Burr More

Born 10 March 1827 at Roxbury, Delaware County, New York

Died 15 October 1902 at Walton, Delaware County, New York

Burr was the 11^th of 13 children born to David More and Elizabeth Gould More. He was raised in Roxbury where his father was the owner and operator of a successful farm. His father relocated the family to Walton, New York when Burr was 12 years old. Burr, and his brother Edmond, registered for the Civil War draft in 1863 and Burr was one of 77 men from Walton picked in the first draft lottery but I found no record of military service. In any case, he resided on the family farm even after the deaths of his mother in 1867 and his father in 1873. Walton resident, Malcom Duncan Wright, noted in his diary that Burr had sowed oats and grass on 2 May 1871. About 1880, Burr relocated to the home of his sister, Harriet, who had married to Edwin Guild, a Walton merchant, and focused on investments. Burr was a quiet man, a great reader, and interested in current events. In politics, he was a Democrat and never missed an election. He suffered with Bright's disease (a chronic inflammation of the kidney now commonly known as nephritis) for about a year and succumbed at the home of his sister, Harriet More Guild, at 111 North Street. Burr never married and was survived by five of his twelve siblings. He was buried between his sister, Anna More Sinclair More, and his brother, Jason Gould More, in a More family plot at Walton Cemetery. He was my first cousin five times removed.

 Photographs obtained myself on 10 August 2015. In the plot photo, Burr's grave marker is in the first row fourth from the left.

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