My Family

Helen Louise Burdeshaw was born on 26 May 1871. She died on 11 Jun 1961. Parents: Daniel Eli Burdeshaw and Georgia Ann Askew.

She was married to William Henry Newton between 1885 and 1915. Children were: Corless Henry Newton, Olin Kenneth Newton, Chester Lidell Newton, Daniel Webster Newton, Opal Newton.

Houston Burdeshaw was born between 1878 and 1905. He died between 1903 and 1984. Parents: James J. Burdeshaw and Sarah Newton.

Children were: Margaret Burdeshaw , Dorothy Burdeshaw.

Ila Burdeshaw was born between 1872 and 1898. She died between 1877 and 1981. Parents: William Daniel Burdeshaw and Mollie Howell.

J.C. Burdeshaw. Parents: Grady Burdeshaw and Martha Wilson.

Children were: James Crawford Burdeshaw, Billy Joe Burdeshaw, Jean Burdeshaw, Ted Burdeshaw, Sherril Burdeshaw.

Jackie Burdeshaw. Parents: George Burdeshaw and Eloise Wright.

James Crawford Burdeshaw. Parents: Richard Harvey Burdeshaw and Mattie Heath.

Children were: James E. Burdeshaw, Julia E. Burdeshaw.

James Crawford Burdeshaw. Parents: J.C. Burdeshaw and Rillis Vison.

James Donald Burdeshaw. Parents: James Robert Burdeshaw and Nadine Rash.

James E. Burdeshaw. Parents: James Crawford Burdeshaw and Wilma Brown.

Children were: James L. Burdeshaw, Lawrence K. Burdeshaw.

James J. Burdeshaw was born on 5 Dec 1858 in Houston Co., Alabama. He died on 6 Feb 1945. Parents: John Thomas Burdeshaw and Lucy Jane Askew.

He was married to Sarah Newton between 1875 and 1906. Children were: Beachum Burdeshaw, Houston Burdeshaw, Lila Burdeshaw, Arthur Burdeshaw, Blanche Burdeshaw, Alma Burdeshaw, Ruby Burdeshaw.

James L. Burdeshaw Parents: James E. Burdeshaw and Barbara Alese.

James Robert Burdeshaw Parents: John Webb Burdeshaw and Clara Bell Jones.

Children were: James Donald Burdeshaw, Julia Ann Burdeshaw , Mickey Joe Burdeshaw, Rodney Dean Burdeshaw, Robin Scott Burdeshaw .

Jane Clay Burdeshaw. Parents: Clarence Richard Burdeshaw and Luella Trammell.

Children were: Roger Clay Hales, Jane Luanne Hales.

Jean Burdeshaw. Parents: J.C. Burdeshaw and Rillis Vison.

John A. Burdeshaw died on 8 Jan 1863. He was born on 2 Dec 1902. Parents: Richard Harvey Burdeshaw and Mattie Heath.

John Daniel Burdeshaw Parents: John Webb Burdeshaw and Clara Bell Jones.

Children were: John Emory Burdeshaw, Daniel Randolph Burdeshaw , Margaret Lynn Burdeshaw, Glenda Burdeshaw, Connie Burdeshaw.

John Edward Burdeshaw. Parents: Paul Burdeshaw and Corinne Watford.

John Emory Burdeshaw. Parents: John Daniel Burdeshaw and Margaret Burdeshaw.

John Grady Burdeshaw. Parents: Durwood Burdeshaw and Mary Ann Worthy.

John Price Burdeshaw. Parents: John Price Burdeshaw and Ruby Nowell.Parents: John Price Burdeshaw.

John Price Burdeshaw was born on 6 Nov 1898 in Dothan, Houston Co., Alabama. He died between 1919 and 1988. Parents: John Thomas II Burdeshaw and Ellinor Estelle Grice. Parents: . Parents: .

Children were: John Price Burdeshaw , Daniel Wayne Burdeshaw, Bertha Mae Burdeshaw, Edna Grace Burdeshaw .

Children were: Wayne Burdeshaw, John Price Burdeshaw.

John Thomas Burdeshaw was born on 10 Aug 1829 in Randolph County, Georgia. He died on 23 Mar 1865.

He was married to Lucy Jane Askew between 1844 and 1862. Children were: William Daniel Burdeshaw, Philip Leonidas Burdeshaw, James J. Burdeshaw, Richard Harvey Burdeshaw .

John Thomas Burdeshaw was born between 1803 and 1832. He died between 1857 and 1917.

He was married between 1827 and 1857. Children were: Philip Leonidas Burdeshaw.

