Yuma County, Colorado
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Yuma County Pioneer Photographs:
John A. Burt, Bryant
John cash-claimed a quarter in section 11, 5N 48W in 1891.
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In 1870 Allen County, Indiana, John A. and Charity Burt are both 27, with John S. 7, Mary E. 3, adn Valencia 1.
In 1880 Charity E. is in Allen County, divorced, with John 14, Mary E. 13, Vilanca M. 11, Viola E. 7, and Mattie S. 5.
John A. Burt is farming in 1900 Montgomery County,
Kansas, born October 1842 in Indiana,
married 35 years to Charity E. July 1846 Ohio. She's had nine kids, seven living. Hettie D. 16 and Susie A. 13 wee born in Kansas.
John S. Burt, 26, married Queen V. Lenard on
Dec 25, 1891 in Chautauqua, Kansas.
John, 34 and Victoria 24, both born in Indiana, are in Chautauqua County in 1900, with Harold born October 1899.
John is buried in Coffeyville 1842-1905 # 37790804.
So is Charity 1845-1918 # 37790805.
December 1, 1905 "John A. Burt, a well known citizen of
.. at his home there Sunday. His death was due to an
injury received two weeks ago. In leading a horse into a
barn at night the animal stumbled and fell on him
causing injuries from which he never recovered.
Mr. Burt was sixty-threa years old and is survived by
a wife. His funeral was held Monday and the interment was in the Robbins cemetery.
"
JOHN ALEXANDER BURT - One of Fawn Creek township's best citizens and farmers was born in Allen county, Indiana, on the 25th of October, 1842. His father, Silas Burt, was a native of Ohio, where he came as a young man and was married to Mary Wycoff, a native of that state. In 1841, they moved to Indiana and settled at Ft. Wayne, where the father died at the age of thirty-one years. By occupation he was a farmer and blacksmith.
There were four children in the family of Silas Burt,
as follows: Susan, wife of John McCay of Charles Mix
county, South Dakota; John A.;
Rosa, wife of Ingraham Thorn, of Ft. Wayne, Ind.,
and Silas, of Harper county, Kansas. Mrs. Burt married a second time, to John Cartwright, to which union were born five children, three of whom are living, viz: James, living in Washington; Marion, whose residence is in Los Angeles, California; Alfred, of Ft. Wayne, Ind. Mrs. Burt died at the home of her son, John, at the age of eighty-one years.
John Burt was reared on the farm adjoining Ft. Wayne. He never had the opportunity of acquiring an education, but made the most of the few opportunities he did have. He became expert in one of the useful trades, that of
a blacksmith, and does his own work in this line to this day. He entered the army in February of 1865, and did good service the four months he served. He was a member of Co. "I," 33rd Ind. Vol. Inf., and was discharged at Louisville, Ky. After the war he rented land and farmed for some time.
In February, 1865, just before enlisting in the army, he was married to Charity Cartwright, a native of Piqua, Ohio, and a daughter of James and Elizabeth Cartwright.
Mr. Burt, having bought one hundred and sixty acres of uncultivated land in Kansas, moved to this state in 1881. This land had an encumbrance of five hundred dollars and the only building was a small log house, which he moved into and occupied for two years. Influence was brought to bear on him to get him to abandon the land and not try to pay the debt, but he persevered, and now, as a result of that perseverance, thrift and economy, he owns four hundred acres of the best land, lying three and one-half miles southeast of Tyro. The land is without incumbrance and is well stocked with horses and cattle. In the place of
the log house, stands a modern farmhouse, and not far away, for the comfort of the stock, is a good barn.
When he arrived in Kansas Mr. Burt's only possessions were a wagon and team and thirty dollars in money. To attain to the great prosperity of the present, he started to drilling wells, keeping up this occupation for several years, and carrying on his farming at the same time.
There are seven children in the Burt family, viz:
John, at Cedarvale, Kansas; Mary Rayle, deceased;
Vilanca, wife of Wilbur Burt, of Tyro; Viola Norton,
of Tyro; Mattie Messersmith, Hettie and Susan at home.
