Sarah Elizabeth PACK

Female 1843 - 1922  (78 years)


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  • Name Sarah Elizabeth PACK 
    Born 15 Sep 1843  Floyd Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • Info is from her death certificate.
    Gender Female 
    _UID 05B5E402B82B4A27A8348002D86FB2E530E5 
    Died 15 Jul 1922  McDowell Co. WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Tazewell Co VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • CENSUS RECORDS

      1850 United States Federal Census
      Name: Sarah Pack
      Age: 8
      Birth Year: abt 1842
      Birthplace: Virginia
      Home in 1850: Western District, Tazewell, Virginia
      Gender: Female
      Family Number: 1286
      Household Members:
      Jno Pack 45
      Matilde Pack 40
      Isham Pack 16
      Fleming Pack 14
      Cricket Pack 12
      Trnsell Pack 10
      Sarah Pack 8
      Cynthia Pack 7
      Wm Pack 5
      Elenor Pack 3

      1860 United States Federal Census
      Name: Sarah Pack
      Age in 1860: 17
      Birth Year: abt 1843
      Birthplace: Virginia
      Home in 1860: Western District, Tazewell, Virginia
      Gender: Female
      Post Office: Baptist Valley
      Household Members:
      John Pack 47
      Matilda Pack 47
      Tinsley Pack 20
      Sarah Pack 17
      Cynthia Pack 15
      William Pack 13
      Elenor Pack 10
      Amanda Pack 7
      Otifane Pack 6
      Elenor Pack 20

      [Note: Sarah was enumerated twice in the 1860 census, in her parent's household and then as a newlywed.]

      1860 Census
      Name: Sarah E Burriss [Burress]
      Age: 17
      Birth Year: abt 1843
      Gender: Female
      Birth Place: Virginia
      Home in 1860: Western District, Tazewell, Virginia
      Post Office: Baptist Valley and Knob
      Family Number: 1134
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      William Burress 26
      Sarah E Burress 17

      1870 Census
      Name: Sarah Burran [Sarah Burress]
      Age in 1870: 26
      Birth Year: abt 1844
      Birthplace: Virginia
      Home in 1870: Maiden Spring, Tazewell, Virginia
      Race: White
      Gender: Female
      Post Office: Knob
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      William Burress 43
      Sarah Burress 26
      John Burress 10
      Matilda Burress 8
      Mary Burress 6
      Cynthia Burress 4
      James Burress 1

      1880 Census
      Name: Sarah E. Burriss [Sarah Burress]
      Age: 36
      Birth Year: abt 1844
      Birthplace: Virginia
      Home in 1880: Maiden Spring, Tazewell, Virginia
      Race: White
      Gender: Female
      Relation to Head of House: Wife
      Marital Status: Married
      Spouse's Name: William H. Burriss [Burress]
      Father's Birthplace: Virginia
      Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
      Occupation: Keeping House
      Household Members:
      William H. Burress 49
      Sarah E. Burress 36
      Mary E. Burress 16
      James H. Burress 12
      Cintha A. Burress 13
      Caldona Burress 9
      Laura B. Burress 7
      Charles P. Burress 3
      Olla Burress 11 months

      1910 Census
      Name: Sarah E Berress [Burress]
      Age: 57
      Birth Date: Sep 1842
      Birthplace: Virginia
      Home in 1900: Jeffersonville, Tazewell, Virginia
      Race: White
      Gender: Female
      Relation to Head of House: Head
      Marital Status: Widowed
      Father's Birthplace: Virginia
      Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
      Mother: number of living children: 7
      Mother: How many children: 12
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      Sarah E Burress 57
      Allie E Burress 20
      George W Burress 15

      1910 Census
      Name: Sarah Buress
      Age in 1910: 67
      Birth Year: abt 1843
      Birthplace: Virginia
      Home in 1910: Jeffersonville, Tazewell, Virginia
      Race: White
      Gender: Female
      Relation to Head of House: Head
      Marital Status: Widowed
      Father's Birthplace: Virginia
      Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
      Household Members:
      Sarah Buress 67
      Allie Buress 29 [daughter]
      George L Buress 8 [grandson]
      Lessie M Buress 5 [grandaughter]

