Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887 Marion Co. JUDGE ROBERT A. BURTON, deputy collector of internal revenue for the Fifth District of Kentucky, was born in 1834, and is the son of Capt. John A. and Louisana (Chandler) Burton. Robert Burton, the grandfather of our subject, came from Virginia a short while after the close of the Revolutionary war, and settled at or near the present site of Perryville. John A. Burton was born there in 1801; he married Miss Louisana Chandler, and reared five children; was a life-long Democrat, but a supporter of the administration during the late civil war. He died in 1874. Louisana Chandler was born in Kentucky in 1810, and died in 1878. She was a descendant of one of the pioneer families of what is now Marion County, being the daughter of Richard Chandler, who, according to the only surviving member of the family, was born in what is now Marion County in 1775, but four miles from the town of Lebanon. He married Isabella McNeal, who was born in 1872, in Fayette County, Kentucky. The issue of Richard and Isabella Chandler were Quinton M., Richard L., Edward G., Sallie, Maria, Louisana, Susan, Eusebia Ellen and Elizabeth, each of whom, except Sallie (who died in early life), married and reared families. The only one of this family now living is Maria, widow of Henry Nantz. John A. and Louisana Burton reared five children, viz.: Col. Richard C., Robert A., Isabella M. (Irven) deceased, Augusta C. (wife of Dr. W.O. Robards of Mercer County) and Eusebia Q. (wife of J.G. Phillips, Jr., of Lebanon, Ky.) Judge Burton was born, and reared and educated in Perryville, Boyle County, and while he has turned his attention largely to agriculture, he has nevertheless been prominent among the public men of his district. In 1858 he was admitted to the bar, though he has never made the practice of law a profession. in 1859-60 he represented his county in the lower house of the Kentucky Legislature; served for three terms as judge of the Marion County Court, and in 1869 was elected to represent Marion, Taylor and Washington Counties in the Kentucky Senate. He was appointed to his present office in 1885. Judge Burton is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and in politics is an able advocate of the principles of Democracy. He was married May 17, 1860 to Miss Margaret Lowry, daughter of the Hon. James Lowry of Jessamine County, Ky. They have four children, John A., Mary A., Robert Lee and Marion C. Burton. Burton Chandler McNeal Nantz Irven Robards Phillips Lowry = Fayette-KY Mercer-KY Boyle-KY Taylor-KY Washington-KY Jessamine-KY VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/marion/burton.ra.txt