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Burton William [Male] b. 12 OCT 1883

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Title: John C. Burton.FTW

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The Burton Family

Front Row: Henry, William, Marvin, Mary Evelyn and Ossie Burton

Back Row: Nancy Elizabeth, Irving and Laura Burton

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Burton Laura Jane [Female] b. 18 OCT 1886 Texas - d. 28 MAY 1968 Abilene, Texas

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Title: John C. Burton.FTW

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Back Row: Nancy Elizabeth, Irving and Laura Burton

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Burton Henry Franklin [Male] b. 26 NOV 1892 - d. 1955

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Title: John C. Burton.FTW

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The Burton Family

William Burton, Irwin, Evelyn and Lizzie

The boys in front are Marvin, Henry, Ossie

The Burton Family

Front Row: Henry, William, Marvin, Mary Evelyn and Ossie Burton

Back Row: Nancy Elizabeth, Irving and Laura Burton

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Burton Ossie Oscar [Male] b. 30 MAY 1896 Texas - d. 7 JAN 1970 Callahan, Texas

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Title: John C. Burton.FTW

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The Burton Family

William Burton, Irwin, Evelyn and Lizzie

The boys in front are Marvin, Henry, Ossie

The Burton Family

Front Row: Henry, William, Marvin, Mary Evelyn and Ossie Burton

Back Row: Nancy Elizabeth, Irving and Laura Burton

Ossie Burton

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Burton John Cabe [Male] b. 5 MAY 1823 Orange, North Carolina - d. 10 APR 1906 Coleman, Texas

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Title: John C. Burton.FTW

Oral history as passed down from William Sidney Burton to his grandson James Vertis Ross.

John Cabe Burton was serving in the Confederate army when the war ended with the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. He thought it a long way to walk home and decided to steal a horse in order to get home. As it turned out he took a horse belonging to General Robert E. Lee. He was caught with the horse and relieved of it in return for a mule. Why he was given a mule for the trip home instead of hung is a bit of a mystery.

http://www.civilwarhome.com/leeshorses.htm

"After the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, 'Lucy Long,' who was not with the Army of Northern Virginia, was taken by some stragglers and sold to a Virginian surgeon, who took her home with him. After the close of the war, she was found in Eastern Virginia by Captain Robert E. Lee, who repaid what had been paid for her and took her to his father at Lexington, where were also 'Traveller' and 'Ajax.' When 'The Roan' through blindness became unfit for army service, General Lee gave him to a farmer, who promised to kindly care for him.