BTRVETC-L Digest Volume 98 : Issue 84 22 Dec 1998 Today's Topics: James Cunningham Burnett farm, Shelby County, KY Joseph Burnett Administrivia: Post your queries to: btrvetc-l@genealogy.org (that's a lowercase ell, not a number one.) To unsubscribe, email btrvetc-d-request@genealogy.org with the SUBJECT: UNSUBSCRIBE. To subscribe to the regular list, email btrvetc-l-request@genealogy.org with the SUBJECT: SUBSCRIBE You can also use the web page at: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/BTRVETC/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:26:30 -0600 From: "Kevin K. Stephenson" To: "'June Bork'" , "Burnett Family Newsgroup \(E-mail\)" Cc: "'Joanna B. Olive'" , "'Shelby County, KY Genweb'" Subject: James Cunningham Burnett farm, Shelby County, KY Message-ID: <000001be2aee$b44d4b20$8407ed81@KevinSte> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit June-- I've been adding in the material from the book you loaned me, "Burnett-Baker-Beaman and Related Families", to my database, and I stumbled across something I thought you and some of the others might be interested in. I have a friend from the list, Jo Olive, who is going to Shelby County Kentucky for Christmas, so I'm cc'ing this message to her in hopes she might be able to check it out for me. I'll send you an image of the map to which I refer, in a separate message, so as not to crash the list server. Let me know what you think about this. Folks, There is a book called "Burnett-Baker-Beaman and Related Families", published in 1978 by Blanche Miller Burnett, which refers to the lineage of James Cunningham Burnett (1776-1839), who is in my direct ancestral line. As many of you know from visiting my website, my great-uncle, Milton Burnett (age 98) and I went to Kentucky in the summer of '96 to research the Burnett tree. We found a copy of an 1808 land deed where J.C. bought land on the waters of Beech Creek, from John and Polly Mack. (Polly Mack was a Burnett). Milton and I decided to go looking for this land, and while we were at the courthouse, one of the clerks brought our attention to a small sheaf of photocopied maps from an 1882 Atlas of Henry and Shelby County, Kentucky. On the map of Harrisonville Precinct No. 7 was a reference to "J.C. Burnett Res., Spring, & Cem." at the extreme bottom of the map. We went to the site and took some pictures, but the land descriptions in the courthouse didn't match up very well. After I got home, I filed the map in my Burnett file, and didn't think too much more about it. About a month or so ago, June Bork and I corresponded with each other about the BBBRF book, because I'd not been able to find a copy of it, and it covered a lot about the Indiana branch of this family, on which my info was pretty thin. June graciously loaned me her copy, and I began transcribing information from it this week, after my law school finals were over. On page 25 of the book, there is a detailed account of the author's search for the James Cunningham Burnett farm in Shelby County, over three summers in the 1970's, and she mentions that her search was based on an 1882 Atlas of Henry and Shelby County. I pulled the photocopies of the maps out of my file and discovered that they were from THE VERY SAME ATLAS, and had been brought to my attention by someone in the SAME OFFICE where Blanche Miller Burnett had begun her research! Intrigued, I began looking the map page over, and discovered the answer to a 20-year-old mystery! Felix Grundy Burnett, James Cunningham's son, inherited part of the farm when his father died in 1839. He bought out his siblings' shares, including his brother Pryor's (my ancestor) and remained on the farm. The original deed from 1808 contained only metes-and-bounds references, but Felix's 1839 deed also referred to adjoining landowners. The metes-and-bounds land description in Felix's deed contains references to "Munson Hedden" and "Allen Robertson" as being adjoining landowners. If one looks at the Harrisonville Precinct 7 map, about four and one-quarter inches above the reference to the J.C. Burnett Res., Spring & Cem., there is a reference to a J.J. Burnett residence near the "t" intersection of two roads, and directly above and also to the left of this residence are references to Munson Hedden. Just to the left and below the second reference to Munson Hedden is a reference to "A. Robertson", who is probably the Allen Robertson referred to in Felix's deed. Between the upper reference to Munson Hedden and J.J. Burnett is a reference to B.Q. Morton. Felix Grundy Burnett married Mary Joanna Morton, so it is likely that B.Q. Morton was Felix's father- or brother-in-law. In this same area, adjoining one of Munson Hedden's parcels, are references to several Shepherds as landowners. James Cunningham Burnett's son, James(also named James Cunningham) married Permelia Shepherd, and he and Permelia are buried in a nearby cemetery. Also in the immediate area is a parcel owned by "Ware, Hedden & Jongs". In J.C.'s estate settlement there is a reference to a note owed him by a Charles Ware, and the Ware name figures prominently in later family history, as Elizabeth Burnett, J.C.'s niece, married Dr. Ware Stokes May. Dr. May's father was probably from Pittsylvania County, VA, as was James Cunningham Burnett. With all of these indicators, I believe that the original James Cunningham Burnett farm, for which Blanche Burnett searched, has been found, and I'm hoping that it can be physically located! Kevin K. Stephenson 1600 Kentucky St. #2 Lawrence, KS 66044 (785)865-1586 Data/Fax:(785)865-2555 E-mail: kevinS@ukans.edu website: http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~kevin2/homepage.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 18:40:35 -0600 From: "Libby Nations" To: "Burnett,ect. Mailing List" Subject: Joseph Burnett Message-Id: <199812222345.RAA01513@smtp1.mailsrvcs.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Would like to know more about Joseph Burnett Sr. married Elizabeth Johnson. And Joseph Burnett Jr. married 1st Malinda Jane Witt and 2nd Mildred Thomas Wilson. Joseph Jr. was born in Bedford Co.,VA in 1842 and died 1911 in Lynchburg, VA. He had 13 children, names of the ones I know are: Henry Clay; Ollie P. ; Linville. Would like to the other children of Joseph Sr. Thanks and a Happy Holiday to all. Libby -------------------------------- End of btrvetc-d Digest V98 Issue #84 *************************************