History of the Burris Family
By Robert Baker After extensive research, the Reverend M. T. Burris is still something of a mystery. What little that can be learned about him comes directly from his own writings reproduced here and from a few scattered public records. However, it is clear that he was an early school-teacher in the Big Sandy Valley,…
The 235 Year Correction Mathias Harman And His First Settlement
The Harman family is widely known in Tazewell County, Virginia, but did you know that old Mathias has a Pike County connection? Mathias Harman built the first settlement in Pike County in 1789. He informs us of that settlement in a legal deposition of his own words. The most current information comes in the form of a court…
Cornelius Roberts’ Descendants in Pike
Calendar of Virginia a State Papers” Volume 4, Page 460 Death of Cornelius Roberts June 24, 1788 That men who had gone to the Black Mountain to dig ginseng had found a camp where one of the Elam’s and 3 of the Breeding’s, of New Garden, and Neal Roberts had been about the same employment,…
