Burross Cemetery

I wanted to correct and verify some items listed for the Burross 
Cemetery, which is near Malone.
Joseph and Elizabeth (Petty) Burross are my great-great-grandparents.

1) Elizabeth Petty Burross: She was the daughter of James D. Petty. She 
was married to Lewis Hedge in Dickson County, Tennessee, then left a widow 
with 4 children, the youngest barely over 5 months of age. She came to 
Navarro County after his death because her father and uncle had transplanted to 
there. She married Joseph Burross in May 1859.

2) correct

3) correct, although in a sketch of her life in about 1911, he is said 
to have died in 1900.

4) correct

5) James "Jimmy" is Bettie's son from first marriage. (He died of a 
broken neck when his horse stumbled in a hole, while Jimmy was running him 
across a pasture.)

6) W. C. Hedge is William Carroll Hedge, Bettie Petty's son from her 
first marriage.

7) Arrary Lucas stone says he was born Jan 1, 1878

8) Warren's middle name is written out on the stone. It is Valentine

My husband and I found several other probable gravesites; a few 
depressions in the earth as well as others, which were piles of stones and others 
that appeared to be medium to large rocks which seemed to set into the 
ground as markers. There are also 4 graves with markers which may not have been 
discovered in the tall weeds, by the transcriber, but I have photos of 
them and have their location marked on a "map" of the cemetery which I made 
while there. Some of these may be related to the family, although I was told 
that they weren't. They are:

Fliddie/dau of/L.L. & N.L./WHITE/Born Oct 18, 1908/Died Nov 12, 1908

John Alonzo/FRANKS/Born/Sept 15, 1880/Died/Aug 9, 1885

Geo.Guy/Son of/J.A. & B.L./HANKINS/Born/Oct 12, 1906/Died/June 7, 
1907/Rest little one, A  mother's/tears may fall/But not for worlds, would/she 
her child recall

Another stone, which is broken and was leaning against the base of W.C. 
Hedge stone. I didn't get a good photo of it, but got the name from it. 
It is Emma K. Jordan Hedge. She was the wife of William C. Hedge. He was 
married first to Emma K. Jordan, on 22 Dec 1875. She gave birth to a 
daughter, Emma on 16 Jan, 1877, then died on the 21st, when the baby 
was 6 days old. After her death, he married her sister, Eliza on 9 April 
1878. We don't know when she died, or if she is in Burross Cemetery (most likely 
is), but it was before the 1900 census and she had given birth to at least 
one daughter, who was Elizabeth C. who was born about 1882.

Thank you for publishing this.

Peggy Loar

972-547-4639

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