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Submitted: 1/26/19 • Approved: 1/26/19 • Last Updated: 1/29/19 • R1252485-G543786-S3
Joseph Franklin
1916 - 1968
Father: Walter Elmer Burris
Mother: Julia Cooper
Julia
1874 - 1924
Parents:
Sylvester Cooper
Rebecca C. Biddinger
When Julia Cooper was born in 1874 in Woodford, Illinois, her father, Sylvester, was 48, and her mother, Rebecca, was 28. She married Walter Elmer Burris on September 6, 1898, in Bloomington, Illinois. They had seven children in 16 years. She died in 1924 in Pope, Arkansas, at the age of 50, and was buried in Atkins, Arkansas.
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When Joseph Franklin Burris was born on August 14, 1916, in Illinois, his father, Walter, was 41 and his mother, Julia, was 42. He had two brothers and four sisters. He died on September 3, 1968, in Pope, Arkansas, at the age of 52, and was buried in Atkins, Arkansas.
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