1.    George Earle Burroughs, later known as Earl Burroughs, born November 23, 1878, Van Buren, Wayne County, Michigan [Toledo, Ohio per his marriage (1884) and death certificate on Nov. 24, 1881!].  He died January 21, 1937, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA.  He married ca. 1917 (PA?), 1) Ida V. Comosely ? (maiden name), born April 1, 1886, PA (parents:  PA/NY), the daughter of Michael J. Comosely? born in PA, and Bertha Moon born in NY) (Ida’s second marriage) and adopted her son, Richard.  Ida V. Burroughs died Oct. 5, 1926, at age 40 of hypostatic congestion of lungs, cardiac degeneration (contributory) at St. Francis Hospital, Pittsburgh after a 4 day hospitalization (2 months duration of her main illness; 2 years duration contributory illness).  “Earl Burroughs,” her husband, was the informant.  She was buried in Mount Royal Cemetery, Glenshaw (Shaler Township), in Allegheny County, PA (about 7 miles from the center of Pittsburgh) on October 7, 1926.  He married 2) Louise Clare Herr in Reading, Berks County, PA on October 10, 1927 (Vol. 84, p. 299, Berks County, PA Marriages 1885-1929).  He was the son of 2.  George Taylor (Tyler) Burroughs and 3.  Lucie/Lucy Elinor Berlin, and a second cousin of the author, Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Per his first wife’s death certificate in 1926, his 1927 marriage certificate and a 1929 Hays County, TX deed, he had a residence of 1110 Palo Alto (Palatto) St. North, Pittsburgh, PA.  He was a civil and mechanical engineer.  Per his funeral record, he was an Episcopalian (but not a churchgoer according to Eleanor L. Burroughs Kravcov).  According to his death certificate, he had been a draftsman for the State of Pennsylvania for 1 1/2 years prior to his death.  He and Louise lived briefly in Pittsburgh, PA and Elizabeth, NJ.  His last residence was 2335 Logan Street, Harrisburg, PA.  He died suddenly at home of a coronary occlusion with angina pectoris & with coronary sclerosis at the age of 58 on Jan. 21, 1937 and is buried in Dunnstown Cemetery, Lock Haven, PA next to his last wife, Louise Herr Burroughs and his daughter, Eleanor Louise Burroughs Kravcov.

 In the 1880 Census, he was age 1 (“Earl G.”), living with his grandfather, George H. Burroughs, his wife, Rebecca J., his parents, George T. & Lucy E. Burroughs, plus 3 servants/farmer in Van Buren, Wayne County, Michigan.  He graduated June 1, 1898 from Belleville High School, Belleville, Michigan [501 W. Columbia, Belleville, Michigan 48111].  In the 1900 Census, he was age 21 (Earl) living with his parents and brother, Colburn, plus a male servant, Lee, age 14, in Belleville Village, Enumeration District 205, Belleville, Van Buren, Wayne County, Michigan.  He lived in Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan [SE Michigan, 20 miles from Toledo, OH] in Sept. 1903 through at least May, 1905.  He attended Ohio State University, Columbus, OH in Electrical Engineering for one semester in  1903-1904, and received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering  in 1905 from Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH.  He was a graduate student for two semesters in Structural Engineering, in 1905 at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.  On May 25, 1905, a certificate of recommendation was signed (for “Earl G. Burroughs”) by the principal of his high school for the University of Michigan, Dept of Literature, Science and the Arts.  By the 1910 Census, he was not living with his family, who had moved to Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan.  A “Mr. Geo. Burroughs” is listed in the Cheboygan Democrat on Nov. 14, 1913 (Northern Michigan, Newspaper Surname Index, www.Ancestry.com).  In the 1920 Census, he was living in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 22nd Ward, ED 671, at 921 Ball or Barn St., (search as “Geo. E. Burrough”), living in an apparent rented triplex with 3 separate families (including James Herr, 2nd head of household, age 67, et al.), an engineer – mechanical, MI (parents:  “WV/WV”), with his wife, Ida Burroughs, 31, PA, and (her) son, Richard, age 7, PA (parents:  MI/PA).  In the 1930 Census (search “George Burrough”), he was living at 5850 Morrowfield St., Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA, Dist. 235, rented, monthly rental:  $75, with a radio, did not own a farm, age “50”, first married at age 37, born “OH” (parents:  “England/Irish Free State”), engineer, construction, employed, not a veteran, with wife, Louise, age 38, first married at 25, born PA (parents:  PA/PA), with [step]daughter, Margaret [Ungard], age 13, PA, and adopted son, Richard Burroughs, 17, single, PA (parents:  England/PA).

 On June 6, 1927, the Probate Office of Monroe County, Michigan assigned the residue of the estate of Lucie E. Burroughs, to George Earle Burroughs, and his brother, Colburn J. Burroughs, in equal shares, which consisted of  the following real property (2,504 acres in Texas):
 1.  640 acres, Abstract No. 134, Cert. or Scrip No. 1/1023, Survey 67,  Travis County, TX;
 2.  640 acres, Abstract No. 204, Cert. or Scrip No. 56, Survey 35, Travis County, TX;
 3.  640 acres, Abstract No. 753, Cert. or Scrip No. 1/5, Survey 1, Travis County, TX;
 4.  320 acres, Abstract 437, Original Grantee Sul. Fork Iron Works, County, Hays County, TX;
 5.  264 acres, Abstract 438, Original Grantee Sul. Fork Iron Works, County, Hays County, TX; and
6.  House and lot, Lot 10 of block 173 (lot being 30’ x 155’), according to a map of Meredith & Neel’s Fairhome Addition to Central City, filed on Nov. 14, 1907 in Huntington, Cabell County, WV.
(Hays County, TX Deed Records, Vol. 98, p. 10 (copy of Order from Monroe County, Michigan)).
On May 25, 1929 (recorded June 6, 1929, Hays County Deed Records, Hays County, TX, Vol.___, pp. 349-351.), George and Colburn John Burroughs, sold the property, including all mineral rights, in Items 4 & 5 above, for $4,000 to H.P. Prather of Hays County, TX.

George Earle Burroughs owned  American Engineers Service, 15 Park Row, Park Row Building, NYC and Pittsburgh.  His stationery listed his services as transcontinental employment, industrial, executive and staff assistants and registry.  Also listed were engineering and commercial reports and directories of iron, steel, copper, coal, utilities, railways; manufacturing, commercial construction; and Latin-American industries.

 The Park Row Building was designated a Landmarks Preservation Commission building on June 15, 1999 and is still in use as a commercial building with residences beginning on the 11th floor.  It is a 30-story, 391-foot high building, which was the tallest building in New York City and one of the tallest structures in the world between 1899, the year of its completion, and 1908.  It remains one of the most distinctive buildings in lower Manhattan by virtue of its height and twin cupola-topped towers, including four large sculpted figures set on overscaled brackets, huge columns and pilasters, as well as several projecting ornamental balconies.  The architect was R.H. Robertson, who was prominent for his institutional and commercial buildings.  It lies across from City Hall Park on a street that became known as Newspaper Row, the center of the newspaper publishing in New York City from the 1840s to the 1920s.  The building housed the offices of the Associated Press news agency as well as the HQ of August Belmont’s Interborough Rapid Transit Company.  Early twentieth-century artists admired the shape of the Park Row Building, and Alvin Langdon Coburn and Charles Sheeler featured it in their photographs.  See www.15parkrow.com/building/html

George E. Burroughs ran the following classified ad on June 4 and on June 11 193_ :
“AMERICAN ENGINEERS SERVICE, Park Row Building, New York.  Requires eastern-western Plant Managers, Superintendants, Product Development Engineers, Designers, Draftsmen, Checkers; Time Study-Cost Accountants, Sales Engineers; Chief Draftsmen, Estimators, Metallurgical-Chemical supervisors, graduate cadets for industrial training -- Machinery, Buildings, Bridges, Foundry, Forge, Stampings, Heavy Chemicals, Motors, Electrical, Railway, Automotive Productions.”

Lock Haven Express, Lock Haven, Clinton County, PA, Saturday, January 23, 1937:

“George E. Burroughs:  George E. Burroughs, 55, died Wednesday evening at Harrisburg as the result of a heart attack.  The body has been brought to the Welsh Funeral Home, where it may be viewed this evening by friends.  Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Welsh Funeral Home, the Rev. William J. Watts officiating.  Burial will be made at Dunnstown.
 Mr. Burroughs was the son-in-law of Street Commissioner and Mrs. D.L. Herr, this city.  He was a graduate civil and mechanical engineer, and for the past year and a half had been employed by the State.  Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Louise Herr Burroughs, a daughter, Eleanor M.[sic] Burroughs; a stepdaughter, Margaret Ungard, and a brother, Coleburn Burroughs of Detroit.
 Mr. Burroughs is the second son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Herr to die at Harrisburg within the past few weeks.  Ralph Z. Smith passed away recently at the Harrisburg Hospital, following an emergency operation Thanksgiving night.”

 Children:

i. Richard Burroughs (adopted son of first wife, Ida V. Comosely).  Born ca. 1913, PA.  See 1920 and 1930 Census data under George E. Burroughs above.  A Richard Burroughs, born Aug. 13, 1912, died Sept., 1976, in the SSDI, #206-05-954, issued in PA, before 195_.

ii. Eleanor Louise (“Bunny”) Burroughs, born September 28, 1930, Sunday, 8:38 P.M., Harrisburg Hospital, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA, weighing 7 lbs. 10 oz.  She died Sunday, October 28, 2001, 2:40 AM, Gardiner Home, Hospice of the Valley, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ.  She was buried Thursday, Nov. 1, 2001, Dunnstown Cemetery, Dunnstown (next to Lock Haven), Woodward Township, Clinton County, PA, in the A. Wayne Myers Addition, southern half of Lot No.37 (37 S ½).  Blood type A+.  She married Frederick Kravcov, on October 21, 1957 (born May 13, 1929, Elizabeth, NJ; died November 21, 1993, Corpus Christi, TX), in Washington, D.C. (civil) and in 1959, Madrid, Spain (Catholic).  They had one daughter, *Karen Louise Kravcov, born December 30, 1962, Princess Tsehai Memorial Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.   Karen married Alastair James Malcolm on April 16, 2003, Sedona, Coconino County, Arizona.

  Eleanor received her first holy communion in St. Mary’s Church, Harrisburg, PA on May 8, 1938.  She attended Steele School, Harrisburg, PA (1930-1937), St. Mary’s Parochial School, Harrisburg, PA (1937-1942), and St. Francis Parochial School, Harrisburg, PA (1942-1944).  She graduated in 1948 from Catholic High School, Harrisburg, PA  (her senior yearbook entry reads:  LeCercle Francais 2; Catholic Action Club 4; Pep Squad 1, 2.  “Bunny is pleasant to everyone, When you’re with her you’ll have lots of fun.”).  In 1950, she had a tonsillectomy.  She attended Central Pennsylvania Business College, Harrisburg, PA; George Washington  University (1957) and University of Maryland (Ext. in Madrid, Spain) (1958-59).  She was a member of the Dept. of State Recreation Assn., Washington, D.C. (1955-57); the recording secretary of Alpha Xi chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha, an international women’s social, cultural and service sorority.  In the mid 1950s, she studied Russian.  She took a computer science course at College of the Desert in Palm Desert, CA in 1988.  Her hobbies and interests included reading mystery and spy novels (Robert Ludlum), playing the piano, golfing, Japanese sumie (brush) painting, which she learned while living in Tokyo, Japan as a student of Madame Shutei Ohta of Nakano-ku, Tokyo.  She also was a student of Ikebana under Tazuko Niimura, and learned some Japanese.  She exhibited her sumie artwork at the American Club Tokyo on Jan. 10, 1968.  Georgia O’Keeffe was a favorite artist.  While living in Madrid and Buenos Aires, she learned Spanish.  In the music department, favorite early artists in her record collection included Stanley Black, Louis Armstrong, The Dorseys, Glenn Miller, Judy Garland, Duke Ellington, Della Reese, The Supremes, Johnny Mathis, Robert Goulet, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwicke, The Carpenters, The Captain & Tenille, Tony Orlando, Barbara Streisand, Miles Davis, Ramsey Lewis, Tom Scott, & Helen Reddy.  She enjoyed Brazilian/Portugese music and her Argentine collection included records by Julio Sosa, Alain Debray and Mercedes Sosa.  Later she enjoyed 1980s dance and new wave music and new age musicians such as Sadao Watanabe, Ottmar Liebert, Kitaro, Yanni and Enya.  She attended concerts including Gato Barbieri, Richard Elliott, k.d. lang and Yanni.  Other interests included shopping, growing cacti and succulents (including some showing), her Korat cats, including Yin Lan, Nappy, Maui, Chaya and Chinda; Hamid, the Afghan Hound dog, and raising and showing Arabian and other horses with her daughter, Karen Kravcov, jigsaw and crossword puzzles, and playing cards and electronic solitaire.

  Eleanor was employed by the Transportation Division, New Cumberland General Depot, New Cumberland, PA (1948-1949), the Special Reserve Division, New Cumberland General Depot, New Cumberland, PA (1949-1950), the Adjutant’s Office, New Cumberland General Depot, New Cumberland, PA (1950-1952), the Commercial Warehouse Field Office, New Cumberland General Depot (DOD), New Cumberland, PA (1952-1953); Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot, Comptroller’s Office  (1953), US Naval Supply Depot, Mechanicsburg, PA (1953-1955); Admin. Asst. to the Chief of the Soviet Orbit Policy Staff, United States Information Agency (USIA) (1955-1957), Washington, DC; the American Embassy & US Air Force, Madrid, Spain (1958-1959), the Foreign Service of the United States, Dept. of State, US Agency for International Development (USAID), Public Safety Division (Addis Ababa) (1962), and the CIA. While at home, she worked part time for “Something Special By Patti” (McKelvey), as a painter of children’s furniture and assisted with mall kiosk sales (May 1978 to Sept. 1979).  She returned to work after retirement in 1962 in Feb. 1986, working in the accessories department at May Company, Palm Desert, California for 8 mos., where she won the Chairman’s Club Tope Sales Producer for the month of May in 1986.  She worked in commission sales for Finlay Fine Jewelry Department at May Company in Palm Desert, California from Oct. 1986 until April, 1988.  At the Palm Desert National Bank, she worked in the Bookkeeping Dept. and lastly in the Note Department (April 2, 1988 until March 23, 1990).  She also worked part time for Saks Fifth Avenue in San Antonio, TX and Coldwell Banker Swope Realtors in Boerne, TX (until Oct. 28, 1995).

