Family Group Sheet for Micajah "Cager" Burress / Elizabeth Francis (F223) m. 8 Jul 1849 : Burress & Palmer Genealogy

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

m. 8 Jul 1849

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

Female
Temperence "Temper" Burress

Female
Jane Burress

Female
Rachel Burress

Male
Henry Burress/Beuris

Female
Sidney Burress

Notes

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