Robert Lee E. Halliburton

h/o Emma M Smith.

9th born of nine known children to father's second wife.

His business was the Halliburton- Grissom clothing firm of Carthage, Missouri which along with J M Whitsett's store suffered a major fire December 1917. Store was originally A B Deutsch Clothing, north side of square at 119 east Third street, where he and [ H B "Bates" Smith] had become partners with Deutsch several years after store was removed to north side of square, with employee R C Grissom later buying Smith's share. He had two sisters: Mrs Samuel (Helen Mar) McReynolds who preceded him in death and Mrs. Mattie J. Richardson of Los Angeles The late attorney, John William Halliburton (1846-1922) with whom his sister's husband first partnered with (before firm with son and John H Flanigan), of this city was also a brother.

• *CAME OF PROMINENT FAMILY**

Robert E Lee Haliburton a native Missourian, 9th of ten children(sic) by 2nd wife Armilda E Collins with father, Judge Charles Westley Halliburton, from Tennessee, father a prominent Democrat of Randolph, Linn and Sullivan Counties in Missouri, serving in numerous public offices. He was a member of the legislature in 1856 and of the state senate in 1882. He was a delegate at the Democratic Convention of 1860 and of the state constitutional, re-construction, convention in 1875.

Birth: in Milan, Sullivan County, Missouri

Death: in Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri

Census: 1880, age 17, Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri (In brother-in-law Samuel McReynold's household).

Census: 1900, age 37 Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri

Census: 1910, age 47 Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri with wife & daughter at 703 south Main street. Occupation: 1910, clothing merchant, (Haliburton & Grissom Clothing Store) Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri.

December 1917 a tragic fire burnt his and Whitsett's stores on north side of the "town's square".

Census: 1920, age 56, Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri, with Wm W Dresibach, wife and daughter Fern, at 302 w Sixth street.

Father: Judge Charles Westley Halliburton b: 4 JAN 1812 in Humphreys county, Tennessee Mother: Armilda E Collins b: 1824 in Missouri.

Marriage: Emma M Smith b: 1 FEB 1870 in Iowa Married: ABT 1889

Known Children:

Helen Mar Halliburton b: 5 APR 1890 in Kansas

Hildreth Mourne Halliburton b: 1891

BROTHERS & SISTER: J. W. Halliburton 31249237 Dr. Westley Halliburton and Mrs. Samuel McReynolds

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jun 12 2017, 11:31:18 UTC