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Elizabeth [Eliza] MORRISON

 

Birth:   13 May 1832   Ireland

 

Death:   8 Feb 1932    Hampton, New Brunswick 16

Burial:   1932   Hampton, New Brunswick

 

Father:   Daniel MORRISON (1809-1876)

Mother:   Margaret CAMPBELL (1810-1869)

 

Spouse:  Unmarried:  No Children:

 

L-R:  Eliza Morrison with brother William Sommerville and William's wife Mary (nee Kennedy)

Further information for Elizabeth "Eliza" Morrison
  • OBITUARY as printed in the Middleton Outlook February 18, 1932:

MISS ELIZA MORRISON
There passed away at Hampton N.B. on Monday, February 8th 1932 of Miss Eliza Morrison formerly of Wilmot. 
Born in Ireland 99 years ago of Covenanter stock. the late Miss Morrison came to this country with her parents, (Daniel and Margaret Campbell Morrison) when a child, landed in St. John, where they remained a few years, then crossed the Bay, and settled at Wilmot, where the parents died, and Miss Morrison lived almost entirely up to about 10 or 12 years ago, when she went to Hampton, N.B..
She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Stewart of Jeanerette, Louisiana and one brother, Dr. W. S. Morrison of Hampton, with whom she spent her later years.   Burial was in the cemetery at Hampton. 

Photos of gravestone taken in September 2003

  • The bedspread was made by Eliza Morrison.  "Hand crocheted before she was the age of 21." Irene (Shaw) Morrison

 

  • The rose pitcher  "As long as I can remember, this cranberry pitcher was in Aunt Eliza's parlor" Irene (Shaw) Morrison