      CONFEDERATE WIDOW'S APPLICATION

      Sarah Pack Burress Widows Pension

      FORM NO. 3 APPLICATION OF WIDOW

      I, Sarah Burress, do hereby apply for aid under the act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to aid the citizens of Virginia who were disabled by wounds received during the war between the States while serving as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, and such as served during the said war as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, who are now disabled by disease contracted during the war, or by the infirmities of age, and the widows of soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia who lost their lives in said service, or whose death resulted from wounds received or disease contracted in said service, and providing penalties for violating the provisions of this act, and I do solemnly swear that I am a citizen of the State of Virginia resident at North Tazewell, in the County Tazewell in the said State, and that I have been an actual resident of the State for two years, and of the said city (or county) for one year next preceding the date of this application, and that I am the widow of William H. Burress, who was a soldier (sailor or marine) in the service of the State of Virginia in the war between the States, and who was a member of (here state specifically the command and branch of the service to which the husband of the applicant belonged, and, if possible, the names of his immediate superior officers) 37 Battalion Capt. C.C. Pack and S.C. Morgan and who, while in the discharge of his duty in the military or naval service of the State of Virginia, or of the Confederate States, during the said war, lost his life (if the husband of such widow was killed or died during the war as the result of wounds received, state the facts of the case as near as possible, giving the date of the husband's death) died since the war (if husband died after the war, strike out all relating to his death during the war, and then proceed as follows:), and who has since the said war died (here state specifically the cause of the death of the husband of the applicant and the date thereof) died since the war contracted lung ??? which resulted in consumption and that, to the best of my knowledge, during the said war my said husband was loyal and true to his duty, and never, at any time, deserted his command or voluntarily abandoned his post of duty in the said service, and that I was never divorced from my said husband, and that I never voluntarily abandoned him during his life, but remained his true, faithful, and lawful wife up to the date of his death, and that I have never married since his death, and that I am now entitled to receive, under the said act, the sum of forty dollars annually. And I do further swear that I do not hold any position or office, weather national, state, city or county, which pays me in salary or fees one hundred and fifty dollars per annum, nor have I an income from any other employment or other source whatever which amounts to one hundred and fifty dollars per annum; nor do I receive from any source whatever money or other means of support amounting in value to the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum; nor do I own in my own right, nor does any one hold in trust for my benefit or use estate or property, either real, personal, or mixed, either in fee or for life, of the assessed value to five hundred dollars; nor do I receive any aid or pension from any State, or from the United States, or from any other source, and that I am not an inmate of any public institution, and that I am without means of support, direct or indirect; and I do further swear that the answers given to the following questions are true:

      What is your age? 60

      Where were you born? Floyd County, Virginia

      How long have you resided in Virginia? All my life

      How long have you resided in the city or county of your residence? Ever since I was 5 years old

      What is your husband's full name? William H. Burress

      When and where were you married and by whom? Tazewell, by Bird Lockhart

      When and where, as near as you can state, did your husband die, and from what cause? Tazewell County, Virginia

      Have you been married since the death of your said husband? Never

      Where and with whom do you now reside? By myself, one daughter, 20 years old, and one son 18 years old

      What property - real, personal or mixed - do you own? Very little ??? need ??? after finances

      What assistance do you receive, and what income have you from any source? Nothing

      If your husband died since the war, please state where he died, and, if possible, the name and address of the attending physician? Died since the war in Tazewell Co. Dr. Alexander Hufford

      Give the names and addresses, if possible of two comrades in arms of your deceased husband. C.C. Pack, Raven Va. Mack (?) Pruett

      Give the names and addresses of two persons who are familiar with the circumstances of your husband's death. Reese Peery and Wesley P.W Lilly, North Tazewell, Va.

