Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 476-477 [McCracken]

     ROBERT A. BURGESS, whose pleasant country home is near Cecil,
Kentucky, and who is ranked with the representative citizens and
prosperous farmers of McCracken county, dates his birth in Clarksville,
Tennessee, in the year 1853.
     Mr. Burgess is a son of W. F. and Venetia (Fitsworth) Burgess, who
came to Kentucky when Robert A. was quite small, and settled in
McCracken county.  Their other children are William Burgess, M. D., a
practicing physician of Johnstown, Illinois; Mack, a well-known farmer
of McCracken county, Kentucky; and Viola, wife of Dr. Allison, of
Paducah, Kentucky.  The mother of this family died in 1901, at the age
of fifty-one years.
     After completing his schooling, Robert A. Burgess engaged in
farming in McCracken county, starting out in life with no capital save
good health, energy and ambition.  With these he has made his way to
success.  He now owns a beautiful home, on a forty-acre tract of land,
and in the western edge of the county he has one hundred and forty
acres, all well improved and under a high state of cultivation.
     Mr. Burgess' family consists of wife and four children.  He
married, in 1882, Miss Ellen Stanley, daughter of Ephraim and Margaret
Stanley, of McCracken county.  Her brothers and sisters are Robert,
William, Richard, George and Charlie Stanley, and Mrs. Lucy Williams,
wife of Andrew Williams, a well known and successful farmer of
McCracken county; and Miss Fannie Stanley, a popular school teacher of
this county.  Mr. and Mrs. Burgess are the parents of the following
children: William, Edgar, Eula May and Robert S.
     Mr. Burgess is a man well posted on public affairs, and has always
taken an active interest in local politics, affiliating with the
Democratic party.  In the year 1878 he was appointed deputy sheriff of
McCracken county, to collect taxes, and served efficiently in that
capacity.  

Burgess Fitsworth Allison Stanley Williams
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