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Subject: [KYBELL] BURROWS, J. W. , 1889:Harlan and Bell Counties KENTUCKY
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:00:43 EDT

BIOS: BURROWS, J. W. , 1889:Harlan and Bell Counties KENTUCKY

This York Family is originally from Kentucky prior to moving to Benton Co,
Arkansas. They were from Bell and Harlan Counties Ky.

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Mr. J. W. Burrows, mercantile clerk at Armada, was born in August,
1856, in Washington County, Ark., and is a son of Reuben and
Nancy M. (Gilstrap) Burrows, natives of Tennessee and
Washington County, Ark., who died in 1862 and 1865, respectively.
They immigrated from Tennessee to Arkansas in an early day, and
were the parents of three children: J. W., Mary and Locky Jane.
In 1861 the father enlisted in a regiment of infantry, which
was operated in Western Kansas. He was killed in the battle
of Prairie Grove. By occupation he was a farmer. The maternal
grandparents, Isaac and Locky Gilstrap, came to Arkansas from
Missouri, and died in 1877 and about 1873, respectively. The
grandfather was born in 1800, and was a farmer. Our subject
has spent his entire life in Washington and Crawford Counties,
and at the age of thirteen started in life for himself as a
farm hand. In 1877 he married Miss Phemy York. who was born in
Kentucky in 1861, and is a daughter of James York and wife.
Her father came to Crawford County, Ark., from Kentucky, in 1870,
where he engaged in farming. He is the father of
seventeen children in all, eight by his first wife and
nine by his second. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Burrows has
been blessed with five children: Mary Frances,
Maud Ellen Sanford, Elasco and Effie Tennessee living,
and one other now deceased. Mr. Burrows is a Republican,
and cast his first presidential vote for
James A. Garfield. He belongs to the Methodist Protestant
Church and the Masonic
and I. O. O. F. fraternities.

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