      If your husband died since the war, please state whether his death resulted from wounds received in the war or from disease. Contracted consumption during the war

      Give, as near as you can, the nature of the wound or the character of the disease from which your husband died. No answer

      Give here any other information you may possess relating to the service of your husband or of his death that will support the justice of your claim for aid. No answer

      Is there any camp of Confederate veterans in the city or county of your residence? Yes

      Is there any one living, the residence and address of whom is known to you, either comrade or otherwise, who has knowledge of your husband's service and the cause of his death? If so or not, state. C.C. Pack and Mack (?) Pruett

      Given under my hand this 28th day of May, 1903 Sarah Burress

      I H. Bane Harman, Clerk of the Circuit Court, in and for the County of Tazewell, in the State of Virginia, do certify that Sarah Burress, whose name is signed to the foregoing application, personally appeared before me in my office aforesaid and having the aforesaid application read to her and fully explained, as well as the statements and answers therein made, the said Sarah Burress made oath before me that the said statements and answers are true.

      Given under my hand this 28th day of May, 1903
      H. Bane Harman Clerk, Tazewell Circuit Clerk

      (A)
      OATH OF RESIDENT WITNESS

      We ________ , do solemnly swear that we are residents of the County of ________, in the State, and that we have known personally and well for ________ years ________, whose name is signed to the annexed application for aid under the act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved April 2, 1902, and that the said ________is a resident of the said county, and is a woman of good reputation for truth and honesty, and that we have read the annexed application and the answers to the questions therein propounded, made by the said applicant, and verily believe that the said applicant has been truthful in the said statements and answers, and that from our personal knowledge we verily believe the said applicant is justly entitled to aid under the said act, and that we have no personal interest in the allowance of the applicant's claim.

      Subscribed to and sworn to before me, ________ for the County of ________, State of Virginia, this ________19___.

      Signed ________

      -------------

      (B)
      AFFIDAVIT OF COMRADES

      We, C.C. Pack and ? Gillespie do solemnly swear that we are residents of the County of Tazewell, in the State of Virginia, and that Sarah Burress whose name is signed to the annexed application for aid under the act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved April 2, 1902, is personally well known to us, and that we have known her for life, and know her to be the widow of William H. Burress, who was a soldier (sailor or marine) in the military (or naval) service of Virginia, or of the Confederate States, and that we were soldiers (sailors or marines) in the said service during the said war, and that we were, with the said William H. Burress, members of (here state the command and the immediate superior officers thereof) 37 Battalion under Col. A.C. Dunn, Major Claiborne and Captain C.C. Pack and that our personal knowledge, on or about the ----------- day of -------- 186- at (here state battle or combat where killed or fatal wounds received) ------------ and that the said ------------------------ during the said war (state here whether killed or died as a result of wounds received, or surgical operation therefore) ------------------------ (if he died after the war, strike out all relating to death during the war and proceed as follows), on or about the 5th day of ???? the said William H. Burress died, and that the said William H. Burress was a true and loyal soldier in the said service, and was faithful in the discharge of his duty as a soldier (sailor or marine) in the said service, and that we have no personal interest in the allowance of the applicant's claim.

      C.C. Pack

      Subscribed and sworn to before me, ???? for the County of Tazewell, State of Virginia, this 2nd day of August, 1902
      W.B. Spratt

      Note.-- If only one comrade is living whose residence and address is known to applicant, let him make the above affidavit. If no such comrade is living whose address is known to applicant, then let one or more reputable persons who have personal knowledge of the services of the applicant and of cause of his disability, make the following affidavit.

      (C)
      AFFADAVIT OF WITNESSES, NOT COMRADES, AS TO WOUNDS

      We, _______ of the County in the State of Virginia, do solemnly swear that we personally know, and are well acquainted with _______ whose name is signed to the annexed application, and who is applying for aid under the General Assembly of Virginia, approved April 2, 1902, and that we have known the said applicant for _______ and that to our personal knowledge she is the widow of _______, who was a loyal and true soldier (sailor or marine) in the military (or naval) service of Virginia, or of the Confederate States, in the war between the States, and that on or about the -------- day of --------- 186-- at (here state battle of combat where killed or fatal wound received) ------------------------------- the said ---------------- during the said war (state here whether killed or died as the result of wounds received, or surgical operation therefore) -------------------- (if he died after the war, strike out all relating to death during the war and proceed as follows), on or about the _______ day of _______, the said _______ died, and that the said _______ and _______ lived as husband and wife up to the date of the death of the said _______ and that we have no personal interest in the allowance of the applicant's claim.

