When William Ewing Burris Jr was born on 1 January 1845, in Harrison, Missouri, United States, his father, William Ewing Burris, was 34 and his mother, Lydia Morris, was 34. He married Sarah Elizabeth McNamee on 3 May 1864, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Cypress Township, Harrison, Missouri, United States in 1870. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 19 April 1882, in Harrison, Missouri, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Burris Cemetery, Mitchellville, Harrison, Missouri, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
English (Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire): variant of Burrows .
Probably also an Americanized form of German Börries or Borries or some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
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