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Robert Houston Burns

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Robert Houston Burns

Birth
Death
29 Jan 1925 (aged 44)
Burial
Humptulips, Grays Harbor County, Washington, USA Add to Map
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Robert was born in Blount County, TN. His parents were Lawson and Martha Jane (Jackson) Burns. He married Mary Elizabeth "Mollie" Myers on Aug. 11, 1899 in Blount County, TN. They moved to Washington between 1900-1910. He worked in the logging industry for Polson Logging Company.

(Article in the Daily Washingtonian, Hoquiam, Wash. - Friday Morning, January 30, 1925)
Robert Burns, Logger To Be Buried Sunday
Robert H. Burns, 44, well known to woodsmen of Grays Harbor county and recently foreman of Camp Bo. 6 of the Polson Logging company, died in a local hospital yesterday after several months' illness.
Mr. Burns was born in Tennessee and had resided in Grays Harbor county for about 10 years. He was foreman of a camp producing spruce for the wartime air service during the war. He is survived by his wife and four children. He was a member of the Moose and Eagles lodges.
Funeral services will be held from the Pinnick chapel at 1o'clock Sunday afternoon, with Rev. Joseph Owens, logging camp evangelist, officiating. Interment will be in Humptulips cemetery.
Robert was born in Blount County, TN. His parents were Lawson and Martha Jane (Jackson) Burns. He married Mary Elizabeth "Mollie" Myers on Aug. 11, 1899 in Blount County, TN. They moved to Washington between 1900-1910. He worked in the logging industry for Polson Logging Company.

(Article in the Daily Washingtonian, Hoquiam, Wash. - Friday Morning, January 30, 1925)
Robert Burns, Logger To Be Buried Sunday
Robert H. Burns, 44, well known to woodsmen of Grays Harbor county and recently foreman of Camp Bo. 6 of the Polson Logging company, died in a local hospital yesterday after several months' illness.
Mr. Burns was born in Tennessee and had resided in Grays Harbor county for about 10 years. He was foreman of a camp producing spruce for the wartime air service during the war. He is survived by his wife and four children. He was a member of the Moose and Eagles lodges.
Funeral services will be held from the Pinnick chapel at 1o'clock Sunday afternoon, with Rev. Joseph Owens, logging camp evangelist, officiating. Interment will be in Humptulips cemetery.


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