http://dee-burris.dreamwidth.org/ Shakin' the Family Tree - Dreamwidth Studios Sun, 06 May 2012 14:18:39 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios dee_burris personal http://www.dreamwidth.org/userpic/856437/913346 http://dee-burris.dreamwidth.org/ 60 100 http://dee-burris.dreamwidth.org/112684.html Sun, 06 May 2012 14:18:39 GMT http://dee-burris.dreamwidth.org/112684.html (Yes, I know the prompt is <i>Mystery Monday,</i> but I have time to write about it today. Go with it, please.)<br /><br />Dad called me the other night. One of his local genealogy buddies had called him and read him a newspaper article from August 1882, where a couple of guys had busted out of the Dover jail in Pope County. The posse was hot on their trail.<br /><br />One of them was a Burris. The other was a guy named Goodner. When the law caught up to them, Goodner was shot, and Burris gave it up.<br /><br />No first names in the entire article.<br /><br />So Dad went the next day to the Pope County Library and looked through microfilm for a couple of hours.<br /><br />Found another article. It talked about Goodner and Burris. No first names.<br /><br />I found a snippet of an article from the <i>Arkansas Gazette</i> dated 1 Aug 1882, where it gave Goodner's first name as John. It said he was wanted for shooting a sheriff.<br /><br />And that's all we know.<br /><br />But the Burris had to be one of ours, and from one of the articles, we know the manhunt centered around land very close to our homeplace.<br /><br />My Burrises sure had a lot of secrets...<br /><br /><img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dee_burris&ditemid=112684" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments http://dee-burris.dreamwidth.org/112684.html dover goodner pope co ar the law mystery sunday burris secrets public 1