The Lebanon Patriot, Thursday, October 31, 1907
James E. Burris, an old and well known citizen of Boone county, died at his residence 151 east Noble street, at a quarter past three o'clock on last Tuesday afternoon. His illness extended over a period of two years, and his death was due to a complication of diseases.
Mr. Burris was born in Flemming county, Kentucky, June 12, 1844, and was aged sixty-three years four months and seventeen days. On November 19, 1869, he was married in this county to Sarah Ware, who survives. The children are Mrs. Myrtle Lockhart and Mrs. Etta Kersey, and a step-son, Charles Ware, who lives in South Dakota. He has a brother, Wesley, in Jasper county, and a sister, Mrs. Caroline Garrity in Indianapolis.
Mr. Burris came to Boone county when he was ten years of age, settling in the vicinity of Dover, with his family. Later he moved to a farm three miles west of this city, where he continued to reside until eight years ago, when he came to Lebanon, leading the life of a retired farmer in a pleasant home.
he enlisted in the civil war at Tipton, July 28, 1862, and served faithfully until June 17, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. He was a member of Company B, 75th Indiana volunteers, and was engaged in a number of the hardest battles of the rebellion, including those at Chicamauga, Tullahoma, Hoover's Gap, Ringgold, Graysville, Tunnell Hill, Dalton, Resacca, Big Shanta, Pickett's Mills, Chattahoochee, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Nashville, etc. August 7, 1864, he was wounded during the progress of a sever engagement near Atlanta, Ga., and his health thereafter was seriously impaired.
Mr. Burris was a member of the Masonic order and of the Grand Army of the Republic. He united with the Presbyterian church in 1867, and remained affiliated with that denomination.
The funeral services were held at the residence at 10 o'clock this forenoon, the Rev. D.E. Williamson, former pastor of the First Presbyterian church in this city officiating. The interment was at Oak Hill cemetery.
Mr. Burris was a gentleman of the most kindly impulses, and his death will be sincerely mourned by a large circle of relatives and devoted friends.
James E. Burris, an old and well known citizen of Boone county, died at his residence 151 east Noble street, at a quarter past three o'clock on last Tuesday afternoon. His illness extended over a period of two years, and his death was due to a complication of diseases.
Mr. Burris was born in Flemming county, Kentucky, June 12, 1844, and was aged sixty-three years four months and seventeen days. On November 19, 1869, he was married in this county to Sarah Ware, who survives. The children are Mrs. Myrtle Lockhart and Mrs. Etta Kersey, and a step-son, Charles Ware, who lives in South Dakota. He has a brother, Wesley, in Jasper county, and a sister, Mrs. Caroline Garrity in Indianapolis.
Mr. Burris came to Boone county when he was ten years of age, settling in the vicinity of Dover, with his family. Later he moved to a farm three miles west of this city, where he continued to reside until eight years ago, when he came to Lebanon, leading the life of a retired farmer in a pleasant home.
he enlisted in the civil war at Tipton, July 28, 1862, and served faithfully until June 17, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. He was a member of Company B, 75th Indiana volunteers, and was engaged in a number of the hardest battles of the rebellion, including those at Chicamauga, Tullahoma, Hoover's Gap, Ringgold, Graysville, Tunnell Hill, Dalton, Resacca, Big Shanta, Pickett's Mills, Chattahoochee, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Nashville, etc. August 7, 1864, he was wounded during the progress of a sever engagement near Atlanta, Ga., and his health thereafter was seriously impaired.
Mr. Burris was a member of the Masonic order and of the Grand Army of the Republic. He united with the Presbyterian church in 1867, and remained affiliated with that denomination.
The funeral services were held at the residence at 10 o'clock this forenoon, the Rev. D.E. Williamson, former pastor of the First Presbyterian church in this city officiating. The interment was at Oak Hill cemetery.
Mr. Burris was a gentleman of the most kindly impulses, and his death will be sincerely mourned by a large circle of relatives and devoted friends.
