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From: "crystalwoman" <>
Subject: Re: [LAWASHIN] BURRIS/MAGEE
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:56:14 -0600
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no need to be sorry. I never give up, as i have found the best clues on
other lines many years later.
Just one more question, the info i have says:
James m.(2) Mary A. BICKHAM, so i know there is a first wife, whom someone
had told me was Laura _?_. Does your info that you have tell you that Mary
BICKHAM is 2nd wife?

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I'm so sorry. I wish I knew something to help. That is quite a mystery!
I'm sorry if I just sent you the same information again. I wasn't sure if
it was you I sent it to before. Good luck!

"crystalwoman" <> wrote:

>thank you for your reply. Yes this has come up before, yet i am still
>looking. I have info showing James William Burris m.(2) Mary A. BICKHAM and
>had the named children you and i list. However i also have he m.(1) Laura.
>Years ago it led me to the BURRIS line of Ashalatubby BURRIS who m. Laura
>BRADLEY, yet i could not find documentation of them having a Walter Lee
>BURRIS b. 23 Dec 1879 Bastrop Co. TX. Walter m.5 Mar 1903 in Cumberland
>Chickasaw Co., Southern Dist., I.T. to Willie May ABLES.
>
>
>From: <>
>James William Burris was my great-great grandfather.
>
>I believe this has come up before.
>
>In 1952, Jesse Stallings Burris wrote and published a book entitled "The
>Samuel and Mary (Myers) Burris Family". It outlines the family tree from
>the time the Burris Family entered the region around 1809.
>
>Mary Bickham is the only wife listed for James William Burris. Their
>children are listed as Anna Sarah, William Otto, Wincie Ora, Walter
>Addison,
>Benton Blocker, and Hampton. I have a copy of a picture of 5 of the
>children together (Hampton died when young). A portrait of James William
>Burris exists. He had red hair.
>
>According to the book, "James William Burris was a farmer. He lived on his
>father's old place on Hayes Creek in Washington Parish, La. He was killed
>enroute to Franklinton on a mule wagon. The mules became frightened and ran
>away. He fell off the wagon and it ran over him and killed him. He was
>buried in Franklinton, La."
>
>I hope this helps.
>
>April Bourgoyne Peterson
>Ethel, LA
>
>
>"crystalwoman" <> wrote:
>
>>Gwen Goff Hobbs of Cooper TX had emailed and shared this w/ me:
>>
>>James William Burris is buried in the Ellis Cemetery in Franklinton
>>according to the cemetery listing on the Washington Parish LA Genweb site.
>>I
>>have that he died in Washington Parish but I have no source cited for that
>>so may have assumed that since he's buried in Franklinton. I also didn't
>>have a first wife named Laura for him so, obviously, I don't have
>>everything
>>on his life. I am a Magee descendant (among other families in Washington
>>Parish) and am no Burris family expert but I have that he was born 10 Dec
>>1855 in Franklinton and died 6 Feb 1902.
>>
>>I had been told that my husband's g grandfather was Walter Lee BURRIS. We
>>know this to be true. It took me years to find his parents. I was told he
>>was the son of James William BURRIS of LA and a Laura _?_ of KY and that
>>James m(2) Mary BICKHAM of LA and they had 2 sons: William (Otto) and
>>Benton Blocker.
>>Who had these other children with James W. BURRIS as i have them listed as
>>step-bros and step-sisters to Walter Lee BURRIS, they being: Anna Sarah,
>>Wincie Ora, Walter Addison, and Hampton?
>>
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