Uncle Forrest was the 6th child born to Lewis and Ida Burrows, there in Shawnee,
I also found out that there was another son born after my grandfather and before Uncle Alpha
At the tail end of WW1 Uncle Forrest had joined the army, he told them he was 18 when he was really
She gave Aunt Eunice her address, and didn't think anything more about it, until she got a letter from him.
Oklahoma, on May 9, 1898. He was born in one of those houses built into the side
of a hill, his youngest daughter Mrs. Coeta told me what he called it, but I couldn't
write down fast enough.
He Lived in Shawnee until his parents moved back to Greenwood. Kansas, where
Aunt Pauline, Aunt Mable and my grandfather Percy was born.
Uncle Iven, was his name and he passed away at the age of 2, so he wasn't spoken about very often,
and I don't know where he is buried. Mrs. Coeta told me, she could remember her father talking
about him a couple of times.
15 or 16 at the time. He went to boot camp, then Army sent him to New Jersery to Fort Stewart, to go
over seas and fight. While he was at the train station, he saw Miss Julia Decker sitting on a bench and he
though she was cute. He had his sister Aunt Eunice run over and ask Julia for her address.
She looked up and asked her, who wants my address, and she pointed to Uncle Forrest sitting on the train,
saying my brother does.
They wrote back and forth to each other several times before they got married.
and
Miss. Julia Ann Decker
Where join in Matrimony on July 02, 1919.
Miss. Julia had to have her parents premission to get married. So she and uncle Forrest desided to run off
together. The reason why, was because her father didn't like Uncle Forrest, he was a city boy. He wanted
her to marry a older gentleman close by who had his own farm and a mule or two.
So her brother Jess hid her clothes in an old tree trunk the night before ,and Julia complained to her father
about having a tooth ache. He told her to catch a train into Ada go to the dentist and have it pulled, then when
she got home she could either chop cotton or do laundry.
She told him ok then giggled to herself, because she knew she wouldn't be coming home.
When her parents found out her and Uncle Forrest had gotten married, they were so mad he threatened to beat
him up and her mom took all of Julia's clothes out into the yard and burned them.
William E Burrows B: 11 July 1922
Mrs. Coeta Burrows
Leroy enlisted into the Army on 20 January 1944 and he was wonded and died in Itlay
on the 5 or 8 of November 1944.
William passed away in Ada, Oklahoma on the 
7 May 1995.
This is Mike and his family, he is the son of Mrs Coeta is, Uncle Forrest youngest daughter.
