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Burr More

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Burr More

Birth
Roxbury, Delaware County, New York, USA
Death
15 Oct 1902 (aged 75)
Walton, Delaware County, New York, USA
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Walton, Delaware County, New York, USA Add to Map
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JMA# 7.11
Burr was the 11th of 13 children born to David More and Elizabeth Gould More. He was raised in Roxbury where his father was the owner and operator of a successful farm. His father relocated the family to Walton, New York when Burr was 12 years old. Burr, and his brother Edmond, registered for the Civil War draft in 1863 and Burr was one of 77 men from Walton picked in the first draft lottery but I found no record of military service. In any case, he resided, and worked, on the family farm even after the deaths of his mother in 1867 and his father in 1873. Walton resident, Malcom Duncan Wright, noted in his diary that Burr had sowed oats and grass on 2 May 1871. About 1880, Burr relocated to the home of his sister, Harriet, who had married to Edwin Guild, a Walton merchant, and focused on investments. Burr was a quiet man, a great reader, and interested in current events. In politics, he was a Democrat and never missed an election. He suffered with Bright's disease (a chronic inflammation of the kidney now commonly known as nephritis) for about a year and succumbed at the home of his sister, Harriet, at 111 North Street. Burr never married and was survived by five of his twelve siblings.
Biography added by JMA#4262611 on 23 November 2014 (updated 7 December 2016).
Sources-
-1904, The Historical Journal of the More Family
-2015, John More Association Directory
-ancestry.com
-dcnyhistory.org
JMA# 7.11
Burr was the 11th of 13 children born to David More and Elizabeth Gould More. He was raised in Roxbury where his father was the owner and operator of a successful farm. His father relocated the family to Walton, New York when Burr was 12 years old. Burr, and his brother Edmond, registered for the Civil War draft in 1863 and Burr was one of 77 men from Walton picked in the first draft lottery but I found no record of military service. In any case, he resided, and worked, on the family farm even after the deaths of his mother in 1867 and his father in 1873. Walton resident, Malcom Duncan Wright, noted in his diary that Burr had sowed oats and grass on 2 May 1871. About 1880, Burr relocated to the home of his sister, Harriet, who had married to Edwin Guild, a Walton merchant, and focused on investments. Burr was a quiet man, a great reader, and interested in current events. In politics, he was a Democrat and never missed an election. He suffered with Bright's disease (a chronic inflammation of the kidney now commonly known as nephritis) for about a year and succumbed at the home of his sister, Harriet, at 111 North Street. Burr never married and was survived by five of his twelve siblings.
Biography added by JMA#4262611 on 23 November 2014 (updated 7 December 2016).
Sources-
-1904, The Historical Journal of the More Family
-2015, John More Association Directory
-ancestry.com
-dcnyhistory.org

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1827 - 1902

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