Individual Details
Matthew Franklin "Mat" FURR
(18 Jul 1885 - 29 Aug 1946)
Events
| Birth | 18 Jul 1885 | Cabarrus County, NC |  | ||
| Marriage | 19 Dec 1908 | Childress County, TX - Sarah Josephine "Josie" HARDIN | |||
| Marriage | 21 Feb 1920 | Fort Sumner, De Baca County, NM - Lillie Mae MORELAND | |||
| Occupation | 1930 | farmer - Colfax County, NM | |||
| Occupation | 1940 | farmer - Mora County, NM | |||
| Death | 29 Aug 1946 | Lubbock, Lubbock County, TX |  | | |
| Alt name | Math F. FURR | ||||
| Alt name | Mathew F. FURR | ||||
| Military | in World War I | ||||
| Burial | Dawson County Cemetery, Lamesa, Dawson County, TX | |
Families
| Spouse | Lillie Mae MORELAND (1901 - 1996) |
| Child | Defline FURR (1925 - 1925) |
| Child | Living |
| Spouse | Sarah Josephine "Josie" HARDIN (1885 - 1915) |
| Father | Tilman E. FURR (1853 - 1929) |
| Mother | Lavinia BARBEE (1860 - 1910) |
| Sibling | Annie Ida FURR (1878 - 1968) |
| Sibling | John Webster FURR (1881 - 1943) |
| Sibling | Arabella "Belle" FURR (1883 - 1960) |
| Sibling | Maggie Elizabeth FURR (1887 - 1956) |
| Sibling | George Alexander FURR (1890 - ) |
| Sibling | Rev. Willis Caldwell FURR (1892 - 1968) |
| Sibling | Daniel Monroe FURR (1895 - 1895) |
| Sibling | Ben Lee "Bennie" FURR (1898 - 1959) |
| Sibling | Charlie B. FURR (1900 - 1905) |
Notes
Death
Funeral services for M. F. Furr, 51, of Springer, N. M., an uncle of Roy Furr, Lubbock groceryman, will be held at 2 p.m. today in the chapel of Higginbothem funeral home at Lamesa. Burial will be Lamesa cemetery. Mr. Furr, a rancher who had been in ill health a year, died about 1 a. m. Thursday in Lubbock Memorial Hospital. The body was taken to Lamesa from Rix funeral home. He is survived by his wife, one daughter, Miss Cova Furr of Springger; two brothers, Ben Furr of Terrell, Okla., and Willis Furr of Memphis, Tenn.; three sisters, Mrs. C. W. Furr of Amarillo, Mrs. J. M. Felts of Kirkland, and Mrs. Bert Loar of Paducah.Lubbock Morning Avalanche, Lubbock, Texas, August 30, 1946
Endnotes
1. "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K35W-C51 : 29 December 2021).
2. "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976." Database with images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 28 November 2020.
3. , findagrave.com (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).