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dee_burrisIn 2011, I wrote this entry about another of James Littleton Burris' children from outside his marriage to Adaline Ashmore.
Nancy Elizabeth Burris Jones, the eldest of the surviving children of James Littleton Burris and Adaline Ashmore, had her younger brother, Irving, living with her in the 1880 census in Conway County.
She knew he was her brother. But she didn't know where his parents were born.
Sure she didn't. She was - reluctantly or otherwise - part of the conspiracy of silence surrounding her father's infidelity.
We have already established that James Littleton Burris had a relationship of many years standing with Martha Vick.
I've documented five children born to them.
But could there have been a sixth? Was little 8 year-old Irving one of their children?
I now believe the answer is yes.
After a renewed search this week, I think I found the sixth child of Martha Vick and James Littleton Burris.
His name was Ervin D Burris. His Find a Grave memorial says he was born on 3 Jun 1871.
That causes a conflict with the birthdate of a presumed (my presumption) brother - Benjamin Flemons "Flem" Hill. (Most of Martha's children took the surname Hill, even though Martha Vick's husband, William J Hill, had not been living with her since she began bearing James Littleton Burris' children.)
Flem Hill's Find a Grave memorial says he was born in 1871 also.
Unless Flem Hill and Ervin Burris were twins, that is unlikely.
So I looked at the 1900 census for Flem Hill, who was living in Wilson Twp, Yell Co., AR.
Census enumerators asked you how old you were on your last birthday. In the 1900 census, they asked for the month of your birth.
In this census taken on 21 Jun 1900, Flem Hill said he was 27 on his last birthday, and his birth month was August.
So he was born Aug 1872 - not 1871.
Which would make him the younger brother of Ervin D Burris, who obviously kept that Burris surname all his life. The oldest of the Vick/Burris brothers had tried to keep the Burris surname, up to 1888, when he married for the first time.
After all, he was James Littleton Burris, Jr. - later, James L Hill - and he knew it.
A couple of other Burris researchers have picked up on Irving Burris living with his big sister, Nancy Burris, in 1880.
And they have made him the son of James Littleton Burris and Adaline Ashmore in their family trees.
Because they don't know that the last child born to James and Adaline was Richard Burris, on 9 Apr 1868 on Isbell Creek.
And that when James had his first son with Martha Vick - James Littleton,Jr., - almost a year to the day later on 8 Apr 1869...
Well, Adaline was just done.
Nancy Elizabeth Burris Jones, the eldest of the surviving children of James Littleton Burris and Adaline Ashmore, had her younger brother, Irving, living with her in the 1880 census in Conway County.
She knew he was her brother. But she didn't know where his parents were born.
Sure she didn't. She was - reluctantly or otherwise - part of the conspiracy of silence surrounding her father's infidelity.
We have already established that James Littleton Burris had a relationship of many years standing with Martha Vick.
I've documented five children born to them.
But could there have been a sixth? Was little 8 year-old Irving one of their children?
I now believe the answer is yes.
After a renewed search this week, I think I found the sixth child of Martha Vick and James Littleton Burris.
His name was Ervin D Burris. His Find a Grave memorial says he was born on 3 Jun 1871.
That causes a conflict with the birthdate of a presumed (my presumption) brother - Benjamin Flemons "Flem" Hill. (Most of Martha's children took the surname Hill, even though Martha Vick's husband, William J Hill, had not been living with her since she began bearing James Littleton Burris' children.)
Flem Hill's Find a Grave memorial says he was born in 1871 also.
Unless Flem Hill and Ervin Burris were twins, that is unlikely.
So I looked at the 1900 census for Flem Hill, who was living in Wilson Twp, Yell Co., AR.
Census enumerators asked you how old you were on your last birthday. In the 1900 census, they asked for the month of your birth.
In this census taken on 21 Jun 1900, Flem Hill said he was 27 on his last birthday, and his birth month was August.
So he was born Aug 1872 - not 1871.
Which would make him the younger brother of Ervin D Burris, who obviously kept that Burris surname all his life. The oldest of the Vick/Burris brothers had tried to keep the Burris surname, up to 1888, when he married for the first time.
After all, he was James Littleton Burris, Jr. - later, James L Hill - and he knew it.
A couple of other Burris researchers have picked up on Irving Burris living with his big sister, Nancy Burris, in 1880.
And they have made him the son of James Littleton Burris and Adaline Ashmore in their family trees.
Because they don't know that the last child born to James and Adaline was Richard Burris, on 9 Apr 1868 on Isbell Creek.
And that when James had his first son with Martha Vick - James Littleton,Jr., - almost a year to the day later on 8 Apr 1869...
Well, Adaline was just done.
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Date: 2015-02-14 04:34 am (UTC)why did james l. jr change his name back to hill?
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Date: 2016-03-02 01:14 pm (UTC)I can see where in the years leading up to James L Hill's first marriage, my family probably applied pressure on him to change his name. On his first marriage certificate, he signed as James L Burris. That was in 1888.
Once the guardianship was discharged, I think my family then increased the pressure for the Hill children to distance themselves from the Burris family. By 1920, all of them had left Pope County, with the majority of the children of Martha Vick and James Littleton Burris moving to Oklahoma.
Great great granddaddy didn't count on the advances in technology, and the nosiness of a couple of his great, great granddaughters to uncover the truth behind the secret.
Ervin D Burris
Date: 2016-03-01 11:14 pm (UTC)Re: Ervin D Burris
Date: 2016-03-01 11:31 pm (UTC)I am happy to share results with you if you email me.
Re: Ervin D Burris
Date: 2016-03-02 12:41 am (UTC)Temre
Re: Ervin D Burris
Date: 2016-03-10 05:40 am (UTC)So Ervin is NOT a child of James Littleton Burris and Elizabeth Adeline Ashmore??
Re: Ervin D Burris
Date: 2016-03-10 11:15 am (UTC)Think about it strictly from a reproductive point of view. Adeline would have been 48 years old when he was born.
Re: Ervin D Burris
Date: 2016-03-10 11:54 pm (UTC)Re: Ervin D Burris
Date: 2016-03-11 01:13 am (UTC)Here's the line-up of children for James Littleton Burris and Elizabeth Adeline Ashmore:
Stillborn infant Burris 1841-1841
Nancy Elizabeth Burris 1845-1926
John Thomas Burris 1849-1919
James Franklin Burris 1851-1918
William Andrew Burris 1853-1943
George Washington Burris, Sr 1856-1929
Margaret Jane Burris 1858-1944
Jefferson William Burris 1860-1941
Lucinda Adeline Burris 1866-1954
Richard B Burris 1868-1875
Here's how I think the line-up of children for James Littleton Burris and Martha J F Vick went:
James Littleton Burris, Jr (called himself James L Burris through his first marriage, then changed to Hill) 1869-1943
Ervin D Burris 1871-1942
Benjamin Flemons Hill 1872-1954
Hetty Hill 1875-1896/97
Richard M Hill 1879-?
Charley L Hill 1883-1940
See this entry for the details on the guardianship of Richard and Charley when their mom died. A guardianship which started with their father, and at his death two years later, passed to his son, my great grandfather.
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Date: 2016-03-01 11:37 pm (UTC)Re: Email
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