George J. Durham, Sr.

1890 - 1974  (83 years)

• Name	George J. Durham  [1, 2]
  Suffix	Sr.
  Born	15 Dec 1890	St. Elmo, Travis, Texas, USA   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	10 Jan 1974	New Braunfels, Comal, Texas, USA   [2]
  Buried	12 Jan 1974	Austin, Travis, Texas, USA   [2]
  	Oakwood Cemetery
  Person ID	I7642	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	22 Feb 2020

  
  

  Father	Walter Winn Durham,   b. 20 Dec 1855, Texas, USA ,   d. 7 Mar 1929, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA  (Age 73 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Marie Augusta Packenius,   b. 13 Oct 1868, Germany ,   d. 31 Jan 1947  (Age 78 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	12 Oct 1889	Travis, Texas, USA   [3]
  Family ID	F2672	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Died - 10 Jan 1974 - New Braunfels, Comal, Texas, USA Buried - 12 Jan 1974 - Austin, Travis, Texas, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  - From Handbook of Texas Online - ST. ELMO, TEXAS (Travis County). St. Elmo was four miles south of Austin in south central Travis County. A post office was moved there from Tumey's Store in 1875, and William W. Puckett served as postmaster. In the mid-1880s St. Elmo had a school and twenty-five residents, and by the early 1890s it had 200 residents and a general store, a saloon, and a cotton gin. St. Elmo had begun to decline by 1900; its post office was discontinued in 1902 and community mail was sent to Austin. By 1904 the population had fallen to 104. St. Elmo became the focus of a common school district in 1914, but it was consolidated with the Austin Independent School District in 1937. The St. Elmo townsite was eventually absorbed into Austin, and by the 1960s the site of the first St. Elmo school was located in the 4700 block of South First Street. [Handbook of Texas Online, Vivian Elizabeth Smyrl, "St. Elmo, TX (Travis County)," accessed April 11, 2018, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrscj.] - According to the 1920 Austin, Texas City Directory, George was a farm manager -- possibly for St. Edward's College. Entry (via U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 at Ancestry): Durham, Geo. J., farm mgr, St. Edwards College, h W. W. Durham - Per his 1974 death certificate, George died at McKenna Memorial Hospital in New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas. His occupation was noted as "Retired Engineer; U.S. Corps of Engineers." His SSN: 453-34-1479T (the T likely has to do with Medicare). The informant was Mrs. Leonie Durham (wife?). Cause of death: "Chronic Congestive Heart Failure; Renal Failure - Uremia; and Chronic Hemolytic Anemia, Severe."

  
  

• Sources

  [S821] Burkhalter, Lois Wood, Gideon Lincecum, 1793 - 1874. [S516] Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, Digital image of death certificate for George J. Durham, Sr., d. 10 January 1974 at New Braunfels, Comal County. [S680] Texas County Marriage Index, 1837-1977, Entry for W. W. Durham, m. Auguste Packenius 12 October 1889 at Travis County.