THE 1891 BIOGRAPHY OF

George V. Burnett

GEORGE V. BURNETT came to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, in July 1884, and has since continued his residence here. He was born in Wayne County, Ohio, January 9, 1848, son of John and Ann (Veness) Burnett, the former of Scotch extraction, and the latter born in Pennsylvania, a descendant of German ancestors. Mr. and Mrs. Burnett were married in Ohio, and when their son George was about three or four years old they came to Iowa, and settled in Cedar County. There the mother died two or three years later, and the father died in 1861 at the age of forty-two years and eight months. He was among the early settlers of that county and his whole life was passed on a farm. Politically he was a Democrat. He and his wife were both members of the Presbyterian Church. They reared a family of four sons and one daughter, viz.: Thomas H., a well-to-do settler of Pottawattamie County, who died in Wright Township, March 23, 1886 at the age of forty-two years and twenty-three days. He had never married. Catherine L., who is the wife of William Winterstien, Wright Township, Pottawattamie County; George V., Smith J., Griswold, Iowa; and Charles of Pottawattamie County, Kansas.

George was reared on a farm in Cedar County, and learned the trade of stonemason, which he followed four years in Iowa City before he came to this county. He is now engaged in general farming and stock-raising owning eighty acres of improved land well adapted for stock or grain, located in Section 31, Wright Township.

Mr. Burnett was married in June 1878, to Laura M. Parrott a native of Fountain County, Indiana. Her father, Andrew B. Parrott, was born in Ohio, and her mother, Frances Ann (Furr) Parrott, in Fountain County, Indiana. Mrs. Parrott's parents were Kentuckians. Mrs. Burnett was but eleven months old when she came with her father and mother to Iowa. They settled in Johnson County, where in March 1866 the mother died at the age of thirty-one years and nine months. Mr. Parrott still resides in Iowa City. By her first marriage Mrs. Burnett had one child, Frances Collins, now the wife of Frank Bevier, a resident of Carson, Iowa. By her present husband she has two children, namely: Maudie Odessa and Rachel May. They lost two children: John Earl, who died at the age of thirteen months and eighteen days, and Marion Oliva, their third child, at birth. In his political views Mrs. Burnett is independent. He is well informed on current topics, is out-spoken and cordial in his address, and is regarded as one of the worthy citizens of the community. Mrs. Burnett is a member of the Christian Church.

Contributed by: Darlene Vergamini