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Maj. Mason Morfit |
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Died, at the home of his son in Webster Groves, Mo., on
February 22, 1921, Maj. Mason Morfit, of the Maryland Line, C. S.
A., in his eighty-fifth year. Major Morfit joined the Confederate
forces at the beginning of hostilities as a private, leaving a
lucrative legal practice at his home in Baltimore. Poor health, from
camp exposure, removed him from the field after a year's service,
but he was made quartermaster at Richmond, Va., with the rank as
captain, which was soon advanced to that of major. Toward the close
of the war he was placed in command of prisons at Salisbury, N. C.,
where he rendered faithful service to the close. |
| After the war, Major Morfit
was a successful broker in canned goods for many years, not being able
to take up his legal practice, refusing to take the "ironclad" oath
pledging never to take up arms against the North, another sacrifice to
the cause he loved. |
| Major Morfit was an honored
member of the Confederate Society of Baltimore, Md., to the time of his
death. He was survived by his wife and four sons, all residing in St.
Louis, except one son, who is a member of the bar in Baltimore. |
| [This is a belated tribute to
a devoted son of the Confederacy, to which he gave his young manhood.] |
| {Posted in
Findagrave.com quoted from Confederate Veterans Magazine, 1923, p.28.} |
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