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  2. Samuel Burk Burnett - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Burk Burnett was born on January 1, 1849, in Bates County, Missouri, [1] [2] to parents originally from Virginia. [3] His father, Jeremiah Burnett, was a farmer; his mother was Mary (Turner) Burnett. [2] He had a brother, Bruce Burnett, who later became a rancher in his own right. [4]

  3. 6666 Ranch - Wikipedia

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    The ranch was established by Samuel Burk Burnett in 1900 after he purchased the land from the Louisville Land and Cattle Company. [3] [7] Legend has it that he won the ranch from a card game, where he scored four sixes. [3] However, Burnett and his descendants have denied this folklore tale. [3]

  4. Anne Windfohr Marion - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Burk Burnett (maternal great-grandfather) Thomas Lloyd Burnett (maternal grandfather) Anne Windfohr Marion (born Anne Valliant Burnett Hall ; November 10, 1938 – February 11, 2020) was an American heiress, rancher, horse breeder, business executive, philanthropist, and art collector from Fort Worth, Texas .

  5. Who owns 6666 Ranch? What to know about historic West ... - AOL

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    In 1910, Burnett moved on to oil and banking, handing the ranch off to his eldest son. He died on June 27, 1922. Anne Marion, who assumed management of the 6666’s Ranch in 1980, died on Feb. 11 ...

  6. Burkburnett, Texas - Wikipedia

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    In 1906, a nearby wealthy rancher named Samuel Burk Burnett sold more than 16,000 acres (65 km 2) of his land in northern Wichita County to a group of investors who were seeking to extend into the wheat-growing area of Western Oklahoma the Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway, one of the Frank Kell/Joseph A. Kemp properties based in Wichita ...

  7. Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo - Wikipedia

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    Local ranchers promoted the show to northern meat packers in the hopes of improving the local livestock industry. The citizens of Fort Worth raised $50,000 and formed a company in 1904 to oversee the event. Under the group's second president, Samuel Burk Burnett, the annual show was renamed the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show. During ...

  8. Anne Burnett Tandy - Wikipedia

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    Her father, Thomas Lloyd Burnett was the owner of the Triangle Ranch and operated the Tom L. Burnett Cattle Company. [1] Her mother was Olive (Lake) Burnett. [2] Her parents divorced in 1918, when she was eighteen years old. [2] Her paternal grandfather, Samuel Burk Burnett, established the 6666 Ranch near Guthrie, Texas, after the Civil War. [3]

  9. Mary Couts Burnett - Wikipedia

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    Mary and Samuel Burnett made their home in Fort Worth, Texas. The couple had one child, Samuel Burk Burnett Jr., who died one month short of his twenty-first birthday in 1916. The marriage became contentious, in part because of Samuel Burnett's relationship with his granddaughter Anne Valliant Burnett Tandy. The situation deteriorated to the ...