  According to Eleanor’s Personal File – 1948-1962, in 1954, the nature of the Soviet Orbit work:  Under the direction of the principal officers, the Soviet Orbit, are responsible to the Assistant Director for Policy and Programs (IOP), the Soviet Orbit Staff deals directly with matters of information policy and planning as they apply to the East European satellites, the USSR, and the Chinese and North Korean Communist regimes.  The staff is responsible for (1) providing guidance on Soviet and Communist activities to the media through the instrumentality of the news policy section of IOP and to the field through information guidances and (2) the development of information policy planning relative to Soviet-controlled areas.  To carry out these functions, the staff which consists at present of three officers and one secretary must examine and utilize a large daily flow of materials (telegrams, despatches, studies, reports, etc.) in order to understand the constantly changing Communist situation, and in this manner be prepared to implement planning and guidance responsibilities and functions.
 Another copy stated:  The Soviet Orbit Policy Staff (IOP/LS) deals directly with matters of information policy and planning as they apply to the geographic areas comprising the USSR, the Baltic States, the European Satellites, Communist China, North Korea and North Vietnam, as well as the Escapes Program and Communist front organizations.  The staff is responsible for (1) providing guidance on Soviet and Communist activities to the media directly and through information guidances and (2) the development of information policy planning relative to the above listed Communist controlled areas.  To carry out these functions, the staff must examine and utilize a large daily flow of materials (telegrams, despatches, studies, reports, etc.) in order to understand changes taking place in the Communist world, and in this manner be prepared to implement planning and guidances responsibilities and functions.

  On December 31, 1956, her supervisor, E. Lewis Revey, at USIA, Soviet Orbit Policy Staff, had the following comments about Eleanor’s work performance:

  “In every respect, Miss Burroughs has performed her duties with noteworthy efficiency and distinction.  The thoroughness of her work and the perfectionism which she applies especially to outgoing communications is as commendable as her dependability and eagerness to insure the operational efficiency of this office, even at the cost of personal inconvenience.  The entire staff has known at all times that it could count on Miss Burroughs to carry an additional share of the workload whenever that proved necessary.  Her quiet efficiency and dependability have brought much comfort to IOP/LS in the difficult and trying period brought on by the dramatic turn of events in Poland and Hungary.”

  A 1960 Personal History Statement (Form 444) for an administrative secretarial and/or clerical position, reflected that she had experience with the following business machines:  comptometer, calculator, dictaphone, mimeograph and hectograph.
 

  Obituary in The Arizona Republic and The Lock Haven Express, Oct. 30, 2001:

Eleanor Louise Burroughs Kravcov, 71, of Phoenix, AZ since 1995, passed away on Oct.  28, 2001 in Phoenix after more than a two-year battle with advanced colon cancer.  She was born in Harrisburg, PA on Sept. 28, 1930, the daughter of George Earle Burroughs of Van Buren, Belleville, and Dundee, Michigan and later, NYC and PA, both the grandson of Col. George Holland Burroughs and a cousin of Edgar Rice Burroughs, all from the colonial Burroughs family of Warren & Scituate, MA, and Louise Clare Herr of Lock Haven, PA, a direct descendant of Rev. Hans Herr of Zurich, who emigrated in 1709 to Philadelphia and settled Lancaster County, PA.  Among other CT, MA & VA colonists, Eleanor was also a direct descendant of Job Tyler who emigrated from Shropshire, England to Newport, RI and settled in Andover, MA in 1639.
She married Frederick Kravcov in Washington, D.C. and Madrid, Spain. She was the Asst. to the Chief of the Soviet Orbit Policy Staff, U.S. Information Agency, Washington, D.C., lastly retired from the Civil Service/Dept. of State, U.S. Foreign Service at the birth of her daughter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
An accomplished Japanese sumie painting artist, Buenos Aires, Argentina was among her favorite residences with her family.  Since 1980 she raised Arabian horses with her daughter in CA, TX & AZ.
 She is survived by her daughter, Karen L. Kravcov of Phoenix, AZ, a nephew, E. Joseph Kintz, his wife, Lynn, their son, Todd J. Kintz of Carlisle, PA, a cousin, Betty Lou Smith Young of Lock Haven, PA,  Betty’s son, Dr. Michael F. Young of Manchester, CT, and his uncle, Ralph Herr Smith of Lakeland, FL.  Arrangements by Hansen Mortuaries in Scottsdale, AZ and Gilbert L. Dailey F.H. in Harrisburg, PA.  Interment will be in the family plot in Dunnstown Cemetery, Dunnstown, near Lock Haven, Clinton County, PA,
 with graveside services 1 PM Thursday.

 Directions to Dunnstown Cemetery:  From Hwy. 80, exit 178 (10-12 miles from the exit total) and off at 2nd exit = 220 North.  Go right at the stoplight (Sheetz on the right) = Belafonte/150 N. to Church Street and turn right.  Turn left at Jay St. and go 1 block – turn right on E. Main St.  Pass the Piper Air Museum on the right and veer left over Constitution Bridge/Susquehanna River, which becomes Woodward Ave./Rte. 150 N.  Go to the first 4-way intersection and turn right on Church St.  Go 3 blocks and the cemetery is on both sides of the road.  The Burroughs plot is on the left – south half of Lot 37.   From Lamar take 220 N. and go to Lock Haven exit 120 to (left) Jay and continue with the above directions.
 

Eleanor’s Addresses to Birth of Karen Kravcov:

Sept 1930-Aug. 1932: 2429 Pennsylvania St., Harrisburg, PA.
Aug. 1932-Sept. 1933: 523 Seneca, Harrisburg, PA.
Sept.  1933-Jan. 1942: 2335 Logan St., Harrisburg, PA.
Jan. 1942-March 1955: 1417 Verbeke Street, Harrisburg, P
April 1955-Dec. 1955: 2016/2116 O St. NW, Washington, D.C.
Dec. 1955-Oct. 1957: 903 N. Wayne St., Arlington, VA.
Oct. 1957-Dec. 1957: 2430 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. (married).
Jan. 1958-Feb. 1960: 47 Avenida del Generalisimo Franco, Madrid, Spain.
March 1960-Aug. 1961: 7633 (7733) Loisdale Rd., Springfield, VA (Louise H. Burroughs, her mother, lived with them)
Aug. 1961-Aug. 1963 Casa Inches, Urael District, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
 
 

 
Generation No. 2

 2.  George T. (Taylor/Tyler) Burroughs, born February 9 (7), 1844, a merchant & farmer born in Jamestown (Zanesville), Montgomery County, Illinois.  Per the 1900 Census, he was born in Indiana.  He married Nov. 1877 (married 21 years per the 1900 Census) 3.  Lucile (“Lucie”) Elinor Berlin.  They moved to Belleville, Michigan between 1846 and 1870 Census.  Possibly he was enlisted in Co. H., 51 Virginia Infantry as a corporal (Confederate) – see Ancestry.com – Civil War Service Records).

He was listed as a “farmer” born in Illinois and living in Van Buren, Michigan with his parents, George H. (“merchant”) and Rebecca Burroughs and his brothers Samuel (“merchant”) and Henry C (“student”) in the 1870 Michigan Census.  In the 1880 Michigan Census, he is listed as a farmer living in Van Buren, Wayne County, Michigan with his parents, George H. (“retired merchant”) and Rebecca J. Burroughs, his wife, Lucie, Earl G., their son,  a farmer, George Spruce(?), and two servants, George Waygott and Nancy Smith.  He obtained by Travis Scrip, 5 tracts of land in Hays and Travis Counties, TX between 1875 and 1879.  He acted as the power-of-attorney for his father’s Texas 2nd class headright land grants issued via 3 patents (1874-76) in Upshur, Wise and Milam Counties, Texas.  He was the author of 1) “The Business Man’s Guide and Assistant.  Merchant’s and mechanic’s practical arithmetic; or, Instantaneous method of arriving at correct results…”, published by Wm. Graham’s Steam Presses, Detroit, Michigan, 1875 (138pp.), located at the Detroit Public Library, Burton Historical Collection (Call #511 B94); and 2) “Merchant’s and Mechanic’s Practical Arithmetic:  or, an instantaneous method of arriving at correct results,” compiled from results of actual experiments and observation in the pursuit of a business life, published by E.B. Smith & Co., Detroit, Michigan in 1876 (144 pp.) (Rare book collection, Library of Michigan, Call # QA 103.B8 1876z), and Detroit Public Library, Burton Historical Collection (Call #511 B94a).  In the 1900 Census, he and his family, Lucie E., and sons Earl and Colburn, along with a male servant, Lee, age 14, and in school, were living in Belleville Village, Enumeration District 205, Van Buren, Wayne County, Michigan.  As of 1903, he was living in Dundee, Michigan.  In the 1910 Michigan Census, he and wife, Lucie and son, Colburn, were living in Dundee, Dundee Village.  He is listed as a merchant who owns a store (general). He died August 6, 1916, Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan of anterior spinal sclerosis (5 years duration), with contributory acute gastritis and ileo-colitis (5 days duration).  He was married at the time of his death.  He was buried in Lot 128, Pleasantview/Soop Cemetery, Belleville, Michigan on Aug. 9, 1916.  Colburn Burroughs, his son, of Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan, signed his death certificate.  (Note that the 1929 Hays County, TX deed states that he died “July 17, 1917” (Book ___, p. 178, rec. 4-26-1929).  He was the son of 4. George H. and 5. Rebecca Jane Bell Burroughs.

 3.  Lucie (“Lucy”) Lucile Elinor (Eleanor) Berlin, born  Philippi, Barbour County, Virginia Feb. 12, 1852 (per 1880 Census), “1855” and Jan. 1860, per 1900 Census) (West Virginia after 1861).  No record (ca. 1853 in Barbour County, WV).  Married 2. George T. Burroughs Nov. 1877 [they have no marriage record in Michigan for the years 1875 through 1878].  Per the 1880 Census, her parents were born in England, however, per the 1900 Census, her father was born in PA and her mother in VA.  In the 1910 Census, Dundee, Michigan, she is listed as age “44”, born in VA and a saleslady in her husband’s store.  She is listed in the 1920 Michigan Census as “Lucy E. Burroughs,” living in Dundee Township, Dundee Village, Monroe County, Michigan (Supervisor’s District No. 2, Enum. District No. 103) (age 53) with her single son, Colburn (age 29) and a widowed friend, a nurse, Christine Entwisle (age 57) of Michigan.  She died Oct. 3, 1925, Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan intestate and with no will (Hays County, TX deed.  Per Sharon Johnson, there are no Burroughs listed in the Monroe County, Michigan Cemetery Book, Vol. 1.  The daughter of Frederick W. Berlin, Esq. and Maria F. Holt.  For her extended line and additional information see “Ancestors of Lucie Elinor Berlin Burroughs.”

 Children:

i.  1.  George Earle Burroughs, a/k/a Earl G. Burroughs, born November 23, 1878, Van Buren, Wayne County, Michigan; died January 21, 1937, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA.  See first page.
 
ii.   Colburn John Burroughs, Esq. (John C. Burroughs) (Coleburn) SSN 269-16-3345, born December 25, 1886 (Dec. 25, 1891 per his WWI Draft Registration Card; 1896 per his death records), Detroit, Michigan.  His Certificate of Birth – Delayed Registration, issued on June 9, 1943 by the Michigan Department of Health, gives his birth as December 25, 1896 with the evidence listed as:  “Affidavits of two cousins.  No documentary proof available.”  He was the second of two children born to his mother.  As of 1943, he was living in Detroit.  He was living in Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan in 1910, 1916, 1917 & 1920 (with his mother) and Detroit, Michigan as of Jan. 23, 1937.  In the 1900 Census, he was age 13, attending school and living in Belleville, Van Buren, Wayne County, Michigan, Enum. Dist. 205 with his parents, George T. and Lucie E. Burroughs, and brother, Earl (George).  In the 1910 Census, he was age 20, living with his parents on Tecumseh Street in Dundee, MI, single, had attended school since Sept. 1, 1909 and was not working.  His World War I Draft Registration Card dated June 5, 1917, lists him as Colburn (“Corburn” in print, signed “Colburn”) John Burroughs, age 26, born December 25, 1891 in Detroit, MI, working as a Justice of the Peace and merchant for his mother, L.E. Burroughs in Dundee; he was single, short, of medium build, with blue eyes and dark brown hair, and not bald.  His address was Tecumseh, Dundee, Monroe Co., Michigan.  He had no military history, and he did not claim any exemptions.  In the 1920 Census, he was age 29 and living with his mother on Tecumseh Street in Dundee, MI.  As of April 15, 1929 & May 25, 1929, he was living in Dundee (Hays County, TX Affidavit and deed).  In the 1930 Census, he is listed as John C. Burroughs, age 34, a lawyer (General Pract.), living at 120 ½ West Main St., Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan, District 7, Enum. Dist. 58-7, Supervisor’s Dist. 17 (April 2, 1930, Roll T626-1012, page 1A, Image 777).  He owned his own home (value $3500) and a radio.  He had not attended school or college since 9-1-29.  He was single and never married and “not a veteran of the US Military.”  His mother was born in VA and his father was born in IL.  He sent clothing as gifts to Eleanor L. Burroughs (Kravcov) when she was a child.
According to his Certificate of Death, he died March 19, 1952, at 2:05 PM, Maumee Valley Hospital, Toledo, Ohio, age 55 (actual age, 65), single, of bronchopneumonia (1 month), with multiple dissecting aneurysm of aorta and pellagra .  An autopsy was performed.  He had been in the hospital for 19 days.  His informant was Robert K or R. Stewart(?) Supt.  He had been attended from Feb. 29, 1952 until his death on March 19 by Dr. Burnheimer, Maumee Valley Hospital.  He was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery (no cemetery number) in Dundee, Monroe Co., Michigan on March 29, 1952.  He had been a resident of 407 ½ Clark Street, Toledo, Ohio, and a truck driver for Sentele Co.  He was in World War I, MI Pvt. In the Infantry, 101st Sanitary Train Field Hospital, 26th Division.  He was honorably discharged as a Private.  His obituary states that he was born Dec. 25, 1896.   In a letter from Bersticker Funeral Home in Toledo, Ohio, dated April 25, 1952 to Mrs. William J. Young of 416 Lakeland Ave., Grosse Point 30, Michigan, the funeral home indicated that the hospital (Lucas County/Maumee Valley) informed the funeral home that Mrs. Young had disclaimed all financial responsibility as to the burial and body of Colburn Burroughs, although she had made inquiry to the funeral home in regards to his burial and personal effects.  Bersticker Funeral Home acted as the administrator of his estate since he was a WWI veteran.  On March 29, 1952, religious services were held at the funeral home, conducted by the Rev. Harold Davis and attended by a Mr. Narrigan and others.  After the funeral services, the body was taken to Dundee, Michigan to be interred in the Family lot with full military honors including the firing squad by members of Harry W. Bamm Post #72 of Dundee, Michigan.  The funeral home requested any donation from Mrs. Young towards his burial as his funeral expenses exceeded the Government award.

EXTRACT FROM DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE OF ENLISTED MAN TO SECURE VICTORY MEDAL

To all whom it may concern:

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Colburn J. Burroughs, #2040060 Private Demob Co. 160DB Last assgd 101st Field Hospital 101st San Tr. The United States Army, as a testimonial of honest and faithful service, is hereby honorably discharged from the military service of the United States by reason of Cir No 106 WD Dec 3, 1918.

Given under my hand at Camp Custer, Michigan this 3rd day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen
   (Signed) Watts C. Valentine
    Major Infantry
     Commanding
Forwarned 10-29-20
Approved by Frank F. Becker
  Capt., Inf.
Medal with four clasps
Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne
Defensive Sector

ENLISTMENT RECORD

Enlisted, or inducted, April 1st, 1918, at Monroe, Michigan.