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"The children of Mr. and Mrs. Burt have the
following brief record: John, who was employed
in a mill at Dodge City, Kansas, and was burned
to death there April 13, 1914; Mary, who married
Hiram Rayl, who now resides in Oregon,
and she died in 1894 on their farm three miles west
of Tyro; Valancia, who married Wilbur Burt,
and resides seven miles north of Coffeyville on a farm;
Mattie, who died in 1905 near Tyro,
the wife of Ephraim Messersmith,
who has a farm four miles east of Tyro; Viola,
wife of William Norton, an oil worker,
their home being two miles east and one mile south
of Tyro; Hettie, wife of Henry Tuggle,
they occupying the old home farm three miles east
and one mile south of Tyro;
Willie, who died in infancy;
and Susie, who died September 14, 1910,
at Tyro, the wife of John Patchen, who lives at
Tyro, and is an oil pumper."
"Judge Holdren of the district court has decided in
the matter of the Charity E. Burt estate,
involving 400 acres of valuable land and some
houses and lots in Tyro, that John Patchen was the
husband of Susie Patchen of Tyro,
entitled to a fourth interest in tie estate with
the other heirs. John Patchen was the husband
of Susie Patchen who died in 1910, before her mother,
Charity E. Burt. This action brought before
Judge Holdren involved the construction of the will
of the late John A. Burt, who died at Tyro in 1905.
The deceased left a will and devised all his property
to his wife Charity, during her lifetime providing
that at her death the property should go to the
four daughters, Viola Norton, Vilancia Burt,
Hettie Tuggle and Susie Patchen. It wrs claimed by part or the heirs that as inasmuch as Susie Patchen had died before her mother, she was not entitled to an interest in the estate, and that her husband could not
take her share. "
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July 1901 Craig, Colorado "JOHN A. BURT of Craig, Colo.,
on his H. E. No. 782 for land in sections 20 and 7, 7N 89 W.
He names the following witnesses to prove his
contianoas residence upon and cultivation of said land,
vis. Michael H. Smith, Barney Smith,
Robert H. Green, William Hindman, all of Craig, Colorado."
In 1885 Weld County, Colorado, John and Jennie have William, Jno T. and Alexander.
In 1900 Boulder County, John Burt is a coal miner,
born 1843, married 23 years to Jennie 39,
both born in Scotland. John 16, a coal miner,
Alexander 15 a grocery clerk, and Jessie 12, all three born in Colorado.
John Thomas Burt registered for WWI in Routt County, an eklectrician for the Victor American Fuel Co, born Spet 29, 1883, relative Jessie Burt of Oak Creek.
John F. Burt, born in Denver on September 29, 1883, married Jessie McBrayer in Indiana on June 4, 1918.
He's a trucker for a rubber company in 1930 Akron, Ohio, 41, with Jessie 37 and Charles R. 9.
John died June 13, 1943.
Jessie might be buried in Frederick County, Maryland Dec 26, 1892 - June 5, 1985 # 28265747.
Charles Roby Burt 1920-2002 is also buried in Frederick COunty # 28262846, with Charlotte M. 1921-2001.
William M. Burt and Hattie Moon married in Lafayette, Colorado on December 25, 1899.
In 1900 Boulder County, W.M. is a coal miner 20,
Hattie 17, living with Timothy Moon 47 and Carrie 42.
He's a mine superintendent in 1910
Las Animas County, 32, with Hattie 28, and son Roy 8, all three born in Colorado.
They're in Erie Colorado in 1940, Hattie 56 and William 59, both born in Colorado.
FindaGrave # 66267476 says he was born in Scotland 1883-1939, buried in Lafayette, Colorado with Hattie L. (Moon( Burt 1887-1969.
Jessie E. Burt, 25, married Wm. D. Creek in
Oak Creek, Colorado on October 18, 1911.
September 7, 1911 "Mrs. John Burt of the Routt County Fuel
Company's boarding house and her daughter, Miss Jessie,
returned Monday evoning from Colorado Springs, where
they had attended the wedding of Mrs. Burt's son,
Alexander C. Burt, and Miss Charline Sherman,
which took place last week. The groom, who for 12
years has been electrician at the Standard reduction
mills, has many friends in Oak Creek,
having visited here for a week last summer.
His bride is a recent graduate of tho Colorado City
high school and is one of the leading young
society people of that city."
