Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry

Marie Charlotte Funkhouser

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 27 Oct 1913 - La Verne, Los Angeles, California, United States of America ²⁰³ ^,205 ^,4739 Christening: Death: 26 Mar 1989 - San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States of America ( at age 75) ⁴⁷³⁹ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Social Security Number: 572-20-2001, California, United States of America.
• Residence: Age: 6; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter, 1920, San Dimas, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
• Residence: Age in 1930: 16; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House:, 1930, San Dimas, Los Angeles, California, United States of America. Daughter.
• Residence: PO Box 521, 1970, Palm Desert, Riverside, California, United States of America. (Occupant)

Parents

Father: William Eustace Funkhouser ¹⁶⁸ ^,201 ^,202 ^,203 Mother: Lillian Olive Stone ¹⁶⁸ ^,201 ^,203 ^,204 ^,205

Spouses and Children

1. Living

Nellie Marguerite Funkhouser

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 18 Mar 1906 - Nebraska, United States of America ²⁰³ Christening: Death: 1 Jul 1994 - Claremont, Los Angeles, California, United States of America ( at age 88) Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Residence: 1910, Nichols Precinct, Hershey, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America.
• Residence: Age: 13; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter, 1920, San Dimas, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.

Parents

Father: William Eustace Funkhouser ¹⁶⁸ ^,201 ^,202 ^,203 Mother: Lillian Olive Stone ¹⁶⁸ ^,201 ^,203 ^,204 ^,205

Living

Sex: F

Parents

Father: Francis Marion Funkhouser ²³ Mother: Living

Living

Sex: F

Parents

Father: Francis Marion Funkhouser ²³ Mother: Living

Ruth Elizabeth Funkhouser

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 23 Jul 1916 - San Dimas, Los Angeles, California, United States of America ²⁰³ ^,205 Christening: Death: 10 Oct 2000 - Claremont, Los Angeles, California, United States of America ( at age 84) Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Residence: Age: 3; Age: 3 6/12; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter, 1920, San Dimas, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
• Residence: Age in 1930: 13; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter, 1930, San Dimas, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.

Parents

Father: William Eustace Funkhouser ¹⁶⁸ ^,201 ^,202 ^,203 Mother: Lillian Olive Stone ¹⁶⁸ ^,201 ^,203 ^,204 ^,205

Spouses and Children

1. *Roy Obey Liles ⁴⁷⁴⁰ Marriage: Children: 1. Living

Samuel J. Funkhouser

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 20 Feb 1830 - Dearborn County, Indiana, United States of America Of America ²³ Christening: Death: 24 Jan 1909 - Hershey, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America ( at age 78) ²³ Burial: After 24 Jan 1909 - Hershey, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America ²³ Cause of Death:
Events
• Land: Moved to Nebraska where he acquired a large farm, Nebraska, United States of America. The farm was not successful because of bad drainage. It was eventually lost in a card game by William after his father's death.
• Occupation: Owned a mill and distillery and owned and operated a farm, Illinois, United States of America.

Spouses and Children

1. *Susan Lutz ²³ ^,4728 Marriage: Children: 1. Francis Marion Funkhouser 2. Hattie Belle Funkhouser 3. Josephine Funkhouser 4. William Eustace Funkhouser

William Eustace Funkhouser

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 1 Jan 1872 - Urbana, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America ²⁰¹ ^,203 Christening: Death: 14 May 1922 - San Dimas, Los Angeles, California, United States of America ( at age 50) ²³ ^,204 ^,4741 Burial: After 14 May 1922 - Laverne, Harper, Oklahoma, United States of America ²⁰⁴ ^,4742 Cause of Death: Shot by a thief
Events
• Occupation: Rural Letter Carrier, 1910, Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States of America.
• Residence: Nichols, 1910, Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States of America.
• Residence: Age: 48; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head, 1920, San Dimas, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
• Occupation: Equipment operator for large citrus grower, Bef 1922, San Dimas, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
• Occupation: Sherrif, Deputy Constable, 14 May 1922, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.

