Individual Details
Guy Tackett Morris
(October 30, 1910 - March 10, 1977)
"Guy Tackett Morris was the District Fire Chief." (Additional information about him from the personal knowledge of Travis Morris and Reta Evans.)
Birth Certificate, 1910, Dept of Vital Statistics, Rusk County, Texas, Delayed Birth Record, FATHER: Oscar B. Scheffer MOTHER: Sarah Ines Allen. (NOTE: Guy was reared by his step-father, Howard Morris and assumed his name early in life.)
Death Certificate, Tarrant County Recorder, Fort Worth, Texas, Registar's File #813, Evans, 1977. (NOTE: Burial in Laurel Land Cemetery in Ft. Worth, Texas Cause of death: Cardiorespiratory failure due to vascular embolus from heart valve to the middle cerebral artery on the left. Guy was fitted with a plastic heart valve by the famed Dr. Denton Cooley in Houston, Texas in 1968.)
"To try to bring back the things I can recall in 66 years may prove to be too depressing for me to accomplish - the dates will be hardest - my earliest memories must be age three. I was born in Rusk County about 5 miles N. E. of Henderson, Texas to Oscar and Ines (Allen) Sheffer on October 30, 1910. They separated before I can remember, so I have no rec- ollection of him. My sister, Sidney born in September, 1908, and I were left with my mother and I think we moved in with her parents (P.T. and M.C. Allen.) My first memories are of my grandmother teaching me the alphabet and numbers on a set of wooden blocks - to keep everything in proper order of happening is impossible so certain categories like school will be recalled and back to other subjects. I started to school so my sister would not have to walk alone about 1 1/2 miles through heavily wooded areas. I was 5 years old. My ability to learn (So I was told) was above average. The school was 1 teacher 1 room in the community of New Hope (nicknamed "Chicken Feather") which my grandmother despised." (A collection by Guy T.Morris, 30 Oct 1910 - 10 Mar 1977.)
"It was hard work down on the farm. We had to milk, and cut wood. We had to do everything. The family moved to Fort Worth in about 1929. They were not making a livelihood on the farm during the depression. You couldn't get anything for your cotton.
"After coming to Fort Worth, Daddy and Guy cleared land for a housing project in the Bluebonnet, TCU area. Guy got a job at the Southwestern Casket Company, and then got on with the Fire Department, and then went into the Service.
"He Married Billy Baker. She was pretty good. When he went off to war things began to fall apart. Some people that Billy was working with wrote Guy that Billy had bought a fur coat. I never did see the coat. They said she was running around on Guy. I don't know if she was or not. I never saw her doing anything wrong. That's how that separation came about.
"Guy was my own brother, but its a funny thing, we were never close. Why I don't know." (Interview by Travis Morris with Sidney Morris Hunt, April 1991, Fort Worth, Texas.)
Birth Certificate, 1910, Dept of Vital Statistics, Rusk County, Texas, Delayed Birth Record, FATHER: Oscar B. Scheffer MOTHER: Sarah Ines Allen. (NOTE: Guy was reared by his step-father, Howard Morris and assumed his name early in life.)
Death Certificate, Tarrant County Recorder, Fort Worth, Texas, Registar's File #813, Evans, 1977. (NOTE: Burial in Laurel Land Cemetery in Ft. Worth, Texas Cause of death: Cardiorespiratory failure due to vascular embolus from heart valve to the middle cerebral artery on the left. Guy was fitted with a plastic heart valve by the famed Dr. Denton Cooley in Houston, Texas in 1968.)
"To try to bring back the things I can recall in 66 years may prove to be too depressing for me to accomplish - the dates will be hardest - my earliest memories must be age three. I was born in Rusk County about 5 miles N. E. of Henderson, Texas to Oscar and Ines (Allen) Sheffer on October 30, 1910. They separated before I can remember, so I have no rec- ollection of him. My sister, Sidney born in September, 1908, and I were left with my mother and I think we moved in with her parents (P.T. and M.C. Allen.) My first memories are of my grandmother teaching me the alphabet and numbers on a set of wooden blocks - to keep everything in proper order of happening is impossible so certain categories like school will be recalled and back to other subjects. I started to school so my sister would not have to walk alone about 1 1/2 miles through heavily wooded areas. I was 5 years old. My ability to learn (So I was told) was above average. The school was 1 teacher 1 room in the community of New Hope (nicknamed "Chicken Feather") which my grandmother despised." (A collection by Guy T.Morris, 30 Oct 1910 - 10 Mar 1977.)
"It was hard work down on the farm. We had to milk, and cut wood. We had to do everything. The family moved to Fort Worth in about 1929. They were not making a livelihood on the farm during the depression. You couldn't get anything for your cotton.
"After coming to Fort Worth, Daddy and Guy cleared land for a housing project in the Bluebonnet, TCU area. Guy got a job at the Southwestern Casket Company, and then got on with the Fire Department, and then went into the Service.
"He Married Billy Baker. She was pretty good. When he went off to war things began to fall apart. Some people that Billy was working with wrote Guy that Billy had bought a fur coat. I never did see the coat. They said she was running around on Guy. I don't know if she was or not. I never saw her doing anything wrong. That's how that separation came about.
"Guy was my own brother, but its a funny thing, we were never close. Why I don't know." (Interview by Travis Morris with Sidney Morris Hunt, April 1991, Fort Worth, Texas.)
Events
| Birth | October 30, 1910 | Henderson, Rusk County, Texas | |||
| Marriage | July 22, 1950 | Tarrant, Tarrant County, Texas - Helen Loreta "Reta" Combs | |||
| Death | March 10, 1977 | Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas | |||
| Burial | March 12, 1977 | Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas |
Families
| Spouse | Helen Loreta "Reta" Combs (1921 - ) |
| Child | Travis Dee Morris (adopted) (1943 - ) |