Zachariah Burris Jr. (1806 - 1896)

Born 26 Oct 1806 in Delaware, Maryland or New Jersey, United States [uncertain]

Husband of Mary (Haines) Burris — married 25 Aug 1831 in Belmont County, Ohio, United States

Husband of Eleanor (Brown) Burris — married 19 Jan 1834 in Belmont, Ohio

Descendants

Died 26 Mar 1896 at age 89 in Martins Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, United States

Biography

Zachariah was born in 1806. He passed away in 1896.

Indicated on varying census and death records to be have been born in Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey

Ohio, Soldier Grave Registrations, 1804-1958

Name: Zacharias Burris
Birth Date: 26 Oct 1806
Birth Place: Delaware
Death Date: 26 Mar 1896
Death Place: Martins Ferry
Burial Date: 28 Mar 1896
Burial Place: Martins Ferry, Ohio, USA

Obituary

Martins Ferry

Thursday evening Zachariah Burris, the oldest citizen of this place, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Geo. Devault, in the Fifth ward. Death was due from the infirmities caused by old age.

The deceased was born in 1805, in the State of Maryland, and in 1823 came to Ohio and made his home near St. Clairsville. Later on he moved to this place, when there was not enough people residing here to call it even a settlement, and has made this his home ever since. Two years of his life was served in the Mexican war.

He leaves six children to mourn his death. They are Mrs. Geo. Devault, Theodore and John Burris, of this place, Brown Burris, of Creston, Iowa, Eugene Burris, of Montana, and Henry Burris, of Freeport, O. The funeral services will take place Sunday afternoon from his late home. Interment will be made at Riverview cemetery.^[1]

Ohio Tax Records

Belmont, Belmont, Ohio: 1824, 1825

Pease, Belmont, Ohio: 1829, 1830, 1832, 1833, 1834

Spencer, Guernsey, Ohio: 1830, 1831, 1832

Sources

1. ↑ Wheeling Register, 28 Mar 1896, pg 4:

• Jordan Dodd, Liahona Research. Ohio, Marriages, 1803-1900. Full list of sources in the description.

• "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHGJ-NDH : 19 August 2017), Zachariah Burris, Mead, Belmont, Ohio, United States; citing 294, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 127; FHL microfilm 337,938.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #102243548