      Subscribed and sworn to before me _______, in and for the County of _______ Virginia this _______ day of _______, 19__.

      (D)
      CERTIFICATE OF PHYSICIAN

      I, C.W. Greever a practicing physician in the County of Tazewell, in the State of Virginia, do certify that I am personally acquainted with Sarah Burress, whose name is signed to the annexed application for aid under the act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved April 2, 1902, and that I attended her husband, did wit attack the said William H. Burress, during his last illness, and that from my professional knowledge of the cause of his death, I verily believe that his death resulted from ??? lung trouble and I have no personal interest in the allowance of the applicant's claim.

      Given under my hand, this 28th May, 1902.
      C.W. Greever M.D

      NOTE.-- This certificate of physician shall only be required in cases where the husband has died since the close of the war.

      (E)
      CERTIFICATE OF CAMP OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS

      The _________ Camp of Confederate Veterans of the County of _________, in the State of Virginia, hereby certifies that it has examined into the merits of the annexed application of _________ for aid under the act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved April 2, 1902, and being satisfied of the justice of her claim, hereby recommends the said _________ for aid under the provisions of the said act, and that it has no personal interest in the allowance of the applicant?s claim.

      NOTE - If there is no camp of Confederate veterans in applicant?s city or county, then the affidavit of two ex-Confederate soldiers residing in said city or county must be obtained, as follows:

      (F)
      CERTIFICATE OF EX-CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS

      We, ------------------------------ and ------------------, of the ------------ of --------- State of Virginia, do certify that we were soldiers (sailors or marines) of Virginia in the war between the States, and that we have examined into the merits of the annexed application of ---------------- for aid under the act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved April 2, 1902, and that we are satisfied of the justice of her claim, and recommend the said -------------------------- for aid under the provisions of the said act, and that we have no personal interest in the allowance of the applicant?s claim. Given under our hands, this ---------day of--------, 19--

      (G)
      CERTIFICATE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF THE REVENUE.

      I, J. N. Johnson, Commissioner of the revenue, in the County of Tazewell in the State of Virginia, do certify that Sarah Burress or her trustee, whose name is signed to the annexed application for aid under the act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved April 2, 1902, is charged on the land and personal property books of the said County with estate, real, personal and mixed, of the assessed value of $500 (or 100??) dollars. Given under my hand, this ??? day of September, 1902.
      J.N. Johnson

      STORIES

      Note: Georgia Maude Quesenberry Maxfield, an 80 year old Tazewell resident (deceased), has written these recollections of early Tazewell County life as told to her by her great-grandmother and her grandmother. Her Recollections appeared in the Tazewell Newspaper sometime in the early 1980's. Georgia was the daughter of George & Mary Frances Burress Quesenberry.

      Grandma Sarah and Grandma Cynthia Pack Quesenberry took turns telling us things. As far as we could tell, they never told us anything that wasn't true, for they were Christians. Grandma Sarah smoked a clay pipe. Mother would let her smoke it till it became strong, and then mother would get her a new one and threw the old one in the stump down by the river. I remember the little boys would slip them out of the stump and try to find tobacoo or cown silk to smoke in them.

      One the other hand, Grandma Cynthia liked to sleep. She'd go to bed early and sleep late. When they both stayed together they would argue like small children. Sarah would say, "Cynthia, I don't see how in the world you can lay in bed and sleep so much." Cynthia would answer, "Well Sarah, I don't see how in the world you can stand to puff on that smelly old pipe, either, but you do." Nevertheless, they would go to church together whenever they could.

