Samuel Burr was born in Canada (Family Bible)
possibly to Rufus Sargeants Burr, a native of Vermont, USA and Elizabeth Hinds on 7 Jan 1817 (Family Bible)
and immigrated to Perry Co, IL sometime before 31 Jul 1843 when he married Elizabeth Murphey.

On August 21, 1850 Perry Co, IL census p 342a
Samuel Burr was 33 b Canada;
Elizabeth was 27 b TN;
Rufus H was 6 b IL;
William C was 4 b IL;
Elmira J was 2 b IL;
James was 8 months b IL;
Teney Murphey was 37 b TN;
Willliam McMurray was 17 a hired farmer.

Samuel died of Colitis in Perry Co in 1855 according to a family bible.
He is buried in Greenbrier Cemetery on Four Mile Prairie, Perry Co, IL
where the Baptist church was first located in Section 27

(Go south through Pinckneyville on 127-at break in road turn right onto Pyatt, then left on Chipmonk,
right on Wolverine, then left on Prairie Dog, right onto dirt road leading to Greenbriar Cemetery.
Mostly overgrown with missing and toppled markers).

Elizabeth Murphey Burr Laney died before September 1867 after having one more child,
Lafeyette B Laney by her second husband, John B Laney (1860 census), grave site unknown.

In the 1853 tract book of Perry County, Samuel is placed on two tracts of land,
one in section 23 that he bought for 100 dollars from George Martin and his wife Elizabeth on 10 February 1846
and one in section 24 twp 6 S, R 3 W, south of Pinckneyville near the present Pyatt Cutler road that he bought from William Willis and wife Mary on January 24, 1855. 40 acres each.

Samuel was a farmer and a Baptist.
When Samuel died, he left his wife Elizabeth with five children and debt.
Although Samuel did not leave a will, the contents of his Probate Box in Perry Co,
name his wife, the man she married after Samuel died, John B Laney of Lively Grove, Washington Co, IL ,
Samuel's five children, lists his debts and subsequent payments plus an inventory of his modest farm.

Rufus Burr, a farmer from Tamaroa, Perry Co., IL stood 5' 6½" tall with dark hair, black eyes and a dark complexion. Served during the Civil War with the Union Army, with Co. A, 81st Illinois Infantry Enlisted on August 1, 1862 in Perry County, IL.. Mustered in as a Private on August 26, 1862 at Camp Anna, IL. Died of Phthisis Pulmonalis on January 21, 1865     at Adams General Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.        per "Surgeon General's Report" Rufus Burr is listed Civil War Soldiers' "ROLL OF HONOR" on page 290 of Volume 21 and is listed under "Miscellaneous".

Samuel's and Elizabeth's first child Rufus H. Burr
born about 1844 in IL died a Private
in the Union Army in Memphis, TN
on January 21, 1863.

Their second son William Carney born February 25, 1846 married Charlotte Elizabeth Harrison, daughter of Isham Harrison and his first wife, Margaret Minerva Humphreys, July 25, 1869 migrated south from IL to Laredo, TX along the Mexican border.

William C. Burr, a farmer from Tamaroa, Perry Co., IL stood 5' tall with brown hair, black eyes and a dark complexion. Served during the Civil War with the Union Army, with Co. D, 136th Illinois Infantry Enlisted on May 11, 1864 in Tamaroa, Perry Co., IL Mustered in as a Private on June 1, 1864 in Centralia, Illinois Mustered out on October 22, 1864 in Springfield, Illinois.

Charlotte raised their four children, James Guy, Minnie, Eldo and Velma while W. C. supported the family as a grocer and a farmer, growing onions along the Rio Grande River. Producing grapefruit trees grew in the yard of their house in town . William Carney was a strong silent man who rode his horse well into his eighties and drove a car into his nineties. He made sure his boys learned the Morse code, and both James Guy and Eldo parlayed this skill into an early livlihood - James Guy for a newspaper in the far west and Eldo for a railroad in the area.
William Carney died March 29, 1945 in Laredo, TX and is buried in the City Cemetery alongside his beloved wife, who preceded him in death.

Third child Elmira J(ane) was born March 26 1848 in IL married John J King February 28, 1867 in Perry Co, IL and birthed ten children, all in Perry Co, IL where she died on May 3, 1924

Fourth child James Murphey Burr was born December 14,1849 and was under ten when his father died.
On the 1870 Perry Co, IL census he is listed with James Jones and his wife Sarah as a laborer.
He then married Martha Victoria Jones on September 28, 1875 in Jasper Co, MO and the family later migrated south to TX to farm with James' older brother, W. C. James and Martha had ten children, all but one born in MO.
James Murphey died November 4, 1908 in Laredo and is buried in City Cemetery.

Martha Ann was born after the 1850 census on October 29, 1851 and was only four when her father died.
She married before August 2, 1870 James Alexander Jones, supposedly the half brother of Martha Victoria Jones
(Family Legend) and had lived with her older sister for a time before her marriage. She and Alex moved down to Siloam Springs, Benton Co, AR with a stay in Kansas. Alex labored as a farmer and Martha Ann raised their seven children.
Martha Ann died November 7, 1927 in AR and is buried along with Alex who lived until 1931.