Re: Looking for Grandfather
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Re: Looking for Grandfather
George Lee McVae 2/06/02
I ran across this in my files.Thought you might be interested.
FromOKLAHOMA SOUTH OF THE CANADIANpg. 1133:
"One of the prominent attorneys of Ada is George Washington Burris, a member of the law firm of Dean and Burris. Mr. Burris is a Chickasaw Indian and was born near Stonewall, Pontotoc County, on the 26th of November 1872, a son of Calbert and Laura (Bradley) Burris, the former a native of Mississippi and the latter of Missouri.For many years the father engaged in farming and stock raising near Stonewall, Oklahoma.In his passing on the 16th of July, 1907, at the age of eighty-two years, Oklahoma lost one of her pioneer and representative citizens.Calbert A. Burris was a Chickasaw Indian and of French descent on the Father's side.He came to Indian territory with his mother when just a boy and received but a limited education.At an early age he started farming on his own account and he became one of the representative agriculturists and stockmen in the surrounding country.He was prominent and active in the coucils of the Chickasaw Nation and he represented the nation at Washington D. C. in 1895.He was at one time candidate for governor but was defeated by three votes.Mr. Burris was fraternally identified with the Independant Order of Odd Fellows and the Masons and his influence was felt in every movementfor public development and improvement.To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Burris ten (12?) children were born.
Children of COLBERT BURRIS and ANHOYI PALMER are:
i. ISAAC ASHALATUBBY4 BURRIS, b. June 1852.
ii. ANNIE BURRIS, b. February 02, 1860, Chickasaw Nation IT; d. March 11, 1885, Chickasaw Nation IT.
iii. HINDMAN H. BURRIS, b. June 28, 1862; m. (1) VIOLA JACKSON; m. (2) RHODIE MC GILL, April 28, 1885.
iv. LIZA MAY BURRIS, b. February 02, 1865; d. June 06, 1880.
Children of COLBERT BURRIS and LAURA BRADLEY are:
v. GEORGE WASHINGTON4 BURRIS.
vi. MARVIN J. BURRIS, b. 1878.
vii. LULA D. BURRIS, b. 1880; m. ALEXANDER RENNIE, JR..
viii. DAISY BURRIS, b. 1881; m. FARNHAM.
ix. CECELIA BURRIS, b. 1887.
x. LILLIE B. BURRIS.
xi. LEMUEL BURRIS, b. April 25, 1870.
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