Pat's Burks Line


DAVIS, OPECHANCANOUGH POWHATAN, PRINCESS CLEOPARTA, PRINCESS NICKETTI, HUGHES, ISHAM, KENDRICK, LYON, ROBINSON, HARRIS, SMITH, BROYLES

1.Samuel Burks Sr. b. abt 1680 Albemarle Co., VA d. bef 1756 VA
 *Mary Davis b. abt 1682 Albemarle Co., VA d. 1756 VA
  2.John Peartree Burks Sr. b. 1733 Albemarle Co., VA d. aft 1770
   *Sarah Isham b. 1737
    3.John Peartree Burks, Jr. b. 1750 Bedford, VA d. 1800
     *Mary "Margaret" Kendrick b. 1755
      4.Unknown daughter Burks
       *Unknown husband Lyon?
Notes for JOHN LYON:
Lyon married Miss Burks, mother of James Lyon Burks. The children listed to this couple have not
been proven to date. Exa Wolfe tells of the tradition that James Lyon Burks was the son of Miss
Burks and his father was a Lyon. She also tells of the grandfather Burks wanting to adopt a male
and chose James because he looked so much like the Burks family. James' mother did not want him
to go alone, so she sent his brother William to go live with the grandfather. Miss Burks the mother of
James and William hated her given name so much and considered it to be common and forbade her
children to pass it down to their daughters as was the family tradition. It is not known whether she
married Mr. Lyon, nor has it been proved that there was a Mr. Lyon. However, Thomas Jefferson
Burks, son of James Lyon Burks, stated in 1909, that his father's real name was Lyon, and that the
mother's name was Burks. 
        5.James Lyon Burks b. 1791 Edgefield Co., SC; 1866 Damascus, Scott Co., MS
         *Martha Robinson b. 1793 VA; d. 1835 Talbot Co., GA
          6.Lydia Jones Burks b. 1816 Jasper Co., GA; d. 1861 Scott Co., MS
           *Thomas Harris, Jr. b. 1812 Baldwin Co., GA; d 1894 Comanche Co., TX
            7.Emma Aldorah Harris b. 1854 Scott Co., MS; d. 1940 Hill Co., TX
             *Selden Alfred Smith b. 1849 Scott Co., MS; d. 1921 Hill Co., TX
              8.Margaret Smith b. 1871 Hill Co., TX; d. 1960 Clovis, NM
               *Enoch Jason Broyles b. 1875 Cherokee Co., TX; d. 1917 Hill Co., TX
                9.Cliff Broyles b. 1903 Hill Co., TX; d. 1976 Eastland Co., TX
                 *Helen Downs b. 1908 Jackson Co., AL; d. 1984 Eastland Co., TX
                  10.Patricia Broyles - private
                   *Luther Gohlke - private

1. Opechancanough Powhatan b. 1545 VA d. 1644 VA
 *Princess Cleoparta
  2. Princess Nicketti b. VA 1625
   *? Hughes
    3. Mary Hughes b. 1650 VA
     *Nathaniel Davis
      4. Mary Davis b. abt 1682 Albemarle Co., VA d. 1756
         Albemarle Co., VA


Will of Samuel Burks of Saint Anne's Parish, Albemarle, written Oct. 6, 1755; probated Feb.12, 1756. To son John Peartree Burks: Negro boy named Prince; to dau. Mary Smith: Negro girl named Linda to wife Mary Burks for her natural life the slaves named Toby, Frank, Nan, Phillis, Tom, Simon, Flora, Bejo, Jammy, Will, Lucy as well as the use of all my houses and lands and use of all personal estate not disposed of. After my wife decease tract of land 600 acres where I now live to be sold and money given as follows: Dau. Elizabeth Cabell or her representatives, 1 shilling sterling; son Samuel Burks or representatives, 1 shilling sterling money; Son Richard Burks or representatives, 1 shilling sterling; residue of said mone equally divided between son John Peartree, Charles, Dau. Mary Smith and grandson Samuel, son of my son Samuel or representatives. Also to wife MAry, 200 acre tract on Cunningham Creek. After her death, estate to be equally divided between children Charles, John Peartree, Mary and grandson Samuel. Executors: Mary Burks, John Smith, Jr. friend Wits: Samuel Hopkins, Jos. Thompson, William Moore (X)

Links to other sites on the Web

Pat's Perpetual Genealogy Page

Letters from Burks
More Burks Information
John Robinson's Will
MANNING/HARRIS Family Genealogy Page


"For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth 
endureth to all generations" Psalms 100:5

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