Morris Christoffersen, born and reared to manhood in the community of which Herman is the center, is dead in France, according a telegram received this week by his father, Hans Christoffersen, a prosperous farmer living six miles west of Herman. About three years ago he went to Wyoming where he took up a homestead near Powell. When trouble developed on the Mexican border two years ago, Morris Christoffersen and Frank D. Brodersen, another Herman boy who had gone to Wyoming to obtain the advantage of the new country, joined the Wyoming National Guard and took part in the campaign on the Rio Grande. When the United States entered the War, these boys were among the first to cross the water to fight the battles of their won country. It is not known here whether the two young men were kept in the same organization after reaching France. Christoffersen was assigned to an ammunition train while Broderson was made mess sergeant in the field of artillery.

*Morris was the son of Hans and Mary Christofferson who are buried in Lincoln Lutheran Cemetery in Orum, Washington County, Nebraska. Hans Find A Grave Memorial # is 189796218. The 1900 Census records their children Christofer (Fred), Otto, Morris, twins-Anna and Hanna. There is an obituary for a Fred Christoffersen, his Find A Grave Memorial #189796202 that records: He was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters, Anna Follen and Hanna Andreasen; and three brothers, Chris, Marse and Otto.

My conclusion is the Morris “Marse” did not die in World War I and that his Find A Grave Memorial is #60229166.

~~~Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clipping on file at the Blair Public Library.~~~