Battles, engagements, skirmishes, expeditions,   Aisne-Marne offensive, July 18 to Aug. 6, 1918.  St. Mihiel offensive Sept. 11 to Sept 15, 1918.  Verdun Sector Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, 1918; Meuse-Argonne offensive Army Troops Oct. 15 to Nov. 11, 1918.

Remarks:  No AWOL or absence under GO 45 WD 1914 AE Fin France.  Left US June 11, 1918 arrived US Apr 18, 1919 served in 101st F.H. to date of discharge.

   (Signed) J.C. Sutton
    Commanding Capt. Infantry Demob Co.

Certificate to be made by a Civil Officer empowered to administer oaths or by an Office of the Regular Army

I CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true extract from the original discharge certificate (Form No. 525, A.G.O.) of Colburn J. Burroughs #2040060 and contains all written and printed matter appearing on the discharge certificate opposite the headings hereon extracted, together with any notation or stamp with reference to a previous use of the discharge certificate for the purpose of obtaining a Victory Medal.

 I FURTHER CERTIFY that I have indorsed on the original discharge certificate over my signature the following:  “True extract certified by me on Oct. 26, 1920, for the purpose of obtaining Victory Medal by mail.”

Place:  Dundee, Michigan    Levi G. Williams
Date:  Oct. 26, 1920    Notary Public, Monroe Co., Mich.
      My commission expires June 19, 1923
 

 (Courtesy of Boyer-Van Wormer-Scott Funeral Home Bersticker-Scott Funeral Home, Toledo, OH.)

During the St. Mihiel offensive, as of September 12, 1918, the 26th Division, Field Hospital 101-104 were stationed in Genicourt-sur-Meuse, from the Reports of Division Surgeon, 26th Division.

According to the National Personnel Records Center, Military Personnel Records, St. Louis, MO, Colburn J. Burroughs’ Service No. was 2 040 060.  A Private in the Army, his dates of service were between April 1, 1918 and April 23, 1919.  He had basic military training and received a World War I Victory Medal with Defense Sector Clasp and a World War I Victory Button (Bronze).  He was discharged and his place of separation was Camp Custer, MI.  They had no other records for Colburn, probably due to the July 12, 1973 fire that destroyed the major portion of records of Army military personnel for the period 1912 to 1959.

The following obit/death notices are courtesy of Betty Gay bettyg@ili.net of RAOGK

“C.J. Burroughs Buried Saturday

   Military burial services were held at Maplegrove Cemetery Saturday noon for Colburn J. Burroughs, age 55, former Dundee resident who died March 19 in the Maumee Valley Hospital in Toledo.  Funeral services were held in the Bersticker Funeral Home.

   A veteran of World War I, he was a charter member of the Harry Bamm Post No. 72, American Legion and was its first adjutant.  He had left Dundee about 20 years ago and at the time of his death was employed at the Central Trucking Corporation in Toledo.  While in Dundee he ran a variety store, was a Justice of the Peace and attorney.

   The military burial services were under the direction of George Lenz who acted as Sergeant  Hugh Smith was chaplain.  Firing squad was composed of Charles Graham, Clifford Heisler, Warren Missler, Louis Mintz, Duane Loss and Wyman Hanson.  Color bearers were Henry Bunge and Robert Roof.  Color guard, Max Good.  Buglers were Richard Karner and Wyman Fisher.

    Bearers were Vern Bowman, Kenneth Kleinert, Roy Burgess, Clifford Ward, Hugh Smith and Clarence Heinl.  Burial was in the American Legion lot.  Fisher Funeral Home was in charge at the cemetery.”
Monroe Record-Commercial, March 1952

Colburn J. Burroughs
(Special to The Evening News (1952))

DUNDEE, March 31 – Colburn J. Burroughs, 55, of 407 ½ Clark St., Toledo, a former resident here and a veteran of World War I, died March 19 in a Toledo hospital.
Services were Saturday morning in the Bersticker Funeral home at Toledo and burial was in the veterans’ plot in Maplegrove Cemetery.  The Dundee Veterans Organization had military rites.  Fisher funeral home was in charge here.

 Burroughs, Colburn J.
 Born—age 55
Died in March 19, 1952 in Toledo, Ohio formerly of Dundee.  Dundee Reporter, April 3, 1952, page 1,   column 2.
 
Generation No. 3

 4. Col. George Holland Burroughs, born April 28, 1807 in Warren, Worcester, Massachusetts.  He married Rebecca Jane Bell, of South Bend, IN, on December 28, 1837, in South Bend, St. Joseph, IN by the Rev. A. Bryant (Marriage Book No. 1), St. Joseph County, IN, and South Bend Free Press and St. Joseph Advertiser, December 30, 1837, p. 2, both courtesy of John Palmer, St. Joseph County Public Library).  He died March 14, 1890 in New Boston, Wayne County, Michigan at the home of M.H. and L.W. Ellis [Myron Hawley and Lavina W. Burroughs Ellis] (Ellis Family Bible Record).  He is buried in Pleasantview/Soop Cemetery, Belleville, Michigan.

  According to a historical paper entitled “Seventy Years Ago” written by Danforth Keyes, Esq. for the Quobag Historical Society, included in a newspaper story in the Warren Herald (MA), April 4, 1952 (reprinted from Warren Herald, Feb. 5, 1897), ca. 1827, George and his older brother, Abner T. Burroughs, were blown into the brook when one of the buildings of a Powder Mill (a relic of the Revolutionary War) blew up (Lois Ellis’s Genealogy, p. 18).

  In 1830, George first purchased land from his brother, Abner T. Burroughs, with a mortgage (Bk. 275, p. 31).  In 1832, Tyler Burroughs deeded property to his sons, Abner Tyler Burroughs (Bk. 289, p. 260) and George H. Burroughs (Bk. 287, p. 170).  George Burroughs then sold his property back to his father later the same year (Bk. 289, p. 258).

A merchant and soldier of MA born parents, around 1832, George H. Burroughs migrated from Warren, MA to Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio through St. Joseph County, Indiana and Zanesville, Montgomery County, Illinois, and finally settled in Belleville, Van Buren Township, Wayne County, Michigan around 1845. He was in the mercantile business in Zanesville.  On August 26, 1836, as printed on Aug. 31, 1836 in “The Zanesville Gazette”, Col. George H. Burroughs acted as recruiting officer for the Army at the Muskingum County Court House, Zanesville, OH (Letter dated June 11, 2001 from Hilda E. Yinger).  According to Norris Scheider, Zanesville historian, George trained his volunteer soldiers with patriotic fervor for almost a year in the local school yard.  On the day of the troops’ departure, the town held a spirited parade, the highlight of which was the presentation of a patriotic banner made by the women of Zanesville to “Captain” George Burroughs.  In response, he is quoted as saying:  “So long as I have nerve sufficient in my arm to wield a sword, this splendid banner, emblem of hope to the world, shall never go into the hands of the enemies of Texas.”  (Lois Ellis’s Genealogy, p. 18)  His Company of Zanesville Riflemen was temporarily attached to 1st Regt. Permanent Volunteers, T.A. Col. Rogers Command.  Enlistment from Sept. 26, 1836;  His Dep:  H.Q. Camp Independence on Lavaca River, in what is now Jackson County, Texas.  On Feb. 2, 1856, the Legislature of the State of Texas issued to him by Act (Special Laws of the Sixth Legislature, Chapter XLIII) $1816 and a certificate for 852 acres.  As Col., he commanded a regiment in the Mexican War (1846-48).   According to the Descriptive Roll of the Zanesville Volunteer Rifle Company, he volunteered to serve in the Army of Texas, for the term of nine months, or during the War (Muster Rolls of the Texas Revolution, published by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, 1986, p. 230, courtesy Texas State Archives), issued December 24, 1836, Capt. Geo. H. Burroughs was born in Warren, MA; age 26 years; height 5-6/12 ft; hair, black; eyes, hazel; skin, dark; vocation, merchant.   (Also see p. 191 for Capt. Burroughs’s muster roll under his command). He fought in the BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO - April 20 & 21, 1836, and is listed in the rolls from copy of list of Burleson's Command made Apr 22, 1836 by Wm. Gorham, Clerk.  http://www.forttumbleweed.com/historyarmy.html

The 1840 Ohio Census shows a George Burroughs in Blue Rock, Muskingum County, page 370, however, he and Rebecca moved to Zanesville, Montgomery County, Illinois by the 1840 Census, Twp. L, p. 367 (“George H. Burrows” is listed as family #21.) (Lois Ellis’s Genealogy, p. 19; Ancestry.com  Illinois Census), line 12, with the following free whites:  1 male 15 and under 20, 1 30 and under 40, 1 female 15 and under 20 and 1 20 and under 30; 3 were employed in agriculture.  He and his wife are mentioned in the History of Montgomery County among “the early settlers” in Zanesville, Montgomery County, Illinois.  On Aug. 1, 1844, George H. Burroughs of Montgomery County, Illinois, obtained a patent for 40 acres in Edwardsville, Montgomery County, Illinois (Doc. #21493, BLM, GLO Records).

In 1844/45 he had moved to Belleville, Michigan from Zanesville, OH by a team of horses and wagon after the failure of his mercantile business.  On June 1, 1845, he was granted Power of Attorney for James A. H. Bell of Brooklyn, NY “for the management and conveyance of all real estate of said Bell in Michigan.”  It was revoked by Bell in 1857 (LR, Vol. 68, pp, 273, 584) (Lois Ellis’s Genealogy, p. 20).  George H. received a grant from James A. H. Bell and wife Lucretia of New York City on Feb. 22, 1848, for one acre in Van Buren Township (Vol. 35, p. 258) (Ibid.)  Between 1847 and 1864, George H. purchased over 320 acres of land in Wayne County, 120 acres in Huron Township and 200 acres in Van Buren Township.  He also bought several lots in Belleville (Ibid, p. 21).

In the 1850 Census, he is listed as “George Burrows” in Van Buren Township, Wayne County, Michigan, p. 832.  He is listed as a Justice of the Peace in 1850 in Belleville, Michigan, and in 1860 in the Belleville Business Director, he is listed as a “Druggist and Notary Public,” and listed as “Burroughs & Combs” in Belleville, and under the business heading, “Agricultural Implements, Manufacturers and Dealers in” in the Michigan Gazetteers and Business Directory, 1860.  In the 1860 Census, he was living in Van Buren, Wayne County, Michigan.  He is listed as the owner of a general store/druggist in Van Buren, Michigan in the Michigan Business Directory, 1863 and in the 1863 and 1875 Belleville Business Directories (“Water Under the Bridge,” pp. 26-27)).  He is listed in the 1870 Census (Belleville, Michigan on p. 466) as a merchant (real estate valued at $4000 and personal estate of $4000, which is considerably more than most of his neighbors).  On May 15, 1879, he and his wife, Rebecca Jane Burroughs, conveyed to Lucie E. Burroughs, all parties of Van Buren Township, Wayne County, Michigan, 320 acres in Milam County, TX, 320 acres in Hays County, TX and 263.50 acres in Hays County, TX for the amount of $500.00 (Vol. 98, pp. 8-10, Hays County, TX Deed Records).  In the 1880 Census (Van Buren, Michigan), he is listed as a retired merchant, and living with his wife, Rebecca, son George T, his wife, Lucy E., their son Earl G. (grandson), 2  tenant farmers, George Waygott [Maggott] (sic), 32, and George Spruce [Spence] (sic), 37, works on farm, and a servant, Nancy Smith, 13.  He was the son of  8. Tyler Burroughs and 9.  Anna Pratt.

 From “Handbook of Texas Online:”
BURROUGHS, GEORGE H. (?-?). [Capt.] George H. Burroughs, merchant and soldier, was a native of Warren, Massachusetts. In August 1836 he organized a company of cavalry in Zanesville, Ohio, [Company G] to help the Texans in their ongoing hostilities with Mexico. En route, at Portland, Kentucky, Burroughs's company merged with contingents from Ohio and Pennsylvania. At New Orleans a fourth company, from Norfolk, Virginia, joined the group for the journey to Texas. The contingent arrived at Matagorda in November 1836 and marched to Camp Independenceqv on the Lavaca River. The ladies of Zanesville, Ohio, had presented a battalion standard to Burroughs. The flag was composed of a field of light blue silk, a border of white silk and fringe, and a dark blue center with a gold five-pointed star superimposed. Above the star the American eagle grasped a streamer bearing the legend "Hero of San Jacinto." Burroughs resigned his commission four months after arriving in Texas and by August 1837 was back in Ohio. In 1838 he received a second-class headright certificate for land in Milam, Upshur, and Wise counties. In 1856 an act of the legislature ordered the General Land Officeqv to issue Burroughs a certificate for 852 acres of land.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Austin Daily Democratic Statesman, December 18, 1874. Hans Peter Nielsen Gammel, comp., Laws of Texas, 1822-1897 (10 vols., Austin: Gammel, 1898). Muster Rolls, Texas General Land Office, Austin.
L. W. Kemp

 
From “Flags of the Texas Revolution” The Handbook of Texas Online:
 There were three flags that flew after the revolution, one of which was the Burroughs flag.  “Capt. George H. Burroughs’s company of cavalry arrived in Texas in September 1836 carrying a flag presented by Mary Love of Zanesville, Ohio.  The Burroughs flag is said to have been light blue with a white border and the words “ZANESVILLE, OHIO” on the bottom.  It was fringed with gold, and in the center it displayed a dark blue rectangle with a gold star and the letters “TEXAS” between the points of the star.  Above the dark blue rectangle was a golden eagle holding a streamer bearing the words “HERO OF SAN JACINTO” – apparently referring to Sidney Sherman.  In December of 1874 the flag was said to be in the possession of the Austin Statesman, but its current location is unknown.  The central design of the Burroughs flag, a dark blue rectangle with a gold star and letters “TEXAS,” may be the origin of the mythical “Zavala flag” that is often described in books.”

From The Romantic Flags of Texas, by Mamie Wynne Cox, Banks Upshaw and Company, Dallas, TX, Chapter XVIII, “Captain Burroughs’ Flag of the Muskingum County, Ohio Volunteers”:
Co-owned the firm of Messrs. Patrick and Burroughs, Zanesville, OH.  1836/37, after the Texas Revolution, Capt. Burroughs returned to Zanesville and shortly removed to South Bend, IN.  During the Mexican War (1846-48), he served as Colonel commanding a regiment.  After the Mexican War, he located in Belleville.
 

