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Marriage: Children:
  1. Mollie Burgess: Birth: ABT 1903.

  2. Nellie Burgess: Birth: ABT 1910. Death: 18 MAY 1937 in Columbia,SC

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Notes
a. Continued:   Spartanburg Herald, Sept. 20 1912 GAFFNEY MAN FALLS IN FIT AND DROWNS Jeff Burgess, of Neighboring City Loses His Life in Shallow Stream While on Fishing Trip. (Special to the Herald) Gaffney, Sept. 19 - Jeff Burgess, a white man of this city, 32 years of age, lost his life in Peoples Creek, about a mile out of the city today. Burgess started out early this morning on a fishing trip. He was accompanied by a lad from one of the mill villages, who stayed with him until noon, when the boy left, returning to his home. About 4 o'clock as two negroes were passing by they saw part of his body and succeeded in getting him out. The water was not over waist deep, and part of the dead man's clothing was not touched by the water. Burgess was affected with epileptic fits and it is presumed that he was seized with one while standing on the bank of the stream and fell in, being drowned before he could summon assistance. Coroner Vinesett went to the scene, but did not hold an inquest as there was no evidence of foul play.


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