Individual Details
William Henry FURR
(6 Oct 1893 - 22 Nov 1938)
Events
| Birth | 6 Oct 1893 | Banks County, GA |  | ||
| Marriage | 25 Sep 1921 | Beulah Mary DILLS | | ||
| Occupation | 1930 | farm laborer - Ashland, Franklin County, GA | |||
| Death | 22 Nov 1938 | Atlanta, Fulton County, GA |  | | |
| Burial | Mintz Cemetery, Maysville, Banks County, GA | | |||
| Military | Private First Class, 114th Infantry, 29th Division, serving in France - in World War I |
Families
| Spouse | Beulah Mary DILLS (1906 - ) |
| Child | Living |
| Father | William Lindsey FURR (1850 - 1919) |
| Mother | Melissa Emma ANDERSON (1858 - 1909) |
| Sibling | Ella Gertrude FURR (1882 - 1968) |
| Sibling | Lenora Ollie FURR (1885 - 1968) |
| Sibling | Willie Mae FURR (1887 - 1926) |
| Sibling | Lillie Belle FURR (1890 - 1940) |
| Sibling | Hubert Harvey FURR (1895 - 1933) |
Notes
Death
Maysville, Ga.—The last rites for William H. Furr, 45, were held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Wade H. Hill, of Maysville, R. F. D., at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon, November 24, with Rev. J. L. Hall, pastor of the Methodist Church, officiating. Mr. Furr died at a private hospital in Atlanta on Tuesday, November 22. He served two years in France during the World War, and was a member of the Maysville American Legion Post, and members from that Post served as pallbearers. Mr. Furr is survived by one daughter, Miss Margaret Furr; and three sisters, Mrs. Wade H. Hill, Mrs. Lilly Dills, of Maysville, and Mrs. Ella Chastain of Greenwood, S. C. Interment was in the Anderson Cemetery, Maysville.Jackson Herald, Jefferson, Jackson County, Georgia, December 8, 1938
Endnotes
1. Ancestry.com. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2002. National Archives and Records Administration. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. M1509, 20,243 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration..
2. Our Kin, William Harris Manning, 1958.
3. Georgia Deaths, 1919-98. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001. Original data: State of Georgia. Indexes of Vital Records for Georgia: Deaths, 1919-98. Georgia: Georgia Health Department, Office of Vital Records, 1998..
4. findagrave.com.