5. *Rebecca Jane Bell, born 1806 (1807) in Belfast, County Londonderry, Ireland (1807 “County Derry, Ireland” per Ellis Family Bible Record), of Irish born parents.  Merchant.  She died on November 8, 1887, Van Buren, Wayne County, Michigan of paralysis at age 81.  According to the Ellis Family Bible Record, she died at the home of “Lev(?) T(?) Burroughs, Belleville, Nov. 8, 1887” (probably “Geo. T.”).  She is buried next to her husband in Lot 128, Pleasantview/Soop Cemetery, Belleville, Michigan.  Her large monument reads:  “Rebecca J. wife of Col. Geo. H. Burroughs died Nov. 8, 1887, in the 81st year of her age.  A native of Londonderry, Ireland.”  (There are 3 illegible lines below this.)  The daughter of 10.  James A.H. Bell and 11.  Lucretia N.  She was of South Bend, IN when she married George H. Burroughs in 1837, then to Illinois (by 1839) and Van Buren, Michigan by 1846. Robert Bell, her brother, as her Trustee, “receives a grant fr. James A.H. Bell & w. Lucretia A. of Brooklyn, NY.  Mar. 1 1848 to occupy during his (her?) lifetime 41.35 acres in Huron Twp.” (LR Vol. 35, p. 256) (Lois Ellis’s Genealogy, p. 20).  Rebecca purchased 120 acres in Van Buren Township from James A. H. Bell and w. Lucretia N. of Brooklyn, NY on July 12, 1853 (Vol. 49, p. 273).  Note that her death certificate – retyped recently, shows George and Elizabeth Bell as her parents.

 Children (6):

i. Anna E. Burroughs, born October 22, 1838 in South Bend, St. Joseph County, IN; died 1839 in Belleville, Michigan. Buried in Lot 128, Pleasantview/Soop Cemetery, Belleville, Michigan.
ii. John B. Burroughs, born July 16, 1841 (1840 per Ellis Family Bible Record) in Zanesville, OH; died in Sept. 1841 in Belleville, Michigan.  Buried in Lot 128, Pleasantview/Soop Cemetery, Belleville, Michigan.
iii. Lavina Whitside Burroughs, born July 10, 1842 in Zainesville/Zanesville, Montgomery County, IL.  She married Myron Hawley Ellis (born Nov. 27, 1841 in Saline, Washtenaw County, Michigan; died Nov. 22, 1906, 1:30 AM after an illness of four days in New Boston, Wayne County, Michigan) on October 26, 1864 in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Michigan by the Rev. G.P. Tindall, Minister.  Witnesses were John S. Jenness and Henry W. Moore. Myron was the son of Daniel Ellis and Calista Ellsworth.  Lavina lived in Warren, Michigan until age 15 due to her health according to her life story, however, she appears in the 1850 and 1860 Censuses with her family in Belleville, Michigan.  She is listed as “Lorina Burroughs”, age 8 in the 1850 Census living with Shubel Butterworth and wife Hannah, in Warren, MA (born in “Illinois”) see p. 15 below.  She lived with William, her son, in Detroit from 1906, after the death of her husband.  Lavina died on January 23 (25), 1927 in Detroit, Michigan.  Lavina and Myron are buried in Malett Cemetery, New Boston, Wayne County, Michigan.  Myron Ellis enlisted in the I Co. 7th Cavalry Regiment, Michigan on Aug. 14, 1862 (as Sergeant in Company B, 5th Cavalry) in Ypsilanti, Michigan as a First Sergeant at 21.  He was promoted to Full First Lieut. on Oct. 15, 1862 (7th Cavalry) (Register of Commissioned Officers, Michigan in the War, p. 822, Ancestry.com) and to Full 2nd Lieut. On Dec. 15, 1862 and to Full Capt. on June 6, 1863.  He resigned on July 30, 1863, honorably discharged (Ancestry.com – American Civil War Soldiers) (General Custer’s Brigade).  He was a three-term township supervisor and a Representative for the 32nd Session of the Michigan State Legislature. (Lois Ellis’s Genealogy).  After the birth of their two children in Ypsilanti, Lavina and Myron, lived on a farm at Lake Ridge, between Tecumseh and Mooreville Village.  In 1869, they moved to the farm near New Boston along the Huron River.  They gave a right of way on the property along the river for a railroad and built a home in New Boston (Village).  This property remained in the family until the mid 1930s (Ibid, p. 24).  In the Michigan 1870 Census, Myron Ellis, a farmer with $6000 real estate/$200 personal estate, with Lavina and children, William A, and Georgia L., and a servant and a laborer, were living in Macon Township, Lenawee County, Michigan, Roll 685-686, p. 327R.  In the 1880 Census, they were living in Huron, Wayne County, Michigan, with Myron H. Ellis, age 38, farmer, MI, or NY born parents, Lavina W., wife, 37, IL, keeping house (parents:  MA/Ireland), their children:  William Ellis, 14, MI, at school, Georgia Ellis, age 11, MI, Edward Nowland, other, age 24, a teamster, Nickolas Alexander, other, black, 44, VA, farm laborer, Martha Smith, other, 21, servant, and Edward Gilmon, other, 16, MI, farm laborer.  In the 1900 Census, same location, Myron was age 58, born Nov. 1841, married 36 years, a farmer who rented his farm, with Lavina, born July 1842, IL, age 57 (2 children; 1 living).  See her son below for her 1920 Census entry.

 Lavina W. Ellis, sister of Samuel W. Burroughs, signed an affidavit for him regarding his Civil War service.  It indicated that she married Myron H. Ellis while she was a student at the State Normal School in Ypsilanti, Michigan  shortly after his, Myron’s, resignation (1863) from service (NARA Pension Application File of Samuel W. Burroughs).

 The Detroit Free Press, Monday, January 24, 1927 (copy and transcription courtesy of Lois A. Ellis):

 “Woman Pioneer of Michigan Who Dies in Detroit (with photo)
 Mrs. Myron H. Ellis

 Mrs. Ellis, 85 years of age and a resident of Michigan for 82 years, died Sunday Morning at the residence of her son, William A. ELLIS, 2543 John R. St.  Burial will be at New Boston, Mich. On Wednesday at 2:00 p.m.
 Mrs. Ellis was born July 10, 1842 at Zainesville, Ill.  At the age of three years her parents moved to Belleville, Mich. In a covered wagon and engaged in the lumber business.  She spent most of her childhood in Massachusetts and married Myron H. ELLIS of Ypsilanti.
 Her son William has been a school principal in Detroit for 49 years and has been principal of Duffield school for the past 37.
 In 1862 Mrs. ELLIS moved from a farm at Lakeridge, between Tecumseh and Mooreville village to a farm which she owned at New Boston.  For the last 20 years she had lived in Detroit.”

Children of Myron and Lavina Ellis (2):

i.  William Austin Ellis, born Oct. 16, 1865 (Oct. 1866 per 1900 Census), Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Michigan; died Nov. 10, 1946, Detroit, Michigan.  He married Carrie Lida Goodwin on Dec. 31, 1889 at her home in Cassopolis, Cass County, Michigan (born Jan. 6, 1865, Detroit, Michigan (1867 per 1900 Census; died May 27, 1961, Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan; the daughter of Fairfield Goodwin and Mary Gordon).  They were divorced by 1920.  He was a teacher according to the 1900 Census, Wayne County, Michigan.  William’s address in 1916:  Duffield School or 1465 John R., Detroit, Michigan (SWB Pension Application File).  William, then of Detroit, witnessed Jane Burroughs’s Pension Application on April 7, 1916 and had attended his uncle’s Samuel W. Burroughs’s funeral.  In the 1910 Census, William A. was age 44, married 21 years, living in Detroit, Ward 1, Dist. 19, a principal in a public school, living with wife, Carrie, 44 (1 child/1 living); with son Don G., age 19, MI, a draughtsman in a factory.  In the 1920 Census, William E., was living at 1465 John Rd., Detroit, Distr. 44, Wayne Co., MI, age 54, a widower [should be divorced, see above], and school principal, with his mother, Lavina W., age 77, and two female lodgers ages 30 and 16.
In the 1930 Census, he was living on Mt. Vernon St. in Detroit, by himself (divorced), and was employed as a school principal  (Roll T626-1032, p. 1B, ED 27, Image 0393, Ancestry.com).  He was buried in New Boston, Wayne County, Michigan.  Carrie was buried in Oakhill Cemetery, Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan.

 Child:

i.  Donald Goodwin Ellis, born Nov. 14, 1890 in Detroit; died June 19, 1974 in Royal Oak, Oakland County, Michigan.  He married 1. Grace Aileen Schneider (aka “Aileen” Apollonia G. Schneider), the daughter of William Schneider and Louise Klein on April 15, 1920 (born Dec. 30 (20), 1890 in Detroit; died Dec. 30, 1948 in Detroit; buried Jan. 2, 1949, Holy Sepulcher C, Southfied, Oakland County, Michigan); 2. Alice Champion Kern on Oct. 26, 1956 (born 1894); 3.  Margaret N. Brohawn Hudson (b. 1894).  In the 1930 Census, he was a mechanical engineer in the refrigerator industry living on Main St. in Huron Township, District 1004, living with his wife and 4 children and a servant, Margaret O’Roarke (Wayne County, Michigan, Roll T626-1075, p. 15B, Image 0031, Ancestry.com).  His last residence was 48009 Birmingham, Oakland, Michigan; SSN:  366-01-2207. He was buried in Oakhill Cemetery, Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan on June 22, 1974.

  Children with Grace Schneider (4):

i.  Don W or M. Ellis, born 1921, Michigan
ii.  Shirley L. Ellis, born 1923.Michigan.
iii.  Lois Ann Ellis, born 1925, Michigan; of Warren, Michigan (see Sources).
iv. Georgiana Marie Ellis, born Sept. 29, 1929 in Detroit, Michigan; died June 27, 1933 in Detroit, Michigan.
 

ii.  Georgiana (Georgia) Lavina Ellis, born July 14, 1868 in Ypsilanti, Michigan; died age 36 on March 25, 1905 in New Boston, Michigan, at her father’s home at 2:56 AM, after a severe illness of ten months (Ellis Family Bible Record).  She married 1) George L. (A.) Earing II on Feb. 24, 1886 (born ca. 1864 in Ypsilanti, Michigan; died 1918), at her home in New Boston, Michigan.  He was listed in the 1913 Belleville Business Directory as a contractor (“Water Under the Bridge,” p. 30).  Note that a George Earing was the original land owner of Section 29, Van Buren Township in Wayne County, Michigan in 1831  www.usgennet.org/usa/mi/county/wayne.  She married 2) William Reed-Hill on Dec. 24, 1896, 1047 3rd Ave., Detroit, Michigan.
 
Child:
i.   Ellis Howard Earing Reed-Hill, born Aug. 8, 1889 in Belleville, Wayne County, Michigan.  He lived in California and worked for the coast guard (“Water Under the Bridge, p. 45).  He married Elise Dauplaise in Detroit on March 30, 1912 (b. Nov. 16, 1889; died Nov. 17, 1969).  In the 1920 Census, he was age 30, a Captain in the US Coast Guard, living in New London, New London Co., CT, Dist. 268, with his wife, Elise, age 30, MI (Canada/Canada), and son Robert, age 6, MI
 
  Children:
i.  Robert E. Reed-Hill, born Nov. 19, 1913, Detroit, Michigan; married Barbara Otte, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
ii.  Claire Leah Reed-Hill, born April 1, 1920, New London, CT; married Charles J. Dillman, Rochester, Michigan.
 

iv. 2.  George T. Burroughs, born February 9 (7 per Ellis Family Bible Record), 1844 in Jamestown (Zanesville), Montgomery County, Illinois.
v. Samuel Whiteside Burroughs, Esq. , born August 11, 1846 (Aug. 11, 1847 see date below) (Aug. 16, 1846 per Ellis Family Bible Record), in Belleville, Michigan.. He died on March 23, 1916 at his home in Detroit, Michigan (1004 Trumbull Ave.), 6th Ward, where he had resided since Sept. 15, 1908 (1891 per his Pension Application File), of nephritis of a one year duration per the death certificate in his Pension Application File.  He is buried in Lot 127, with his wife, Jane, and Samuel W. Burroughs, Jr, in Pleasantview/Soop Cemetery, Belleville, Michigan.
 He and his sister and probably, George, attended Michigan State Normal School (high school) in Ypsilanti, Michigan (SWB Pension File) .  He is listed as age 23, and a merchant in the 1870 Census, living in Belleville PO, Van Buren, Wayne County, Michigan, with his parents, George H. and Rebecca Burroughs, and his two brothers, George T. (25) and Henry C. Burroughs (21).  In the 1880 Census, he is listed as a lawyer and living in Belleville, Van Buren Township, Wayne County, Michigan, age 32, lawyer (parents:  MA/Ire.), with wife, Jane, age 27 (keeping house – b. MI – parents:  PA/NY), and Cora, age 12 (at school), MI, and Lotta B., age 2, MI.  He lived in Belleville, Michigan until 1891, when he moved to Detroit to 1004 Trumbull Ave. (SWB Pension File). In the 1900 Census, he and his family were living at 1001 Trumball Ave. in the 6th Ward, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, EDN:  66 (Roll 749, Book 2, pp. 22-23):  He was age 52, born Aug. 1847, MI (MA/Ireland), a lawyer, who owned his house free of mortgage, with wife, Jennie, age 47, born Dec. 1852, NY (Germany/Don’t Know), married 23 years, 5 total children, 3 living; and son, George H., age 17, born March 1883, MI, student, son Donald M., 8, MI, born Aug. 1891, daughter, Lotta Sweetland, born Feb. 1878, age 22, married 5 years to a musician, James Sweetland, age 32, born Nov. 1869, MI (NY/MI), also living with the family – they had no children and none had died.  A judge and author of a Civil War play, he was the Prosecuting Attorney of Wayne County, Michigan in 1891-92.  In the 1910 Census, Samuel W. was living at 1004 Trumbull Ave., Detroit, 6th Ward, Dist. 89, age 59, married 38 years, a lawyer, General Practice, employer, with wife, Jennie, age 57 (6 children, 3 living), Lottie Dicher, age 29 (0/0), married 2 years, with George Dicher, manager of a barber shop, George H. Burroughs, son, 27, single, a machinist, adding machines, and Donald M., son, 18, single.  In Aug. 1910, Frank H. Patton (10 years acquaintance) and Charles Jacobs (3 years) of Detroit, were witnesses for his Declaration for Pension.  In the 1920 Census, his wife, Jane Burroughs was the head of the family, owned her own home, widowed, age 65, born NY (PA/MI), no occupation; living in at 1232 Virginia Park, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, ED #444, with her son George Burroughs, 36, single, MI, clerk at the post office, with grandson, Harry Reynolds, MI (MI/MI), age 21, single, clerk at the post office, Lotta Descher, 38, MI, no occupation, George Descher, MI, son-in-law, 40, a barber in a barber shop, of German born parents.

 An American Civil War Soldier, he had enlisted on 3-25 (28)-1864 in Bellevue as a Private at 18 in I Co. 15th Inf. Reg. MI (Union). (See www.users.aol.com/dharvey130/15thcompi.htm)  He was promoted to Full Corporal on 3-30-1865.   Mustered out at Little Rock, AR on 8-13-1865.  Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers 1861-1865.

