Berwick Register,
June 26th , 1935
Veteran Master Mariner Embarks On Last Voyage
Capt. I. B. Morris of Harborville, Rugged Seafarer of the Days of "Wooden Ships and Iron Men," Passes in 87th Year.
Captain I. Bloomfield Morris of Harborville, one of the most widely known master mariners of the Bay Shore and last of Harborville’s great army of sea-farers of the days of "wooden ships and iron men," passed away at Western Kings Memorial Hospital, Friday morning, June 21, following an operation after a few days illness.
Son of the late Isaac Morris and Rachel Robinson Morris, Captain "Bloom" although in his 87th year, was of a particularly rugged type and enjoyed the best of health until stricken a few days before his death. Commencing his long and active sea-faring career at the early age of fifteen, as cabin boy under the late Capt. Samuel McBride of Harborville, he had followed the sea for upwards of half a century, for nearly forty years as commander of staunch craft that sailed the Seven Seas.
Retiring some thirty years ago he had devoted his time and attention mostly to the handling of pleasure craft, maintaining a yacht in which he made regular annual cruises to Southern Atlantic ports. He had only recently returned from a winter spent on the coast of Florida, and had just superintended the building of a tender for his vessel at Scott’s Bay, when he was seized with the illness which resulted fatally.
His wife, who accompanied him on many of his voyages, predeceased him about six years ago. Two children died in infancy.
Funeral services were held from the Harborville church Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock, conducted by the Rev. W. J. Dean. Interment was in Berwick cemetery.