Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Allen County. WILLIAM B. BURTON was born March 12, 1841, in the house where he now lives, in the northern portion of Allen County, Ky., where he was reared and has always resided. His father, Thomas S. Burton, born in Allen County in 1823, was a deacon in the Baptist Church for several years, and was killed by a kick from a horse in 1857. He was the son of Drury Burton, of Allen County, who died while on a trading tour in Mississippi, about 1823. Drury's father was Cuthbert Burton, a native of South Carolina; was a pioneer in Allen County, where he died in 1864, at the age of ninety-seven years. Thomas S., at the age of sixteen years, married, Novembr 28, 1839, Adeline L., daughter of Samuel H. and Elizabth (Cushenberry) Wickware, of Allen County (born June 18, 1822, died February 22, 1863), and from their union sprang William D., Lucinda E. (Lynch and Robinson), Ella (deceased), John C., Mary S. (Stark), Thomas S., James P. and Lelia J. (deceased). On the 7th day of February, 1865, William D. married Juliet B., daughter of George M. and Ermine C. (Frazier) Page, of Barren County (born January 31, 1843) and to them have been born Ermine A., George T., William D., Jr. (deceased), Juliet P., Mary E., Gilbert M. and Missie (deceased). Mr. Burton is a farmer, owning 416 acres of productive land, in good condition. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., in politics he is a Democrat, and in religion a Baptist. Burton Cushenberry Frazier Lynch Page Robinson Stark Wickware = Barren MS SC http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/allen/burton.wb.txt