Obituary of BURTON, ROBERT TAYLOR  1965 Oconee County, SC
Keowee Courier, June 16, 1965
Burton Funeral Held Wednesday
   Funeral services for Robert Taylor Burton, 74, of Highlands Highway, who 
died Monday, were conducted Wednesday at Rider Mount Fire Baptized Holiness 
Church by Rev. B. O. McClain, Rev. Leo Fitzgerald and Rev. J. H. Griffin. 
Burial was in the church cemetery.  Pallbearers were R. L. Eugene and Ralph 
Butts, Bobby and Jimmy Whitman and Herman Burton.  Honorary escort was the 
Men's Bible Class of Rider Mount Fire Baptized Holiness Church and Clyde Boggs, 
Z. T. Abbott, Rev. Tom Whitman, E. M. Dickson, Louis Mays, Glenn and Curtis 
Burton and Grover Smith.  A lifelong resident of Oconee county, son of the late 
Rev. William and Mrs. Betty Cobb Burton, he was a charter member of Rider Mount 
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, where he was a deacon and teacher of the Adult 
Bible Class. He was a produce dealer and operated Burton Cider Mill.  Surviving 
are his wife, Mrs. Effie Dickson Burton; three daughters, Mrs. Mae Butts and 
Mrs. Geneva Palfrey of Westminster and Mrs. Norie Whitman of Seneca; two sons, 
Amos Burton of Westminster and Charles Burton of Walhalla; a sister, Mrs. Ollie 
Butts of Westminster; a brother, McKinley Burton of Westminster; 18 
grandchildren and a greatgrandchild.
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