Person Sheet


Name William Harvey MORRISON, GG Grandmother
Mother Clarissa (1825-)
Spouses:
1 Cecilia (Celia) LAWSON, GG Grandfather
Birth Mar 1856, Canada
Death 26 Nov 1936, 134 W Colvin Street, Syracuse, NY
Burial St. Agnes Cemetery
Religion Catholic
Father John LAWSON (1821-)
Children: William Roland (1882-1941)
Elizabeth (1885-~1955)
Clarice Estelle (1886-1971)
Notes for William Harvey MORRISON
probably married from 1880-1888
Second Husband
Notes for Cecilia (Celia) (Spouse 1)
Her mother was born in New York, Father Born in Ireland
Came to US from Canada in 1888

In 1900, she lived on 2 Washington Place in Watertown, NY
1900 census shows her as 69 years old which means she would have been born in 1851.
In 1940 she lived on Colvin Street, Syracuse, NY with Elizabeth Herb

Perhaps had Lilly who died of consumption or TB at 17 or 18

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Elizabeth's father or step-father was killed it the Dakota Black
Hills by Indians. He was from Ireland

Mrs. Cecilia Sluman of 134 West Colvin Street was buried Monday morning in
St. Agnes Cemetery. Services were held at her late home at 8:15 o'clock and
at 8:50 o'clock in St. Anthony of Padua Church, where a solemn high mass of
requiem was celebrated by the Rev. Charles F. McEvoy. The Rev. Martin J.
Tracy was deacon and the Rev. Lawrence J Sheehan subdeacon. Bearers were
William Lasher, William Quinn, John McQuade, Dr Stephen Groman, Herbert and John Rupert. Father Edmond Berrigan read the committal
service at the grave. Mrs. Sluman died Thursday at her home.

Doreen says "Cecilia Morrison was a very proper and dignified
woman who sat up straight and was very Victorian in dress, attitude, and
style."

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