Family: Micajah "Cager" Burress / Elizabeth Francis (F223)

• Male Micajah "Cager" Burress

  
  

  Birth	1777	Bedford County, Virginia
  Death	July 1852	Russell County, Virginia
  Burial
  Marriage	8 Jul 1849	Russell County, Virginia
  Other Spouse	Rachel McCoy | F224
  Marriage	20 Oct 1795	Montgomery County, Virginia
  Father	William Burress | F225 Group Sheet
  Mother	Ellender Candler (?) | F225 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Elizabeth Francis

  
  

  Birth	1810	North Carolina
  Death
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  Father
  Mother

  
  

  Female Temperence "Temper" Burress

  
  

  Birth	1838	Russell County, Virginia
  Death
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  Female Jane Burress

  
  

  Birth	1841	Russell County, Virginia
  Death
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  Female Rachel Burress

  
  

  Birth	1845	Russell County, Virginia
  Death
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  Male Henry Burress/Beuris

  
  

  Birth	1846	Russell County, Virginia
  Death
  Burial
  Spouse	Elizabeth Marshall | F1862
  Marriage	2 Jan 1867	Russell County, Virginia

  
  

  Female Sidney Burress

  
  

  Birth	1850	Russell County, Virginia
  Death
  Burial
  Spouse	Henry Ashley | F1863
  Marriage	20 Feb 1873	Scott County, Virginia

  
  

• Notes

  Married: This marriage is questionable. However, The marriage date is given by Elizabeth on a Land Bounty Widow pension she tired to collect after Micajah's death. If Rachel is the the one in Pike County Kentucky, then I'm assuming her and Micajah were still married. That Rachel died in 1855. I don't know why the separated, but perhaps Elizabeth had something to do with it? Other records for the children do list their father as "Cager Burress" so the children must be his, but since in 1849 him and Elizabeth were cited for lewdness that would infer they were not married and living together. Weather they made it legal at some later date is unclear, but Micajah died before Rachel (if indeed, she is the Rachel in Kentucky), and divorces weren't that common back then.

  
  

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