Morgan County AlArchives Biographies.....Burleson, Dabney A. 1835 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    DABNEY A. BURLESON, Hartselle, Ala., was born near Decatur, February 15,
1835, and reared in this county. He was educated at Union University.
Murfreesboro, Tenn., and at Baylor University, Independence, Tex. He began his
business life as a merchant at Danville. Ala., and went into the Confederate
Army in 1861 as a member of Col. Joe Patterson's Regiment. He was for some time
at Grenada, Miss., in the Quartermaster's department, but served mostly in the
Tennessee valley under General P. Roddy. He was once captured but escaped after
a few hours, and was at Selma at the time of the surrender, He is a farmer and
has been successful.

    He was married February 11, 1857, to Miss Sallie, daughter of Jonathan Orr,
and of one of the most prominent families in this county. They have five living
children, viz.: Jonathan, Kitty, Betty, Florence and Ellen Byrd.

    .Mr. Burleson is a Baptist, and an Odd Fellow. He takes a great interest in
any enterprise which tends to help or develop the agricultural interests of the
country.

    D. A. Burleson is a son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Byrd) Burleson. His
grandfather, John Burleson, was a pioneer from North Carolina, and settled at
the Spring at Huntsville in 181_, and helped expel the Indians from the country.
He died in Lawrence County, this State. His brother Joe was a captain in the
Indian wars. Jonathan Burleson was a native of Kentucky. He was in many fights
with the Indians, in company with his uncle Joe, and fought in the War of 1812.
He came to Alabama in 1818, and settled nine miles south of Decatur, where he
remained until his death, in 1867. He was a county commissioner, justice of the
peace, a wealthy planter, and a man of much local influence. He was twice
married and had fourteen children, of whom twelve lived to maturity.

    It is related that before 1820 a gang of horse thieves infested this part of
the country and committed many depredations. A body of citizens who desired to
be rid of them met in convention in a cave in this county and passed resolutions
which partook of the nature of laws: that convention has been called "the first
legislature." They chose Joe Burleson for their president, and Jonathan Burleson
for secretary. "They quickly cleaned out the horse thieves."

    Jonathan Burleson's first marriage was to Elizabeth Byrd, daughter of
William Byrd, a Baptist preacher. She bore him thirteen children. The second was
to Ann Humphreys, widow of Dr. Humphreys, of Somerville. Her maiden name was
Roby, and she bore him one child. The eldest of this family, Aaron A. Burleson,
was the first white child born in Morgan county; he was a physician in Decatur
for many years, and is now in Arkansas. Rufus C. Burleson is the most prominent
member of the family. He is a Baptist preacher, a famous educator, and is now
president of the Waco University, Waco, Tex. He entered the ministry when but
eighteen years of age, and has led a life of ceaseless activity in Texas for a
third of a century. It is recorded in history that Rufus C. Burleson has done
more for the cause of education-than any other man in Texas, and be has been
called the "Nestor of Texas preachers and teachers." He was a pioneer of that
country in his profession, and he has educated thousands who have gone forth to
success in all the learned professions. He is proficient in ancient languages
and lore; is eloquent in the pulpit; kind and industrious in the class, and much
beloved at home.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
CEREAL BELT.


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