WILLIAM BURDETT


A History of Monroe County, West Virginia
Oren F. Morton, B. Lit.
Staunton, VA
The McClure Company, Inc.
1916
p. 317-318


William (d. 1836) was a son of James of Culpeper county.  He settled on Flat
Top about 1800, as a neighbor to Andrew Miller, with whom he was on close
terms of friendship. After his second marriage he moved to Wolf Creek. He was
resourceful and ingenious. He m. (1) Sarah Cornwell of Edward, (2)
Scott.
C: Isham (Nancy Shumate, 1805)-Elizabeth (Tolison Shumate)-Margaret (William
Walker, 1808)
-Miles (    Legg)-Willis (Nancy Boon of John, 1807)-Rachel( Aymick)-William
(Clay Co.)-Archibald (Rhoda Shumate)-John ( Swope)-Alexander (Mary L.
Hill)-Ruth (John Robersen, 1816c)-Eliza; by 2d w.-Harvey (dy)-Lewis (
Hedrick)-Clarkson ( Burns).
The wife of Isham, while working as a girl in the sugar orchard, carried a
bucket of sap in each hand and another on her head. The first of her 12
children were twins, and when the third was a baby she would ride to her
father's home, 35 miles away, carrying the baby in front and the twins behind
her. The return would be made the next day. She lived to the age of 98, at
which time there were 89 descendants of her children.
C. of Isham: Sarah, Mary, Abner (Tex.), Granville, Nancy 3., Julia A., James
H., Andrew 3., Elizabeth S., Joseph H., Lewis A.
C. of Alexander: Lucy 3. (Samuel Gwinn), Elizabeth A. (James E. Miller),
Sarah (James Y. Miller). Emmeline (Harry Shanklin), Eliza, James, William,
Lee, Powell. William was a Confederate scout who did not think he could get
lost in West Virginia. His captain said he fired the first shot in the war in
West Virginia and the last in Virginia.
A number of the above connection entered the ministry.
Another early Burdette was Giles (d. before 1829) (Sarah Dunbar).
C:  John (1795-1882) (Lydia Curry, 1816). C. of John: Sarah A. (1817-1895)
(James M. Nickell, 1833)-Mary (1824-1894)  (James Crawford, 1840)-Elizabeth
3. (Andrew F. Young, 1855)-Rebecca M. (E. F. Patton)-Lydia S. (A. F.
Wickline, 1864)-Robert C. (1819-1893) (Elizabeth B. Curry)-James H.
(1821-1890) (Rachel M. Christian, 1847)-John C. (Mary C. Lynch, 1851)-Calvin
H. (Barbara A. Curry, 1849)-Franklin C. (b. 1832) (Elizabeth A. Ford, 1858,
Arlie Smithwick, 1870)
C.  of Archibald (Margaret) (d. 1834): Archibald, James, Polly, Margaret,
Elizabeth ( Holmes), Sam~el (has James and Archibald).