 Military Service (from SWB’s Pension File):

 He married Jane Steffy (Eliza Jane Steffy) (the former Jane Lewis, who divorced Henry Lewis on July 22, 1875) in 1876 (April 13, 1877, Royal Oak, Oakland County, MI per Pension Application File) in Belleville, Michigan (born 1857 in Belleville, Michigan (NY per SWB Pension Application File/Marriage Certificate).  Jane died April 17, 1927.   Jane’s last address was 2920 Euclid St., Detroit, Michigan.
 Company I of the Seventh Michigan Cavalry (of General Custer’s Brigade) – 7 mos. (Feb. 14, 1863 at Ypsilanti, Michigan through Sept. 15, 1863) under Capt. Myron H. Ellis (his brother-in-law), who was a second Lieut., then a first Lieut. And then a Capt. of same.  SWB enlisted Feb. 14, 1863, he enlisted as a private soldier under Capt. Ellis.  His cavalry uniform was double seated army blue pantaloons, blue jacket with yellow stripes and blue cap.  SWB accompanied Capt. Ellis to Grand Rapids shortly after he enlisted where the regiment rendezvoused before going to Virginia.  During late June, the Seventh MI Cavalry marched from Fairfax Court-House, VA, northerly with the army of the Potomac following up General Lee’s Confederate Army by way of Frederick, MD; thence following up the Cotoctin Valley towards Gettysburg and engaged in scouting.  General Kilpatrick took command of the Cavalry Division which General Custer at the head of the Michigan Brigade took the place of General Copland as Brigade Commander.  This brigade was engaged at Hanover, PA on June 30, 1863 with some of Stewart’s Confederate Cavalry and on the 2nd and 3rd of July, this regiment and brigade were on the extreme right of the enemy and on July 3 had a great Cavalry battle with the Confederate Cavalry at Rummel’s Farm.  General Greeg with his division of Cavalry and with Kilpatrick’s division and Custer’s Brigade had a great battle with the Confederate Cavalry under General Stewart and stopped the Cavalry Corps from getting into the rear of the army of the Potomac during the third and last day’s battle of Gettysburg.  On the morning of July 4 or 5, the 7th Michigan Cavalry regiment with the other part of the command followed up Lee’s retreating army and was engaged at Montri Gap and again on the next day at Smithsburg and at Hagerstown still following and driving the confederates who continued their retreat to and across the Potomac River at or near Falling Waters.  He took part in the entire Gettysburg campaign and served in VA, MD and PA until he was honorably discharged for youth middle of Sept. 1863 around Culpeper Court-House, VA.
 Company I, 15th Michigan Infantry  (“Army of the Tennessee” per SWB)- 18 mos. (March 28, 1864 through Aug. 13, 1865) in Georgia and the Carolinas during the winter months of Dec. 1864, and Jan thru March in 1865.  He reenlisted March 1864 under Major John B. Bell, a cousin .  Served through General Sherman’s entire military campaigns in GA (Atlanta) The March to the Sea, and the Campaigns of North and South Carolinas to the end of the war when he was again honorably discharged at Little Rock, AR on Aug. 13, 1865 (He became a Corporal during the Atlanta campaign).
 Final discharge from the Federal Army in August 1865.

  Samuel was listed as a lawyer in the 1881, 1890 and 1893 Belleville Business Directories (“Water Under the Bridge,” pp. 27 & 29).  According to various reports in his Pension Application File, he was between 5’ 7” and 5’ 10” tall, had blue eyes, dark hair and a light complexion, and weighed between 186-195 lbs. between 1891 and 1902.  According to his Pension Application File, he had only a family bible published in 1857 by American Bible Society, NY to prove his birth date.  In 1895, he claimed rheumatic ailments and pains of a neuralgic character off and on, kidney and heart disease as a result of his service in the Civil War.  In 1901, he claimed an Invalid Pension for sciatica and neuralgia pains, stiff joints and swelling of the knees, and affecting his back, kidney and bladder, with sciatic nerve pains in the buttocks and back of thighs.  A C.W. Lougheed and A.L. Nowlin of Detroit, Michigan, were witnesses.  A Jacob Lee had worked for the Samuel Burroughs family as of June 1893 for 16-17 years (SWB Pension Application File).

 His picture appeared in the following newspapers:
  Pontiac Gazette, June 27, 1902;
  Elk Rapids Progress, May 28, 1908;
  Grand Traverse Herald, June 5, 1908;
  The Detroit Times, August 29, 1908;
  Detroit News Tribune, March 28, 1909.
 
 In a letter dated July 5, 1908(9) from the Dept. of Michigan, Grand Army of the Republic, he had accepted a position of Judge Advocate.  In the Detroit Free Press dated August 24, 1908(9), he is referred to as a Senator.  His letterhead on a letter dated April 23, 1909 stated:
Sam’l W. Burroughs
Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Chancery
701 Whitney Opera House Block
tele, main 2081

 Note:  The Whitney Opera House (1887-1909) on Griswold, near Michigan Ave., became the Garrick Theatre in 1909.  Harry Houdini last performed there in 1926.  In 1928, the theater was torn down.   It’s noted that Lucy E. Burroughs’ father, Frederick Berlin, Esq. and his son, George H. Berlin, had a real estate business at 192 Griswold in Detroit in 1890.

  From “The Romantic Flags of Texas”:  Judge Samuel W. Burroughs was one of Michigan’s best trial lawyers and prosecuting attorney in Detroit.  He was an orator and speaker in Michigan and other states.
 He wrote a play for the stage:  “Herbert de Bazan; or, The soldier of the Tennessee, a tragical drama, in three acts,” published by The Tribune Printing Company, Detroit, Michigan, c. 1873, located in the Detroit Public Library Burton Historical Collection (Call #74 012 B925h – non-circulating). Mentioned as a “notable” and member of the “Silk Stocking Post” in “The Grand Army of the Republic,” The Detroit News, Jenny Nolan.
 
AUTHOR       Burroughs, Samuel W. (Whiteside), b. 1847.
TITLE        Samuel Burroughs collection, 1900-1910.
DESCRIPT     1 volume .1 cu. ft.
SUMMARY      This collection consists of a scrapbook, dating 1900-1910, kept
               by Samuel W. Burroughs. The scrapbook includes clippings about
               the activities of Burroughs as attorney, politician, speaker,
               and Civil War veteran. Also includes letters to Burroughs
               regarding G.A.R. matters. The collection is arranged
               chronologically.
NOTE         Samuel Whiteside Burroughs, son of George H. and Rebecca Jane
               (Bell) Burroughs, was born at Belleville, Wayne County, Mich.,
               Aug. 11, 1847. In the spring of 1863, he entered the army as a
               member of the 7th Michigan Cavalry, serving for 6 months, when
               the regiment was disorganized. He joined Company I. of the 15th
               Michigan Infantry. He was mustered out at Little Rock, Aug. 13,
               1865, returning to Belleville to study law. He was admitted to
               the bar in Dec., 1879. He had an office in Belleville,
               practiced in Detroit, and was elected prosecutor for Wayne
               County for 2 years. He was a member of the State Bar
               Association, a member of the G.A.R. Detroit Post No. 384, and
               of I.O.O.F. (International Organization of Oddfellows) In 1876, he married Jane Steffy of Belleville and they had 4 children, of whom 3 survived, Lottie B., George H. and Don M.   "Archives Control Number: MS 76-29."
             Guide describing collection is available in the reading room of
               the State Archives of Michigan.
SUBJECT      Burroughs, Samuel W. (Whiteside), b. 1847.
             Lawyers -- Michigan.
             Michigan -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans.
             Grand Army of the Republic. Detroit Post No. 384.
             Belleville (Mich.)
   State Archives (Hist Ctr)
 
 Samuel Burroughs Collection Scrapbook bio. courtesy of Sheila Wall and The Library of Michigan:

 “Biographical Sketch:
  Samuel Whiteside Burroughs, son of George H. and Rebecca Jane (Bell) Burroughs, was born at Belleville, Wayne County, Michigan August 11, 1847.  In the spring of 1863 he entered the army as a member of the Seventh Michigan Cavalry, which regiment afterwards became a member of Custer’s famous fighting brigade.  Mr. Burroughs served with this regiment for about six months.  The Seventh being temporarily disorganized through loss of numbers, young Burroughs was discharged and he joined another regiment.  He re-enlisted and forthwith became a member of Co. l of the Fifteenth Michigan Infantry and served with the regiment under General Sherman in all his campaigns, including the Atlanta campaign and the famous March to the Sea.  Mr. Burroughs was mustered out of the service at Little Rock, Ark., August 13, 1865, and returning at once to his home in Belleville, Mich., he resumed his schooling for an education, and afterwards commenced the study of law.
                  He was admitted to the bar in December, 1879 upon petition, after a rigid examination in open court before Judge Chambers.  The Detroit Post and Tribune of December 3, 1879, in speaking of his admission said:
  ‘Samuel W. Burroughs of Belleville was admitted to the bar upon examination in the Wayne Circuit Court yesterday.  The committee reported that he was admitted on motion to practice in the United States Court.’
  He at once opened an office in his native village where he practiced for a few years.  Later he was an active practitioner of his profession at Detroit and met there with much success.  During the years of 1891 and 1892 he was prosecuting attorney for Wayne County, Michigan.  Before his election to this office his colonel, in the Detroit Free Press of October 10, 1890, had this to say:
  ‘To the Editor of the Detroit Free Press:  I see that Samuel W. Burroughs has been nominated and is a candidate on the Democratic ticket for the office of prosecuting attorney for Wayne County.  It was my fortune to be a member of the 15th Michigan Infantry during its term of service in the late war, about two years of which I had the honor of commanding it.  Mr. Burroughs was a member of the regiment and was one of if not the youngest member of his company.  He was never absent from duty without authority; never under arrest, or subject to complaint or reprimand during his service.  He was present with his command and did his full duty in every battle in which he was engaged; was, in short, a meritorious, brave and faithful soldier in every respect.  I earnestly hope his old comrades who live in Wayne County will not only vote for Sergeant Sam, but will do their best to secure his election.  Fred G. Hutchinson, late colonel 15th Michigan Infantry.’
  Major John B. Bell of Toledo, Ohio, published a letter in the same issue, speaking equally praiseworthy of Mr. Burroughs as a soldier.  During his term of office and after he handled many notable cases, among them the famous Prince Michael (Michael K. Mills) case in 1893, which he won against great odds, not only in the Circuit Court before Judge Kinne for the county of Washtenaw upon a change of venue, but also as ex-prosecuting attorney in the Supreme Court afterwards.
  The Free Press of date of August 11, 1891, in speaking editorially of Mr. Burroughs as a prosecuting attorney and of the record and showing he had made as such official closed:  ‘Mr. Burroughs and the people are to be congratulated on this excellent showing.’
  This same paper of date February 18, 1893, in speaking of the Mills case, said:
  ‘The case was brought to the Supreme Court by the defendant’s attorney, John Atkinson, who set up 107 assignments of error.  These were ably responded to by the brief of ex-Prosecuting Attorney Burroughs, who argued the matter before the court for the people a week ago last Monday.’
  The conviction was affirmed.
  The Evening News of date of March 13, 1894, in reviewing editorially the record of Mr. Burroughs as prosecuting attorney said:
  ‘Mr. Burroughs’ record as prosecuting attorney is now known to all who care to study it.  It is one he may well be proud of.  According to official reports it appears that the business done was unprecedented.’
  After his term as prosecuting attorney Burroughs became a private attorney with a good and successful practice in the courts of Michigan.  He was a member of the State Bar Association, Detroit Post No. 384, G.A.R., and I.O.O.F.
  In 1876 he married Jane Steffy of Belleville, Mich., and they had four children, of whom three survived; Lottie B., George H. and Don M.”
 
 Detroit News Tribune, March 28, 1909, p. 20:

“Would Do Honor to Former Foes – Samuel W. Burroughs Takes Hand in the Erection of Unique Monument
Memorial at Jonesboro, Ga, Will be for Both Federal and Confederate Dead:

 Samuel W. Burroughs, who fought with the union forces in the civil war, has interested himself in the movement to secure funds for the erection of a monument to the memory of both the confederate and northern soldiers who died at the battle of Jonesboro, Ga.
 While on a recent visit south Mr. Burroughs attracted attention by the plea for mutual forgetfulness of past strife which he made in various addresses.  A few days ago he received a letter from Mrs. J.O. Hightower, whose husband, a confederate veteran, is among Mr. Burroughs’ warmest friends.  She outlined the plans afoot for the erection of a suitable memorial near the little Georgia town.
 Mr. Burroughs responded as follows:
 ‘Detroit, Mich., March 24, 1909.
 Mrs. J.O. Hightower, Jonesboro, Ga.
 Dear Madam – Your kind letter with articles from the Jonesboro Enterprise in reference to the project of erecting a monument on the battlefield of Jonesboro, fought Aug. 31, and Sept. 1, 1864, by and between the federals and confederates, to commemorate the memories of the slain, was duly received.  This was the last and culminating battle of the Atlanta campaign, which for endurance, valor and strategic movement, offensive and defensive, has no parallel in the art military.  Grand, brave and devoted as Generals Sherman, Johnston and Hood were, so were the subordinate officers and soldier boys on either side alike, heroic and self-sacrificing.  Of the 175,000 American boys in blue and gray who participated in that campaign, 75,000 at least martyred, immortalizing the names of the blue and the gray.
 The ladies of Jonesboro, including yourself, and the old boys in gray are to be congratulated in endeavoring to erect on this historic field a monument to be dedicated to the memories of the blue and the gray.  This will be the first one raised for like purposes, and, in so far as I know, the first to commemorate any of the battlefields of that great campaign between the boys in the blue under Sherman and those in gray under Johnston and Hood, and for it, God in his infinite goodness, will in my humble judgment, bless the patriotic ladies and citizens of Jonesboro and those who assist them in this noble work.
 I will heartily comply with your request and do all I can to aid you, individually and otherwise.  You will, however, pardon me for a suggestion:  remember that most of the officers, if not all of them, of high rank who participated in the great battles at your place are gone, and the members of the firing line, most of them, have likewise departed this life, so that it will depend largely upon the energies of the younger generation.
 Every American business man and every lover of his country, whether of federal or confederate effort, who knows of your project, and who ought to know now, that the ex-federal soldier and the ex-confederate soldier surviving recognize the prowess and the devotion to the cause each espoused.  The respect each has for the other as American brothers, proven by constitutional amendments since the conflict in which both were instrumental in bringing about, demonstrates this conclusion, and, therefore, all should aid you in every way possible to erect such a monument which will not only redound to your honor but to the glory of our united country.
Yours respectfully and fraternally,
Sam’l  W. Burroughs”

The Detroit Free Press, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 1909 “Tree Dedicated to G.A.R. Heroes:”
Samuel W. Burroughs is listed among those in attendance as “former prosecuting attorney”.  Excerpt:  “In an elegant address, Mr. Burroughs said it is his habit to spend his vacations on the field of Gettysburg and other spots he and others had ‘risked their lives in the vanguard of glory for the life of the greatest nation on God’s footstool.’”

Also, copies of the following articles by or about Samuel W. Burroughs are included in the NARA Pension Application File:

1.  “Teddy Not Peer of Washington, Nor of Jefferson, Cleveland or Grant, So Should Not Ask for Third Term”, The Detroit Free Press, March 24, 1912; and

2.  “Shows Up Errors Made By Colonel, Samuel W. Burroughs Quotes Law to Shatter Teddy’s Judicial Notions, No Possible Way to Rip Constitution, Differences in Roosevelt’s Utterances at Columbus, Chicago and Detroit Suggest Crawfishing,” Detroit Free Press, April 7, 1912; and

3.  “Civil War Heroes to Hold Reunion, Fifteenth Regiment of Michigan G.A.R. to Hold 21st Annual Meeting, Grand Haven to be Scene of Camp Fire and Samuel W. Burroughs to be Orator (includes photo of SWB), The Detroit News, September 19, 1912.

