A truck driver and janitor and the 2nd of 5 children of Charles Harris (a bricklayer) and Lillie Bixler (a seamstress), Burton Harris, the fourth cousin twice-removed on the mother's side of Nigel Horne, was born in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA on 10 Jun 19021 and married Victoria Perian (with whom he had 6 children: Mildred Betty, Burton F, Harold Leon, Carl V, Robert Rudolph and Nancy Marie) in Boswell, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA on 1 Mar 19213.
During his life, he was living on Sinclair Street, Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA on 4 May 1910; at 217 Duck Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana on 1 Apr 1930, less than a mile from his uncle William Bixler who was living in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA4; at 2318 Curdes Avenue, Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1939 and on 12 Apr 19401; and at 921 1/2 Sherman Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1963.
He died on 2 Mar 1963 in Fort Wayne2 (fort Wayne Journal Gazette, 3 March 1963, page 11A: Burton F. Harris Sr., 60 of 921 1/2 Sherman St., was dead on arrival at 4:45 p.m. yesterday at the Lutheran Hospital. He was a lifelong resident of Fort Wayne.,; Surviving are four sons, Harold, Burton F. Jr., Carl V. and Robert R., all of Fort Wayne; two daughters, Mrs. Nancy Clowser, Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Betty Ramirez, in California; two sisters, Mrs. Anna Shank and Mrs. Bobbie Jones, both of Fort Wayne; a brother, Charles, Fort Wayne; his former wife, Mrs. Vicki Harris of Fort Wayne, 30 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the C. M. Sloan & Sons Funeral Home after 7 p.m. today) and was buried there at Lindenwood Cemetery on 5 Mar 1963.
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Burial date (5 Mar 1963) has no citations
Residence record for 1939 contains no citation
Residence record for 1963 contains no citation
Residence record for 4 May 1910 contains no citation
Location for 5 May 1910 (Sinclair Street, Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA) differs from mother's (Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA)
Date of residence (4 May 1910) differs from mother's in same year (5 May 1910)
Not living with either parent in childhood when aged 7
Listed in the residence for 1939, but spouse Victoria Perian is not
Listed in the residence for 1963, but spouse Victoria Perian is not
Census information missing between Census US 1910 and Census US 1930
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