Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Burrell Wilson Morris

Full Name: Burrell Wilson "Burr" Morris
Birth date: July 5, 1846
Death date: February 5, 1929

Biographical sketch, B.W. Morris, pp. 135-136. Born 7/5/1846 in Red River County; Confederate States Army, enlisted in Capt. Shannon's company at age 15; Democratic nominee at the 1894 convention. A History of Hood County, Texas: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present, Together with Biographical Sketches of Many Leading Men and Women Among the Early Settlers. . .: Also a Sketch of the History of Somervell County. 1895.
Confederate States Army, Private, Company C, 10th Texas Infantry, enlisted 10/26/1861 at Houston. Burr Wilson Marris [Morris] [full name: "Burr Wilson Morris but every one called him Burrell Morris"], death date 2/5/1929 in Hood County; widow Mrs. Julia A. Morris of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, marriage date 6/8/1871 in Ellis County. Pension File No. 49330, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958; Burrell Wilson Morris, U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865. Ancestry.com .
Burr Wilson Morris, birth date 7/5/1846 in Texas, death date 2/5/1929 in Granbury, Hood County, farmer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
B.W. Morris (1846-1929), burial in Granbury Cemetery, Granbury, Hood County. Find a Grave .
Obituary, B.W. Morris, "Hood Ex-Sheriff, Native Texan, Dies," 2/6/1929, p. 1. "At the time he served as flotorial representative, Hood and Tarrant Counties were in the same flotorial district." Fort Worth Record-Telegram .