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Welcome To Sullivan County, Indiana
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GEORGE W. BURRISGEORGE W. BURRIS, farmer, P. O. Pleasantville, was born in Knox County, Tenn., the 27th day of September,1835, son of James and Permelia J. (Tinsley) Burris. He was married to Mary Hansard on the 15th of January, 1851, and to this union seven children have been born, four living--John, Ulysses Grant, Ambrose and Laura. He settled in Jefferson Township, Sullivan County, in the year 1851. He enlisted in the United States service on the 14th day of August, 1862, to serve three years or during the war, and was in Capt. McCublin's company, E, One Hundred and Twenty-third Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged on the 8th day of July, 1865, by reason of expiration of his term of service. He was with Sherman at Atlanta, and at the battles of Chickamauga and Perryville, and was in several skirmishes in Alabama, Kentukcy, Georgia and Tennessee, never receiving a wound. He returned to his family in July,1865, and then went to farming, which he has kept up until the present time. During his term of service, his wife attended to the business, buying a small piece of land where they now live and enjoying the blessings of life. He is a Republican.JEFFERSON TWP. PAGE 786 FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC. ILLUSTRATED. 1884, CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS. |
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