      Grandma said there was once a long rain that was what was to become known as the Jun Flood. Grandma lived at Busthead then, and there was a store there that sat close to the creek. Now there was a man who ran the store whose wife had gone to spend the weekend with her mother. When it became night, he locked up the store, when upstairs where they lived over the store and went to bed. It had been raining for a few days and the water was up some. He said he awakened long into the night by something banging against the house. He got up and raised the window, and lo and behold, the house - store and all, was floating down the creek that had now become a river. He knew the house would eventually turn over, so he dressed and waited at the windown till the house floated near a tree. He reached out, and caught a limb, and hung on. The house floated on downstream until it came to Cedar Bluff. Then it turned over and destroyed everything they had.

      At this same time, there was a preacher known as Brother Sheffy, who had been holding services at the church at Busthead. The people gathered at the church that morning for services as usual. After church, some of the people tried to get him to go home with them for dinner, but he said no, he had promised to be at Pounding Mill Branch for prayer meeting that night. They began to tell him he couldn't get across the wather, but he just said he had to try. The people were afraid he would drown, so they stayed and watched him. He climbed on his horse and rode down to the water, then got off, took a sheepskin off his saddle, and untied it, and spread it out on the dry ground. He knelt down and prayed fervently, then got up, rolled up his sheepskin, tied it back on his saddle, and rode across the water. The horse did not walk in the water, it walked on top of it. All the people from the church saw it, and proclaimed it a miracle to themselves. They said nothing outside the community about it, for fear that other people woldn't believe them.

      Once he was on the other side of the waters, the water once again became wild and full of sawlogs and other debris. But all the while Brother Sheffy was crossing, it had been calm - no sawlogs or anything else odd went by. Mother wouldn't tell anyone outside the family about it for fear they would think she was crazy, but she said she saw it with her own eyes and knew it to be one of many miracles God had performed for Brother Sheffy.

      This was what was to be the June flood. It caused an awful lot of damage and loss of life. There was a swinging bridge you had to cross to get to Pounding Mill, the store, and the post office. A woman named Margie Johnson lived there at that time, and she wanted to go to the store and the post office. Her family begged her to wait until the water went down, but she said the bridge was high up off the water. So she waded into the water and up on the bridge. when she was about half-way acorss, a sawlog hit the bridge and swung it high, throwing her off into the water. She was swept away to her death.

      The Hoops family who lived on Pounding Mill Branch had a two part house. Several rooms were on one side of the creek, and a small two room building across the creek was used for a wash house and a dining room in the summer. There was a small bridge from one to the other. Mrs. Hoops always served meals there in summer, for it was too hot to eat in the kitchen. She put the noon meal on the table, then went back across the bridge and got her one year old baby, her teenage daughter, and her sweetheart. All four of them started back across the bridge to eat, when a great wall of water - later known as a cloudburst - came down the hollow and swept all four to their deaths. The water had swept away the samll house and damaged about everything in the other house. When the water began to recede early the next week, the neighbors banded together to search for the bodies. By the end of the week they had found all by Mr. Hoop's wife. My uncle Isam joined the search and he quickly told them they were looking in the wrong direction. They were looking down in the bushes, and he said to look up because the water was over the tops of some of the trees. They searched till they came to a place that was called the horse shoe bend. there they found her body, caught fast by her apron and her long hair, high in the top of a sycamore tree. These were just a few things that happened then. It was time of grave danger, mourning and loss of life and property. They people never forgot the June flood.

      [Note to this story from Michelle Burress, this was posted in the Clinch Valley News: July 12 1901 Pounding Mill, Tazewell, Virginia, Mrs. Hoop's baby, about one year old, that was drowned in the flood, was found on the ninth day by Isom Quesenberry, in a bad state of decomposition.]

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      Cynthia Gets A Husband

      Now as Bill and Amelia Pack's lives went along, Amy found she was expecting a baby. Back in those days, the new monther wasn't allowed to even put her feet on the floor till the the baby was nine days old. There were those that said it was even bad luck to get out of bed until the baby was nine days old, so, you see Amy was going to need help.

      So Bill made the long trip from Floyd County back to Pounding Mill to ask his sister Cynthia to come stay with them. Now Cynthia was at the ripe old age of 24, she was more then glad to go - giving her one more chance to meet someone of marrying age, as she was going to stay all summer.

