Individual Details
Columbus Nelson FURR
(23 Nov 1873 - 15 Sep 1960)
Events
| Birth | 23 Nov 1873 | North Carolina | |||
| Marriage | 1 Apr 1894 | Stanly County, NC - Sarah Elizabeth "Lizzie" GOODMAN |  | ||
| Occupation | 1900 | farmer - Stanly County, NC | |||
| Occupation | Bet 1910 and 1950 | grocery merchant - McKinney, Collin County, TX | |||
| Death | 15 Sep 1960 | McKinney, Collin County, TX |  | | |
| Burial | Pecan Grove Cemetery, McKinney, Collin County, TX | |
Families
| Spouse | Sarah Elizabeth "Lizzie" GOODMAN (1876 - 1971) |
| Child | Grover Cleveland FURR (1897 - 1970) |
| Child | Titus James FURR (1897 - 1969) |
| Child | Dora M. FURR (1899 - 1997) |
| Child | Zeb "Zebbie" FURR (1901 - 1971) |
| Child | FURR (1904 - 1904) |
| Child | William "Bill" FURR (1906 - 1962) |
| Child | Andrew Jack FURR (1908 - 1990) |
| Child | Fred FURR (1909 - 1912) |
| Child | Dorothy Adeline FURR (1911 - 1993) |
| Child | Annie Ruth FURR (1918 - 2002) |
| Father | John Allen FURR (1853 - 1936) |
| Mother | Martha Ann "Mattie" GREENE (1857 - 1908) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Laura "Lizzie" FURR (1875 - 1902) |
| Sibling | Crone Webster FURR (1878 - 1946) |
| Sibling | Walter Washington FURR (1880 - 1933) |
| Sibling | Cora Ellen FURR (1882 - 1959) |
| Sibling | Jennie FURR (1884 - 1914) |
| Sibling | Lonnie L. FURR (1886 - 1903) |
| Sibling | Claude FURR (1892 - 1941) |
| Sibling | Ralph FURR (1896 - 1918) |
| Sibling | Wade Hampton FURR (1897 - 1968) |
| Sibling | Pearl Ethel FURR (1899 - 1997) |
Notes
Death
Columbus Nelson Furr, 86, retired grocery merchant, passed away in Collin Memorial Hospital at 7:45 a. m. Thursday. He resided at 1206 Greenville Street. He had been in ill health for three months. He was born November 23, 1873 in North Carolina, the son of John and Martha Green Furr, and was married in 1894 to Sara E. Goodman. He came to Collin County 59 years. He was a member of the Methodist Church. Surviving are his wife, three daughters, Mrs. Glen Keen, Mrs. Hugh Myers and Mrs. Dorothy Scarborough, all of McKinney: five sons: Grover, Bill and Jack Furr of McKinney; Titus Furr of Colorado and Zeb Furr of Three Rivers; five grandchildren, 13 grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Pearl Dick of Kansas and a brother, Wade Furr of California. Funeral services were held in Turrentine-Jackson Chapel with burial in Pecan Grove Cemetery.Endnotes
1. Helen L. Garner, transcriber, Stanly County North Carolina Marriages, Book I: 1851-1867, Book II: -1904: (Albemarle, NC: Stanly County Genealogical Society, 1987).
2. Texas Death Index, 1903-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2006. Original data: Texas Department of Health. Texas Death Indexes, 1903-2000. Austin, TX, USA: Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit..
3. findagrave.com.