Furr, Gertrude “Gert” Elizabeth

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Gertrude “Gert” Elizabeth Furr, 1924.

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Gertrude “Gert” Elizabeth Furr, 1924.

Gertrude Elizabeth Furr diploma, 1924.

 

Class of 1924

Birth: 27 Sep 1903, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Death: 12 Sep 2002, Stanly County, North Carolina

Parents:
Daniel Vernon Furr (1881-1956)
Sarah Frances Blackwelder Furr (1884-1980)

Siblings:
Jacob Eli Furr (1901-1964)
Frederick Melvin Furr (1905-1983)
John Robert Furr (1907-2004)
Bertha Rebecca Furr Cochran (1909-1986)
Benjamin Luther Furr (1912-1952)
Mary Irene Furr Little (1914-2012)
Fannie Kathleen Furr (1916-1998)
Infant Daughter Furr (1919-1919)
Daniel Vernon Furr (1920-2011)
Harold David Furr (1923-2017)
Lawton Livingston Furr (1924 – 1980)

Spouse: Augustus Edward Blackwelder (1891-1977)
Marriage: 28 Dec 1939

Children:
Marilyn Dianne Blackwelder (1941-)
Sharon Elizabeth Blackwelder (1947-)

Burial: Roberta United Methodist Church Cemetery, Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA
Source: www.findagrave.com, # 63879330, and Sharon Blackwelder Ritchie.

Photo: From the scrapbook of classmate Temperance Ritchie, Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum.

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A. Campbell Cline, Descendants of Michael Klein (Charlotte, 1973), p. 185.

Received a Grade A teacher’s certificate from A. S. T. C. (Appalachian State Teacher’s College) in Boone, N. C. and taught in Cabarrus County.