BURTON, OSIE B. - Pemiscot County, Missouri | OSIE B. BURTON - Missouri Gravestone Photos

Osie B. BURTON

Mount Zion Cemetery
Pemiscot County,
Missouri

Fannie
7 Oct 1884 Booneville, Prentiss, MS
7 Apr 1951 Steele, Pemiscot, MO
Parents: Tom and Mary Smith Long

Osie
15 Feb 1882 Obion, Obion, TN
1956 Cooter, Pemiscot, MO
Parents:
William Perry Burton (1848 - 1932)
Rachel Levisa Lyon Burton (1861 - 1931)
Spouses:
Fannie Lou Long Burton (1884 - 1951)
Sarah Hendrix Morris (1884 - 1982)


Death claimed Mrs. Odis Burton of Steele Saturday morning. Her husband went to town, and on returning found her dead in a chair. She was writing a letter to her brother as pencil and paper were found in her hand. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the German Funeral Home. She left to mourn her death, her husband, Odis Burton and several children, all of Steele.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Friday, April 13, 1951

O.B. Burton, retired farmer who attended his brother's funeral Tuesday, died of a heart attack late Tuesday night at his home near Cooter. He was 74.

Mr. Burton had attended services for his brother, Robert Lee Burton at Steele, Tuesday afternoon.

Mr. Burton was born in Obion, Tenn., but had farmed in Southeast Missouri most of his life.

Services were at 2 Friday afternoon at the Holly Grove Baptist Church at Cooter with the Rev. W.E. Hall officiating. Burial was in Cooter Cemetery with Cobb Funeral Home in charge.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Sarah Burton of Cooter, five sons, Estree Burton of Steele, Leonard Burton of Memphis, Robert Burton of Little Rock, Ark., Lemmie Burton of East St. Louis, Ill., and Omer Burton of Kansas, City, Kan.; a daughter Mrs. Macel Graves of Peoria, Ill.; three brothers, Harry Burton of Pascola, Mo.; Lemmie Burton of Memphis and Odie Burton of Caruthersville; and three sisters, Mrs. Mae Walls and Mrs. Lennie Ketchum, both of Steele, and Mrs. Onie Graham of Blytheville.
The Steele Enterprise, Steele, Missouri
Friday, April 27, 1956

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Submitted: 5/29/16 • Approved: 6/9/16 • Last Updated: 4/14/18 • R792091-G792090-S3

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