Burris, John W.

BURRIS

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Date: 7/4/2021 at 10:31:12

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.665

BURRIS, JOHN W., carpenter and farmer, Jefferson Township, Sec.34; P. O. Indianola; born in Belmont county, Ohio, April 3, 1822, and lived there until eleven years of age, when he emigrated, with his parents, to Butler county, the same State and remained there till twenty-four years of age; he married Miss Mary Woodruff, a native of Ohio, January 24, 1847; then emigrated to Indiana in 1848, and came from there to Des Moines in the spring of 1860, and from there to this county February 24, 1865; has a family of three children living: Luther L., Catharine A. (wife of George Hensel), and Mary J.; has a fine farm of 120 acres.