John Thomas II Burdeshaw was born on 5 Oct 1874 in Kinsey, Houston Co., Alabama. He died on 26 Nov 1947. Parents: Philip Leonidas Burdeshaw and Celia Virginia Herring.

He was married to Ellinor Estelle Grice on 31 Dec 1893 in Kinsey, Houston Co., Alabama. Children were: Mildred Burdeshaw, Thomas Anderson Burdeshaw , Helen Frances Burdeshaw, Nell Claire Burdeshaw, Lora Estelle Burdeshaw , Bertha Agnes Burdeshaw, John Price Burdeshaw, Benjamin Eric Burdeshaw , Cecelia Corrine Burdeshaw, Paul Burdeshaw.

John Webb Burdeshaw was born on 11 Sep 1884. He died on 28 Mar 1911. Parents: William Daniel Burdeshaw and Mollie Howell.

He was married to Clara Bell Jones between 1896 and 1910. Children were: Willie Mae Burdeshaw, Nettie Jewel Burdeshaw, John Daniel Burdeshaw, Annie Pearl Burdeshaw , Mabel Aline Burdeshaw, James Robert Burdeshaw, Clara Ruth Burdeshaw .

Joseph Burdeshaw Parents: Durwood Burdeshaw and Mary Ann Worthy.

Julia Ann Burdeshaw Parents: James Robert Burdeshaw and Nadine Rash.

Julia E. Burdeshaw. Parents: James Crawford Burdeshaw and Wilma Brown.

Children were: Tara Ann Mullen, Richard Mullen, Gay Ellen Mullen, Christopher Mullen.

Kimberly Burdeshaw. Parents: Milton Burdeshaw and Alice Hubbard.

Laura Virginia Burdeshaw was born about 1876 in Houston Co., Alabama. She died between 1894 and 1970. Parents: Philip Leonidas Burdeshaw and Celia Virginia Herring.

Children were: Carus Newton, Gwendolyn Newton, Euclid Newton.

Lawrence K. Burdeshaw. Parents: James E. Burdeshaw and Barbara Alese.

Lehman Burdeshaw. Parents: Clayton Burdeshaw and Lucy Biggers.

Leila Burdeshaw was born between 1872 and 1898. She died between 1894 and 1981. Parents: William Daniel Burdeshaw and Mollie Howell.

Children were: Irma Johnson , Myrtice Johnson, Gertrude Johnson, Edna Johnson, Merle Johnson, Evelyn Johnson.

Lila Burdeshaw was born on 21 Nov 1879. She died between 1880 and 1973. Parents: James J. Burdeshaw and Sarah Newton.

