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Sarah Catherine Morris

1921-2006 · Kingwood WV
Born 1921, Kingwood, Preston County, West Virginia
Died 2006
Father: Walter Crane Morris
Mother: Sarah Florence Davis

Sarah Catherine Morris was born at Kingwood, the county seat of Preston County, West Virginia, on 11 July 1921. Her memorial names her parents as Walter Crane Morris and Sarah Florence Davis. Her father was 51 when she was born and her mother almost 40.

She married Harold Burnard "Pete" Zinn of Reedsville. Their daughter Carolyn Lou was born at Reedsville about 1942, and a second daughter, Catherine J., in 1945. On Carolyn's marriage licence of 1959 her mother's name is written "Sarah Cathern (Morris) Zinn". Carolyn was seventeen, and Sarah and Harold gave their consent to the clerk in person.

Her father died at Reedsville in February 1943. Her mother lived on at Reedsville as a widow until 12 December 1960. Sarah, signing as Sarah C. Zinn of Reedsville, gave the particulars for her mother's death certificate: Sarah Florence Morris, born at Tunnelton on 20 September 1881, the daughter of Ben Davis and Mary Catherine Jones.

Sarah Catherine died at Kingwood on 6 April 2006, aged 84. She is buried at Maplewood Cemetery in Kingwood, in Lot 24 of the old west section, with her husband and her parents.

Sources

Preston County, West Virginia, Register of Marriages, page 182, 1959; West Virginia Archives and History, Vital Research Records, film 827886, image 424
West Virginia State Department of Health, certificate of death, Preston County, 1960, district 390, serial 159; West Virginia Archives and History, Vital Research Records, film 2074160, image 1493
Find a Grave, memorial 65919747, Harold Burnard "Pete" Zinn, Maplewood Cemetery, Kingwood, Preston County, West Virginia
Find a Grave, memorials 15295736 and 88413308, Maplewood Cemetery, Kingwood, Preston County, West Virginia
Find a Grave, memorial 65919747, Harold Burnard "Pete" Zinn, Maplewood Cemetery, Kingwood, photograph added by J. Lantzer Novak, 2020
Find a Grave memorials 15295736 and 88413308; Preston County Register of Marriages 1959, page 182; West Virginia death certificate of Sarah Florence Morris, 1960 (film 2074160, image 1493)

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