MORRELL, Melvina Crane

Newspaper Unknown July 1921 MRS. MORRELL LAID AT REST Services Held From Ruffner's Chapel for Pioneer Resident Who Met Her Death While on a Picnic Sunday: Funeral services for Mrs. M. C. Morrell, pioneer resident of Prescott, who died Sunday while en route to a picnic with two of her children and several friends, were held Thursday afternoon from Ruffner's mortuary chapel. Mrs. Morrell had suffered with paralysis for two years prior to her death. Feeling better Sunday, she joined the picnic party. In answer to inquiries, she said she felt all right, but later when she had asked for a drink of water, she lay back in the automobile carrying the party, and quietly died. Mrs. Morrell was born September 2, 1835, in Barren county, Kentucky. She moved with her family to Texas in 1851, at the age of 16 years. She was married to John F. Morrell in Denton, Texas. Later on a party of a few families captained by T. W. Simmons (who passed away recently at the Pioneers Home.) left Texas by ox-team, one-half of the party going to Tucson, the rest landing in Prescott, On October 30, 1870. They had been five months on the road. The Morrells have lived in this city continuously since that time. John F. Morrell, husband of the pioneer woman who was laid to rest Thursday, died in the year 1898, on April 2. Mrs. Morrell is survived by the following sons and daughters: M. L. Teel of Phoenix, J. E. Morrell, E. L. Morrell, M. V. Morrell and R.M. Morrell, all living at the old family home in Miller valley; Mrs. A. A. Taverner of Phoenix, and Mrs. George N. Leddy of Tucson. --------------------- Newspaper Unknown July 1921 NOTICE OF FUNERAL The funeral services for Mrs. M. C. Morrell will be held at Lester Ruffner's mortuary chapel Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Friends and acquaintances are invited. Interment at family plot in Miller valley. -------------------- Newspaper Unknown July 1922 CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank the many kind friends for their sympathy and good services and the many beautiful flowers given us in our bereavement, in the death of our beloved mother, Mrs. M. C. Morrell. THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS ------------------ Note: Burial was in the Ferguson – Morrell Cemetery on Willow Creek Road, next to the Mt. View Cemetery, Prescott, Arizona.