He once caught a
twenty-four pound channel catfish out of one of his favorite lakes just north
of Lamar. Winslow made sure that
his three boys always had a bat and ball, basketball, football or fishing pole
in their hands, depending on the season.
He made sure they also new the rules of the game and he would often take
one or two of them with him on his officiating trips. Often he would play the ball and bat game of "pepper" up
against the garage. This was to
teach eye hand coordination.
Winslow and Berniece became acquitted while both attended
school in Lamar. Berniece had to
live with one of two aunts on an every other year bases because of her mother’s
death in 1928. She would go to
school in Lamar one year and school in Hollister, Oklahoma the next and
graduated from Frederick High School, in Frederick, Oklahoma. After her senior year she retuned to
Lamar, got engaged to Winslow and was married one year later. She loved to fish also and would go fishing
with Winslow as often as she could.
She was a seamstress and sewed for the public. For years she sewed shirts and dresses for the kids in the
annual Dudes and Dames square dance recital. She also worked for several years in the Prowers County
Assessors office and then retired after many years working for the U.S.
Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service in Lamar. Because Winslow worked so hard Berniece
made sure that he (and the rest of his family) had a big breakfast, lunch and
dinner (supper). She would come
home at lunch and fix a big meal.
School and their work places were with in five blocks of home.
Winslow and Berniece were persistent and proud in seeing
that their three boys went to and graduated from college. You see they were both products of the
Great Depression and did not want their children to live through the conditions
that they lived through. They knew
education was important.
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