Burnett, George V. (1848-1921)

BURNETT

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 9/16/2019 at 12:29:11

George VanNess Burnett
Jan 9, 1848 - Aug 23, 1921

(From the 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, p.500)
GEORGE V. BURNETT came to Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, in July 1884, and has since continued his residence here. He was born in Wayne Co., Ohio, January 9, 1848, son of JOHN and ANN (VENESS) BURNETT, the former of Scotch extraction and the latter born in Pennsylvania, a descendant of German ancestors. Mr. and Mrs. Burnett were married in Ohio and when their son, George, was about three or four years old, they came to Iowa and settled in Cedar County. There the mother died two or three years later, and the father died in 1861, at age 42 years and 8 months. He was among the early settlers of that county, and his whole life was passed on a farm. Politically he was a Democrat. He and his wife were both members of the Presbyterian Church. They reared a family of four sons and one daughter: Thomas H., a well to do settlers of Pottawattamie County who died in Wright Township, March 23, 1886, at age 42 yrs and 23 days. He had never married. Catherine L., who is the wife of William WINTERSTIEN, Wright Township, Pottawattamie County; George V.; Smith J. of Griswold, Iowa; and Charles of Pottawattamie Co., Kansas.

George was reared on a farm in Cedar Co., and learned the trade of stone mason which he followed four years in Iowa City before he came to this county. He is now engaged in general farming and stock raising, owning 80 acres of improved land, well adapted for stock or grain, located in section 31, Wright Township. Mr. Burnett was married in June 1878 to Mrs. Laura M.( PARROTT) COLLINS, a native of Fountain Co., Indiana. Her father, Andrew B. Parrott, was born in Ohio, and her mother, Frances Ann (FURR) PARROTT, in Fountain Co., Indiana. Mrs. Parrott's parents were Kentuckians. Mrs. BURNETT was but 11 months old when she came with her father and mother to Iowa, and they settled in Johnson Co., where in March 1866, the mother died at age 31 years and 9 months. Mr. PARROTT still resides in Iowa City. By her first marriage, Mrs. BURNETT had one child, Frances COLLINS, now the wife of Frank BEVIER, a resident of Carson Iowa. By her present husband, she has two children: Maudie Odessa and Rachel May. They lost two children: John Earl who died at the age of 13 months and 18 days, and Marion Oliva, their third child, at birth. In his political views Mr. Burnett is independent. He is well informed on current topics, is out-spoken and cordial in his address and is regarded as one of the worthy citizens of the community. Mrs. Burnett is a member of the Christian Church.