Samuel Lane MORGAN [17]

   Cause of his death was burst blood vessel.

  General Notes:

1880 SA Death 101/62 MORGAN Samuel Jane Benjamin MORGAN (B) Adelaide
Cemetery: Walkerville Wesleyan MORGAN Samuel Lane 40y 1880; father of Elizabeth Isabel & Samuel Lane; died suddenly; of North Adelaide

Occupation: Policeman.

The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide) Friday 5 March 1880
Samuel Morgan, a police-constable, died suddenly at North Adelaide on Thursday, March 4, through the bursting of a blood vessel. Deceased was on duty at the time, and was in pursuit of some larrikins, when he suddenly dropped down dead in the street. He had been suffering from consumption for the last five years.

South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail and The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide) Saturday 6 March 1880
Death Notice:
MORGAN.- On the 4th inst., at Tynte-street, North Adelaide, Samuel Lane, second son of Mr. Wm. Morgan, of Newcestown, County Cork, Ireland. Cork papers please copy.

Walkerville Cemetery Headstone
The Memory of Samuel Lane Morgan who died suddenly Mar 4th 1880 aged 40 years; also
Elizabeth Isabel who died Dec 2nd, A.D. 1874 Aged 4 months; also
Samuel Lane who died Oct 11 1879 aged 4 months;
'In the midst of life we are in death';
In loving memory of Benjamin Morgan who died Oct 25th 1888, in his 30th year.

Samuel married Elizabeth Isabella HUGHES [190] [MRIN: 5], daughter of George Robert HUGHES [236] and Charlotte PRENTICE/PRENTIS [238], on 12 Oct 1870 in Res of Mr Hughes, Walkerville, Adelaide. (Elizabeth Isabella HUGHES [190] was born about 1842 in South Australia and died on 11 May 1908 in Fremantle, Western Australia.)

  Marriage Notes:

1870 SA Marriage 85/65 MORGAN Samuel Lane HUGHES Elizabeth Isabella Adelaide (record indicates birth: 1842)