Edward Burgess

A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA with the rank of PRIVATE. DAR Ancestor # A017226

GEDCOM Note

Reference Book of Wyoming Co. history states Edward Burgess testified for anothers service in the Rev War private, 14 VA Regiment Nancy found him and Nancy buried in Old Burgess Cemetery

First Branch: Edward Burgess Sr. Edward Burgess Sr. was born about 1743 in Albemarle (later Fluvanna) Co., Virginia; in his Revolutionary War pension application, he gives his age as about 74 on 18 March 1818, 75 on 21 December 1819, and 78 on 16 September 1822. He married Anne “Nancy” Francis about 1765, perhaps in Saint Anne’s Parish, Goochland Co., Virginia, where Garland Burgess was christened a year later. On 16 December 1771 he witnessed a deed on Little Bacon Creek in Albemarle Co. between Jesse Creasey and Rene Woodson. He served as a Private in Capt. Newell’s Company, Col. Abraham Buford’s Regiment, Revolutionary War, from 1779-81, and later received a pension for his service (#S35806). According to a deposition that he later gave in Floyd Co., Kentucky, on 18 March 1818, Edward was living in Bedford Co., Virginia in 1775/76 near Thomas Hamilton, and had been living in Floyd Co. since 1806. He or his son Edward is listed in the Montgomery Co., Virginia road orders of 7 August 1798 (as overseer of the East River Road) and 2 July 1799. He is listed in the 1810-20 censuses for Floyd Co., Kentucky. He died on 5 October 1835 in Lawrence Co., Kentucky, having had five sons: 1. Garland Burgess (1766-1832) of Floyd Co., KY; he is listed in the Montgomery Co., Virginia road orders of 4 August 1789 2. Edward Burgess Jr. (1772-1839) of Lawrence Co., KY; he is listed in the Montgomery Co., Virginia road orders of 4 August 1789; he was serving as a Justice of the Peace in Lawrence Co. in 1822 3. Henry Burgess I (1773-1860+) of Lawrence Co., KY; he is listed in the Montgomery Co., Virginia road orders of 4 August 1789 4. John Burgess III (1777-1858) of Platte Co., MO 5. William Burgess IV (1782?-1861?) of Leavenworth Co., KS

The Big Sandy Valley B y William Ely, Catlettsburg, Ky 1887Page 225 THE BURGESS FAMILY. OF the lower Sandy Valley, is of Scotch origin, the ancestors coming over to Virginia before the American Revolution.Edward, the founder of the house on Sandy, came from 0-iles County, Virginia, about 1800, orbefore. The Burgesses are kinsmen of the Colonel Ralph Stewart family, who came from the same section in the Old Dominion.Edward Burgess had two sons, Edward and William. William’s sons were George R. and Edward (who were twins), Reuben, Strother, and John (who was killed by the falling of a tree when a young man). Edward met his death, when eight years old, by being scalded to death in a kettle of boiling sugar-sap.The daughters were Clara and Rebecca, who were twins. Clara married Edward Winfleld; Rebecca married Louis Riggleston. They moved to Iowa, and did well. Permitta, another daughter, married a McGranahan; Nancy, married a Mr.Williams, and went West. Sarah, the youngest, married a Mr. Donohoe, and moved to Kansas and got rich.The William Burgess branch have all come to the front as good citizens and fine business men and women. Reuben was a little “oft but never lost his integrity. George R., who married into the noted family of Spurlocks, is perhaps the best representative of his father’s family. At least he is better known in the valley than his other brothers and sisters. For forty years he has been a magistrate, and has represented his county in the Legislature of the State. He is now an old man, stricken in years, and full of honors. He reared a large family of children, many of them now occupying a front rank in the mercantile, professional, and social walks of life. Two sons are doctors; one is a lawyer and State senator in West Virginia, while still another was a minister in the Methodist Church, South, though now dead.Mr. George IL Burgess and wife enjoyed their golden wedding in the Summer of 1886.Edward Burgess, the brother of William, was at one time sheriff of Lawrence County, and like his brother, reared up a large, respectable family, who, together with their descendants, are among Lawrence County’s best and most prominent citizens. George Burgess, who married into the prominent family of Johns, was a man of rare integrity and honor, and left to his large family of children a priceless name and much wealth. Edward and Gorden were noble men, and left large families to bless the county. The Burgesses are Methodists. In polities, they are divided. Most of them, however, are Democrats. A promising son of Edward Burgess, the third in line of that name, was an officer in the Union army and fell in defense of the stars and stripes.

[From Lawrence Co., KY rootsweb page on the Rev. War pension application of Edward Burgess at: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kylawren/LCM_Rev_War_Burgess.htm ]

". ..Richard Thomson aged about 80 years of Lawrence County kentucky States that he was well acquainted with Edward Burgess of Lawrence County who made his original declaration for a pension on the 15th day of June 1818 and that now makes another application for a pension this being the 16th day of September 1822 and that the said Edward Burgess was in the Revolutionary war in the service of the Unites States under the command of Colonel Abraham Bluford and this deponent states that he left the said Burgess in the service of the United States when he himself was discharged from the army and that this deponent always understood that the said Burgess served out his full time of enlistment. Richard Thomson [his mark]...."