This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BURTON/WHITIS/WHITEHURST/RUSSELL/BULLOCK Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oZEBAIB/4125 Message Board Post: E(lizabeth) A(nn) BURTON is recorded as the wife of T(homas) J(efferson) WHITIS in a book by Lena Mae CRAWFORD WHITIS. She is believed to be born 28 APR 1828 and Died 30 Apr 1906. She is buried in the North Kempner Graveyard in Lampassas County Texas. She is thought to have been born in Hawkins County TN She is thought to have been married in Hawkins County TN. However, To my knowledge there is no Bible record of the Same. She and my GreatGrandFather T. J. are on the 1850 Hawkins county Census. The family is believed to have lived near the town of Rogersville TN. They remove to Sonset, Pulaski County KY in 1852. They were accompanied by brothers John,(a married man at that time and Hiram C (a single man at that time) WHITIS and the brother-in-law Clairborne RUSSELL Families. She signs a TN land deed with an X in 1882 after the family is removed to TX in 1881. Her oldest daughter Sarah marries Dorman BULLOCK. This family remains in Pulaski county KY. Help BURTONS/RUSSELLS/BULLOCKS. I HAVE EXHAUSTED THE WHITIS SO FAR AS I KNOW GREATGRANDSON Donald WHITIS dwhitis@netzerol.net