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Source Citations


Virginia Mae Burden

1Texas Department of Health, Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997, Ancestry.com (database on-line), # 53713 Roll 1921_0003.

2U.S. Social Security Death Index. "Name: Virginia M Heberer
Social Security #: 452220083
Sex: Female
Birth Date: 29 Sep 1921
Birthplace: Texas
Death Date: 17 Sep 1968
Death Place: Los Angeles
Source Citation: Place: Los Angeles;
Date: 17 Sep 1968;
Social Security: 452220083."


Virginia Mae Burden

1Texas Department of Health, Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997, Ancestry.com (database on-line), # 53713 Roll 1921_0003.

2U.S. Social Security Death Index. "Name: Virginia M Heberer
Social Security #: 452220083
Sex: Female
Birth Date: 29 Sep 1921
Birthplace: Texas
Death Date: 17 Sep 1968
Death Place: Los Angeles
Source Citation: Place: Los Angeles;
Date: 17 Sep 1968;
Social Security: 452220083."


Henry Boyd

1Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002. Image.

21850 U.S. Census, M432_900 pg 12B, 26 Jul 1850. "Henry Boyde 53 M Farmer Tennessee
Charlotte Boyde 45 F Tennessee
Polly Burden 15 F Tennessee
Louisa Burden 13 F Tennessee
William Boyde 14 M Tennessee
Thomas Boyde 12 M  Tennessee
William Burden 55 M Farmer Virginia
Sarah M Burden 54 F Tennessee." The census taker used single quotes to identify Tenn and double quotes to identify North Carolina, the previous entry.
William and Sarah Burden are next door to this couple and the children. William is the brother of Equire, Charlotte's first husband.

31860 U.S. Census, M653_1279 pg 10, 8 Jun 1860. "Henry Boyd 65 M Farm Laborer Tennessee
Charlotte Boyd 58 F Tennessee."


Charlotte Summett

1Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002. Image.

21840 U.S. Census, Roll 536 pg 7. "Charlotte Burdin 2 males 10-15
                         1 male 15-20
                         1 female under 5
                         2 females 5-10
                         1 female 30-40."


Abner Carroll Smith

1Bob Baker Goff, Burden Family of White County,Tennessee and Their Bourden-Borden Ancestry, 1380-1980, pg 20.

21870 U.S. Census, M593_1570 pg 297B, 18 Jun 1870. "Smith, Abner 42 MW Farmer Tennessee
-----, Martha A. 38 FW Keeping house Tennessee
-----, Mary E. 18 FW at home Tennessee
-----, James W. 13 MW work on farm Tennessee
-----, Lee Ann E. 8 FW Tennessee
-----, David E. 5 MW Tennessee
Boyd, Charlotte 65 FW keeping house Tennessee."

31880 U.S. Census, T9_1275 FHF 1255275 pg 117.2000, 3 Jun 1880. "Smith, Abner C WM 56 Farmer Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee
-----, Margrt WF 49 Wife Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee
-----, James WM 21 Son Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee
-----, Luela A.E. WF 16 Daughter Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee
-----, David E. WM 14 Son Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee
-----, Hayes WM 7 Son Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee."


Martha Ann Burden

1Bob Baker Goff, Burden Family of White County,Tennessee and Their Bourden-Borden Ancestry, 1380-1980, pg 20.


Henry Burden

1Bob Baker Goff, Burden Family of White County,Tennessee and Their Bourden-Borden Ancestry, 1380-1980, pgs 20-21. "Henry Burden enlisted as Private in Company E, 1st Battalion, Tennessee Infantry, to serve as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War, on 4 Jan 1862. He enlisted at Sparta under Captain William Simpson. Pay vouchers during the war show he was at Dalton, Georgia and was captured at Fort Donelson. Injuries during the war caused his early death around 1870.

White County, Tennessee Deed Book S, p. 295, records, on January 3, 1856, that William Burden, Jr., deeded to Henry Burden, "nephew", a 64 acre tract of land on Cumberland Mountain.  On January 5, 1858, Joel Whitley sold land to Henry Burden, in District # 1, "near a house where Richard White formerly lived" (White Co., Tn.  Deed Book T).

