Individual Details
Oris Douglass FURR
(23 Apr 1907 - 8 Jun 1971)
Donovan C. Furr Remembers
Uncle Oris got Grandpa Furr to sign for him to join the NAVY after WWI. Turned out he didn't like Navy life and asked Grandpa to get him out. His oldest brother, Uncle R C told Grandpa to leave him in the Navy (which he did). Uncle R C said it would make a man out of him, which it did. He served in China for a time. While there he witnessed their weekly Friday executions. He showed me pictures he had taken of the executions. They showed the Chinese standing in line waiting to be beheaded. They also showed the gory details of the bloody and headless bodies lying around. His son Wayne has the pictures now. He married Lucille Marguerite Christiansen after he got out of the Navy and settled in California. She was of Danish descent but I don't know is she was a born American or naturalized. He didn't come back to Mississippi until in the 1930s. I remember the occasion very well. I was a lad of about 6 or 7 and we were over in the woods a ways from the house helping Daddy cut some kind of wood. I don't remember if it was firewood or posts or pickets or what. I don't imagine we were very much help as we were so small but Daddy had us "hooked up" anyway. I remember he told us to go on to the house and he would be along in a few minutes. He probably had to hook up the mule and wagon (I don't remember). Anyway as we were headed to the house we met Uncle Oris as he was coming to look for us as Mother had told him where we were. I can remember that I had never seen him but I recognized that he was a Furr. They had ridden the train to Brookhaven, Mississippi and hired a taxi to bring them out to Soogaard where we were living at the time. Daddy loaned them our old Model A Ford and they visited the rest of the family over around Pleasant Hill. Then they come back and stayed with us a couple of weeks. That was about 1933 I think. After that they came back south almost every year. They are both passed away now. They had only one child, Wayne. He married and had two daughters whom he still stays close with even though he and his first wife divorced. He is still living in California and usually comes to the Furr reunions but he fell and broke his leg and was unable to come this spring but promised to be there next year. He has remarried but has not brought his new wife to see the family yet. 22 July 2008. DCFI have since found out that Aunt Lucille came to America as a child with her twin sister and their Mother. I was told this by Aunt Lucille's her Son Wayne. He said that the twins Mother had an affair with one of the sailors on the ship coming to America and abandoned the twins and ran off with the sailor. Some way the twins' father found out about it and came to America and searched for the twins and found them in an orphanage and retrieved them. I guess they stayed in America as Uncle Oris married aunt Lucille in California. 16 Dec 2010 DCF
Uncle Oris got Grandpa Furr to sign for him to join the NAVY after WWI. Turned out he didn't like Navy life and asked Grandpa to get him out. His oldest brother, Uncle R C told Grandpa to leave him in the Navy (which he did). Uncle R C said it would make a man out of him, which it did. He served in China for a time. While there he witnessed their weekly Friday executions. He showed me pictures he had taken of the executions. They showed the Chinese standing in line waiting to be beheaded. They also showed the gory details of the bloody and headless bodies lying around. His son Wayne has the pictures now. He married Lucille Marguerite Christiansen after he got out of the Navy and settled in California. She was of Danish descent but I don't know is she was a born American or naturalized. He didn't come back to Mississippi until in the 1930s. I remember the occasion very well. I was a lad of about 6 or 7 and we were over in the woods a ways from the house helping Daddy cut some kind of wood. I don't remember if it was firewood or posts or pickets or what. I don't imagine we were very much help as we were so small but Daddy had us "hooked up" anyway. I remember he told us to go on to the house and he would be along in a few minutes. He probably had to hook up the mule and wagon (I don't remember). Anyway as we were headed to the house we met Uncle Oris as he was coming to look for us as Mother had told him where we were. I can remember that I had never seen him but I recognized that he was a Furr. They had ridden the train to Brookhaven, Mississippi and hired a taxi to bring them out to Soogaard where we were living at the time. Daddy loaned them our old Model A Ford and they visited the rest of the family over around Pleasant Hill. Then they come back and stayed with us a couple of weeks. That was about 1933 I think. After that they came back south almost every year. They are both passed away now. They had only one child, Wayne. He married and had two daughters whom he still stays close with even though he and his first wife divorced. He is still living in California and usually comes to the Furr reunions but he fell and broke his leg and was unable to come this spring but promised to be there next year. He has remarried but has not brought his new wife to see the family yet. 22 July 2008. DCFI have since found out that Aunt Lucille came to America as a child with her twin sister and their Mother. I was told this by Aunt Lucille's her Son Wayne. He said that the twins Mother had an affair with one of the sailors on the ship coming to America and abandoned the twins and ran off with the sailor. Some way the twins' father found out about it and came to America and searched for the twins and found them in an orphanage and retrieved them. I guess they stayed in America as Uncle Oris married aunt Lucille in California. 16 Dec 2010 DCF
Events
| Birth | 23 Apr 1907 | Copiah County, MS | |||
| Marriage | 27 Apr 1929 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA - Lucille Margerite CHRISTENSON | |||
| Occupation | 1930 | shipping clerk - San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA | |||
| Occupation | 1940 | garage mechanic - San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA | |||
| Occupation | 1950 | insulation company foreman - San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA | |||
| Death | 8 Jun 1971 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA |  | ||
| Soc Sec No | 560-09-9243 |
Families
| Spouse | Lucille Margerite CHRISTENSON (1908 - 1977) |
| Child | Living |
| Father | William Will FURR (1871 - 1935) |
| Mother | Letha Lenora DOUGLAS (1874 - 1958) |
| Sibling | Addie Adelle FURR (1893 - 1935) |
| Sibling | Richard Christian FURR (1896 - 1981) |
| Sibling | Thomas Leroy FURR (1898 - 1966) |
| Sibling | Albert Troy FURR (1899 - 1950) |
| Sibling | Mattie M. "Mellie" FURR (1901 - 1993) |
| Sibling | William Earl FURR (1904 - 1996) |
| Sibling | Winnie Lee FURR (1910 - 2006) |
Endnotes
1. Ancestry.com. California Death Index, 1940-1997. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original electronic data: State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics, 19--..