Lora Estelle Burdeshaw was born on 5 Feb 1895 in Kinsey, Houston Co., Alabama. She died on 23 May 1973 in Montgomery, Montgomery Co., Alabama. When John Thomas II and Ellinor Estelle (Essie) Grice married on
December 31, 1893, his father, Phillip Burdeshaw, gave the couple five
acres of land near Kinsey, Alabama. It was here that Lora Estelle was
born on February 5, 1895. Lora was the first of eleven children, four of
whom were born on the Kinsey farm. Horace, the second chold died at six
weeks and is buried at Buelah Cemetery, but Lora always said that she
remembered him. When Lora was three or four years old, her mother was
teaching school at Kinsey, and she took Lora with her every day. It was
at this school that Lora found her first "boy friend", as she called him,
Will Pittman. During classes, Lora insisted on sitting on Will Pittman's
lap, but the teacher regulated that whim. In her mother's classroom,
Lora got her first insight into the wonderful world of formal learning, a
quest which she pursued until the end of her life. She was an avid
reader and teacher with the gift of being able to recall with accuracy.
In 1900. while the family was spending a Sunday with relatives,
their home was burned to the ground. From Kinsey, they moved to
Cottonwood, Alabama where her father put in the fall crop but was unable
to work the fields after he contracted malaria. The children all became
ill with malaria. In addition to caring for the family, Essie would
strap a pistol to her hip, as related by other family members, and would
go to the fields to supervise the field hands. When Essie fell victim to
malaria fever, Tom's father moved the family to Dothan.
In Dothan, their first home was on South St. Andrews Street on the
property where Southside Elementary School now stands. By this time Lora
was school age, but because Howell School, the only elementary school at
the time, was across town from their home, and because she would have to
walk past saloons on her way to school, her parents kept her out of
school until she was eight. By then her sister, Bertha, was six.
Together the girls walked to school.
In those days, saloon keepers would pay a penny for every empty
whiskey or wine bottle turned in. On her way to school, Lora picked up
every bottle she found and sold it to the saloon keepers. With her
pennies, she bought small candy hearts with Valentine inscriptions. The
idea of eating the candy hearts apparently never entered her mind;
instead, she stored the candy in a bag in her school desk. All along
during the day, she amused herself by pulling out a few of the hearts,
reading the inscriptions, and then carefully replacing them for
safekeeping. By the time her parents learned about her enterprise, she
had a large bag of hearts neatly stored. She was immediately forbidden
to pick up bottles and firmly forbidden to enter a saloon, a ruling that
she forever kept. As if that discipline was not enough, someone stole
her precious bag of hearts!
Lora entered public school in the second grade and skipped
additional grades in grammar school, promoted in each instance by the
school authorities. She was sixteen when she was graduated from Dothan
High School. Her class of 1911 was the first graduating class in the
then new high school building on West Burdeshaw Street. (Her daughter,
Miriam, was in the last graduating class of 1939. They often joked about
being the alpha and the omega of the high school building.)
On the fall of 1911, Lora's parents enrolled her in Judson College,
the Baptist school for women in Marion, Alabama. Lora completed three
years schooling in two years, but was unable to return the following year
due to her father's illness. In addition to the required high school and
college courses, Lora had completed six years of Latin and four years of
French. In later years, she tutored a neighbor's child in French. After
she was sixty years of age, she tutored a niece in Latin and a nephew in
algebra and geometry. When Lora could not return to Judson for her
graduation year, she secured a teacher's certificate and taught in
Houston County schools until her marriage in 1917.
By that time, the Burdeshaw family had moved from South St. Andrews
Street to a farm on the Campbellton highway and then to their newly
constructed two-story frame house at the corner of South Appletree and
East Washington Streets. It was in the parlor of their new home, on June
6, 1917, that The Reverend E. D. Poe, pastor of the First Baptist Church,
performed the wedding ceremony, uniting Lora and Grover.
In the early forties, Lora returned to the classroom for several
years where she taught math, algebra, geometry, and physics at Ashford
High School, Ashford, Alabama. Most of her life after marriage, however,
was devoted to homemaking and serving in a series of offices in the
Parent-Teachers Association (PTA) and in leadership places at First
Baptist Church through Woman's Missionary Union and in Sunday School. It
was while WMU president, 1927-1929, the church was moved from the corner
of Main and Oates Streets to its present location on West Main Street.
Because she had led the women of the church to make worthy financial
contributions to the building fund, following "Uncle" Billy Whiddon, she
was the second person to lift the spade to place cement on the
cornerstone of the new church building.
A victim of diabetes, Lora experienced failing eyesight and finally
total blindness three years prior to her death. She continued to learn
by means of recordings and television communication and had made plans to
study braille. She was waiting for her teacher to return from vacation
to begin her braille classes when she had her last illness.
Lora died May 9, 1973 and is buried in the family plot, Valhalla
Cemetery, Bessemer, Alabama.

Schooling: Howell Elementary
Rose Hill Elementary
Dothan High School
Judson College, Marion, Alabama
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Troy State University, Troy, Alabama
Employment: School teacher in several county schools, Houston County
Later, teacher at Ashford High School, Ashford, Alabama

prepared by Mary Essie and Miriam Stephens
March 1988

[The Hulion Family Tree2.FTW]