      Bill had a neighbor whose name was Fred Quesenberry. One day Fred came over to Bill's and in no time at all he was head over heels in love with Cynthia. He told Bill she bothered him so much that he was going to have to marry her to see any peace. Bill told him he had better do it before she went back to Pounding Mill, because if she did, there wasn't much chance he'd ever see her again. So when the circuit rider came by, Fred and Cynthia were married.

      Now, Fred already had a nice big three room cabin on his land, along with the animals they would need to survive. One thing Cynthia didn't know was that Fred had 17 full blood brothers and three sisters - a whole lot of Quesenberry's. He told Cynthia if she would agree to live one year in Floyd County, he would come back to Pounding Mill to live with her, for she was fast becoming homesick. So Fred worked hard and saved everything he could, and in one year's time, they were on their way to Pounding Mill.

      Fred had a one horse wagon. On the way over the first mountain, one wheel came loose on the wagon. While he was repairing the wheel, Cynthia said she would get out and walk around a while. Fred said to her, "Don't go far, there are all kinds of wild animals around here." Now it was the time of year for hunkleberries to ripen, and there were plenty along the road. There wasn't much to take along to eat, so she said she'd pick them and some to eat. She was busy picking berries, and in no time she had gone out of sight around the bend from Fred.

      Just then, she heard something that sounded like children playing. She listened again, and decided it was an animal. She was just about to panic when Grandpa Fred came in sight "Hurry, Cynthia, get here." he said. "That's a panther with cubs or a bear with cubs. If you don't want to be their Sunday dinner, we'd better make some kind of tracks."

      He loaded his big old muzzle loader rifle just as a precaution, and proceeded on down the mountain, just one of several they had to cross coming back to Pounding Mill. It took them two weeks - they very best they could do.

      They always tried to find a farm cabin before dark where they might stay the night. They were never turned away. Grandma said, everybody was always friendly. One time they couldn't find a farm, but found where a cabin had burned down, and stayed in the barn for the night. Another time they had arrived at the base of a mountain, and hadn't found a farm. They made camp, not wanting to cross the mountain at night, and slept in the wagon.

      The trip took so long because sometimes they had to stop and cut the bushes out of the way, or chop a tree out of the road, but they finally made it to Pounding Mill. They settled down between Cliffield and Pounding Mill, and there they raided their children - four boys and three girls - and lost one boy at a young age. (more but cut off...)

      Grandpa had fought in the Civil War. When he got to retirement age, he received a check every month and paid their way with that, as they were very independent. Thirty dollars was a lot of money then, and Fred had been proud of it. When their children were grown with homes of their own and Grandpa Fred was getting old, the couple decided to stay with their children. They went to stay with their boy, Jim Quesenberry, who took care of them until Grandpa Fred died at the age of 84. Then Grandma went to stay with Aunt Martha and Uncle Jim Brewster's house in Pounding Mill. (Aunt Martha was Grandma's second child).

      My Great Grandmother was Samantha, the Indian baby found by John Delong [Note from Michelle Burress all records are pretty solid that her great grandmother was Matilda Delong, not Samantha, and that she was not an only child]. My other great grandmother (*Sarah Pack Burress) and grandmother were sisters. They were Great Grandma Sarah and Grandma Cynthia Pack.

      One of Cynthia and Fred Quesenberry's several children was George Mansfield Quesenberry, who married Mary Frances Burress, the daughter of Mailda Earls and John Burress. These two were my parents and I was born at Pounding Mill. My mother and grandmother used to tellus about what they thought to be the only real total eclipse. Mother said it was around 1870, or thereabouts, and happened in the later morning hours. She and the girls were getting ready to pick berries, when Grandma Jenny (*would this be Jenny Chambers, John Burress' second wife?) said it suddenly began to grow dark. The cows came back to the barn, and the chickens that were out in the field scratching around all came back. They didn't go back in the henhouse as usual, but instead went under the house and cooed and cawed softly, just as if they were discussing the matter that was taking place.

