Fannie Lou Blount

     Fannie Lou Blount was born on 1 January 1852 in Talbotton, Talbot Coumty, Georgia.¹

Fannie married John Pittman BURT, son of Joseph John BURT and Elizabeth Grace BAKER, on 10 August 1868 in Talburton, Talbot County, Georgia. The license was taken out 8 Aug 1868 and the ceremony was performed by A. M. Bethune, Ordinary. A second church ceremony was held 8 Dec 1868 with T. A Prower, Minister of the Gospel preceding. Fanny was the was the daughter of John Thomas and Louisa Mumford Blount.^2,3

Fannie Lou Blount and John Pittman BURT appeared as head of household on a census enumerated 2 June 1880 in Robertson County, Texas. The household was listed as Jno. P. Burt, a 32-year-old bookkeeper and his 28-year-old wife, Fannie L. Burt. He was born in Texas, his father in Alabama and his mother in Georgia. Fannie was born in Georgia, as were her parents. They had two daughters, Mary L., age 8, and Floy L., age 5, born in Texas. The household included two servants, Eliza Willis, a 40-year-old mulatto cook from Mississippi and Mary Willis, a 12-year-old black nursemaid from Texas, and two boarders from Mississippi, store clerks Norman G. Smith, 25, and Jas. A. Gimmill, 23.⁴

Fannie was listed in the 1899 city directory for Atlanta, Georgia. Fannie L. Burt (widow John P) resiided at 161 Grant Street.⁵

On 9 September 1921 Fannie Lou BURT applied for a Confederate pension on her deceased husband John Pittman BURT in Bexar County, Texas. Fannie Lou Burt stated that she was the widow of John P. Burt and that he died in the spring of 1894 in Bexar county. She said that she had not remarried. She stated that they had married in January 1875 in Talburton, Georgia. She declared that she had been a resident of Texas since 26 Mar 1907 and that she was 75 years old, born 1 Jan 1856. She gave her post office as San Antonio. She gave her husband's full name as John Pittman Burt and at his enlistment he resided in Talburton, Georgia. He was very young so had only served during the later part of the war and was paroled 24 May 1865. He was a private in Co. D 6th Georgia Infantry.

An attached copy of his parole in Columbus, Georgia described him as 5' 10" with blue eyes, dark hair and fair complexion.

A letter dated 17 Jul 1935 to the comptroller said that Mrs. Burt was in good and active health and living with her daughter Mrs. Gladys B. Hill in San Antonio.⁶

Fannie Lou Blount died on 5 January 1937 in Houston, Harris County, Texas, at age 85.⁶ She was buried in Forest Park Cemetery, Houston, Harris County, Texas.¹