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From: paulahurst <>
Subject: Burleson History
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 06:59:22 -0500

We were asked to post something to the board, and I am going to post
some information that I got from the late H.L. Burleson, who was very
active in researching the Burleson family. He was the son of Jonathan
Orr Burleson, Grandson of Dabney Burleson. Jonathan Burleson was the
Captain of the "Minute Men" in Huntsville Alabama about 1812. He fought
in the Creek War and at Horsehoe Bend with Sam Houston and General
Andrew Jackson. He married Elizabeth Byrd on Sept 15, 1813. As a result
of his services in the War of 1812, he was offered a land grant and took
it along the Flint Creek in Morgan Co Alabama. He had five sons and
seven daughters by Elizabeth. Rufus and Richard, two of these sons,
became Baptist Ministers and went to Texas. Dabney, another son, stayed
in Alabama and was in service under General Nathan Bedford Forrest in
the Civil War. One daughter, Martha, married Jonathan Orr of Danville
Alabama. Dabney Adair Burleson married Sally Orr, brother of the
Jonathan Orr, who married Martha Burleson. Dabney lived in Mountain
House, which was built by his father in 1841. He served in the Civil War
and was captured by the Yankees near Vaughn Bridge but escaped in less
than an hour by jumping his horse off a bluff just a short distance SW
of Snow Hill. His father died in 1866 and a few years later Dabney got a
part of the old homplace near flint. He had four daughters and one son.

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