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Dr Robert Edward Lee "R. E." Burrus

11 Aug 1879 – 5 Jan 1949

Birth11 Aug 1879
Death5 Jan 1949
CemeteryPickton Cemetery
Pickton , Hopkins County , Texas , USA
Added byJaye Willson on 15 Jun 2011
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Bio

Dr. Robert Edward Lee Burrus, MD died at 12:15 PM Wednesday, 5 January 1949 in the Municipal Hospital in Winters, Runnels County, Texas. The cause of death was pnumonia and he was in his 69th year. He was admitted to the hospital on 28 December and had been ill for several weeks. Services will be at the Crews Methodist Church, with Rev Morton, pastor, officiating, assisted by the Rev. F H. Wilbanks, Baptist pastor. The body will be sent to the Pickton Cemetery in Hopkins County [where his first wife Willie Bell Burrus is buried] near Winnsboro for burial, where graveside rites will be directed by members of the Masonic Lodge at 2 pm. Friday. Pallbearers at the Crews service will be Edgar Jayroe, W. C. Mathis. Russell Boynton. J. G. Phipps, Lloyd Fuller, Quincy Trayler. Clarence Hambright, Raymond Phillips. Marvin Hambright and M. L Peatree. Not a lot of information is known about Dr Burrus' early life, his parents, or how he was able to attend Medical School in Chicago or how he ended up in Texas. He was born in Aplin, Perry County, AR in 1889 and lived in that area during most of his childhood. His mother died when he was ten years old. He was educated for the most part in rural Arkansas schools. One of the old time “country doctors“, his early ambition was to become a doctor, but accomplishing this was not easy. A number of obstacles stood in his way: nevertheless he received his degree from the Chicago College Medicine and Surgery in 1909. Dr. Burrus began his practice of medicine in East Texas in the Mt Pleasant, Texas area, and lived at Cookville, Texas near Mt Pleasant for a while and the following year was married to Willie Bell Worthen [1887-1944] in Titus County, Throughout the “horse and buggy" days his story was similar to that which has been repeated about other doctors — traveling over all in good and bad weather to care for patients. He purchased his first car a Ford in 1917. He moved to West Texas in 1921 and lived in Crews in Runnels County and then at Lawn before returning to Crews. He later lived in Valera, in Coleman County, before returning to to East Texas in 1936. He practiced Medicine in Winnsboro, Wood County, Texas and the surrounding area. His wife, Willie died in 1944 due to accidental burns she received while taking a bath in her home in Winnsboro, and was taken to Pittsburg, Camp County for better treatment where she expired. He then married a widow, Mrs Lena McKnight King, [1884-1963] an old family friend, and daughter of a medical doctor [Dr Burrus had been the attending physician at her husband's death] and they lived in Winnsboro for a couple of years before moving back to Crews, Texas. During the second world war, Dr. Burrus was very busy in his practice due to many Doctors being called up for military duty, and according to some reports his health was affected by the overwork. The writer of this bio was born in 1941 in Pickton, Texas in a farm house called the "old Payne Place" about four miles north of the town and Dr Burrus was the attending physician. Dr. Burris was the father to two children, a girl and a boy. Both attended and graduated from Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas. His son, Champ Clark Burrus [1910-1965] became a Professor of Chemistry, and Dean of the Texarkana College in Bowie County, Texas, and his daughter, Mrs Beatrice Louise Burris Porter [1912-2008] became an English teacher and served for many years in the Dennison, Grayson County school district and the Houston, Texas school district. Dr. Burrus' second wife, Lena McKnight Burris is buried in the Crews Cemetery with her relatives.

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