Dallas Morning News, January 9, 1913, P 5
DEATH OF TEXAS PIONEER
Young Burgher, Who Died at Honey Grove Monday, Came to This State in 1841.
Young Burgher, who died at his home in Honey Grove Monday at the advanced age of 92, was the father of B. M. Burgher and J. T. Burgher of Dallas.
Mr. Burgher was born in Tennessee and came to Texas in 1841, settling in Lamar County, on the land on which the city of Paris was afterward built, and engaging in stock raising, which was the chief industry in Texas under the Republic, and for long after annexation.
For thirty-five years Mr. Burgher was one of the most active and useful citizens of Lamar County. He served in many of the county offices and surveyed much of the land of the county.
In 1861 he joined the Confederate army and during the ensuing four years saw some of the heaviest fighting of the war.
In 1876 Mr. Burgher moved to Honey Grove to give his children better school opportunities than the rural districts of Lamar County afforded.
For several years before his death he was very deaf, but he kept up his communication with the world through the columns of The Dallas News, of which he was a constant reader during the greater part of his long life.
Out of eight children born to him only three survive. They are the two sons mentioned above and a daughter, Mrs. J. W. Reed of Honey Grove.
The funeral occurred Tuesday. The body was laid to rest in the Honey Grove Cemetery by the side of that of his wife, who died in 1907.
DEATH OF TEXAS PIONEER
Young Burgher, Who Died at Honey Grove Monday, Came to This State in 1841.
Young Burgher, who died at his home in Honey Grove Monday at the advanced age of 92, was the father of B. M. Burgher and J. T. Burgher of Dallas.
Mr. Burgher was born in Tennessee and came to Texas in 1841, settling in Lamar County, on the land on which the city of Paris was afterward built, and engaging in stock raising, which was the chief industry in Texas under the Republic, and for long after annexation.
For thirty-five years Mr. Burgher was one of the most active and useful citizens of Lamar County. He served in many of the county offices and surveyed much of the land of the county.
In 1861 he joined the Confederate army and during the ensuing four years saw some of the heaviest fighting of the war.
In 1876 Mr. Burgher moved to Honey Grove to give his children better school opportunities than the rural districts of Lamar County afforded.
For several years before his death he was very deaf, but he kept up his communication with the world through the columns of The Dallas News, of which he was a constant reader during the greater part of his long life.
Out of eight children born to him only three survive. They are the two sons mentioned above and a daughter, Mrs. J. W. Reed of Honey Grove.
The funeral occurred Tuesday. The body was laid to rest in the Honey Grove Cemetery by the side of that of his wife, who died in 1907.
Dallas Morning News, January 9, 1913, P 5
DEATH OF TEXAS PIONEER
Young Burgher, Who Died at Honey Grove Monday, Came to This State in 1841.
Young Burgher, who died at his home in Honey Grove Monday at the advanced age of 92, was the father of B. M. Burgher and J. T. Burgher of Dallas.
Mr. Burgher was born in Tennessee and came to Texas in 1841, settling in Lamar County, on the land on which the city of Paris was afterward built, and engaging in stock raising, which was the chief industry in Texas under the Republic, and for long after annexation.
For thirty-five years Mr. Burgher was one of the most active and useful citizens of Lamar County. He served in many of the county offices and surveyed much of the land of the county.
In 1861 he joined the Confederate army and during the ensuing four years saw some of the heaviest fighting of the war.
In 1876 Mr. Burgher moved to Honey Grove to give his children better school opportunities than the rural districts of Lamar County afforded.
For several years before his death he was very deaf, but he kept up his communication with the world through the columns of The Dallas News, of which he was a constant reader during the greater part of his long life.
Out of eight children born to him only three survive. They are the two sons mentioned above and a daughter, Mrs. J. W. Reed of Honey Grove.
The funeral occurred Tuesday. The body was laid to rest in the Honey Grove Cemetery by the side of that of his wife, who died in 1907.
DEATH OF TEXAS PIONEER
Young Burgher, Who Died at Honey Grove Monday, Came to This State in 1841.
Young Burgher, who died at his home in Honey Grove Monday at the advanced age of 92, was the father of B. M. Burgher and J. T. Burgher of Dallas.
Mr. Burgher was born in Tennessee and came to Texas in 1841, settling in Lamar County, on the land on which the city of Paris was afterward built, and engaging in stock raising, which was the chief industry in Texas under the Republic, and for long after annexation.
For thirty-five years Mr. Burgher was one of the most active and useful citizens of Lamar County. He served in many of the county offices and surveyed much of the land of the county.
In 1861 he joined the Confederate army and during the ensuing four years saw some of the heaviest fighting of the war.
In 1876 Mr. Burgher moved to Honey Grove to give his children better school opportunities than the rural districts of Lamar County afforded.
For several years before his death he was very deaf, but he kept up his communication with the world through the columns of The Dallas News, of which he was a constant reader during the greater part of his long life.
Out of eight children born to him only three survive. They are the two sons mentioned above and a daughter, Mrs. J. W. Reed of Honey Grove.
The funeral occurred Tuesday. The body was laid to rest in the Honey Grove Cemetery by the side of that of his wife, who died in 1907.
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