John Cofield’s Photo of the Week: “Johnny Morgan”
Johnny was 76 and moved like he was 45, his prime never slowed down until it was taken. Small towns have their larger-than-life figures and when one leaves us suddenly the shock of it all, for us, reverberates down through our close and abiding Oxford generations. Such as it will be for the memory of one of our “Deans of Old Oxford,” John Jordan “Johnny” Morgan.
About the Author
John Cofield John Cofield grew up in Oxford. He is a local historian and author. John is the son of renowned University photographer, Jack Cofield. His grandfather, J. R. "Colonel" Cofield, was William Faulkner's personal photographer, and for decades was Ole Miss annual photographer. Four generations of the Cofield family have contributed to Oxford's pictorial history.
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