Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887
Mercer Co.

F.P. BURRUS was born and reared in Mercer County, and is a son of E. Burrus,
also a native of Mercer County and born in 1785; his father was Nathaniel
Burrus, born in Virginia and came to this State in 1784, where he lived
until his death in 1855, at the advanced age of ninety-three years.  He was
a soldier in the Revolutionary War, for which services he drew a pension
for many years prior to his death.  F.P. Burrus was brought up on the farm,
and has successfully followed the business.  He owns a farm of 400 acres of
fine land well improved.  He married Miss Lizzie Miller of Adair County.
They have two children: J.G. and M.L. Burrus.

Burrus Miller
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Adair-KY VA

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