Col. Francis Burton

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Frank Nash Williams Burton is buried in the old city cemetery of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, with tombstone inscribed with his dates: May 2, 1779-June 6, 1843; his wife, Lavinia Murfree Burton, 1795-1881, is buried there. 

Their daughter, Mary M. Burton (Jan. 17, 1815-Jan. 9, 1858), married Dr. William Powell Godwin, June 20, 1836 and moved to Spring Creek; both are buried in the old Hazlewood/Spring Creek Cemetery. Another daughter, Lavinia E. Burton, married Joseph H. Stewart, in Rutherford County, June 4, 1850 and they too moved to Spring Creek; after his demise, she remarried, Dec. 21, 1852, to Duncan H. Selph.

A son, John William Burton (1825-1883) served in the Tennessee House of Representatives, 1849-1851 as did another son, Hardy Murfree Burton (1818-1852), 1841-1843.

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Graduated in 1799 from the University of North Carolina