William Moses Burgess of Adair Co., Kentucky
[Haplotype R1b1]
William Moses Burgess, also called Moses Burgess, was born about 1826 in Tennessee. He married Lucinda Grimes on 16 March 1847 in Adair Co., Kentucky (she was born on 25 September 1829, and died on 10 December 1910 in Johnson Co., Missouri). He is listed in the 1850-60 censuses for Adair Co., and also in the personal property tax records there; his widow appears as head of the family in the 1870 census for Putnam Co., Missouri, and in 1880-1910 in Johnson Co., Missouri. Moses enlisted in Co. B., 13th Kentucky Infantry, Union Army, during the Civil War, and died in service on 17 March 1863 in Hart Co., Kentucky; his widow later qualified for a Union pension. He was survived by one son and two daughters (Martha J. and Nancy Susan):
*1. William Henry Burgess (1848?-1884) of Jackson Co., MO
First Branch: William Henry Burgess
William Henry Burgess, also called Henry Burgess, was born about 1848 in Adair Co., Kentucky. He married firstly (Rebecca) Jane Wright on 14 August 1869 in Putnam Co., Missouri, and secondly (Barbara) Susan Hoober on 21 June 1875 in Putnam Co. He is listed in the 1870 census for Putnam Co., and in 1880 in Franklin Co., Kansas. He was injured in a railroad accident at Fort Scott, Bourbon Co., Kansas, and died at Sisters Hospital, Jackson Co., Missouri on 14 October 1884, having had three sons, one by his first wife and two by his second:
1. William Moses Burgess II (1873-1937) of Jackson Co., MO
2. John Wesley Burgess (1876-1930+) of Wyandotte Co., KS
3. James Leroy Burgess (1880-1945) of Buchanan Co., MO
James Leroy Burgess is the ancestor of B. S. Burgess.
Test results received from one representative of this line do not currently match the numbers of any other Burgess Project family.