Revs. J. R. Morris, and wife, Mrs. Bessie C. Morris, being regularly ordained ministers in the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church presented their credentials of ordination, and upon their application, were duly received as members of this the Dallas-Bonham Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
[Source: Minutes of the Dallas-Bonham Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, March 6, 1908, page 140]

Rev. John Morris, Texas

Rev. John R. Morris, age 86 years, passed from this life Aug. 8, 1956. Following funeral services conducted by Rev. Brown C. Welch, the body was laid to rest in Laurel Land, Ft. Worth, Texas.

Both he and his wife, the Rev. Bessie Copeland Morris, will be remembered by many throughout the bounds of the Church. For 15 years they worked together as an evangelistic team, he leading the singing and she doing the preaching.

John R. Morris had influenced many lives for God and the Christian life. He had held pastorates in Tenn., Okla., and Texas. An elder, of whose church he had been pastor on two occasions said of him, "He was more able in prayer than any minister I ever knew."

He is survived by his wife, Rev. Bessie Morris, 3309 Strong, Ft. Worth; two daughters, Angelene Okerson, Washington, D.C. and Mignone Hawk, both of Ft. Worth; two sons, John Rye, Slaton, Tex. and Copeland, Arlington, Texas; eleven grandchildren; one brother, Drew, of Memphis, Tenn.; one sister, Mrs. Abbie Wurtz, San Antonio, Texas; and, two half-brothers, J. M. and Ready Morris, of Alabama.

It would bring cheer to Mrs. Morris if you who remember her and her late husband in their many labours throughout the Church would write her at the home address.
         --Brown C. Welch
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, September 18, 1956, page 15]