Henry and Fannie (White) Burden are buried in the Old Bon Air Cemetery, at Bon Air, Tennessee.

Two records of the children of Henry and Fannie Burden are available.  A Log Book, handwritten by William Short (son-in-law of Henry and Fanny Burden) in 1887, is in the possession of Ernest Short; and an affidavit taken October 28, 1901, in Dallas, Texas, from Squire Burden, son of Henry and Fannie (White) Burden, is available in the Dallas, Texas courts.  The affidavit was taken in connection with the Peck vs. Borden, Borden vs. Peck case regarding the settling of the estate of "Fairfax Ben" Borden, who died in 1743 in Frederick County, Virginia.  The affidavit reads as follows:
      The State of Texas
      County of Dallas
Before me the undersigned authority this day personally appears Squire Borden and being by me duly sworn, upon his oath deposes and says, that Esquire Borden mentioned on page 25 of copy of Report of Com'r John M. Kinney Filed May 11, 1891 Commissioner office Staunton Virginia, in the case of Peck's Admr. vs Borden &c. and John Borden's Admr. vs. John Borden's Distriutees &c. was the Grand-father of Affiant.  That said Esquire Borden died intestate leaving the following issue - Martha Ann Borden who married Abna Smith.  David N. Borden who died without issue.  Henry Borden who died about 1868 near Sparta, Tenn. leaving issue as follows:
         John Borden who lives near Sparta, Tenn.
         George Borden "     "      "        "          "
         Squire Borden (the Affiant) Dallas, Texas.
         Martha Jane Borden who lives Sparta, Tenn.
         William Borden who lives Sparta Tenn.
         Sidney Borden    "      "    Sabatha, Texas
He farther says to the best of his knowledge his grand-father Esquire Bourden was the son of William Borden who was the son of Joseph Borden [this is incorrect, Joseph was his uncle, brother to John] the son of John Borden the son of "Fairfax Ben."
                                          Signed: Squire Borden
      Notary Public, N. G. Turney
      October 28, 1901

The Log Book, written by William Short, records Henry and Fannie Burden's birth dates, Fannie Burden's death date, and births of all of their children; this information is included in the record of their children below."

2Bob Baker Goff, Burden Family of White County,Tennessee and Their Bourden-Borden Ancestry, 1380-1980, pg 20. "He married, November 11, 1845 according to White Co. Marrriage Records."

31860 U.S. Census, M653_1279 pg 13, 12 Jun 1860. "Henry Burden 34 M Farmer Tennessee
Fannie Burden 34 F
John N Burden 15 M Tennessee
George W Burden 11 M Tennessee
Squire Burden 9 M Tennessee
Martha J Burden 6 F Tennessee
David N Burden 3 M Tennessee
William H 7/12 M Tennessee."

41870 U.S. Census, M593_1570 pg 294, 16 Jun 1870. "Burden, Henry 46 MW Farmer Tennessee
------, Fannie 44 FW Keeping house North Carolina
------, Squire 17 MW work on farm Tennessee
------, Martha J 15 FW at home Tennessee
------, Davis N. 13 MW at home Tennessee
------, William H 11 MW at home Tennessee
------, Sidney S 8 MW Tennessee."


Fannie White

1Bob Baker Goff, Burden Family of White County,Tennessee and Their Bourden-Borden Ancestry, 1380-1980, pg 20. "He married, November 11, 1845 according to White Co. Marrriage Records."

21880 U.S. Census, Roll 1285 FHF 1255285 pg 417C, 25 Jun 1880. "Burden, Fannie WF 55 Wd North Carolina North Carolina North Carolina
------, Martha J WF 25 Daughter S Tennessee Tennessee North Carolina
------, David N WM 23 Son M Md current year Works on farm Tennessee Tennessee North Carolina
------, Richard W WM 16 S Works on farm Tennessee Tennessee North Carolina
------, Mary C WF M 15 Md current year Tennessee unknown Tennessee."