Sewall Walker Morse

From the Mobile, Alabama newspaper, Feb 28, 1933

Final rites for Capt. Sewell Walker Morse, former city councilor and veteran operator of river boats, who died yesterday morning after an illness of two weeks, will be conducted at the residence of his daughter, 58 South Ann street. ... Captain Morse ... would have celebrated his ninety-eighth birthday a month from today." He had come to Mobile at age 23 in 1858, and had operated river packets on the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers. For a time he was a wholesale grocer, but returned to the river in 1880. ...

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• Sewell Walker Morse Gender: Male Birth: Mar 28 1835 Topsham, Maine Marital status: Widowed Death: Feb 27 1933 Mobile, Mobile, Alabama Age: 97 years, 10 months, 29 days Occupation: River Boat Captain Race: White Ethnicity: American Father: Mark Morse Birth: Gray, Maine Mother: Elizabeth Whitten Birth: Maine Wife: Alice Morrow Address: 58 S. Ann St. GS Film number 1908507 Reference ID: 3597
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