Burton family from Garrard, Madison and Jessamine Co., Ky.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy House Perry on August 20, 2009 at 2:25pm

Mary E. Burton

Permalink Reply by Nancy House Perry on August 22, 2009 at 1:51pm

Minnie Burton House1878 - 1957

Minnie was the daughter of Allen A. Burton and Sophroni Cobb. She married Lindsey House on November 30, 1893, in Jessamine County, Kentucky. Minnie and Lindsey had two sons, Oakley and Burton. Oakley House was born 1903 and died 1970. Burton House was born November 30, 1894 and died May 03, 1971.

Permalink Reply by Nancy House Perry on August 22, 2009 at 3:05pm

Benjamin Franklin Burton, 53, died at the home of his son, Worley C. Burton, on the Logana Road, Aug. 19 (1947), after several weeks illness. He was a son of the late Milford and Lizzie Willis Burton, and is survived by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Burton; a daughter, Mrs. Raymond Jacobs, of Nicholasville; three grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Leonard Woods, of Lancaster; two brothers, Forrest and Virgil Burton, of Jessamine County. The body was removed to the home of his brother, Virgil Burton, where the funeral services will be conducted Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, and burial will be in Maple Grove Cemetery.

Permalink Reply by Nancy House Perry on August 22, 2009 at 3:06pm

Mrs. Ethel English Burton, 68, of Nicholasville, Ky., widow of Franklin Burton, died at 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 13, (1966) at the Good Samaritan Hospital, Lexington, after a short illness. She was a member of the Mt. Lebanon Methodist Church, a member of the church board and the Women's Society of Christian Service. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Raymond Jacobs, Nicholasville, a son, Worley C. Burton, Jessamine County, five sisters, Mrs. Clarence Robinson, and Mrs. Edward Johns, Nicholasville, Mrs. Oakley Lee, Welsh, La., Mrs. Vivian Ford, Chicago, Mrs. Cleo Jones, Hamilton, Ohio, two brothers, Buell English, Nicholasville, and Davis English, Hamilton, Ohio; and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Guyn, Kurtz and Hager Funeral Home by the Rev. William B. Coker and the Rev. Gene Folsom. Burial will be in the Maple Grove Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Kenneth Johns, Victor Robinson, Bobby Gene English, Bobby Lawrence Burton, Wayne Woods, Virgil T. Burton, Billy Mike Jacobs, and Tommy Burton.

Murrell Burton, the two year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Burton, of Mt. Lebanon, died at their home Sunday night (May 2, 1921). The funeral was held at the late residence Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock, conducted by Rev. W. I. Peel. Interment in Maple Grove Cemetery.

Permalink Reply by Nancy House Perry on August 22, 2009 at 3:07pm

Worley Burton, 71, Taylor Ridge Road, husband of Loretta Cobb Burton, died Jan. 13 (1995) at Humana Hospital. He was the son of the late Franklin and Ethel English Burton and was a farmer. Survivors other than his wife include a son, Tommie Burton and his wife, Jane; two daughters, Sue C. Reed and Marcia Wooten and her husband, John; his granchildren Steve Burton, Shaun Reed-Muncy and her husband, Brent, Erica Reed and Kaitlyn Wooton; step-grandchildren Amy Watts-Boone and her husband, Doug Boone, and Bobby Watts and his wife, Missy; a great-grandson, Will Muncy; a sister, Irene Jacobs; a nephew, Bill Jacobs, his wife, Susan, and their daughter, Ashton. Services were held Jan. 16 at the Guyn, Kurtz, Hager and Cundiff Funeral Home with Dr. Robert Mallory and Hugh Delaney officiating. Burial was in the Maple Grove Cemetery, Jessamine County, Ky. Family and friends served as active and honorary pallbearers.

Permalink Reply by Nancy House Perry on August 23, 2009 at 10:44am

Benjamin Franklin Burton

buried Maple Grove .. Son of Milford Burton and Rebecca Elizabeth "Lizzie" Willis, Husband of Ethel English, Father of Irene L., Murrel, and Worley C. Burton.

Permalink Reply by Nancy House Perry on August 22, 2009 at 4:26pm

Christine Burton Tremere, 56, wife of William F. Tremere, died unexpectedly Friday, March 31, (1967) at her home at 1126 Providence Road, Lexington. A native of Nicholasville, she was a daughter of the late Hazard and Mary Lavery Burton. She attended Cardome Visitation Academy in Georgetown and was a member of the Christ the King Catholic Church. Besides her husband she is survived by two sons, William Gregory Tremere, Lexington, and William Gayle Snider, with the U. S. Navy in Vietnam, a daughter, Mrs. John Rall, Marion, Ohio; two brothers, John Burton, St. Louis, Mo. and Robert Burton, Tulsa, Okla.;

Permalink Reply by Nancy House Perry on August 23, 2009 at 10:43am

Allen Alcorn BurtonBirth: Mar. 17, 1840 Kentucky, Death: Oct. 24, 1912 Jessamine County Kentucky
son of A. A. Burton. His wife was Sophronia Cobb. Burial: Pleasant Hill at Elm Fork Little Hickman Jessamine County Kentucky

Permalink Reply by Nancy House Perry on August 23, 2009 at 11:04am

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed.,
1887, Jessamine Co.

ALLEN A. BURTON, a native of Jefferson County, Ind., was born March 17,
1840, and is the youngest son of Allen and Elizabeth (Williamson)
Burton, the father a native of Virginia, and the mother born in the
Cherokee Nation when her parents were traveling through the Indian
Territory. Allen A. Burton, at the age of two years, was brought by his
parents to Garrard County, Ky.; in 1859 came to Jessamine County, and
has been engaged in farming. In October, 1861, he enlisted in the
Twentieth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry; mustered out January 18, 1865,
as first lieutenant of Company K. He afterward returned to Jessamine
County, where he has since resided; was elected county assessor in 1872
and served until 1876. He was married August 14, 1866, to Sophronia,
daughter of John Cobb, of Jessamine County. They have two children:
William, born April 19, 1869, and Minnie, born July 17, 1878. Mr.
Burton owns twenty acres. He is a Republican in politics.

Permalink Reply by Gary lee Burton Jr on December 21, 2011 at 11:15am