The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 4, 1860, U. of Illinois Press

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The B OOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers 2 Elizabeth W. Robertson Burroughs (~80~-95), daughter of Nicholas Robertson, a neighboring farmer in Bedford County, Va., married James Burroughs on Aug. 8, 18~8. In twenty-eight years she bore him fourteen children. She lived on the Burroughs farm at least until after 1865. 3 Marsha Frances (''Mat'') Burroughs (~8~>9-~904), sixth child of James and Elizabeth W. Burroughs, married Charles R. Noell, a Franklin County farmer, in 1870. 4 Ann Elizabeth Burroughs (~833-~903), eighth child of James and Elizabeth W. Burroughs, remained at home until her marriage in 1866 to John Cardwell Ferguson, eldest son of Josiah Ferguson, a substantial farmer and tobacco manufacturer who lived directly across the road from the Burroughs farm. s Christopher Frank Burroughs (~838-65), tenth child of James and Elizabeth W. Burroughs, known as Frank, enlisted in the Confederate Army in 18 at the first muster of the Franklin Rangers, which became Company D of the Second Virginia Cavalry. At about this time he married Fannie Cundiff, who remained at the Burroughs farm during the war. After discharge in August 186a he reenlisted. Captured by Union forces, he died in 1865 as a prisoner of war, perhaps at sea. 6 Eliza Jane Burroughs (~840-~9~8), eleventh child of James and Elizabeth W. Burroughs, lived in 1870 with her mother at the home of her sister Ann Burroughs Ferguson. In 1877 she married David 0. Witt of Bedford County. It was while visiting her in 1895 that Elizabeth Burroughs died. Both are buried near Body Camp, Va. 7 Presumably Laura Angeline Burroughs (~84~-~9~), twelfth child of James and Elizabeth W. Burroughs. BTW was said by a nephew to be ''quite a favorite of Aunt Laura.'' (James A. Burroughs to BTW, Nov. 7, 1903, Con. 25~, BTW Papers, DLC.) Less credible are family stories that he rode behind her to her school in order to bring back her horse, and that she or her sister Ellen taught him to read. In 1873 she married Stephen R. Holland, presumably a relative of the prominent Holland family of Hale's Ford, and lived thereafter in Bedford City. In 1904 and Go she wrote detailed letters to BTW. Edwin Newton Burroughs (~844-~9~), thirteenth child of James and Elizabeth W. Burroughs, enlisted in the Confederate Army and was wounded at Nance's Shop on June ~4, 1864. Though his service record simply recorded a wound in the right thigh' family tradition more accurately described it as ''in the rump.'' When teased about this, he confessed that, with bullets whizzing about him, he had been running away. (James, ''Uncle Tom? Not Booker T.,'' loo.) In 1869 he married Mary Adeline Virginia Peters, and in 1870 the census reported him working as a farm laborer in Bedford County. Incorrectly reported as female. 9 Ellen America Burroughs (~846- ), fourteenth and youngest of the children of James and Elizabeth W. Burroughs. In ~ 87 ~ she married William Judson Goggin, Bedford County minister and farmer. He was the son of Thomas Clark Goggin, a Baptist minister of Bedford County who performed the marriage ceremonies for at least seven of the other Burroughs children. 4