U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Burgess, James M. (1847-1908) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Pages 349-350 James M. Burgess, born 1847, at Haymarket, Prince William County, Virginia, son of Addison and Mary A. (Utterback) Burgess, was married September 17, 1868, at Richmond, Virginia, to Mary S., daughter of William B. and Jane (Lee) Lewis. His second marriage was to Maude M., daughter of George and Florence (Fleming) Utterback. Children, Ora L., William A., James Edwin, Charles L. and Nela, the last named by his second marriage. He is a minister in the Baptist Church, and an Odd Fellow, and resides in West Philippi. He was educated at Bethel Academy, Virginia, and at New Baltimore, same State, and spent three years in the Confederate army, belonging to the artillery branch of the service, and took part in the battles at Fredricksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Brisbane Station, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court-house, Hanover Court-house, Cold Harbor, Siege of Petersburg, New Market Heights, Dutch Gap and many skirmishes. Although he had many narrow escapes, and was in the hardest fighting of the war, he escaped without a wound. Near the last days, he was taken prisoner. His great, great grandfather Burgess was a Scotchman who settled in Virginia, and on the other side, his grandfather, Stephen Tompkins, was an Englishman and also settled in Virginia. Mr. Burgess taught school fifteen terms, seven of them as principal of the Flemington school, and has been in the Baptist ministry seventeen years. In 1874 he came to West Virginia, and spent twelve years at Flemington where he had charge of four churches, and eight years at Philippi, where he had charge of six churches. He is an earnest advocate of education. ------------------------------------------------------------------- CERTIFICATE OF DEATH, City of Wheeling, Ohio County, W.Va. File No. 341; stamped number 409 Full-Name: James M. Burgess Birth: Mar 23, 1846 in U.S. Death: June 3, 1908 in Wheeling, WVa Marital-Status: married, Mona Utterback Occupation: Minister (Baptist) Father: Addison Burgess, born in Va. Informant: Chas. L. Burgess of Mannington WVa Cause of death: Carcinoma of Pancreas Place of burial: Philippi ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------