509. PERIOD SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI OBITUARY FORCOLONEL LEWIS MORRIS An unusual handwritten 2pp. funeral notice and obituaryissued by the Society of the Cincinnati for Colonel Lewis Morris, Jr., oldestson of Signer Lewis Morris and aide de camp to General's Sullivan and Greeneduring the revolution. Referring to the rapidly thinning ranks of RevolutionaryWar veterans, the notice, dated the day after Morris's death on November 22,1824, states that:"...All who, like him, devoted themselves to the greatcause of our revolution, are emphatically our benefactors. One by one, they arerapidly descending into the valley of death, and soon we shall have to lay theclod upon the last soldier of the revolution..." Members are requested to attendservices at the ancestral home of Morrisiania...". With the usual badge ofmourning..." Usual folds, otherwise very good to $100 - 150