![]() When they got through praying and the preacher had everybody stand up and he made the announcement, I remember to this day as I left there I went running because I knew my family was waiting and I felt like I was taking 10-foot leaps. “A friend of mine came up to me and said, ‘Why aren’t you going down?’ I said, ‘Well, okay.’ I got a conviction and went down bawling. ![]() The family members were devout Christians, and at 9 years old, Morris was at First Baptist Church when the preacher gave an invitation to accept Jesus Christ as savior. Like many families who once lived in Galveston, the Morrises had moved further inland after the Category 4 hurricanes that hit the coastal city in 1900 and again in 1915. Morris was the fifth child of William Carloss Morris and Willie Stewart, born in October 1919. After work, he would get a ride home before galloping off to school. In the daytime, he worked in the family business, Stewart Title Company. The University of Houston was barely a decade old, and student Stewart Morris, Sr., rode his horse from the family ranch, tying it to a hitching post next door before going to evening classes each weekday dressed in his boots and spurs. In the late 1930s, much of what is now covered in buildings and roads was prairie and marshland in Houston.
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