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Published Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Kenneth Morgan

Services for Kenneth Morgan, 79, of Jasper were held Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at Stringer & Griffin Funeral Home in Jasper with burial following at Olds Cemetery.
Kenneth died Monday, February 9, 2009 at Christus Jasper Memorial Hospital. A native, and lifelong resident of Jasper, he loved History and wrote for the Jasper Newsboy for over 15 years, he also wrote for the Buna, Kirbyville and Woodville papers. He wrote his book called Morgan's East Texas Tales around 1997. He loved his family and enjoyed working with wood and building all kinds of wooden things. He loved to play and sing music, playing at nursing homes every Friday. He played the guitar, banjo and keyboard. He was a WWII U. S. Army Veteran.

Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Dorthy Sunday Morgan of Jasper, two daughters Deborah Morgan and Laura Clark both of Jasper, sister, Judy Morgan of Jasper, four grandchildren, Brent Crowson, Shawn Crowson, Morgan West, and Heather Goodman, six great grandchildren, Megan Crowson , Kenneth Crowson, Cambria Crowson, Colby Goodman, Cierra Farmer and Tamika Lawson.

Read more: http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/jasper/obits/article/Obituary-for-Kenneth-Morgan-703020.php#ixzz1M0Aq6hGh

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Mose Morgan was a Carpenter for Kirby Lumber Company. He first worked in the shop at Kirby's big mill in Call, then at their front near Jackson Hole in Buna, and next at the logging front on the east side of the Neches River in Jasper County, south of Sheffield's Ferry. To supplement his income, he had a small truck and took on moving jobs on nights and weekends. He lost his job with the Kirby Lumber company after the stock market crash in 1929. He survived on odd jobs, hewing cross-ties with a broad axe to pay the doctor's fees for his son's birth. He managed to make twenty dollars to pay for a shack on Hurricane Beach, clearing enough land for a pea patch and a few chickens. He and a brother-in-law, Wallace Olds, moved to Wharton for a while to pick cotton for a dollar a day, sending the money home to their families. After moving back to Jasper, he drove a school bus. (From MORGAN'S EAST TEXAS TALES)

Thomas + Dorothy Lee "Dollie" Olds. Dorothy (daughter of David Amy Olds and Jane Morse) was born on 29 Sep 1905 in Texas; died on 6 Sep 1996 in Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Olds Cemetery, Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Kenneth Morgan's book, "Morgan's East Texas Tales" (Copyright 1997, Dogwood Press, Rt 2, Box 3270, Woodville, TX 75959, 409/837-5519) is dedicated to his mother, Dollie Olds Morgan. She is featured in many of his vignettes. He reported she was a self-reliant woman who finally hung up her gun when she was 82.