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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]
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]
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 ...
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 .
His father, Samuel Burk Burnett, was the owner of the 6666 Ranch. His mother was Ruth (Lloyd) Burnett. He moved to Wichita County, Texas with his parents in 1875, when he was four years old. [1] [2] Burnett was educated at a private academy in St. Louis, Missouri and the Virginia Military Institute. [1] [2]
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]
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 ...
The discography of Death consists of seven studio albums and four live albums. Death was an American death metal band formed in 1984. The band's founder, Chuck Schuldiner, is considered "a pioneering force in death metal". [1] The band ceased to exist after Schuldiner died of brain cancer in 2001, [2] though it remains an enduring death metal ...