OBITUARY: Morris Mensor, Jacksonville, Jackson County, Oregon 

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Jacksonville (Oregon) Democratic Times, Friday, 29 Apr 1887, p. 3

IN MEMORIAM.

Morris Mensor was born at Forden, Prussia, July 19, 1812, and died in
Jacksonville April 11th. He left home at 19 years of age and went to
Hamburg, Germany, where he became a laborer in an oil factory, and in six
months after was clerk, and one year later foreman of the establishment
over 1200 men. He continued that business for several years, accumulating a
few thousand dollars, when he resigned his position and returned home to
his parents and gave them his entire earnings. He worked with his father in
the [-?-] trade for sometime, when he decided to come to America; he again
b.i.d. farewell to the old homestead, and with barely sufficient means to
defray the expenses of his passage out, sailed for the new world. On the
voyage he made several hundred dollars as an amateur musician, and when he
reached New York, he again followed the promptings of his strong filial
affection, and sent six hundred dollars back to his parents to assist them
in raising the younger children. In New York he followed the trade of
glazier and painter for several years. Here he also formed the acquaintance
of Matilda Fisher, sister of our present county treasurer, to whom he was
married Dec. 17, 1854. Sixteen children were born to them, 14 of whom, with
the devoted wife and mother, survive him. 

In 1855 he came to San Francisco, Cal., where his first son was born, and a
few months later came to Jackson County, Oregon, via Crescent city, making
the trip on horseback with his wife and little one during the most perilous
times of the Indian wars of 1855. Here he formed a co-partnership with
Fisher Brothers., in the mercantile business in Jacksonville and also at
Dardanelles. The business was continued for several years, when he withdrew
and began business on his own account at the then prosperous and
flourishing town of Phoenix. But health compelled him to quit business
there and he returned again to Jacksonville, where he has ever since
resided. 

Although he had twice the misfortune to be burnt out, his indomitable will
and energy kept him up, and he was a tireless worker up to a year since,
when he was attacked with asthma, which resulted in his death. All through
two long months of his sickness his loving wife and grown-up children have
watched and tended him with unremitting love and tenderness, hoping for the
best, even when the shadow of the death angel was falling around him; and
so insidious was the approach of the real destroyer that the weary sufferer
breathed a gentle sigh, as the loving hands of affection pillowed his head
for the night, and the sorely tried spirit of the beloved husband and
father winged its flight to the realms of eternity. Thus closed the
eventual life of one of southern Oregon's respected pioneers; a kind
husband and father, his wife and children gave back to him in unstinted
measure the largess of their best affection, and few have been mourned with
deeper or more sincere sorrow than has fallen on the home made desolate by
his death.

He leaves a sister, Mrs. L. C. Coleman of San Francisco, and two brothers,
a sister in Germany and a large circle of friends to mourn with his wife
and children his death. We tender them our sincere sympathy in their
bereavement and trust that out of the shadows of their earthly sorrow may
shine the glorious promise of eternal day. Requiescat in pace.