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Submitted: 12/6/08 • Approved: 1/29/19 • Last Updated: 2/1/19 • R117954-G117953-S3
George Washington
January 18, 1856 - March 9, 1929
Parents:
James Littleton Burris
1819–1895
Elizabeth Adeline Ashmore Burris
1823–1919
Mary Mathilda
October 5, 1859 - May 26, 1938
Parents:
Thomas Jefferson Wharton
1832–1908
Rutha Evaline Coleman Wharton
1837–1911
From an October 4, 2007 newspaper article, noting the 120th anniversary of the establishment of St. Joe Freewill Baptist Church on October 7, 2007:
"In the year of 1885, George W. Burris organized a Sunday school under a bunchy top Gum Tree at St. Joe on Pea Ridge 10 miles north of Atkins. They had logs for seats and took School Readers to Sunday school. . . The Freewill Baptist Church was organized there in 1886. . . George W. Burris was the principal leader during his entire life."
George and his wife, Mary Mathilda Wharton Burris, had twelve children.
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Contributed on 12/6/08 by sharpchick13
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