1965 Obituary for Peyton Leftwich Morgan
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OBITUARY OF PEYTON LEFTWICH MORGAN
Lynchburg Daily Virginian, 22 March 1965
A funeral service for Peyton Leftwich Morgan of 4001 Fort Ave., 85, who died Satruday at 6:15 p.m. at Memorial Hospital, was conducted today at 11 a.m. at Diuguid Memorial Chapel by the Rev. C.C. Tarplee.
Burial was in Spring Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers were Raymond Blanks, Leslie Shaner, Robert S. Burruss Jr., Thomas W. Martin, W. Henry Nowlin Jr., Malcolm Stahl and V. Coke Stuart Jr.
A partner in the old Hudson & Morgan Electric Co. until his retirement in the early 1950's, he directed wiring of many of the downtown office buildings in Lynchburg.
He was an ardent fisherman and enjoyed reconstructing old automobiles. He worked in a basement hobby shop in his home. He designed surgical equipment and made a model of the DeWitt Clinton, an early American railway train, which was put on permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
Born in Lynchburg, he was the son of Dr. Robert W. and Janie Moorman Morgan. He was a member of Grace Memorial Episcopal Church.
In addition to his wife, Mrs. Lillian Marsh Morgan, he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Robert W. Kash of Fredericksburg, a son Peyton L. Morgan Jr., of Knoxville, Tenn., and seven grandchildren.