LUNED LEWIS MORRIS was born in Wales April 13, 1885. She corresponded with Richard C. Morris for 10 years when he was in Alaska and in 1918 he returned to Wales to marry her. They returned to Nenana, Alaska in the spring of 1919. In 1922 their son, Berwyn was born, but their happiness was short-lived when they lost him in the 1923 flu epidemic.
Richard was President of the Nenana Pioneers when President Harding came to Nenana and was made an honorary member. Richard handed the President the golden spike when the railroad officially opened that section. In 1924 he was Vice President of the Grand Igloo in Fairbanks and later became President.
Grieving for their little son, the couple decided to make a change. They found a small store for sale in Seldovia and moved there in 1925. The small town had two churches, a school, one other store, a doctor and three very busy salteries. They moved into a small house built on pilings over the water. Their daughter Luned MORRIS Inglima was born in 1926 and the son Richard Ardudury Morris, “Dickie”, in 1928. Things were going well and they built a new home overlooking the bay.
In 1930 disaster struck when the herring disappeared. The canneries and salteries went broke, checks bounced. It was hared on the business people who carried accounts but everyone shared. The WPA and CCC helped. In 1954 they retired from the business and briefly moved Outside, but Richard soon contracted cancer and they returned to Alaska. He died in1955 and Luned in 1969. They are buried next to each other in the Seldovia City Cemetery #82 and #83.