Eunice
(Minard) Morgan
(1861-1955)
Eunice
(Minard) Morgan was born in Scio, Harrison County, OH, the daughter of Daniel
and Rebecca (Knouff) Minard.
In December 1899, Eunice married Wright 'Winfield' Morgan (1860-1921), a native of Perrysville, Carroll County, OH. They had one daughter, Dorothy Morgan.
Winfield once was praised in a local newspaper as "one of Cadiz's highly respected citizens." The Cadiz Democrat-Sentinel said that he "came to Cadiz [OH] on March 17, 1894, and had been a popular and painstaking employe at A.A. Tressel's barbershop ever since."
They lived in Cadiz. A 1900 issue of the Cadiz Republican observed that they had "gone to house keeping in their handsome new home on Spring street." They moved to Greenville, Darke County, OH, where they resided in 1908, but moved back to Cadiz at some point.
They were members of the Cadiz Presbyterian Church. Winfield was said to be "a quiet man of unobtrusive ways, exemplary in his habits, a strictly home man [with] hundreds of acquaintances.... [He] was a good fellow and a good citizen."
The Pennsylvania Railroad depot in Cadiz
The Morgans are known to occasionally attend the Cadiz "Chautauqua," a cultural event featuring religious sermons, lectures on social problems and political speeches. At one Chautauqua the Morgans observed, one legislator spoke proudly about "the success of a multitude of former Cadiz boys and girls who now occupy positions of trust and responsibility in almost every part of the world."
Eunice often hosted visits by family
members, including her aged mother, who would stay at their home for a few days.
She also visited at her mother’s home, including at Thanksgiving dinner in 1909.
Winfield suffered from poor health for many years, "but had kept faithfully at his task." However, at age 61, while at work on Sept. 19, 1921, said the Democrat Sentinel:
...he was seized with a weakness and after recovering somewhat he had left the shop for home. He had got as far as the Finnical drug store when some friends found him sitting on the steps. Noticing he did not respond to their greetings Dr. Finnical was called. He was placed in an automobile and taken to his home, where he died a few minutes later.
Winfield was buried at the Lutheran Church Cemetery in New Rumley, Harrison County.
Eunice outlived Winfield by more than three decades. She passed away in 1955, and is buried beside her husband, and not far from her parents and grandparents.
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