Mariposa Gazette, August 17, 1895
Death of a Pioneer.
On Tuesday Charles Luck Morris, aged 82, was laid in his long home on the hill by the school house. Mr. Morris was widely known in the district as "Old Kentuck," possibly for his preference for the brown juice of the old Kentucky state to any more modern beverage. There was a large attendance at the funeral. The ranks of the pioneers are fast closing in, and as one old comrade after another is mustered out, the respect and regard of the community for those who are left seems to increase. "Old Kentuck" was a veteran of the Mexican war and had a checkered experience. Now after 82 years of it, in Coulterville's little cemetery, "after life's fitful fever he sleeps well."
Death of a Pioneer.
On Tuesday Charles Luck Morris, aged 82, was laid in his long home on the hill by the school house. Mr. Morris was widely known in the district as "Old Kentuck," possibly for his preference for the brown juice of the old Kentucky state to any more modern beverage. There was a large attendance at the funeral. The ranks of the pioneers are fast closing in, and as one old comrade after another is mustered out, the respect and regard of the community for those who are left seems to increase. "Old Kentuck" was a veteran of the Mexican war and had a checkered experience. Now after 82 years of it, in Coulterville's little cemetery, "after life's fitful fever he sleeps well."
Mariposa Gazette, August 17, 1895
Death of a Pioneer.
On Tuesday Charles Luck Morris, aged 82, was laid in his long home on the hill by the school house. Mr. Morris was widely known in the district as "Old Kentuck," possibly for his preference for the brown juice of the old Kentucky state to any more modern beverage. There was a large attendance at the funeral. The ranks of the pioneers are fast closing in, and as one old comrade after another is mustered out, the respect and regard of the community for those who are left seems to increase. "Old Kentuck" was a veteran of the Mexican war and had a checkered experience. Now after 82 years of it, in Coulterville's little cemetery, "after life's fitful fever he sleeps well."
Death of a Pioneer.
On Tuesday Charles Luck Morris, aged 82, was laid in his long home on the hill by the school house. Mr. Morris was widely known in the district as "Old Kentuck," possibly for his preference for the brown juice of the old Kentucky state to any more modern beverage. There was a large attendance at the funeral. The ranks of the pioneers are fast closing in, and as one old comrade after another is mustered out, the respect and regard of the community for those who are left seems to increase. "Old Kentuck" was a veteran of the Mexican war and had a checkered experience. Now after 82 years of it, in Coulterville's little cemetery, "after life's fitful fever he sleeps well."
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