Other articles regarding Samuel Burroughs:
Detroit Free Press, Oct. 10, 1890; and
The Detroit Post & Tribune, Dec. 3, 1879.

Handwritten letter (3 pp.) on SWB's legal letterhead, dated Sat., Oct. 5, 1912.

"Hon. J. L. Davenport
 Commissioner of Pensions,
  Washington, D.C.

My Dear Sir:  You will undoubtedly remember me as the Comrade introduced
to you personally by our mutual friend the Hon. David W. Smith, member
of Congress from Mich - by letter in the interest of Comrade Ezra Taft
No. 73197 - some time last month; and thus you kindly allowed me the use
of his files in your office from which to make many notes - and after
briefed same for Congressman Doremus(?) Y. Smith to use in advocacy of a
special pension for Taft.  They succeeded.  He got his certificate one
day last week from your office.  Thanks and remembrance ever to you for
your kindness.    I was by this put in mind of the fact that I was
entitled to an increase under Act of May 11/12 for faithful services as
a campaign soldier - 7 months with 7th Mich Cavalry - discharged for
youth Sept. 15, 1863 - served through out the entire Gettysburg
Campaign.  Reenlisted in Co. I 15 Mich Infantry and served through out
the entire Sherman's Campaign in Georgia and the Carolines over 17
months - being discharged and mustered out at Detroit Sept. 1/65 -
serving a little more than two years.  So I send you with this my
increase serviceable claim for pension under Act of May 11/12 - which if
executed properly and legally please place on file to my credit, etc.
Enclosed find clipping of our last 15 Mich Infantry Reunion; also
clippings offering in support of the President, maligned, and against
Roosevelt, the Champion Grand Stander? of the world's history.  I am
afraid for Mr. Taft; because the candidates on his ticket for election
are afraid to come out and do their duty in his support.  They as a
formal thing speak only for their individual elections for fear they
will loose the support of the Republican voters in this state who are
foolishly Roosevelt inclined!!  And I presume this mistaken rule
prevails elsewhere.  I know if it had not have been for the Detroit Free
Press before the Chicago Convention Mr. Taft would not have had the
support of the Michigan delegation.  It's Editorials were good, well
written and absolutely in the interests of Mr. Tafts renomination and re
election!!  It's columns were open freely to well written communications
in behalf of President Taft as against Roosevelt - he would be Napoleon
if it were possible?  I like Taft because he hates war, and advocated
the grandest international peace arbitration with England, - Germany-,
France and ourselves -  Ever devised by the Brains and genius of
Statesmanship!  He advocated strenuously the enforcement of the Sherman
Anti Trust Law - which is absolutely enforceable in equity under proper
investigation, p ___tions and procedure in the Federal Courts against
whom-so-ever violates.  I wish he would make this the paramount issue of
his campaign and the Republican candidates would thus advocate his re
election from the stump and in the Press because of his faithful stand
in support of obedience to the Sherman Anti Trust Law.  I know all about
the history of this law from A to Z and therefore know of its worth in
protections to the millions of consumers of this Land - if enforced in
the Courts in their behalf as against the illegal workings of the Trust
confirms in violation of that law.  My God, I know from the
investigations going on in Washington in reference to the contributions
given in support of Roosevelt's election in 1904 establishes the fact
that he is a slave to monopoly of the wickedest kind.  I repeat I love
Taft because he hates war!  I have a right to judge thus.  I know how a
boy feels in blue and how the mistaken American boy in gray suffered.  I
saw it all.  Excuse this lengthy letter, but I got to writing and just
could not stop.  I hope you are well and hope you'll be able to retain
your position as long as you want it, because of your courtesy and
efficiency in this high office.  Believe me, I am yours in F.C.L., and
very Respectfully Samuel W. Burroughs." (SWB Pension Applic. File)

 Children (5) – 3 living as of the 1900 Census of Samuel W. and Jane Burroughs:

 i.  Cora Lewis, born ca. 1868 (1869), Michigan.  [Listed in the 1880 Census as “12” and a daughter of Samuel and Jane Burroughs, however per SWB’s Pension Application File, she was the daughter of Henry and Jane Steffy Lewis].  Died young?  Possibly married a Reynolds and had a son, Harry Reynolds, born ca. 1899, and living with his grandmother et al in 1920, a postal clerk, aged 21.
 Probable Child:
 i.  Harry D. Reynolds, born ca. 1899, Michigan.  Married ca. 1928, Lee _____.  In the 1930 Census, he was living at 305 Blaine Ave, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan in Distr. 308 in a rental unit ($60/mo.), MI (MI/MI), with his wife, Lee, aged 32, married at 30, born in IL of a French father and a Swedish mother.  Harry was a postal clerk, and Lee was a typist in an [illegible possibly Veteran _____].

 ii.  Lotta (“Lottie”) B, born Feb. 16, 1878, Michigan.   She married James Sweetland, a musician of Michigan (born Nov. 1867) in 1895 (no children as of the June 1900 Census; living with Samuel Burroughs’s family as of 1900 Census).  She still was married to him as of June 1898 (SWB Pension File).  Around 1915, she married George Descher, age 33.  In the 1920 Census, she lived with her mother, husband, George Descher, age 40 (born ca. 1880, Michigan), a barber in a barber shop, born of German born parents, her brother, George, and nephew, Harry Reynolds, age 21, in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, ED. #444.  Lottie Burroughs Descher (Discher), died 1936, and is buried in Lot 165, Pleasantview/Soop Cemetery, Belleville, Michigan.  She witnessed Jane Burroughs’s Pension Application on April 7, 1916 and had attended Samuel W. Burroughs’s funeral, and was living then at 1004 Trumbull Ave., Detroit, Michigan [current zip:  48216-1939, near W. Lafayette Blvd., several blocks north of the Michigan River], the home of SWB.  On May 5, 1927, she wrote a letter from Detroit to the Commissioner of Pensions regarding her mother’s death and signed it “Lotta Burroughs Discher.”  In the 1930 Census, she (Lotta) was living in Detroit on Euclid West St (house valued @ $10,000)., age 37, with husband, George Descher, age 48, and George Burroughs, her brother, age 43 and single.  Her husband spoke German and had German parents.  He managed a barbershop (Enum. 82-357, Super. District 4 20, Detroit Districts, 251-500, Wayne County, Michigan, Distr. 357).
  iii.  Samuel W. Burroughs Jr.  Born March 13, 1881; died March 5, 1882.
 iv.  George H. (Holland) Burroughs, born March 21 or 22 [2], 1883, Michigan.  Possibly died in 1947 and buried in Pleasantview/Soop Cemetery, Belleville, Michigan in Lot 276 (no headstone).  His WWI Draft Registration Card shows him as “George Holland Burroughs” born March 2, 1883, age 35, living at 428 Maidstone, Detroit (see Don Burroughs below), and a laborer with the US Government, Post Office in Detroit, MI.  His nearest relative was Mrs. Jane Burroughs, his mother, at the same address.  He was of medium height, stout build, gray eyes and brown hair.  He had no disabilities.  In the 1920 Census, he was aged 36, single, a postal clerk, living with Jane Burroughs, his grandmother, and the Deschers and his nephew, Harry Reynolds, in Detroit, Michigan.  In the 1930 Census, he was living (single) with Lotta and George Descher, his sister and her husband, in Detroit.  He worked in the post-office as a clerk.
 v.  Donald M. D. Burroughs, born Aug. 26, 1891, Belleville, Michigan.  A picture of Donald appeared in the Detroit Journal dated June 28, 1910 along with an article about his singing in a recital:
  “Elvin Singer will give his second operatic recital in his studio in the Gladwin building Wednesday evening.  Many of the friends of Donald M. Burroughs, on account of the large crowd that attended the first recital were unable to hear that young man sing and have requested that he be included in the second program.  Mr. Singer has consented and Mr. Burroughs will sing the romance “Zara” from “Havana.”’
 His WWI Draft Registration Card shows him as “Don Burroughs”, age 25, born August 26, 1891, Belleville, MI, living at 428 Maidstone, Detroit, MI, single, an actor working at Vaughan Glass Stock Co. and Alvin Theater, Pittsburg, PA.  He had no military service, and was medium build and medium height with blue eyes and brown hair.  .
 In the 1920 Census, he is listed as “Don Burroughs”, single, age 28 a lodger at the Berkshire Hotel on North Fifth St., Reading, Berks County, PA working as a theater actor.  He is listed as born in MI, father MI and mother NY (ED 73, Image 97, Roll T625-1537).
 *Note that a Don M BURROUGHS, Birth Date:    05 July 46; Death Date:    08 06 73; Gender:    Male; Residence:    Canton, Wayne, Michigan appears in the Michigan Deaths, 1971-1996.  Perhaps he is a son of the above Donald?  Interestingly, a Don Burroughs appears in several website reviews as a musical/Shakespearean theater actor in and around Philadelphia and other cities, 1997-2004.

vi. Henry C. Burroughs, born November 17, 1848, in Belleville, Michigan, a student, and listed as “cannot read” in the 1870 census.  He possibly moved to New York City or Brooklyn after 1870 and by 1880 per Lois Ellis.  He is not listed with his parents in the 1880 Census in Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan, but appears to be the Henry Burroughs living in New York, NY (Manhattan) NYC Greater, NY in 1880, age 31, MI, a news dealer of MA born parents, with Olive Burroughs, his wife, age 28, MI (born ca. 1852), keeping house (OH born parents), and son, Harry Burroughs, age 1, born NY.  Note:  There is a “Henry C. Burroughs” listed in Postsdam, St. Lawrence, NY, in 1890 (“St. Lawrence County, New York Directory 1890”, www.Ancestry.com
 Child:
  i.  Harry Burroughs, born ca. 1879, NY.
 

Generation No. 4

  8. Tyler Burroughs, born December 17, 1770, Warren, Worcester, MA.  He married Anna Pratt on December 17, 1797, Warren, Worchester County MA. The 1790 to 1830 Census Records show that he and family lived in Warren, MA (Lois Ellis’s Genealogy).  He is listed in the MA 1820 & 1830 Censuses in Western Township, Worcester County, MA; in 1830 with 2 males ages 5-9, 1 male age 50-59, 1 female age 5-9, 2 female age 20-29, and 1 female age 50-59 (all free whites).  He was a farmer and served the Town several years as Tax Collector.   He died January 22 (24), 1845, Warren, Worcester, MA and is buried there in Pinegrove Cemetery.  He was the son of 16.  (Deac.) David Burroughs (Jr.) and 17.  Hannah Blodgett.

 He first acquired land from Isaac Tyler in 1792 (Bk. 115, p. 481).
 In 1797, he purchased land from Dinty Partridge (Bk. 129, p. 644).
 1814 from John C. Cummings (Bk. 190, p. 589);
 1816 from Cyrus Huthins (Bk 200, p. 556);
 1822 from Rufus Fuller (Bk. 231, p. 114);
 1827 from Jacob Mansfield (Bk. 253, p. 496);
 1830 from Abner T. Burroughs (Bk. 274, p. 226); and
 1832 from Tim Jones (Bk. 289, p. 258).
 In 1832, Tyler Burroughs deeded property to his sons, Abner Tyler Burroughs (Bk. 289, p. 260) and George H. Burroughs (Bk. 287, p. 170).  George Burroughs then sold his property back to his father later the same year (Bk. 289, p. 258).
 1839 from John Burbank (Bk. 344, p. 501).
 
  He owned what is known as the Shepard Blair homestead on Maple Street on the Brimfield Road, and lived there between 1800 and 1837.  He then sold it to Mr. Blair.  Charles L. Combs, his great grandson, owns a colonial writing desk and combback Windor rocker belonging to him.  The Burroughs/Blair House is still occupied today, although it has been remodeled.  (Lois Ellis’s Genealogy, p. 15).  Sylvia G. Buck describes the house in her pictorial history of Warren, MA:  “Local tradition says the house was built by Hezekiah Marks (1704-1788) an early Warren settler for whom the nearby mountain was named.  When the foundation was dug, the plan was for a church (which would account for the long setback from the street) but that idea was abandoned, according to the Grace Combs papers at the Warren Public Library.  The town cemetery, ca. 1746 or earlier, is directly across the street. Tyler Burroughs lived here in 1825.   Shepard Blair bought the house in 1837.  He and his second wife, Mary Ann Bishop, supported the anti-slavery movement, frequently entertaining advocates of human rights such as William Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and women’s suffrage speaker, Lucy Stone.  Tradition says this house was a station on the underground railroad.” (Lois Ellis’s Genealogy, p. 15)

  9.  Anna Pratt, born December 18, 1773 (1774), Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA; died August 2, 1842 (1848), Warren, MA.  The daughter of 18. Daniel Pratt and 19. Mary Patten.  She is buried in Pinegrove Cemetery next to her husband and daughter, Louisa. (Lois Ellis’s Genealogy).

