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Burton Ray Knotts
Burton Ray Knotts was born 24 October 1930, in Randolph County, Arkansas. He married Mary Catherine DeClerk 9 June 1955, also in Randolph County. He attended public schools in Randolph County, graduating from Attica Elementary and Maynard High Schools. He was a radio intercept operator in the Air Force Security Service Command, enlisting in 1949, and discharged in 1952, after serving 21 months in Japan and Korea during the Korean War. Following his discharge from the Air Force, he attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, graduating in 1957 with a BS degree in Electrical Engineering. He was employed with the Little Rock District, Corps of Engineers, from June 1957 until December 1985, in the Design Branch of Engineering Division. He performed electrical design work on Beaver Dam and Switchyard, Dardanelle Lock and Dam, Ozark Lock and Dam, Bull Shoals Units 7 and 8, and numerous other civil works projects. After retiring from the Corps, he has been employed on a part-time basis with Deitz Engineers (now Deitz-Hargrave Consulting Engineers), performing electrical design work. Burton became interested in family history and genealogy in the late 1970s, and has been active in that field since then. His sister, Gladys, showed him photocopies of wills dated in the late 1700s and early 1800s from North and South Carolina of Knotts ancestors and relatives that she had found, piquing his interest. He soon became a familiar face at the Arkansas History Commission as he researched their records for his ancestral lines. He and his sister, Gladys, published The Knotts Family of Randolph County, Arkansas, and Allied Families in 1981, followed by Sago/Ulmer Families of Randolph County, Arkansas, and Related Families, their mother's ancestral line, in 1985. That same year, he published 1890 Census of Randolph County, Arkansas, reconstructed from the personal property tax list. In 1988, he and his wife, Mary Catherine, published DeClerk, Schmidt & Related Families of Randolph County, Arkansas. In 1991, Burton published Knotts & Walrond Families of Randolph County, Arkansas, expanding on his first book and including his father's maternal line. In 1995, Randolph County, Arkansas, Marriages 1821-1893 was published, followed closely in 1996 with Randolph County, Arkansas Marriages, 1893-1923 and Lawrence County, Arkansas, Tax Records, 1829-1838. He has published many additional works on Randolph County. His wife, Mary Catherine, has been his helpful research partner, spending many hours helping Burton in his research. Burton's ancestral lines include Allhands, Alsbury, Ashbrook, Brewer, Broady, Chenoweth, Collings, Cooke, Dent, Eddin(g)s, Hardy, Henry, Kinnett, Knotts, Parmer, Richey, Sago, Smith, Tucker, Ulmer, and Walrond (Waldron), and he has seven ancestors who were Revolutionary War Veterans or Patriots.
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