When John Thomas II and Ellinor Estelle (Essie) Grice married on
December 31, 1893, his father, Phillip Burdeshaw, gave the couple five
acres of land near Kinsey, Alabama. It was here that Lora Estelle was
born on February 5, 1895. Lora was the first of eleven children, four of
whom were born on the Kinsey farm. Horace, the second chold died at six
weeks and is buried at Buelah Cemetery, but Lora always said that she
remembered him. When Lora was three or four years old, her mother was
teaching school at Kinsey, and she took Lora with her every day. It was
at this school that Lora found her first "boy friend", as she called him,
Will Pittman. During classes, Lora insisted on sitting on Will Pittman's
lap, but the teacher regulated that whim. In her mother's classroom,
Lora got her first insight into the wonderful world of formal learning, a
quest which she pursued until the end of her life. She was an avid
reader and teacher with the gift of being able to recall with accuracy.
In 1900. while the family was spending a Sunday with relatives,
their home was burned to the ground. From Kinsey, they moved to
Cottonwood, Alabama where her father put in the fall crop but was unable
to work the fields after he contracted malaria. The children all became
ill with malaria. In addition to caring for the family, Essie would
strap a pistol to her hip, as related by other family members, and would
go to the fields to supervise the field hands. When Essie fell victim to
malaria fever, Tom's father moved the family to Dothan.
In Dothan, their first home was on South St. Andrews Street on the
property where Southside Elementary School now stands. By this time Lora
was school age, but because Howell School, the only elementary school at
the time, was across town from their home, and because she would have to
walk past saloons on her way to school, her parents kept her out of
school until she was eight. By then her sister, Bertha, was six.
Together the girls walked to school.
In those days, saloon keepers would pay a penny for every empty
whiskey or wine bottle turned in. On her way to school, Lora picked up
every bottle she found and sold it to the saloon keepers. With her
pennies, she bought small candy hearts with Valentine inscriptions. The
idea of eating the candy hearts apparently never entered her mind;
instead, she stored the candy in a bag in her school desk. All along
during the day, she amused herself by pulling out a few of the hearts,
reading the inscriptions, and then carefully replacing them for
safekeeping. By the time her parents learned about her enterprise, she
had a large bag of hearts neatly stored. She was immediately forbidden
to pick up bottles and firmly forbidden to enter a saloon, a ruling that
she forever kept. As if that discipline was not enough, someone stole
her precious bag of hearts!
Lora entered public school in the second grade and skipped
additional grades in grammar school, promoted in each instance by the
school authorities. She was sixteen when she was graduated from Dothan
High School. Her class of 1911 was the first graduating class in the
then new high school building on West Burdeshaw Street. (Her daughter,
Miriam, was in the last graduating class of 1939. They often joked about
being the alpha and the omega of the high school building.)
On the fall of 1911, Lora's parents enrolled her in Judson College,
the Baptist school for women in Marion, Alabama. Lora completed three
years schooling in two years, but was unable to return the following year
due to her father's illness. In addition to the required high school and
college courses, Lora had completed six years of Latin and four years of
French. In later years, she tutored a neighbor's child in French. After
she was sixty years of age, she tutored a niece in Latin and a nephew in
algebra and geometry. When Lora could not return to Judson for her
graduation year, she secured a teacher's certificate and taught in
Houston County schools until her marriage in 1917.
By that time, the Burdeshaw family had moved from South St. Andrews
Street to a farm on the Campbellton highway and then to their newly
constructed two-story frame house at the corner of South Appletree and
East Washington Streets. It was in the parlor of their new home, on June
6, 1917, that The Reverend E. D. Poe, pastor of the First Baptist Church,
performed the wedding ceremony, uniting Lora and Grover.
In the early forties, Lora returned to the classroom for several
years where she taught math, algebra, geometry, and physics at Ashford
High School, Ashford, Alabama. Most of her life after marriage, however,
was devoted to homemaking and serving in a series of offices in the
Parent-Teachers Association (PTA) and in leadership places at First
Baptist Church through Woman's Missionary Union and in Sunday School. It
was while WMU president, 1927-1929, the church was moved from the corner
of Main and Oates Streets to its present location on West Main Street.
Because she had led the women of the church to make worthy financial
contributions to the building fund, following "Uncle" Billy Whiddon, she
was the second person to lift the spade to place cement on the
cornerstone of the new church building.
A victim of diabetes, Lora experienced failing eyesight and finally
total blindness three years prior to her death. She continued to learn
by means of recordings and television communication and had made plans to
study braille. She was waiting for her teacher to return from vacation
to begin her braille classes when she had her last illness.
Lora died May 9, 1973 and is buried in the family plot, Valhalla
Cemetery, Bessemer, Alabama.

Schooling: Howell Elementary
Rose Hill Elementary
Dothan High School
Judson College, Marion, Alabama
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Troy State University, Troy, Alabama
Employment: School teacher in several county schools, Houston County
Later, teacher at Ashford High School, Ashford, Alabama

prepared by Mary Essie and Miriam Stephens
March 1988

Parents: John Thomas II Burdeshaw and Ellinor Estelle Grice. Parents: . Parents: .

She was married to Grover Cleveland Stephens between 1907 and 1934. Children were: Cleveland Davie Stephens, Mary Estelle Stephens , Miriam Cecille Stephens, Thomas Jasper Stephens.

Lucy Burdeshaw was born between 1872 and 1898. She died between 1877 and 1981. Parents: William Daniel Burdeshaw and Mollie Howell.

Lucy Jane Burdeshaw was born on 7 Aug 1872 in Houston Co., Alabama. She died between 1890 and 1966. Parents: Philip Leonidas Burdeshaw and Celia Virginia Herring.

Children were: Minnie Harris, Trudy Harris, Floyd Harris, Victor Harris, Roy Harris, Grady Harris, T.J. Harris, Ruby Harris, Irell Harris, Will Harris, Jesse Harris.