Children (all born in Warren, MA):

i. Louisa Burroughs, born May 16, 1800, Warren, MA.  Died August 6, 1805, Warren, MA.  Buried in Pinegrove Cemetery next to her parents.
ii. Hannah Ann Burroughs, born March 23, 1802, Warren, MA.  Married Shubel Peck Butterworth on June 28, 1820 (born 1798 in Warren, MA; and apparently deceased by the 1860 Census).  She died July 29, 1870.  In the 1850 Census, he was listed as a blacksmith with a value of $2000.  He and wife, Hannah, were living with Warren and Georgianna and John Whiting, age 50, a blacksmith, and Lorina (Lavina) Burroughs, age 8.  In the 1860 Census, Warren, MA, she was age 58, living with Warren G. Butterworth, her son, age 38, a blacksmith, with a RE value of $2500 and personalty of $300, with Sarah A., age 36, Eddie W., age 8, Albert P., age 5, Lillie C, age 2, Hannah, age 58, Frank age 6 and Georgiana, age 28, a Com S. teacher.  In the 1870 Census, in the same location, she was age 68, living with Warren Butterworth, age (4)8, a blacksmith, with $3000/$800 value, Sarah A., age 42, keeping house, Edgar W., age 18, apprentice tin smith, Albert P., age 16 at school, Lillie C., age 13, at school, Frank W., age 17, at school, Alona Nichols, a female nurse, age 55, May Seels, age 43, a servant born in Ireland (could not write), and John Beak, age 50, a blacksmith from Ireland.
  Children:

  a.  William Tyler Butterworth, born July 12, 1821, Warren, MA.
 b.  Warren Gleason Butterworth, born Aug. 28, 1822, Warren, MA; died before the 1900 Census.  A blacksmith. On  05/04/1845 (or 6/25/1845 City:  Brookfield, Worchester Co., MA) Married: COMBS, Cornelia Spouse: BUTTERWORTH, Warren G. City: Warren, County: Worchester  (Source: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Ut, Film # 0369735).  In the 1880 Census, he was living in Warren, MA, age 58, MA, blacksmith (parents:  MA/MA), with wife Sarah A., age 56, MA, house keeping, and children:  Edgar W. Butterworth, age 28, MA, marketsman, Albert P., age 26, MA, marketsman, Emma K., age 9, MA, and Fred E. Wilcox, 20, VT, a market clerk, other.  In the 1900 Census, Sarah, a widow, was living in Warren, age 76, born March 1824, MA of MA born parents (6 total children, 3 living), with her sister, Sophie? Keys, single, age 78, born May 1822, MA, and Wallis Hodge, a white female servant, age 46, and a widow from ME.  Sarah owned her house free of mortgage.
 Children (3 were alive in the 1900 Census):
  i.  Edgar (Eddie) W. Butterworth, born ca. 1852, MA, a marketsman.
  ii.  Frank W. Butterworth, born ca. 1853, MA.
 iii.  Albert P. Butterworth, born Sept. 1854, MA, a marketsman.  In the 1900 Census, he was living in Rutland, VT, a boarder, and manager of ____ co., age 45, born Sept. 1854, MA of MA born parents, with his new wife, Sena or Lena J., age 41, born Nov. 1858, MA, of MA born parents.  They had no children and were married less than 1 year.  In the 1910 Census, they were living in Beverly, Essex Co., MA, Ward 4, Dist. 272, Albert P., age 55, married 10 years, sales market man, needs, provisions, meat market; Lena J., age 51, (0/0) children.  He owned his house free of mortgage.  In the 1920 Census, same location, Dist. 20, Albert was 65, and a retail merchant of provisions on his own account, Lena or Sena W. was age 61.  In the 1930 Census, in the same location, Albert was age 75, married at 44, $8,000 home value (owned), none - occupation and not a veteran, with no radio, living with Lena, age 71, married at age 40.
  iv.  Lillie C. Butterworth, born ca. 1858, MA.
  v.  Emma K. Butterworth, born ca. 1871, MA.
  vi.  ?

 c.  Georgianna Butterworth, born July 25, 1832, Warren, MA.  A Com. S teacher, see above Hannah Butterworth for her census data.

iii. Abner Tyler Burroughs, born May 26, 1805 in Warren, MA.  He married Mary Coleman Rice on December 16, 1827 (born July 12, 1802, Brookfield, MA) in Warren, MA; she died Feb. 16, 1889, Chicago, IL, aged 86 years).  She was the daughter of Capt. Thomas Rice (1767-1847) and Sally Makepeace (1767-).  Mary had an aunt named Frances Fiske, a daughter of Capt. Thomas Rice (died Oct. 26, 1840, aged 70 years).  An A.T. Burroughs is listed in the 1840 Census in Warren, Worchester County, MA, p. 209; and an Abner Burroughs in the 1850 Census, same location, p. 63.  They moved to Chicago, IL in 1868, after Abner sold his farm and came to live with his daughter, Caroline in Chicago.  See their 1870 Census under George T. Burroughs below.  In the 1880 Census, he (A.T. Burroughs) was living in Chicago, Cook County, IL, age 75, MA (parents:  MA/MA), with Mary R. Burroughs, wife, age 78, MA (parents:  MA/MA), and servant, M. Anderson, age 25, Norway.  Interviewed on election day as he marched home from the polls, he boasted that at age 90, he was the oldest voter in the city.  Furthermore, he announced that “Since there has been a Republican Party, I have never voted any other ticket, and before that party was born, as an old-time Whig, I voted for straight Republican principles.”  (Tarzan Forever, p. 26).  He died on July 9, 1897, Chicago, IL, aged 92 years, 1 month, 12 days.  Mary Rice was related to Deacon Edmund Rice, one of the early Massachusetts pilgrims.  Clara Barton, Samuel F. B. Morse and Calvin Coolidge are said to be Rice descendants, also.  (Tarzan Forever, p. 26).

  Children:

 a.  Mary Louise (Louisa) Burroughs (“Louise”), born Dec. 5, 1828, Warren, MA.  DAR #13259.  She married 1) Fowler P. Taylor, Aug. 31, 1852 (He died Oct. 17, 1853, aged 32 years), and 2) Thomas Burrows on Dec. 15, 1873.  In 1863, she was living in Wheeling, Virginia and was the assistant principal of the Young Ladies’ Seminary (in Wheeling).   In the 1880 Census, they were living in Chicago, Cook County, IL, Thomas was 54, born in Ireland, a retired carpenter.  Mary, was 51, MA, and Anna Mahony, 26, Ireland, a servant, and Emma Lublad, 35, born Sweden, a servant.  Mary died September 15, 1896, aged 67 years, 8 months, 18 days. (Burroughs Genealogical Notes – Births and Deaths, Danton Burroughs, www.erbzine.com)
 b.  Sarah Ann Burroughs, born Oct. 7, 1830, Warren, MA.  In 1863, she was a teacher of drawing and painting at the Young Ladies’ Seminary in Wheeling, Virginia, and later, a teacher of drawing and painting in New York (Memoirs of a War Bride).  She died June 3, 1875, aged 44 years (Burroughs Genealogical Notes – Births and Deaths, Danton Burroughs, www.erbzine.com)
 c.  George Tyler Burroughs, Sr. , born Oct. 13, 1833, Warren, MA in a house owned by his father that was built in 1741.  He was six feet tall (Tarzan Forever, p. 28).  A Major in the Civil War (Union), he enlisted in New York infantry in 1861 and became a lieutenant and quartermaster.  He was discharged a brevet major in 1865. (Tarzan Forever)   According to the American Civil War Soldiers database on www.Ancestry.com, he was born Oct. 13, 1833; his service record:  Enlisted as a Private on May 3, 1861 at the age of 27.  He enlisted in 71st Infantry SM Regiment New York (Company G).  Mustered out on July 31, 1861.  Promoted to Full Lieutenant 1st Class on Nov. 13, 1861 (1st Lieutenant and Quartermaster as of 43rd NY Inf.).  Commission in Company S, 43rd Infantry Regiment New York on Dec. 16, 1861.  Promoted to Full Captain on April 8, 1863 (Capt. and Commissary of Subsistence).  Discharged for promotion on April 8, 1863.  Commission in Commissary Dept. Reg VO on April 8, 1863.  Resigned on June 22, 1865.  Promoted to Brevet Major on June 24, 1865.  Sources NY:  Report of the Adjutant General (NY Roster), 1894-1906; Commander of Illinois MOLLUS:  Deceased Companions (ILMOLLUS), 1923; Heitman:  Register of United States Army 1789-1903, (Heitman), 1994.  He married Mary Evaline Zieger on Feb. 23, 1863 in Iowa City, IA (born Nov. 10, 1840, IA [IN per most Censuses], the daughter of Josiah Zieger (1812 (PA)-1889) & Mary Coleman Zieger (1816-1889), he a Pennsylvania Dutch man born in OH (PA per 1900 Census), she born in IN (OH).  Mary was the daughter of John Coleman, an 18th century Virginia settler, and Edgar Rice Burroughs named his second son after him.  Just prior to their marriage, George worked in the woolen department of a large importing house in New York: Bliss, Wheelock and Kelley (“Memoirs of a War Bride”).  They moved to Portland, Maine, where he ran a furniture business, then they moved to Chicago, IL in 1868. In the 1870 Census, the family lived in Chicago, Ward 13, Cook Co., IL:  George T., age 35, a distiller, with a home valued at $40,000, personalty at $2000, born in MA; Mary E, wife, age 29, keeping house, born in IN, George T., Jr., born in ME, age 4, Henry S., age 2, born in ME, Emma Nixe, a white domestic servant from Norway, age 30, Mina Lasse, age 22, a female domestic servant from Norway, Thomas Crosby, 24, a domestic servant, born in MA, Henry R. Burroughs, age 33, retired, with a value of $20,000, born in MA, Abner T., age 31, retired, born in MA, Abner T. age 66, retired, with a value of $10,000, born in MA, and Mary R. age 68, at home.   In the 1880 Census, the family was living in Chicago, Cook County, IL, George “D.” Burroughs, age 46, MA (parents:  MA/MA), distiller, wife, Mary E., 39, IN, keeping house (parents:  OH/IN), and children:  George “D.” 13, ME, Henry S., 12, ME,  Frank C., 8, IL, Edgar R., 5, IL, and A.F. Burroughs, brother, 42, MA, livery stable, Mary “Dieger” [Zieger]mother, 63, IN, Margaret Flynn, other, 19, WI, servant, Mary O’Connor, other, 24, Ireland, servant, Edward Weldon, other, 21, IL, coachman.  George was a whiskey distiller and owned Burroughs Phoenix Distillery, which was  destroyed by fire in 1885 and the property sold in 1923.  He owned the American Battery Company, Chicago, IL.  In 1888-1890, their address was 646 Washington St., Chicago, IL (“1888-1892 Chicago Voters List – Ancestry.com.)  In the 1900 Census, they were living in Chicago, District 331, Ward 12, at 646 Washington Blvd., George T., age 66, owner of Phoenix Battery Co., Mary E., age 59 (6/4 children) (father born in PA, mother in IN), married 36 years, with Anna Trainor, a servant age 33.  In the 1910 Census, he was living with his brother-in-law, Charles S. McEntee and Caroline McEntee, in Chicago, Ward 21, Dist. 912 at 95 East Elm Street.  He had the first car in Chicago using his battery.  Involved in political, civic and social affairs.  He died Feb. 15, 1913, Chicago, IL, aged 79 years, 4 months, 2 days.  Mary wrote Memoirs of a War Bride.  Mary died April 5, 1920, Tarzana, CA of kidney disease, aged 79 years, 4 months, 26 days.

  Children:

 i.  George Tyler Burroughs, Jr., born Aug. 31 (29), 1866, Portland, ME.  He died June 8, 1944, Fontana, CA, aged 77 years, 9 months, 10 days.  He graduated from engineering school at Yale University in 1889.  He married Edna McCoy of Bellvue, ID in Minidoka, ID, Jan. 10, 1900 (She was born April 12, 1877; died in Oct. 1941 at a mental institution). In 1900, he was appointed by Governor Steunenberg to represent Idaho at the International Mining Congress at Milwaukee, WI.  He owned a hardware store in Burley, ID (1929).  Chi Phi Fraternity.
 Child:
 i. George Tyler Burroughs III, born July 1, 1905, Chicago, IL.  In the 1930 Census, a George T. Burroughs, age 24 (married 2 years, not a veteran), a hardware salesman, born in IL, father born in Maine, mother born in Oregon, is listed on Lovejoy St., Portland, District 13, Multnomah Co., Oregon with his wife, Sonoma, age 22, born in Idaho and “son”, Joyce, age 8/12 months.  George Tyler Burroughs SSN: 565075523 died on July 31, 1992 in Ventura, California – born July 1, 1905, Illinois, mother’s maiden name:  McCoy (California Death Index).  According to the SSDI, he last lived in Thousand Oaks, Ventura Co., CA 91360, and had his SSN issued in CA prior to 1951.  Sonoma Steele Burroughs was born on Sept. 14, 1907, Idaho, and died on Jan. 22, 1993 in Ventura, CA.  Her mother’s maiden name was Crabtree.  She had the same last residence as her husband.
 
 ii.  Henry (Harry) Studley Burroughs, born May 23, 1868, Portland, ME.  Graduated from engineering school at Yale University in 1889.  He married Ella (Nellie) Frances Oldham on December 30, 1891, Louisiana (Maryland per Studley’s 1930 Census) (She was born July 31, 1868; killed in car accident near Ann Arbor, Michigan March 30, 1933).  In the 1930 Census, they were living in Chicago, District 1846, 1335 Birchwood Ave., in a rental, both age 61, and married 23 years.  Ella’s parents were born in LA/IL.  Henry was an Assistant Treasurer in Insurance and was not a veteran.  (They owned a radio.)  He died Jan. 21, 1940, Quincy, Michigan, of sclerosis of the spine.  Chi Phi Fraternity.

  Children:
i.  Studley Oldham Burroughs, born Dec. 26, 1892, Chicago.  On April 22, 1919, his wife of only two years (Mary Becker) died in childbirth.  In March 1920 he rushed back to Chicago where his year-old daughter Margaret Mary had been stricken with spinal meningitis -- she died before he could reach her on March 31.  (ERBzine.)  From a second marriage, to Alice Armstrong, he had two daughters, June and Beverly.  In the 1930 Census, he has two listings:
1).  with Alice’s parents in Chicago, District 1197 at 1742 Kedzie Ave., a rental:  Harry F. Armstrong (Head), 45, a traveling laborer, married at 30, (parents both born in North Ireland), with his wife, May W., age 45, and their daughter, June, age 12, Studley is the son-in-law, age 38, an artist, working on own, and his wife, Alice S. Burroughs, age 23, married at 20.
 2)  In a rental on Leavitt St., in Chicago, District 1922, Studley is the Head, age 38, an artist (own business), married at 34, with wife Alice, age 24, married at 20, with their daughters (born in IL), June, age 2, and Beverly, age 1 6/12, and a white servant, Charlotte Saper, age 19.  He died of an embolism following an operation for a hiatus hernia on Dec. 23, 1949, aged 56 years, 11 months, 27 days.  Studley had illustrated four Burroughs novels: Tarzan the Invincible, Jungle Girl, Tarzan Triumphant, and Apache Devil (1931-1933).
 Children:
 i.  Margaret Mary Burroughs, born March 8, 1919; died March 31, 1920, aged 1 year, 23 days.
  ii.  June Burroughs, born July 29, 1927, IL.
  iii.  Beverly Burroughs, born July 25, 1928, IL.

 ii.  Mary Evelyn Burroughs, born March 12, 1895 in Chicago, IL.
 iii.  Frank Coleman Burroughs, born May 14, 1872, Chicago, IL.  He married Grace Stuart Moss on Jan. 24, 1900 (She was born Sept. 21, 1873, Chicago).  He died March 18, 1930, Wilmette (New Trier Township), Cook Co., IL, aged 57 years, 10 months, 4 days.  He Owned the Camplain-Yardley Co., a stationery manufacturing company, Chicago, IL and Sweetser-Burroughs Mining Company in Stanley Basin, ID (failed in 1904).  In the 1930 Census taken April 14, 1930 in New Trier Township, Wilmette Village, Greenleaf Div., Cook Co., IL, Distr. 2211, with the residence of 1204 Forest, his name is listed, but in the far right margin “died” is indicated:  “F. Coleman Burroughs, Head, owned home, $18,000 home value, age 58, married at 27, born IL (parents:  MA/IN), occupation:  None; wife, Grace, age 56, married at 25, born in IL (parents: Canada/CT), no occupation, with daughter Katherine, age 20, single, IL a clerk for a gas utility, and mother-in-law, Leonora Moss, age 87, widow, born in CT of CT born parents.
 Children:
 i. Grace Stuart Burroughs, born Oct. 6, 1904, Chicago.  She married Robert Boyd-Robertson (born Nov. 30, 1900).
  Children:
  i.  Coleman Boyd-Robertson, born June 30, 1928.
  ii.  Grace Stuart Boyd-Robertson, born Sept. 18, 1931.

