This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burris, Burroughs, Burrows, Burress, and all that may sound like this Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VUB.2ACE/671 Message Board Post: I am researching my family tree and have hit a real brick wall.According to my grandfather,his grandfather William Burris was born in Rocky Mount North Carolina abt. 1834. He married Elizabeth Felton but in doing my research her last name may have been Walston. She may have lived in Wilson County. This has been a stumbling block for me for a good while. They eventually came to Texas via Tennessee with 5 girls. Their oldest daughter Sallie was born in North Carolina also. William died in Texas (abt. 1903) and his wife moved back to North Carolina where she married Stephen Craft (date unknown). She may have used her birth name Celia and was supposedly left some land in Wilson County in Saratoga Township. If anyone has any information on any Burris's in this area please email me. Thanks.