Samuel H. Burgess of Calhoun Co., Florida
[Haplotype R - BY60815 ,Genetic Group: C1-C8 Pittsylvania and Montgomery]
Samuel H. Burgess was born about 1792 in Georgia. He married Elizabeth Trice in 1818 in Upson Co., Georgia. He is listed on the 1818-19 tax lists of Baldwin Co., Georgia, and appears there on the 1820 census. He participated in a land lottery in Malcolm’s District in Baldwin Co. in 1821. He is listed on the 1825-26 tax lists of Jones Co., Georgia, and enlisted as an Ensign in the militia there on 21 March 1826. (Both Baldwin and Jones Cos. are adjacent to Jasper Co., Georgia, where Josiah Burgess, son of William Burgess of Montgomery Co., Maryland, lived.) He is listed on the 1830 census in Henry Co., Alabama, and in 1840 in Calhoun Co., Florida; his widow is listed as head of the family there in 1850 with her four younger sons. He settled in Florida by 1835, and filed three land deeds claiming land there at the Tallahassee Land Office in 1837-38. He died in Calhoun Co., Florida about 1841, having had five sons:
1. James Madison Burgess (1818-1873?) of Upson Co., GA
2. Henry Harrison Burgess Sr. (1827-1858?) of Calhoun Co., FL
3. George W(ashington?) Burgess (1831-1866?) of Jackson Co., FL
4. Alford Burgess (or Alfred Burgess) (1835-1850+) of Calhoun Co., FL
5. Samuel M. Burgess (1838-1870+) of Calhoun Co., FL
First Branch: James Madison Burgess
James Madison Burgess was born 1818 in Jones Co., Georgia (according to his military record). He married Caroline M. “Carrie” Capps on 22 November 1855 in Upson Co., Georgia. He has not been found in any census record. He served in Co. E, 3rd Battalion (the “Holloway Grays”), Georgia Infantry, Confederate Army, during the Civil War, enlisting from Upson Co., Georgia in May 1862, and being discharged for disability at Atlanta in 1863. Carrie appears in the 1870 census for Upson Co., GA as “Carrie Budges,” and in 1900 in McLennan Co., Texas (six of six children then survive). James sold his share of his father’s estate in 1868 in Calhoun Co., Florida. Carrie is listed as an indigent widow (sic) on the Upson Co. Poor Tax register in 1869. James reportedly died in 1873 on a riverboat on the Chattahoochee River at Eufaula, Alabama, while on his way from Florida to Georgia, having had three sons and three daughters:
1. John Floyd Burgess (1857-1934) of Van Zandt Co., TX
2. James Henry Burgess (1864-1953) of Van Zandt Co., TX
3. William Anderson Burgess (1873-1946) of Van Zandt Co., TX
John Floyd Burgess is the ancestor of J. C. Burgess.
This family is genetically related to the following families these families have a common Burgess ancestor, name unknown :
Edward Burgess of Pittsylvania Co., Virginia
William Burgess of Montgomery Co., Maryland
James Burgess of Jackson Co., Tennessee
Austin Burgess of Laclede Co., Missouri
Edward Burgess of Monongalia Co., (West) Virginia
Jehu John Burgess of Fulton Co., Illinois