COD: (primary) Operation for cancer of breast, (secondary) acute lobar pneumonia

Biographical

wife of John M. Burr

[Mrs. Lavina Hurlbut, wife of the late John M. Burr, died yesterday from the effects of an operation. She was born in Winchester, August 7, 1835, and was married to Mr. Burr in 1855. She leaves on son, John H. Burr; one grandson, Milo A. Burr, and a grand-daughter, Lavinia C. Burr, all of Burrville. The body will be taken to Winsted this morning on the train leaving Hartford at 11:10 o'clock, and will be transported to Burrville, where the funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock.

Newspaper: Hartford Courant, The (1887-1922)

Publication: 29 May 1913 - Hartford, Connecticut]

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Milo Burr Family Plot (Biography)

Even though it was his father, Reuben Burr, who built the infrastructure around the shoe factory that was to become the village of Burrville, it is Milo Reuben 's youngest son who was thought of as the founder of the village. In 1827, Milo inherited his father's properties West of the Still River. His brother Uriel received Reubens homestead and lands east of the river. Milo was a hard worker. He built himself a grand house at the Still River Turnpike and Greenwoods Road intersection circa 1828 and bought from the State of Connecticut the home and shoe factory formerly belonging to Newton Rossiter who went West. Burrville was known as Rossiterville until 1850. In 1830 Milo built a large brick house across from his own to house the manager of his shoe factory. Both of these historic buildings were torn down in the 1930s.

As a successful lumberman and dairy farmer, Milo became involved in the abolitionist movement and employed many black laborers before and after the Civil War. In 1848 Milo worked to bring the Naugatuck Railroad through Burrville which made possible an economic boom that ushered in Burrville's golden age of the late 19th century. John Milo Burr carried on his father's good works. His son John Hurlbert Burr did not. He met his wife Carrie while at school in Hartford, where they enjoyed city life. They returned to Burrville in anticipation of John Milo's death and their assumption of the Burr legacy. Beginning in 1919 with the sale of a vast hill of gravel "the Pine Knob" (site of the 1950s drive-in movie) to O&G, all of the burr land was sold for quick cash, leaving only a half-acre house lot at the foot of Burr Mountain Road. The last Burr's left here in the 1980s and had no wish to be buried here.

The above was the result of research by William Noad

Faithfully transcribed by: Fr. David C. Ellner

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