Parents

Father: Samuel J. Funkhouser ²³ Mother: Susan Lutz ²³ ^,4728

Spouses and Children

1. *Lillian Olive Stone ¹⁶⁸ ^,201 ^,203 ^,204 ^,205 Marriage: 30 Jan 1896 - Sutherland, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America ²⁰⁴ Children: 1. Claire Willard Funkhouser 2. Elvine Funkhouser 3. Evelyn Ann Funkhouser 4. Grace Della Funkhouser 5. Glenn Morris Funkhouser 6. Nellie Marguerite Funkhouser 7. Doris Laverne Funkhouser 8. Fern Lenore Funkhouser 9. Jack Funkhouser 10. Marie Charlotte Funkhouser 11. Baby Boy 12. Ruth Elizabeth Funkhouser 13. George R. Funkhouser

Notes
General:

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By 1930 only their youngest son, George, was living at home according to the census.

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From National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund website:

Officer Rank: Constable
Memorial Panel: 32-E: 19
Department: Los Angeles County, California, S.O.
End of Watch: May 14, 1922
Cause: SHOT
Age: 50
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Constable Funkhouser was shot while attempting to arrest a burglary suspect. The suspect was arrested.

From the Los Angeles County Peace Officers Memorial:

We Remember and Honor LASD Constable William E. Funkhouser, End of Watch (EOW) May 14, 1922, Gunfire
During the early morning hours of the 14th of May 1922, a burglar stalked the quiet streets of San Dimas Township. His illegal activities began shortly after 3 a.m. at the Esparza residence at First and Depot Streets where he lifted a pocketbook containing $75 and escaped undetected. At the second residence he entered he was not as fortunate. Mrs. Blackwell, who rented out rooms at her home at 316 West Third Street, heard the suspect and confronted him shortly after he stole a watch and jewelry belonging to two of her boarders, newspaperman Thomas Cervantes and his wife. Mr. Cervantes was alerted by Mrs. Blackwell's cries of alarm and together they chased the man out the back door. Mrs. Blackwell wisely gave up the chase once the suspect re-crossed her threshold, but Cervantes followed the man and alerted Township Constable William E. Funkhouser.
Funkhouser, a fifty-year-old, married, father of ten, had been the San Dimas Township constable for a number of years, but only two months before the break-ins on May 14th he was hired by local business owners to also serve as the town's night watchman. Cervantes climbed into Funkhouser's car and they drove east following the suspect's trail to the pumping plant at Cienega Avenue and the Santa Fe railroad tracks.
Cervantes described the suspect as a Mexican man, about twenty-five to thirty years of age, five feet six or seven and one hundred thirty to one hundred forty pounds with a scar on one side of his face. They spotted the man on the tracks and Funkhouser got the drop on him and he threw up his hands in surrender. Funkhouser began to search the suspect with one hand while attempting to keep him covered by holding his revolver in the other. When jewelry taken from Cervantes was recovered in one of the suspect's pockets, the man suddenly turned on the constable and struck him sending the gun tumbling about fifteen feet away. The suspect drew a revolver of his own and fired at Funkhouser, but missed. Funkhouser closed on his attacker and got one hand on the barrel of the weapon. The suspect was able to wrestle his gun away from Funkhouser cutting the constable's hand with the sight in the process. He then fired one round into the lawman's chest striking him in the heart killing him.
Fearing for his own life Cervantes began to grapple with the suspect for the revolver. He managed to wrestle the gun away, but the man refused to submit to Cervantes commands to stop and ran off into the darkness. Cervantes fired two rounds at the suspect as he fled but did not hit him. Cervantes immediately reported the tragedy to Deputy Constable Fairbanks who notified the Sheriff's office before leading seven other men in pursuit of the suspect. The man's trail was lost on Foothill Boulevard at the base of the mountains.
A posse of two hundred lawmen was organized and personally led by Sheriff Traeger. It was comprised of sheriff's deputies and peace officers from La Verne, Azusa, Glendora, Pomona, Covina, as well as San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. The interest of officers from Riverside County was particularly keen because the circumstances of the assault on Funkhouser were similar to those of the shooting of Corona Chief of Police Frank E. Redans six weeks before by a Mexican named Jack Mais. Chief Redans was shot in the right breast, right arm and left thigh, but survived his wounds.
Later in the day a man roughly matching the suspect's description was spotted exiting Dalton Canyon in Azusa by Constable William I. Hamblin. He took off running buy Hamblin cornered and subdued him in a section house after a hard fight. Due to the circumstances of the man's capture, together with the general match of his physical description it was felt certain that this was Funkhouser's slayer. Constable Hamblin and El Monte Constable Lester C. Burdick took the prisoner to El Monte where he could be held in the town jail until Cervantes could arrive to make a positive identification. Unfortunately, Cervantes was certain that the man Hamblin arrested was not Funkhouser's slayer. It was later rumored that the suspect might have fled toward Fullerton in Orange County, but a search of this community failed to locate him.
Constable Funkhouser received laudatory praise from lawmen who knew him. Constable Alex B. Chambers of Pomona said that, "Funkhouser did not know what fear was." Funkhouser told one Pomona police officer shortly before his death, "What's the use to fear if one goes into this business."
Along with an official letter of condolence from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Constable Funkhouser's widow received ninety-five percent of his salary for three years totaling $3,420. There is no evidence that Funkhouser's murderer was ever apprehended or that he was Jack Mais the man wanted in the assault on Corona Chief Redans.
Sources: Los Angeles Herald, Los Angeles Times, LASD