The Lebanon Patriot, Thursday, October 31, 1907
James E. Burris, an old and well known citizen of Boone county, died at his residence 151 east Noble street, at a quarter past three o'clock on last Tuesday afternoon. His illness extended over a period of two years, and his death was due to a complication of diseases.
Mr. Burris was born in Flemming county, Kentucky, June 12, 1844, and was aged sixty-three years four months and seventeen days. On November 19, 1869, he was married in this county to Sarah Ware, who survives. The children are Mrs. Myrtle Lockhart and Mrs. Etta Kersey, and a step-son, Charles Ware, who lives in South Dakota. He has a brother, Wesley, in Jasper county, and a sister, Mrs. Caroline Garrity in Indianapolis.
Mr. Burris came to Boone county when he was ten years of age, settling in the vicinity of Dover, with his family. Later he moved to a farm three miles west of this city, where he continued to reside until eight years ago, when he came to Lebanon, leading the life of a retired farmer in a pleasant home.
he enlisted in the civil war at Tipton, July 28, 1862, and served faithfully until June 17, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. He was a member of Company B, 75th Indiana volunteers, and was engaged in a number of the hardest battles of the rebellion, including those at Chicamauga, Tullahoma, Hoover's Gap, Ringgold, Graysville, Tunnell Hill, Dalton, Resacca, Big Shanta, Pickett's Mills, Chattahoochee, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Nashville, etc. August 7, 1864, he was wounded during the progress of a sever engagement near Atlanta, Ga., and his health thereafter was seriously impaired.
Mr. Burris was a member of the Masonic order and of the Grand Army of the Republic. He united with the Presbyterian church in 1867, and remained affiliated with that denomination.
The funeral services were held at the residence at 10 o'clock this forenoon, the Rev. D.E. Williamson, former pastor of the First Presbyterian church in this city officiating. The interment was at Oak Hill cemetery.
Mr. Burris was a gentleman of the most kindly impulses, and his death will be sincerely mourned by a large circle of relatives and devoted friends.
James E. Burris, an old and well known citizen of Boone county, died at his residence 151 east Noble street, at a quarter past three o'clock on last Tuesday afternoon. His illness extended over a period of two years, and his death was due to a complication of diseases.
Mr. Burris was born in Flemming county, Kentucky, June 12, 1844, and was aged sixty-three years four months and seventeen days. On November 19, 1869, he was married in this county to Sarah Ware, who survives. The children are Mrs. Myrtle Lockhart and Mrs. Etta Kersey, and a step-son, Charles Ware, who lives in South Dakota. He has a brother, Wesley, in Jasper county, and a sister, Mrs. Caroline Garrity in Indianapolis.
Mr. Burris came to Boone county when he was ten years of age, settling in the vicinity of Dover, with his family. Later he moved to a farm three miles west of this city, where he continued to reside until eight years ago, when he came to Lebanon, leading the life of a retired farmer in a pleasant home.
he enlisted in the civil war at Tipton, July 28, 1862, and served faithfully until June 17, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. He was a member of Company B, 75th Indiana volunteers, and was engaged in a number of the hardest battles of the rebellion, including those at Chicamauga, Tullahoma, Hoover's Gap, Ringgold, Graysville, Tunnell Hill, Dalton, Resacca, Big Shanta, Pickett's Mills, Chattahoochee, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Nashville, etc. August 7, 1864, he was wounded during the progress of a sever engagement near Atlanta, Ga., and his health thereafter was seriously impaired.
Mr. Burris was a member of the Masonic order and of the Grand Army of the Republic. He united with the Presbyterian church in 1867, and remained affiliated with that denomination.
The funeral services were held at the residence at 10 o'clock this forenoon, the Rev. D.E. Williamson, former pastor of the First Presbyterian church in this city officiating. The interment was at Oak Hill cemetery.
Mr. Burris was a gentleman of the most kindly impulses, and his death will be sincerely mourned by a large circle of relatives and devoted friends.
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