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Tennessee the Volunteer State 1769 1923: Volume 4 SWAN BURRUS, M. D. In the acquirement of his early education Swan Burrus attended the public schools of Obion county and then entered the Branham & Hughes Preparatory School at Spring Hill. In due time he entered Vanderbilt University, where after the completion of a one year literary course, he took up the study of medicine. He received his M. D. degree from that institution in 1917 and then went to the government hospital school at the Panama Canal Zone, remaining there for one year. At the termination of that time he returned home and was immediately called to Camp Lee, Virginia, as a member of the Medical Reserve Corps. He remained there several months and after receiving his honorable discharge in December, 1918, returned to his home in Obion county. For some four years he practiced in his native county and in January, 1922, came to Paris. He is enjoying well merited success in this city and is held in high confidence and esteem by his professional brethren and fellowmen. Although Dr. Swan Burrus has resided in Paris but a short time he is enjoying an extensive and lucrative practice and is readily conceded to be one of this city's foremost citizens. A native of Tennessee, his birth occurred in Obion county, on the 30th of March, 1892, a son of Dr. G. B. and Mozel (Davis) Burrus, likewise natives of this state. His father is now living in Obion county, where he is enjoying a large practice and he has for many years occupied a leading place among the medical men of that county. Mrs. Burrus died in 1908. Incidental to births in the Burrus family it is peculiar to note that the great-grandfather, Swan, was born in 1792, while Dr. Swan Burrus was born one hundred years later, 1892, and the eldest son of Dr. Burrus was born on the same day of the month as his father the 30th of March. At Petersburg, Virginia, on the 29th of July, 1918, was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Burrus to Miss Helen Kuller, a daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Sue L. (Kell) Kuller, both natives of Pennsylvania. Her father is a construction engineer with large government contracts in the Canal Zone at Panama. Her brother, Stanley Kuller, is a veteran of the World war, having seen two years of active service overseas. To the union of Dr. and Mrs. Burrus two children have been born: Swan, Jr., whose birth occurred on the 30th of March, 1920; and Byron Franklin, born on the 5th of May, 1922. Mrs. Burrus is a woman of culture and refinement and is prominent in the club and social circles of Paris.

Swan married KULLER, Helen on 29 Jul 1918 in Petersburg, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA. Helen (daughter of KULLER, Benjamin Franklin and KELL, Sue L.) was born about 1892. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]