Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Burris, William 1820 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Burris, William. Born in Boonville, Cooper county, Missouri, March 29, 1820;
when about three years of age he, with his parents, moved to Independence,
Jackson county, Missouri, where he resided until about twenty-three years of
age. In 1843, the subject of this sketch took up his residence in Van Buren
county, Iowa, where he remained until the Fall of 1849. In May 1850, he in
company with his father-in-law, Colonel Davisson, started across the plains for
California, but after some delay on the road they proceeded on their journey,
arriving in Sonoma in November. Here he remained until they erected a dwelling
on the ranch where he now resides, into which he moved on or about Christmas,
1851. Married Elizabeth Davisson, March 28, 1843. She was born February 27,
1826. Nancy Ann, born May 30, 1844, and died October 2, 1845; Martha M, born
July 19, 1847, and died April 1, 1860; Jesse D, born January 19, 1850; William
L, born April 14, 1852; Elizabeth Ellen, born May 11, 1854, and died May 19,
1854; Daniel, born April 30, 1855; are the names and births of their children.

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Sonoma Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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