"William Henry Morrow, son of William and Amanda Jane Morrow, was born near Plattsburg and St. Joe, Mo., June 23, 1860, one of 12 children. In boyhood he attended a nearby Methodist church, called Morrow’s Chapel – after his father, who gave the ground on which it stood. He was married in June, 1882, to Nancy J. Stephenson, who died 22 months later, leaving him a baby daughter, four months old.
He was converted January 28, 1885, and in 1886, at Stanberry, Mo., was licensed to preach. Choosing the Baptist church in which to work for his Lord, he entered William Jewell college, Liberty, Mo., in 1890, where he met his wife, Mary Louella Doak, whom he had married in 1886. He moved his family to Oklahoma in 1892 to do missionary church work. In the fall of that year death struck his home once more, leaving him three children.
Continuing his missionary work he met and married Cordelia Ann Caves March 7, 1894. In 1898, upon his doctor’s advice, he moved to Missouri for his health. Four years later he returned to Oklahoma as the first pastor of the Stroud Baptist church. He later moved to Davenport, Oklahoma, where he combined mission and civic work. Moving to Tulsa in 1919 he helped organize and pastured, what is now Olivet Baptist church, for three years; climaxing some 40 years church and mission work in Oklahoma. His keen interest in the Bible was never dimmed and he frequently quoted it from memory.
His departure from this world came July 9, 1948, two years after that of his wife, Cordia, who preceded him on March 31, 1946. One son, Robert Wesley Morrow, died February 6, 1940. Those left to mourn the loss of a loving father, grandfather and brother are: five children, Bessie Louella Hinds, Stroud; Martha Winifred Hunt, Houston, Texas, William E. Morrow, Tulsa; Charles O. Morrow, Roswell, N.M.; Leona M. Rollier, Tulsa. Three brothers, R. A. Morrow and Cheney Morrow of Stroud, and Obe Morrow, King City, Mo. One sister, Maggie B. Clark, Stroud, and 21 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren and a host of friends, who will ever remember this good “soldier of the Cross."" [From posting on Ancestry]
[Less detailed posting on Newspapers.com from the Tulsa paper]
