[or-roots] My Burr Family of Southern Oregon

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

Steve & Ronda Howard wrote:

> I have Buhr cousins.  My uncle was Raymond Paul Buhr b May 1924 in Mt.
>Angel, OR.  
>

Marilyn Schwartz wrote:

>Okay, my husband's grandmother was a Burr, one of about 13 kids.  I haven't
>looked into that family in ages.  What's the story on your Burrs?
>  
>

The location does not exclude it, but I don't recognize any of the 
names, which also doesn't mean anything other than I don't recognize any 
names and there were a whole bunch of these people -- large families of  
of children who each have large families and after three generations 
that's 1500 people, sorta, and I maybe know 300 or so  in one branch out 
of  12.

When the  Sam and Rosetta Burr family left Kansas in 1909 for Oregon, it 
was reportedly to make their fortune logging. They would seem to have 
been subsistence farmers in the early days, logging when the work was 
available, with seasonal trips to the Yakima area of Washington State to 
pick apples. After stays in several places in southwestern Oregon, they 
eventually settled in the Silverton area, and the family spread out from 
there. Sam and Rosetta are buried in unmarked graves in the Pioneer 
Cemetery in Salem. Their son Robert Orrin's wife, Ruby Mae (Casebolt) 
Burr, was my grandmother Strickland's sister, and I am somewhat familiar 
with this branch of the family.
A couple twigs on this family tree have achieved a certain notoriety in 
the food world.

And since a couple folks have asked, this is the Oregon emigrant family --

Samuel Henry Burr, probably the son of Ezra Burr and Angelina Flemming, 
was born on 12 Aug 1859 in IA. He died on 28 May 1934 in Silverton, 
Marion, OR from a "sudden death -- probable coronary troubles"; an 
autopsy was "not allowed". He was likely buried on 30 May 1934 in an 
unknown and unmarked grave in Salem Pioneer Cemetery, possibly in the 
same lot as his wife.

Samuel married Rosetta Simpkins, daughter of Noah Simpkins and Rebecca 
Bennett Aturbary / Atterberry, on 12 Aug 1882 in Vernon County, MO. 
Rosetta was born on 11 Nov 1864 in Illinois. She died on 21 Feb 1933 in 
Deaconess Hospital, Salem, Marion, OR from following a herniotomy for a 
"strangulated umbilical hernia with gangrene of ileum". She was buried 
on 1 Mar 1933 in Salem Pioneer Cemetery (lot FA 12, sp 2 SW), Hoyt & 
Commercial St, South Salem, Marion, OR.

They had the following children:
     i.    Levatta Alvena Burr was born in Jan 1884 in MO.
Levatta married a VanSickle before 14 Jun 1900. VanSickle died before 14 
Jun 1900.
Levatta also married a Scott and a Jordan and perhaps others.
     ii.    Robert Orrin "Bob" Burr was born on 13 Mar 1885/1886. He 
died on 14 Mar 1967.
    iii.    Charles Frederick "Charley" Burr was born in Sep 1887 in MO. 
He died in 1951 in OSH, Salem, Marion, OR. He was buried in Bethany 
Pioneer Cemetery, Silverton, Marion, OR.
    iv.    Samuel A Burr was born in Aug 1889 in MO.
     v.    Celia A Burr was born in Nov 1891 in MO.
    vi.    Otis B "Oat" Burr was born in 18 Jul 1893/1892 in MO. He died 
in Jun 1968. Otis married Alva [Burr].
   vii.    Donald T "Don" Burr was born on 8 Jun 1895. He died on 30 Jul 
1977.
  viii.    Alvis "Ben" Burr was born in Mar 1898 in Hamilton, MO. He 
died in a Salem hospital. He was buried in Salem.
    ix.    Alvin A "Duck" Burr was born in Mar 1898 in MO. He died in 
1950 in OSH, Salem, Marion, OR. He was buried in Bethany Pioneer 
Cemetery, Silverton, Marion, OR.
     x.    Ida Burr was born about 1903 in KS. She died in Marshfield. 
Ida married Fribbey? Tribbie? [Fribley, Freeby].
    xi.    Orville? Theodore "Ted" Burr was born on 22 Feb 1905 in 
Burden, Cowley, KS. He died on 26 Dec 1966. He was buried in 29 Dec 
1966? in plot SO 2289, Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah 
/ Clackamas, OR.

Bill Strickland