Alexander C. Burt, 34, and Metta G. Beardshear married in Oak Creek Colorado on May 19, 1918.
Alex C. Burt is a mechanic in a coal mine in Routt County in 1920, with Metta G. B., both 37.
They're buried in Steamboat Springs, Metta 1887-1936 # 56534097.
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The entire community was shocked at the death of the beloved citizen Metta Beardshear BURT, devoted wife of Alex C. BURT, who passed away at the family home Sunday at 5:30 p. m. after a lingering illness of heart trouble which became serious last fall.
Mrs. BURT has been a reside of Mt. Harris since 1918 where she has made hundreds of friends who are sincerely grieved at her death.
Metta Gertrude Beardshear BURT was born at Toledo, Iowa, on January 29, 1887 and was thus 49 years, nine months and 23 days old at the time of her passing. She was the second child in a family of five children born to William M. BEARDSHEAR and Josephine M. BEARDSHEAR. Her girlhood was spent in that community in an environment of culture and refinement where she received a liberal education under her father’s supervision who was then president of the old Western college. Moving later to Des Moines where he was superintendent of schools and later to Ames where he became president of the Iowa State College for three years, taking additional work at a college in Hagerstown, Maryland.
In 1905 she came to Routt county to visit her sister, the late Mrs. Rachel CHAMBERS of Hayden, and her family who had settled on a ranch near Oak Creek in 1903. Her visit became permanent when she accepted a position with the Bell Mercantile company at Oak Creek which was a small and growing community at that time. Her contact with the public won her many friends in the upper country and an enviable reputation as a splendid business woman.
In 1918 she move to Mt. Harris while she held a similar position with the Colorado Utah Supply company. In May the following year she was married to Alex C. BURT ad has made her home here since she endeared herself to many with her pleasant and cheerful disposition. She possessed in a marked degree the wonderful characteristic of interested friendliness for all people, regardless of color or creed, in every walk of life, extending her encouragement, consolation and assistance in times of distress, sickness and sorrow and joyous congratulations to worthy causes and financial assistance to the needy bespoke an exceedingly generous and understanding personality.
She was preceded in death by her father, William BEARDSHEAR; a brother, Charles BEARDSHEAR; and a sister, Mrs. Rachel CHAMBERS. She is survived by her husband, Alex C. BURT, and a niece Audrey Jean BEARDSHEAR, who has made her home with the BURTs since the death of her parents in Mt. Harris; her aged mother, Mrs. Josephine M. BEARDSHEAR of Ames, Iowa; a sister, Mrs. Ralph MOYE of Manchester, Iowa; and a brother, William M. BEARDSHEAR of Denver.
Funeral services were held in Steamboat Springs Wednesday afternoon with Rev. Louis Gale of Hayden giving the address of consolation to the bereaved ones and the many, many friends who gathered to pay their last respects. The floral offerings were many, a silent tribute of the love and regard of all who knew her.
Alex C. Burt 1885-1962 is buried in Boulder # 91539060
with Sabra Adele Nelson Burt 1895-1985.
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In 1900 Green County, Wisconsin, John A. Burt is 48, no occupation , with Elizabeth 48, both born i Wisonsin. John A. Jr. is 8, born in Wisconsin.
1916 "This was an action instituted in the district court of Oklahoma county to recover upon a promissory note executed by Lydia N. Stever and others to one John Lundh, and to foreclose a mortgage securing same, of which note and mortgage the plaintiff, Mina Gunness, was the assignee. The defendants Stever answered, setting up that the original contract between their ancestor, Lydia N. Stever, who had died since the execution of the note to John Lundh, was usurious. The gist of the defense was that Lydia N. Stever had paid a commission of $ 150 to one John A. Burt, who was alleged to have been the agent of John Lundh. plaintiff's assignor. The amount of this commission, together with the interest paid, rendered the contract usurious. "
October 1929 Oak Creek, Colorado " Mrs. John Burt and
two sons from Oklahoma visited the Burris family
several days last week."
October 1929 Yampa "Mrs. John Burt and sons of Oklahoma are at the Burns ranch for a visit."
John Austin Burt 1852-1930 is buried in Oklahom City 3 44812393, with Elizabeth (Lake) Burt 1854-1941.
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