      Grandma said it was more than spooky. Grandpa was out in the fields plowing, and had to come home cause he couldn't see to work. The birds quit singing and the frogs and crickets became very still. There was a hush all around - you could hear a pin drop almost, even if it didn't drop.

      She gathered the children around and sat on the porch with Grandpa for what seemed like a couple of hours, till it because bright light again. The old chickens hurried out into the bright sunlight and stretched and carried on as if they had been asleep all night. the other animals did the same. The next day, down at the store, Grandpa said he heard of several people that had tried to kill themselves. They had thought the wold was coming to an end. Grandma Cynthia and Grandma Sarah would come and stay for as much as up to a month at a time together. Talk about fun, we had it. Us kids would ask them to tell us about their lives 79 some years ago, which would be well over 100 now.

    Person ID I2868  Master File
    Last Modified 24 Apr 2016 

    Father John PACK,   b. Abt 1805, Patrick Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 5 March 1897, Tazewell Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 92 years) 
    Mother Matilda Ann DELONG,   b. Abt 1810, Patrick Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1880, Tazewell Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 69 years) 
    Married 31 Dec 1835  Floyd Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • Marriage Bond

      Know all men by these presents, that we, John Pack and Martin Slaughter are held and firmly bound unto, L.W. Tazewell, Esq. Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and his successors, in the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, to the payment thereof, well and truly be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents, sealed with our seals, and dated this 21 day of Dec 1835.

      The condition of the above obligation is such, that, whereas a marriage is intended to be solemnized between the above bound John Pack and Matilda Delong of Floyd County: New, if there be no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage, then the above obligation to be void, else to remain in full force and virtue.

      Signed John Pack and Martin Slaughter. Witnessed, Wm. Goodan.
    Family ID F1975  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family William H. (Billy) BURRESS,   b. Abt 1832, Tazewell Co VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 28 May 1903, Pounding Mill, Tazewell Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 71 years) 
    Married 10 May 1860  Tazewell Co VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Tazewell County Marriage Register, Book 3, page 11, line 27

      Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940
      Name: Wm H. Burrip
      Birth Date: 1834
      Birthplace: Russell County, Va
      Age: 26
      Spouse's Name: Sarah E Pack
      Spouse's Birth Date: 1841
      Spouse's Birthplace: Floyd County, Va
      Spouse's Age: 19
      Event Date: 10 May 1860
      Event Place: Tazewell, Virginia
      Father's Name: James Burrip [Burress]
      Mother's Name: Mary
      Spouse's Father's Name: John Pack
      Spouse's Mother's Name: Matilda
      Spouse's Marital Status: Single
      Indexing Project (Batch) Number:M01695-4
      System Origin: Virginia-EASy
      GS Film number: 34214
      Reference ID: Page 11 Line 27
    Children 
    +1. John W. BURRESS,   b. 10 Mar 1861, Tazewell Co VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 May 1929, Richlands, Tazewell Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)
     2. Matilda F. BURRESS,   b. Dec 1863
     3. Mary Ellen (Mollie) BURRESS,   b. 1 Jan 1865, Tazewell Co VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 May 1945, Tazewell Co VA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)
     4. Cynthia A. BURRESS,   b. 13 Mar 1868
     5. James W. BURRESS,   b. 13 Mar 1868, Tazewell Co VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1900  (Age < 31 years)
     6. Caldona (Callie) BURRESS,   b. Abt 1871, Tazewell Co VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1900  (Age ~ 28 years)
     7. Laura B. BURRESS,   b. Abt 1873, Tazewell Co VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1900  (Age ~ 28 years)
     8. Charles P. BURRESS,   b. Abt 1877, Tazewell Co VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1900  (Age ~ 22 years)
     9. Olla E. (Ollie) BURRESS,   b. Jun 1879, Tazewell Co VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1920  (Age ~ 40 years)
    +10. George Washington Burroughs,   b. 15 Dec 1881, Tazewell Co VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Feb 1948, Tazewell Co VA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years)
    Last Modified 19 Feb 2014 
    Family ID F1988  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S30] Burruss Family, Michelle Burruss.