This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iBH.2ACIB/1020 Message Board Post: Burris researcher's. It is my opinion, what has been missing is the link between the children of "old" Elijah Burris b 1761 & Jesse Burris b Bet. 1760 - 1770. I don't believe the Burris researcher's has ever established whose children belong to whom? I think maybe we can all agree that the possibility exist that Elijah Burris & Jesse Burris were brothers. They were the only 2 Burris's listed in the early East TN Taxpayers. So the "preponderance of evidence" is about all the proof I can produce! Old Elijah Burris remained in TN most of the time but may have traveled to IN, in or about 1830? He was either missed in 1830 census records, or he traveled to another area. By 1840 he again appeared in Campbell Co, TN Census Records. Jesse Burris is proven leaving TN: Anderson Co, TN Court Minutes 4-146 Jesse Burns (Burris) was released 1827 from paying poll tax as he had removed. Here is where I question the situation that presents doubt? Jesse Burris maybe had children that didn't remove to Sullivan Co, IN with him? Some of his children maybe were old enough to be married with families & remained behind in TN??? I have many speculative children for Elijah Burris in Anderson & Campbell Co, TN. I'm very skeptical they can all be his??? I would appreciate any information on the children of Elijah Burris & Jesse Burris. I have spent about 20 years trying to sort them out. I don't feel I'm any closer in my judgment of separating them now than I was in the beginning. Appreciate any help. Thanks, Fay email: fburris1@bellsouth.net