Greenbrier County, West Virginia         Biography of AARON BOLLAR BURR

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History of Greenbrier County 
J. R. Cole 
Lewisburg, WV 1917 
p. 119-120

AARON BOLLAR BURR.

The Burr family has always borne a distinguished name. In descent it reaches 
back to Dr. Aaron Burr, D. D., pastor of the Presbyterian church, Newark, N. 
J., who was one of the ablest ministers of that congregation in colonial 
times. His son, Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States and 
son-in-law of Dr. Jonathan Edwards, is known to fame both because of his 
distinguished father-in-law and his own political and military history. That 
the Burrs of Greenbrier county are in descent from Dr. Burr and that family 
is based largely on the name Aaron. That name has been in the family from 
time immemorial. Aaron Burr, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, 
was an early resident of Greenbrier county. He cultivated a large tract of 
land of about 1,000 acres on Spring creek near Williamsburg, where Peter, his 
son, lived all his life. His children were: Peter, John, and Aaron, all men 
of probity and general worth. John, the father of the subject of this sketch, 
was born in i80i and died in 1871. His wife was a Miss Nancy McClung, a 
daughter of William McClung. Her mother was a Bollar. John Burr bought a farm 
on Sinking creek and moved there soon after his marriage.
Children born to John and Nancy (McClung) Burr were: (1) Margaret R., married 
Boliver Williams, of this county; (2) Sarah J., who died a short time ago. 
She married a Mr. Pennell, a farmer near Williamsburg; (3) William J., 
suffered during the last years of his life a stroke of paralysis. William F. 
Burr is eighty-three old and still living.
Aaron Bollar Burr, hale and hardy at four score years, still preserves the 
buoyancy of life at eighty years of age that some other people do not at half 
that age. He was born February 23, 1836, on the old Burr homestead, and was 
reared a farmer, an occupation which he pursued through life. Of a retiring 
disposition, somewhat, he covets notoriety but little, but a religious sense 
of duty led him first into a membership with the people of the Methodist 
church, and then finally into an official relationship with that 
organization, to which he and his family still belong.
February 7, 1866, Aaron Bollar Burr married Joanna Ludington, daughter of 
Francis H. and Rebecca (Knight) Ludington, of Greenbrier county, and to this 
union were born twelve children:
Edmonia S.; Alice V.; John F.; Charles W.; Presley S.; Bessie E. ; Rebecca 
L., deceased; Bernard C. and Neola D., twins; Howard W.; Mac L.; Ernest W.; 
Ela Anna. It has been a remarkable family and a delightful home, children all 
doing well. Charles has been a successful teacher during the past dozen years 
and is a jus tice of the peace in the Williamsburg district.
Twenty-three years ago Mr. Burr moved to his present home near Richland, on 
land bought of Alexander Johnson.  Sixteen years ago the home was bereft of 
the wife and the mother, a beautiful Christian character who had brought a 
solace and comfort to the family before going hence. She was born April 27, 
1848, and died October 18, 1900.