 ii. Marjorie Burroughs, born Aug. 15, 1908, Chicago, IL; died June 21, 1909, aged 10 months, 6 days, Chicago.
 iii. Kathryn/Katherine Moss Burroughs, born Sept. 4, 1909, Chicago.
 iv.  Arthur McCulloch (McCullough) Burroughs.  Born February 25, 1874 & died March 9, 1874, Chicago, IL (lived only 12 days).
 v.  Edgar Rice Burroughs, born Sep. 1, 1875, Chicago, IL  Married 1)  Emma Centennia Hulbert (born Jan. 1, 1876, Chicago, divorced 1934; died Nov. 5 (10), 1944 – depression/alcoholism, aged 68 years, 10 months, 9 days) on Jan. 31, 1900; 2)  Florence Ashton Dearholt on April 4, 1935, Las Vegas, NV (divorced 1941).  Author of the Tarzan series and creator of the town ,Tarzana, CA. The godfather of American/modern science fiction.  He died March 19, 1950 (angina, arteriosclerosis and Parkinson’s Syndrome (paralysis agitans)), Encino, CA, aged 74 years, 6 months, 18 days.  He was cremated at the Chapel of the Pines in Los Angeles, CA.  In the 1900 Census, he was living in Chicago, Ward 13, West Town, Enum. Dist. 412 at 194 Park Avenue, at his mother-in-law’s house:  Emma Hurlbert (head), born July 1860, age 49, a widow, born in NY (MA/NY) who owned her house free of mortgage (5/4 children), Edgar R. Burroughs (son-in-law), , born Jan. 1876, IL (England/England!), age 24, married less than 1 year, an electrician, with wife, Emma C., born July 1876, IL (MA/NY), age 23, Julia Ann Drake, Emma (Sr.)’s mother, born May 1823, age 77, a widow, born in NY (CT/CT), Warren Nicols, son-in-law, 30, IL, a lawyer, and his wife, Jessie D. Nicols, age 29, IL, married 1 year with no children, along with the following servants:  Mathau Jackson, a cook, age 50, Jennie Lawson, a servant girl, age 24.   In the 1910 Census, Edgar R. Burroughs was living in Chicago, 20th Ward, Distr. 865, at 1957 Washington Blvd., in a rental, age 34, married 10 years, the manager of a mail order house, with wife and chidlren, Emma C., age 34 (2/2 children), Joan, age 2, IL and Hulbert, age 9/12 mos. IL.  Edgar Rice Burroughs WWI Draft Registration Card lists him in Oak Park, IL, age 43, born Sept. 1, 1875, a writer working for himself in Oak Park, with wife, Emma Hulburt Burroughs.  He is listed as tall and stout with brown hair and eyes.  In the 1920 Census, Edgar Rice Burroughs was living on a farm in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA, Enum. Dist. 131, Precinct 668, on Ventura Road, age 44, IL a fiction writer, general farm, with wife, Emma H., age 44, IL, Joan, daughter, 12, IL, Hulbert, son, 10, IL, and John C., son, 6, IL, along with the following staff:  John A.G. Shea, Secretary, business manager ranch, age 26, born in IN, Matilda Eisenschmidt, 38, maid, born in Russia, Hulda J. Erickson, 44, hired woman/cook, born in Sweden, David N. Ohrland, hired man, chauffeur, age 33, born in Sweden, and Gerrit Roest, hired man, age 30, gardner, born in Holland.  In the 1930 Census, he was living in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA, Dist. 1598, Enum. Dist. 19,  in a rental on Mecca Street, age 54, married at 24, born in IL (MA/IN), President, Literature; with wife, Emma H., age 54, married at 24, IL (NY/NY), Vice President, Literature; with sons Hulbert, 20, single, IL, no occupation; and John C., son age 17, IL, no occupation, with the following staff (all white and married):  Carl G. Dickel, age 34, cook, born in Berlin, Germany, and his wife, Bernice, domestic servat, age 23, Jules C. Barnes, a chauffeur, age 27, and Robert Helm, a hostler, age 41.

  Children:
 a.  Joan Burroughs, born Jan. 12, 1908, Chicago, IL.  Died Dec. 31, 1972.  She married James H. Pierce (born Aug. 8, 1899 (1900); died at 83 on Nov. 12, 1983, the Tarzan of the silent screen and radio; football coach at Uof A).
 Children:

 i.  Joanne Burroughs Pierce (Mrs. Charles Anselmo, Jr.), born Dec. 24, 1929, Hollywood, CA.
  ii.  James Michael Pierce, born Aug. 13, 1934.
 b.  Hulbert (“Hully”) Burroughs, born Aug. 12, 1909, Chicago.  Combat photographer.  Captain in the army.  He married Marian (Marion) Thrasher (born Feb. 16, 1918).  He died Aug. 8, 1991 of a heart attack.
 c.  John (Jack) Coleman Burroughs, born Feb. 28, 1913, Chicago.  He married Jane Ralston (born Dec. 8, 1913-2002) on Dec. 12, 1936.  Jack contracted Parkinson’s Syndrome in 1961 and died on Feb. 22, 1979.
 Children:
  i.  John Ralston Burroughs, born on June 22, 1942.
  ii.  Danton Burroughs, born June 21, 1944.
  iii.  Dian Burroughs, born June 17, 1948.

 vi.  Charles Stuart Burroughs.  Born August 15  1881, Chicago, IL.  He died 5 months later, Jan. 18, 1882.  Named after Caroline Burroughs’s husband, apparently.
d.  Henry Rice Burroughs, born April 11, 1836, Warren, MA.  He married Mary E. Trull on Oct. 24, 1876.  He was living with George T. Burroughs in Chicago in the 1870 Census.  (See above).  He died March 18, 1904, Chicago, IL, aged 67 years, 11 months, 7 days.
e.  Abner Tyler (Thomas) Burroughs, born June 10, 1838, Warren, MA.  He was living with George T. Burroughs in the 1870 Census in Chicago.  See above.  He died March 17, 1883, age 44 years.
f.  Caroline Studly Burroughs, born Nov. 12, 1843, Warren, MA.  In 1863, she was a student living in Wheeling, Virginia, pursuing French and music (“Memoirs”).  On Dec. 21, 1865, she married Charles Stuart McEntee, born Dec. 1839, NY, and a Captain in the Civil War (Memoirs of a War Bride – ERBzine website).  She died Dec. 18 (12), 1913, Chicago, IL, aged 72 years, 1 month.  DAR #13256.  In the 1880 Census, she, age 36, MA, at home (parents:  MA/MA) and husband, Chas. S. McEntee, age 40, NY, a distiller, and children:  Chas S., age 10, NY and Douglas, NY, age 4, were staying at a hotel in 3rd Ward, Des Moines, Polk County, IA.  In the 1900 Census, Charles McEntee, was living in Chicago, Ward 24, Dist. 710, in a rented house at 566 Division St., age 60, born Dec. 1839, NY (NY/VT), with wife, Caroline S., age 56, born Nov. 1843, MA (MA/MA) (“0/0” children), with servants, Belinda Kearns, 22, and Mary Murphy, 28, a dressmaker.  In the 1910 Census, Charles S. McEntee, head, was living in Chicago, Ward 21, Dist. 912 in a rented house at 85 East Elm Street, age 70, married 44 years, NY (NY/VT), no occupation (own income), with wife, Caroline S., age 66, MA (MA/MA), (2/0 children), and her brother, George T. Burroughs, lodger-head, age 76, married 47 years, MA (MA/MA), no occupation, own income, with his wife Mary E. Burroughs, age 69, IN (PA/OH) (6/4 children), and two single Irish servants/housemaids, Kate Sheridan, 30, and Bessie Doughall, 35.
Children:
 i.  Charles Stuart McEntee, Jr., born November 6, 1869, NY.  He died April 29, 1897, aged 27 years, 5 months 23 days. (Burroughs Genealogical Notes – Births and Deaths, Danton Burroughs, www.erbzine.com)
ii.  Douglas McEntee, born March 24, 1876, NY.  He died July 30, 1904, aged 28 years, 4 months, 6 days (Ibid).

iv. 4.  George Holland Burroughs, born April 28, 1807, Warren, Worcester, MA.
v. Cynthia Rich Burroughs, born January 7, 1810 in Warren, MA.  Married Levi Combs on June 1, 1830 (born ca. 1806 in Warren, MA), Warren, Worcester County MA.  In the 1840 Worcester MA Census Index – Warren, the following men are listed:
210 Levi COMB
210 David COMBS
212 Levi COMBS
212 John COMBS
215 Daniel COMBS
 In the 1850 Census Warren, Worcester Co., MA Roll 341 p. 49a (transcribed by Deb Coombs), the following people are listed:
Cynthia COMBS, 40, F, farmer, $4500, MA
Eunice, 79, F, MA [probably Levi’s mother]
George, 16, farmer, M, MA, attended school within the year
John, 14, M, MA, attended school within the year
(Amedon TREND?), 20, laborer, NY, attended school within the year
Mary TUCKER, 22, F, NH   http://www.combs-families.org/combs/records/ma-worc.htm
 In the 1880 Census, Cynthia was living in Warren, Worcester, MA age 70, with her son, John T. Combs, 44, MA, farmer, and his wife, Mary A. Combs, 42, MA, house keeping, and their son, Charles L. Combs, 17, MA, Frank C. Sizer, other, farm laborer, white, 25, MA.  Cynthia died May 10, 1890, Warren, MA and is buried there in Pinegrove Cemetery. (Lois Ellis’s Genealogy).
 Children:
  i.  George Combs, born ca. 1834, MA.
 ii.  John T. Combs, born ca.1836, MA; died before the 1910 Census.  A farmer.  He married Mary Augusta _________, born ca. 1838, MA (died after the 1920 Census and before the 1930 Census).  See his mother above.  In the 1900 Census, John T. Combs, age 64, born May 1836, MA (MA/MA), married 41 years, was living in Warren, Worcester Co., MA, Dist. 1696, with wife, A. Mary, age 62, born April 1838, MA (MA/MA), (1/1 child), and son L. Charles, age 37, single, born Oct. 1862, MA.
  Child:
 i.  Charles L. Combs, born Oct. 1862, MA.  In the 1910 Census, Charles L. Combs (head), was living in Warren, MA, Dist. 1833, age 47, single, a farmer, who owned his farm free of mortgage, with Mary A., his mother, age 71, a widow, and Grace J. Gould, 18 a servant – housework, single.  In the 1920 Census, he was living in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA, Dist. 139, age 57, owned his house free of mortgage, no occupation, with his wife, Grace D., age 27, MA, and Charles W., son, age 5, MA, and his mother, M. Augusta, 81, a widow.  In the 1930 Census, Charles was living at 32 Dartmouth St., in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA, Distr. 55, owner of his home, valued at $12,000, with a radio, no occupation, age 67, married at 52, and his wife, Grace D., age 38, married at 22, no occupation, and their son, Charles W., age 15.
 Child:
  i.  Charles W. Combs, born ca. 1915, MA.
 

10.  James A.H. Bell, born 1781 in Ireland (per Lois Ellis). He died after 1857, possibly in Brooklyn, NY.  George Bell per Rebecca’s death certificate.  “The name of James A. H. Bell was indelibly written into the history of the town (Belleville, Michigan) when he came here and built a dam and operated the first grist mill.  His brother William kept the first store in a little white building which is still standing on Main Street.  It is recorded that James Bell purchased lots 32, 33 and 35 from John B. and Maria Louise Graham in 1841, for $10,000 (possibly of the Berlin line? Note that the widow of John Bell is listed at 631 First Ave., NY, 1890 (NYC Directory, 1890)).   A John B. Graham, age 66, born Scotland, is listed in the 1850 Census in Brooklyn.   A white lead Manuf ($63,000 Rev) in Ward 2 (Brooklyn) – appears to be a business address.
 Previous to the coming of Mr. Bell no town had existed on the site of the present village of Belleville….  A post office was established here in 1845 and William Bell was the first postmaster….  James Bell sold out in 1846-1847 to George D. Hill and moved to Toledo, Ohio.  A number of his kinfolks still live there.  The Bells were related on the maternal side, to George H. and Samuel W. Burroughs, both well known and well remembered by citizens of the town today.”  (Samuel Robbe, DDS, History of Van Buren Township, Wayne County, Michigan, 1930, in Lois Ellis’s Genealogy, pp. 19-20).  In 1837, he employed several men to build a grist mill on the banks of the Huron River in Belleville.  It is believed that this mill stood approximately where Hayward’s Store now stands.  It survived well into the twentieth century, becoming known through the passage of the years, as “the old red mill.”  The mill was later owned by Robert Clark (who helped build the mill) and Daniel Lace Quirk (Water Under the Bridge, pp. 369-370).  William Bell operated Belleville’s first post office in 1845.  It is one theory that the town is named after the two brothers, and additionally, the first plat recorded to create Belleville used the spelling “Bellville” (Ibid, pp. 20-22).  William Bell, the brother of James Bell,  is buried in Pleasantview Cemetery in Belleville, Michigan.  “William it is reported by one historian, operated the first store and the first post office in Belleville about 1845.  Some say the City of Belleville is named for the two Bell brothers, as they were among the very first to come to the area and go into business – William with the store and James with a mill he built by putting a dam across the river.”  (Ibid, p. 529).

 A William Bell of Monroe County, Michigan, obtained a patent for 78.4 acres in Monroe, Michigan on June 15, 1837, Doc. #10425, BLM, GLO Records, and other patents between 1835-1839.
 A William Bell is listed in the June 16, 1870 Census in Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan, born in Ireland, of foreign-born parents, age 41, an engineer and US citizen, with $1000 in real estate and $150 in personal estate.  He had a wife, Sarah, A, age 31, born in MI, and children, all born in Michigan:  Mary E., age 6, Agnes M., age 4, Edna N., age 1.

 According to the Land  Records of Wayne County, Michigan in Lois Ellis’s Genealogy, p. 20, in October 1841, James A. H. Bell made two major land purchases in Wayne County, Michigan from John B. Graham of Brooklyn, NY:
 1.  144.84 acres in Van Buren Township (LR Vol. 20, p. 315); and
 2.  1,480.75 acres in Huron Township (LR Vol. 20, p.448).
 On Jan. 20, 1843, he sold 80 acres of the Huron Township land (LR Vol. 45, p. 512); and on July 6, 1843, Bell bought an additional 5 acres in Van Buren Township (LR Vol. 23, p. 69) for a total of about 1,540 acres of property in Wayne County, Michigan (Ibid.).
On June 1, 1845, George H. Burroughs was granted Power of Attorney for James A. H. Bell of Brooklyn, NY “for the management and conveyance of all real estate of said Bell in Michigan.  The following year, on July 4, 1846, Bell granted Wedworth Clarke of Monroe County, Power of Attorney of all real estate of said Bell in Michigan (Vol. 28, pp. 489, 509) (Lois Ellis’s Genealogy, p. 20).  Bell then revoked the Power of Attorney of Wedworth Clarke in 1855, and George Burroughs in 1857 (LR Vol. 68, pp 273, 584) (Ibid.). George H. Burroughs received a grant from James A. H. Bell and