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Some additional information on the Funkhousers received from Karen today:

That is nice of you to add this information about William Eustace Funkhouser. I inherited a lot of material on William form my mother who had gathered it from thefamiy. I have quite a few newspaper articles form the days following the shooting. The accounts differ somewhat depending on who is telling the story. Apparently there were 2 people chasing the guy. One was a Mr. Cervantes who had been robbed and my Grandfather. Some people had some doubts about the role Cervantes played in the attack and intimate that he might have actually shot William. Who knows, there were no witnesses. My Grandmother told my Mom that when the posse that went out looking for the thief returned they said that she didn't need to worry. They took care of him. It was certainly hard for my Grandmother after that. She had to raise a large family on her own. William had worked hard to support them. He was a mail carrier, a constable for the LA Sheriff's dept, and worked for a large citrus producer. I think he operated some kind of equipment there. My dad was very young and quit school and worked in the orange groves to bring in money. When the great depression hit, things got pretty tough. The family was not always poor. William's father Samuel was pretty well off. He had a mill and distillery and was quite enterprising. He had started a farm in Illinois and was a distiller there. When Nebraska opened up for homesteading he saw the opportunity for a large amount of land and moved there. Unfortunately the land did not produce well because of drainage problems. He passed away and William ended up losing the land and homestead in a poker game. Mom told me that Grandma said that they would have lost the land anyway. They moved to San Dimas ( which is lovely still) and joined some other family member s who had already arrived there. Lily ( my Grandmother) had family there. Her father was building homes there and she had an uncle who had a business hauling freight. So they were not completely alone in their move. Anyway enough of the Funkhouser saga. There are some interesting characters on my Dad's side of the family. There are 4 Revolutionary war soldiers and one family of Loyalists who moved to "Upper Canada". The family has been here since the early 1700's.

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Medical:

My father's father was shot and killed while on duty as a Los Angeles county Sheriff. He was chasing a thief and wrestled with him and the thief got his gun and shot him. That was when Dad was only 12. ⁴⁷⁴¹

Living

Sex: M

Parents

Father: Francis Marion Funkhouser ²³ Mother: Living

Living

Sex: M

Parents

Father: Jack Funkhouser ¹⁶⁸ ^,203 ^,205 ^,327 ^,867 ^,1307 ^,4722 ^,4725 ^,4726 Mother: Jean Catherine Morry ¹⁶⁸ ^,327 ^,867 ^,1307 ^,4726 ^,4729 ^,4730 ^,4731

Living

Sex: F

Spouses and Children

1. *Jack Bailey ¹¹³⁰ Partnership:

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