Mystery Sunday: Who was that Burris?
May. 6th, 2012 09:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dee_burris(Yes, I know the prompt is Mystery Monday, but I have time to write about it today. Go with it, please.)
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.
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.
No first names in the entire article.
So Dad went the next day to the Pope County Library and looked through microfilm for a couple of hours.
Found another article. It talked about Goodner and Burris. No first names.
I found a snippet of an article from the Arkansas Gazette dated 1 Aug 1882, where it gave Goodner's first name as John. It said he was wanted for shooting a sheriff.
And that's all we know.
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.
My Burrises sure had a lot of secrets...
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.
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.
No first names in the entire article.
So Dad went the next day to the Pope County Library and looked through microfilm for a couple of hours.
Found another article. It talked about Goodner and Burris. No first names.
I found a snippet of an article from the Arkansas Gazette dated 1 Aug 1882, where it gave Goodner's first name as John. It said he was wanted for shooting a sheriff.
And that's all we know.
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.
My Burrises sure had a lot of secrets...