Burk Yarbrough1

b. September 1873, d. 20 November 1961
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Family Background:
Underwood and Allied Families
     Burk Yarbrough was born in September 1873.1,2 She was the daughter of Burk Yarbrough and Lucy Wimberley.1 She married first Edward Spring Morris, son of Anthony T. Morris and Margaret Harris, on 14 November 1894 in Tyler, Smith County, Texas.3 She married second Dabney White in Tyler, Smith County, Texas.1 She died on 20 November 1961 in Smith County, Texas, at age 88.4,1 Burk Yarbrough Morris White was buried in Rosehill Cemetery, Tyler.1
     
Additional Data
Burk Morris appeared on the 1 June 1900 Federal Census of Tyler, Smith County, Texas, in the household of her mother L.C. Blair, with her husband E.S. Morris.2 Click to view image

Burk L. and Dabney White appeared on the 15 April 1910 Federal Census of Tyler, Smith County, Texas, enumerated 1910. Burk's daughters from a previous marriage, Lucy and Anne, were listed as living with them, as were two servants and three children of servants.5 Click to view image

Burk and Dabney White appeared on the 1 January 1920 Federal Census of Tyler, Smith County, Texas, enumerated 8 January 1920, with Burk's daughters from a previous marriage, Lucy and Anne Morris, and two servants listed as living with them.6 Click to view image

Children of Burk Yarbrough and Edward Spring Morris

Citations

  1. [S342] Rosehill Cemetery, Tyler, Smith County, TX, online <ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tx/smith/cemetery/roshilc.txt>, Section C.
  2. [S343] L.C. Blair household, 1900 U.S. Census, Smith County, Texas, population schedule, Precinct 1, Tyler city, enumeration district (ED) 97, sheet 8A/76, dwelling 135, family 150; National Archives micropublication T623, roll 1669.
  3. [S339] Ed. S. Morris Obituary, Clipping from an unidentified Tyler newspaper, Tyler, Texas, 15 October 1900.
  4. [S1132] Texas Department of Health, Texas Death Indexes, 1903-2000 (Austin: Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit, unknown publish date), Burk Yarbrough White entry citing Certificate 66954.
  5. [S344] Dabney White household, 1910 U.S. Census, Smith County, Texas, population schedule, Precinct 1, Tyler city, enumeration district (ED) 67, sheet 19B, dwelling 406, family 406; National Archives micropublication T624, roll 1589.
  6. [S345] Dabney White household, 1920 U.S. Census, Smith County, Texas, population schedule, Precinct 1, Tyler city, enumeration district (ED) 82, sheet 7A/210, dwelling 126, family 148; National Archives micropublication T625, roll 1845.
  7. [S344] 1910 U.S. Census, Smith County, Texas, population schedule, Precinct 1, Tyler city, ED 67, sheet 19B, dwelling 423, family 424.
  8. [S340] Jane Wolfe, The Rise and Fall of a Texas Dynasty; The Murchisons (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), 45.