Individual Details
Crone Webster FURR
(8 May 1878 - 30 Oct 1946)
FURR, CRONE WEBSTER (1878-1946). Crone Webster Furr, food merchant, the son of John Allan and Martha Ann Furr, was born on May 8, 1878, in Stanly County, North Carolina. He attended a country school near his birthplace. The family moved to Texas in 1894, and young Furr began farming near McKinney. He soon added a small crossroads grocery store near his farm and then in 1904 moved to Kirkland, where he established the Kirkland Mercantile Company. Four years later he organized the First State Bank of Kirkland with an initial capital of $10,000. Furr bought the M System grocery franchise in the Amarillo area in 1924 and sold his Kirkland businesses in 1927 in order to concentrate on his grocery business. A year later he acquired the franchise for Piggly Wiggly stores in Amarillo. In 1934 he began to change the name of the Amarillo branch stores from Piggly Wiggly to Furr Food Stores. By 1946 his family-run enterprises included forty-three supermarkets in an area from Denver, Colorado, to El Paso, Texas; a creamery, bakery, packing plant, and warehouse in Lubbock; and a packing plant in Amarillo.
Furr was for many years a deacon of the Polk Street Methodist Church in Amarillo. He was a member of the Lions Club and contributed to Clarendon and McMurry colleges and other institutions. He married Annie Furr (no relation) on December 14, 1896. They had one daughter and two sons. Furr died on October 30, 1946, in Amarillo and is buried there.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Amarillo Daily News, October 31, 1946. Seymour V. Connor, ed., Builders of the Southwest (Lubbock: Southwest Collection, Texas Technological College, 1959).
Lawrence L. Graves
Furr was for many years a deacon of the Polk Street Methodist Church in Amarillo. He was a member of the Lions Club and contributed to Clarendon and McMurry colleges and other institutions. He married Annie Furr (no relation) on December 14, 1896. They had one daughter and two sons. Furr died on October 30, 1946, in Amarillo and is buried there.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Amarillo Daily News, October 31, 1946. Seymour V. Connor, ed., Builders of the Southwest (Lubbock: Southwest Collection, Texas Technological College, 1959).
Lawrence L. Graves
Events
| Birth | 8 May 1878 | Stanly County, NC |  | ||
| Marriage | 14 Dec 1896 | McKinney, Collin County, TX - Annie Ida FURR | |||
| Occupation | 1900 | Farmer - Collin County, TX | |||
| Occupation | 1910 | General Store Merchant - Childress County, TX | |||
| Occupation | 1920 | Manager, Grocery and Dry Goods - Childress County, TX | |||
| Death | 30 Oct 1946 | Amarillo, Potter County, TX | |||
| Burial | Llano Cemetery, Amarillo, Randall County, TX | |
Families
| Spouse | Annie Ida FURR (1878 - 1968) |
| Child | Leona FURR (1898 - 1996) |
| Child | Key FURR (1901 - 1982) |
| Child | Roy Kenneth FURR (1904 - 1975) |
| Father | John Allen FURR (1853 - 1936) |
| Mother | Martha Ann "Mattie" GREENE (1857 - 1908) |
| Sibling | Columbus Nelson FURR (1873 - 1960) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Laura "Lizzie" FURR (1875 - 1902) |
| 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) |
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. findagrave.com.