Mrs. Virginia Burr
TRANSCRIBED BY : TINA EASLEY
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FROM THE WEEKLY SOLIPHONE
JAN. 22, 1915 - FRIDAY
DEATH OF MRS. G.A. BURR
FROM WEDNESDAY'S DAILY PRESS
THIS MORNING AT 10:10 MRS. VIRGINIA BURR , WIFE OF HON. G.A. BURR , ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT ATTORNEY'S OF THE CITY , DIED OF ORGANIC HEART DISEASE . MRS. BURR HAD BEEN IN FAILING HEALTH FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND AT TIMES HER CONDITION HAD BEEN SERIOUS , AND AT TIMES HER CONDITION HAD BEEN SERIOUS , BUT THERE HAD BEEN NO INDICATIONS RECENTLY THAT DEATH WAS NEAR.
SEVERAL DAYS AGO , HOWEVER SHE BEGAN SINKING RAPIDLY AND THIS MORNING SHE PASSED PEACEFULLY AWAY. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT THE BURR RESIDENCE ON SIXTH AND POPLAR STREETS FRIDAY MORNING AT TEN O'CLOCK BY REV. C.M. REVES AND REV. A.C. CLOYES . THE BODY WILL BE INTERRED IN LINWOOD CEMETERY.
MRS. BURR , WHOSE MAIDEN NAME WAS MISS VIRGINIA HAMLIN , WAS THE SECOND , DAUGHTER OF JUDGE RICHARD F. HAMLIN OF MURRAY , KY. SHE WAS BORN ON OCTOBER 20, 1867 . SHE MET MR. BURR WHEN THE LATTER TAUGHT SCHOOL IN MURRAY, KY. AND THEY WERE MARRIED ON JANUARY 1, 1890 , MOVING IMMEDIATELY TO MR. BURR'S HOME AT LEBANON, OHIO WHERE HE ENTERED THE PRACTICE OF LAW. TEN YEARS AGO MR. AND MRS. BURR AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN , ALFRED , MRS. A.D. STEWART , AND EVERETT , MOVED TO PARAGOULD WHERE THEY HAVE SINCE RESIDED. EVERETT, THE YOUNGEST OF THE CHILDREN IS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT FAYETTEVILLE. HE IS EXPECTED TO ARRIVE HERE TONIGHT OR TOMORROW.
MRS. BURR WAS A MOST ACCOMPLISHED WOMAN , POSSESSING A HIGHLY TRAINED AND CULTURED MIND , GIFTED IN LITERATURE AND MUSIC AND IDEAL MOTHER OF A BRIGHT FAMILY. HER DEATH REMOVES A SWEET SPIRIT WHOSE PRESENCE WAS A BENEDICTION AND A BLESSING.
THE ACTIVE PALL BEARERS WILL BE R.E.L. JOHNSON , H.R. PARTLOW , M.B. HATFIELD , W.S. LUNA , J.M. LOWE AND C.W. STEDMAN.