Jeanette Straw

   Other names for Jeanette were Jennett H. Straw, Nett Straw and Nettie Straw.

  General Notes:

Probable daughter and sister to Mary Ann Straw and buried in same plot as Albert and Rose and Mary A. Straw Jenny. Probably because she was the second wife of F O Burt. It is common practice to bury a man's first wife with him. F O Burt would have been buried with Lillian May, the mother of his children.

Groom name F. O. Burt Bride name Nett Straw Bride birth date 1857 Bride birth place Stowe Bride age in years 40 Marriage date 17 Oct 1897 Marriage place Stowe, Vt. Father of bride name Thos. A. Straw Batch number M02878-2 Record group Vermont-EASy Film number 540150 Reference number Alpha-S

census 1870 Lamoille, VT
Thomas A. Straw c1808
Harriet c1810
Albert R. c1849
Herbert c1850
Rose D. c1852
Hattie C. c1854
Nettie c1856

1880 census she is single at age 24 and living with her father and step mother
Name: Nettie C. STRAW Age: 24 Estimated birth year: <1856> Birthplace: Vermont Occupation: At Home Relation: Dau Home in 1880: Stowe, Lamoille, Vermont Marital status: Single Race: White Gender: Female Head of household: Thomas A. STRAW Father's birthplace: VT Mother's birthplace: VT

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The Burlington Free Press (Burlington, Vermont)15 Apr 1905, SatPage 11
Mrs Jeanette Straw Burt died at her home in Stowe...Thursday April 13... a month ago Bright's disease developed...born Nov 12 1855 in Stowe...married 17 Oct 1897 to Frank O. Burt who died in July 1902..(she) is survived by three brothers John and Herbert E. Straw of Stowe and A. R. Straw of Springfield, Ohio and four sisters, Mrs M. A. Jenny, Miss Rose D. Straw and Mrs A. E. Douglass of Stowe and Mrs Lucretia Bundy of Morrisville [MY note:Lucretia (Bridge) Bundy born 1838 and died 1926 in Morrisville; married 1859 Marcus Bundy; father's name Bridge, mother's surname Rand. These two women shared the same mother Caroline J. Rand but with different fathers so they were half sisters]

Jeanette married Francis Orell Burt, son of Charles Burt and Edna Towne, on 17 Oct 1897 in Stowe, Lamoille County, Vermont. (Francis Orell Burt was born on 10 Feb 1849 in Waterbury, Washington County, Vermont, died on 16 Jul 1902 in Vermont and was buried in Old Waterbury Center Cemetery in Waterbury, VT.)