Individual Details

Pleasant Paul FURR

(16 May 1890 - 23 Dec 1961)

Events

Birth16 May 1890Albemarle, Stanly County, NC
Marriage19 Jan 1922Franklin County, OH - Sarah Elizabeth LOCKE
Occupation1930 - 1950boiler shop welder - Columbus, Franklin County, OH
Death23 Dec 1961Columbus, Franklin County, OH
Alt namePaul F. FURR
Militaryin World War I
BurialSunset Cemetery, Galloway, Franklin County, OH

Families

SpouseSarah Elizabeth LOCKE (1888 - 1986)
FatherWilliam Monroe FURR (1856 - 1918)
MotherLavinna "Vinie" OSBORNE (1866 - 1923)
SiblingDora Ann FURR (1884 - 1961)
SiblingCora Louella FURR (1886 - 1966)
SiblingFlora L. FURR (1888 - 1923)
SiblingRetta Bell FURR (1892 - 1964)
SiblingJames Silas FURR (1895 - 1982)
SiblingJack M. FURR (1897 - )
SiblingJackson Carl "Jack" FURR (1898 - 1974)
SiblingClaudia D. FURR (1901 - 1904)

Notes

Military

Name: Paul Furr
Age: 27 4/12 Years
Race: White
Birth Location: Albemarle, North Carolina, USA
Enlistment Date: 6 Oct 1917
Enlistment County: Columbus
Enlistment State: Ohio
Enlistment Division: National Army LB 2
Decorations and Awards: View Image
Rank: View Image
Advancement: View Image
Comments: 308 Trench Mortar Battery to 6 Feb 1918; Quartermaster Corps to Discharge Sergeant 29 Nov 1918. Honorable discharge 17 May 1919.

Burial

Gravestone shows him as Paul F. Furr.

Endnotes

1. North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005.

2. "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q297-B9XL : 24 September 2021).

3. "Ohio Death Index, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VKKP-48L : 30 June 2021).

4. Ohio Soldiers in WWI, 1917-1918 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005. Original data: The Official Roster of Ohio Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the World War, 1917-18. Columbus, OH: The F.J. Heer Printing Co., 1926..

5. findagrave.com.