Individual Details

Luther Ambrose FURR

(5 Mar 1896 - 26 Feb 1976)

The World War I Civilian Draft Registrations (Ancestry, Inc., 1997) shows his birth date and place as 5 March 1896, Lincoln County, Mississippi.

Events

Birth5 Mar 1896Lincoln County, MS
Marriage24 Jan 1918Warren County, MS - Rosa Beal SIMRALL
Occupation1920general store manager - Franklin County, MS
Occupation1930 - 1940wholesale factory salesman - Tylertown, Walthall County, MS
Occupation1950grocery store manager - Tylertown, Walthall County, MS
Death26 Feb 1976Jackson, Hinds County, MS
Militaryin World War I
Soc Sec No425-03-7178
BurialHillcrest Memorial Gardens, Walthall County, MS

Families

SpouseRosa Beal SIMRALL (1901 - 1973)
ChildJean FURR (1925 - 2008)
FatherJames Monroe FURR (1860 - 1931)
MotherAlice Agnes "Allie" SMITH (1865 - 1949)
SiblingMaude L. "Maudie" FURR (1886 - 1951)
SiblingSadie Jane FURR (1886 - 1969)
SiblingMinnie Belle FURR (1889 - 1967)
SiblingAlbert Ernest FURR (1892 - 1940)
SiblingRandall Pierce FURR (1896 - 1896)
SiblingOlian Lamar FURR (1897 - 1960)
SiblingKatie R. FURR (1902 - 1904)
SiblingMary Lillian FURR (1905 - 1950)

Notes

Death

TYLERTOWN — Services were incomplete this morning for Luther A. Furr, 81, retired grocer, of Tylertown. Mr. Furr died Thursday at University Medical Center in Jackson after a long illness. He had resided in a local nursing home for several years. Capps Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Among the survivors is one daughter, Mrs. Jean Talbert of Texas.
Enterprise-Journal, McComb, Mississippi, February 27, 1976

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. Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979. Database. FamilySearch. https://FamilySearch.org : 26 November 2020.

3. Enterprise-Journal, McComb, Mississippi.

4. United States Social Security Death Index.

5. , findagrave.com (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).