2nd wife of Joseph W Burton
Daughter of Byrd Buford Pyle & Gabriella Pemberton

Transcribed from Higbee News by Kathy Bowlin
2 Feb 1906--Mrs. J. W. Burton, who is suffering from abscess of the liver, continues to grow weaker from day to day, although she appears to rally and gain at times. Her large circle of friends will regret exceedingly to learn that there is no hope of her recovery and that her death is only a matter of a few weeks and perhaps days.

2 Mar 1906--MRS. J. W. BURTON DEAD--It becomes the sad duty of the NEWS to this week chronicle the death of one of Higbee's oldest and most highly respected women--Mrs. Joseph W. Burton--who died at her home Monday, Feb 26, 1906 at 12:30 o'clock p.m. of liver trouble, aged 74 years. Funeral services were conducted at the residence Wednesday at 11 a.m. by her pastor, Eld. A. N. Lindsey, after which the body was conveyed to the Rennolds family burying ground and tenderly laid to rest by the side of two of her children, Wood T. Burton and Mrs. J. B. Tymony. At the time of her marriage to Mr. Burton, on June 27, 1852, he was a widower and the father of 5 helpless little children, and these she was a mother to in every sense of the word, sharing with them the same love she displayed for the ten children of her own who came to bless her home. Of all this large family she lived to see them grown into womanhood and manhood, and the evening of her long and useful life was no doubt brightened by the happy reflection that by her precept and example each child developed into a man or woman of whom no word of harm could be said. Since the sudden death of her son, Wood, two years ago, Mrs. Burton had been declining and this sad event no doubt shortened her life. She had been a devout member of the Christian church for fifty-seven years, and was truly a Christian woman if one ever lived in the community. Besides an aged husband, now in his 90th year, she leaves to mourn her departure eight children, five step-children, twenty grandchildren and thirty step-grandchildren, two brothers, G. H. Pyle of Higbee and Nat Pyle of Moberly and one sister, Mrs. Susan Baker, besides a host of other relatives. In her death the community has suffered a distinct loss and one it can ill afford. The sympathy of all goes out to the aged husband and the children in their great loss. A more extended notice of the death of this most excellent woman will appear later.