Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 86
Marlin, Texas, Tuesday, August 11, 1931

FORMER KOSSE POSTMASTER
DIES AT ADVANCED AGE

Related to Members of Family Closely
Linked With Early Texas History.

       A.J. Burleson, age 85, Confederate veteran and former postmaster, expired at his in Kosse at 4 o'clock this morning.  He had been in declining health for some time.
       He had served in various public capacities, and was long the postmaster.  He was a most honored citizen of the community in which he lived his life.
       Mr. Burleson is survived by his wife and one son, Corley Burleson. He has a surviving brother, C. I. Burleson, and is an uncle of R. C. Burleson of Marlin.
       Deceased was a relative of the Burleson family so closely identified with the early history of Texas.

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