Individual Details

Have you met Henry Furr? Read about him and what he did Saturday night in another column. He is the handsome young Lincoln County giant that overcame ‘‘The Terrible Swede’ in a wrestling match at the Dreamland Shows the other night. Mr. Furr—although he looks the part—is not an athlete; he is no pigskin chaser nor baseball fan put just a plain, all round farmer boy who has received his strength and sturdiness from the native soil with which he intimately cultivates association and from the breezes and sunshine that, drifting through our piney woods, have left a tonic in his system whose efficacy no physician can claim nor druggist prescribe Mr. Furr is a model of a ‘‘Grown in Mississippi" boy in more ways than the one noted.
The Semi-Weekly Leader, Brookhaven, Mississippi, November 24, 1915

Birth	1828	Lawrence County, MS
Marriage	13 Dec 1849	Copiah County, MS - Elizabeth Jane JAMES
Occupation	1880	farmer - Lawrence County, MS
Death	1915	Lincoln County, MS
Military		the Civil War
Burial		Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Brookhaven, Lincoln County, MS

Spouse	Elizabeth Jane JAMES (1832 - )
Child	Ann FURR (1856 - )
Child	Mary Jane "Molly" FURR (1859 - 1918)
Child	Henry Monroe FURR (1861 - 1934)
Child	Walter E. FURR (1869 - )

Father	Jacob FURR (1785 - 1870)
Mother	Living
Sibling	Eli FURR (1803 - 1863)
Sibling	Elizabeth FURR (1810 - )
Sibling	Susan FURR (1811 - )
Sibling	Nancy FURR (1817 - )
Sibling	Everett FURR (1823 - 1853)
Sibling	Leonard FURR (1810 - )
Sibling	Living

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