morgans

Transcribed from "An Illustrated History of The Big Bend Country, embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin counties, State of Washington", published by Western Historical Publishing Co., 1904.

     SIMON H. MORGAN is one of the industrious agriculturists of Adams county who has won good success and is to be credited with much labor in making the country what it is today. He resides about three miles south from Delight where he gives his attention to farming and also raising some stock.
     Simon H. Morgan was born in Coos county, Oregon, on March 27, 1875, the son of T. M. and Rachel (Barnes) Morgan, who are mentioned elsewhere in this volume. The father moved to various sections of the country, in the pursuit of his calling, that of preaching the gospel, and our subject received his education where the family lived. He remained with his parents until twenty-one years of age then began life by working out on the farms adjacent and later took a homestead in Idaho. After improving it, he sold and bought one hundred and sixty acres where he now lives and in addition to this he has considerable other real estate purchased at different times.
     On November 26, 1903, Mr. Morgan married Miss Minnie Camel. Her parents, Albert and Sarah (Kays) Camel, are natives of Missouri. In 1885, they moved to Kansas where the mother died. Two years later, the father went to California and is supposed to have died there in 1897, although no definite information has ever been obtained. Mrs. Morgan is the third of four children named as follows, Ada, William, Minnie and Mora.
     Mr. Moore is a stanch Prohibitionist and works with zeal and energy in forwarding the interests of his party. He and his wife are members of the Christian church and are well known and good upright people.

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