James Harvey Burrus (1920)

BURRIS, BURRUS, HOLLOWAY, REED

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 4/27/2012 at 08:50:59

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
December 22, 1920, page 1

Death of JAMES BURRIS

In the Fort hospital at Omaha, Dec. 17, death came to James Burris, a former Madison county boy, who had been afflicted with cancer, suffering since January in a dreadful way from that disease. Throughout his terrible pain. Mr. Burris uttered no word of complaint, a significant statement of his strength of mind and character as recalled by his old time friends.

Mr. Burris was a graduate of our high school and a student of extraordinary ability. During the term of T. J. Hudson as postmaster Mr. Burris held a clerkship in company with Fred Hudson and Raymond Whedon. He was greatly loved by his close companions, who appreciated the great worth concealed under great modesty of manner.

Mr. Burris' father, Nathaniel Burris, died Nov. 28, preceding in death his only son by a brief three weeks. The family lived for many years on the Bluffs road in the Maple Grove neighborhood.

Mr. Burris never married, and the surviving members of the family are his four sisters, Mrs. Gertrude Reed of Belgrade, Neb., Mrs. Nettie Holloway of Pleasant Hill, Mo., and the Misses Marie and Ruth Burris, who lived with their father in Pleasant Hill.

Mr. Burris was buried Sunday in Genoa, Neb., where he had been a hardware merchant.

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