Pioneer Cotton Buyer at Forney Passes

Albert Morton

Dallas Morning News
Thursday, 29 June 1939, Page I-11

Special to The News

FORNEY, Texas, June 28- Albert Morton, 62, resident of Forney seventeen years, died Tuesday at his home.  Born in Dallas Dec. 18, 1876 he spent his boyhood in Heath, later moving to Rockwall.  He married Miss Dora Holt of Heath in 1902.  In 1922 they moved to Forney, where he engaged in cotton buying.

Funeral services were held at the First Baptist Church in Forney on Wednesday, with the Rev. J. F. Stanley of Dallas officiating, assisted by the Rev. L. M. Joines.

He is survived by his wife, one son, Eston of Pecos; three daughters, Mrs. Buck Criswell, Mrs. Harmon Hamilton and Miss Winnie Fay, all of Forney.  Burial was in Willow Springs Cemetery in Heath.