(1) Er ist verheiratet mit Temperance Cherry.
Sie haben geheiratet am 1. April 1820 in White County, Illinois, er war 23 Jahre alt.
Kind(er):
(2) Er ist verheiratet mit Nancy Wilson.
Sie haben geheiratet am 24. Mai 1854 in Polk County, Oregon, er war 57 Jahre alt.Quelle 4
Job arrived on a wagon train in Oregon 20 Oct 1845.
The entry for Job Burden in the 1850 U. S. Census for Polk Co, OregonTerritory, lists:
Job Burden ..... 54 Male, born in VA
Temperance ... 50 Female, born in N. C.
William ........... 19 Male, born in Illinois, attended school in lastyear
Julia A. ........... 17 Female, born in Illinois, attended school in lastyear
John ............... 10 Male, born in Illinois, attended school in lastyear
Nancy A. .......... 8 Female, born in Illinois, attended school in lastyear
David ............... 3 Male, born in Oregon Terr.
The above entry gives a very strong indication that Job is father of"Julia A." Burden, who m. William Riley Kirk. She was very close to theright age, and her obituary stated she "grew up in Yamhill County". PolkCounty was originally part of Yamhill County, until 22 Dec 1845, whenPolk was split off by the Oregon Territorial Legislature. The 3-year-oldDavid born in Oregon, would fit with a Job Burden who was in Oregon in1845, and also with Julia A. (Burden) Kirk's obituary which stated thatJulia came by oxen team in 1845.
The fact that the marriage of Julia A. Burden & William Riley Kirk tookplace at the home of Job Burden in Polk County pretty much eliminates alldoubt that the above "Julia A." is the person who m. William Riley Kirk.See notes under Julia for the details on the marriage.
If the 1845 Oregon Terr. census, mentioned in later notes as showing JobBurden in Polk County, was actually taken in 1845, then it only had 9cold, wintery days to do so (Polk County wasn't created until 22 Dec1845); thus I suspect that the census was taken in what was then Yamhill,and later changed to reflect the new Polk County.
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There are also entries (could not view) for Job Burden in Polk Co, OregonTerr. for the Census years 1845, 1850, and 1860 (Douglas Precinct). Therewas also a Job Burden in Tuality Co (now Washington Co) for year 1845.
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Thanks to Anita "Nita" Salvatori, who e-mailed me an image of thefollowing census record:
Job Burden is shown in the 1830 U. S. Census for Sangamon Co, IL:
Job Burden, head of household,
1 male under 5 . . . . Levi, age 3
1 male 5-10 . . . . . . .(an eldest son, didn't go to Oregon. Wonder ifhis name is Job?)
1 male 30-40 . . . . . .Job, age 34
1 female under 5 . . .(daughter, didn't go to Oregon, died before 1840?)
2 female 5-10 . . . . . Sarah, age 9 before December 18th & Lucinda, age7 before December 23
1 female 20-30 . . . . Temperance, age 29 before September 11th
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There is a Job Burden (which is probably the same Job) in the 1840 U. S.Census for Taney Co, MO. For analysis purposes, I have sketched inappropriate names and ages:
Job Burden, head of household,
1 male under 5 . . . . . John, newly born
1 male 5-10 . . . . . . . .William, age 9
1 male 10-15 . . . . . . .Levi, age 13
2 male 15-20 . . . . . . .(eldest son + 1 other?, didn't go to Oregon)
1 male 40-50 . . . . . . .Job, age 44
2 female under 5 . . . .Mary, age 4, + 1 daughter, didn't go to Oregon)
1 female 5-10 . . . . . . Julia, age 6
1 female 15-20 . . . . . Lucinda, age 17 (Sarah was married)
1 female 40-50 . . . . . Temperance, age 40 after September 11th
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Thanks to Anita Salvatori for sending me the following information on Job& Temperance, their family, and their trip on the Oregon Trail:
*From: A Personal History of An Oregon Family Bob and Mae -- TheHicksons, The Palmers, The Barzees, The Eatons, by Eileen(Hickson)Donnell*
It is likely that Job and Temperence /(or Temperance)/ were married inIllinois in 1820, and lived in Sangamon county, where ten children wereborn before they came west. Our Mary was the 8^th . The oldest daughterwas married before they came west: her husband’s family was also in the1845 migration. Another son, David, was born in Oregon: 3 years old inthe 1850 census. Mary’s mother died in 1851. Job remarried 3 years later,in Polk county.
The Burden family proved upon a Donation Land Claim (#5113) in Polkcounty. Job was a Justice of the Peace, both in Illinois and Oregon.
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One of the fascinating stories of the 1845 migration is that of "Meek’sCut-off" or the "Trapper’s Trail". Stephen Meek, brother of the famousJoe Meek of Oregon history, convinced a large group of wagons that heknew a "short cut" to The Dalles. However, he failed to find the largelake he was looking for (probably Malheur), both as a landmark and as aplace to water the stock. (Could it have been another year of greatdrought?) This cut-off was not only to be shorter, but was to avoidpossibly hostile Indian tribes. Our Jesse /(Jesse Eaton, 1826 latermarried to Mary Elizabeth Burden)/was with this group as it spent muchtime wandering around Central Oregon looking for water. On someoccasions, Meek had to leave quickly in order to avoid menacing membersof the group. When they finally reached The Deschutes, advance partieswent on to get relief supplies from The Dales. The group crossed theriver in the vicinity of (now) Sherar’s Bridge, and eventually reachedThe Dalles. Many died along this route, and much of the livestock waslost.
The Burden family came to The Dalles by the more traditional routenorthward toward Pendleton, then across the Emigrant Trail, finallycrossing The Deschutes near its mouth.
Missionaries who were at The Dalles in 1845 reported: "There were about3000 persons and 500 wagons, and 15,000 head of cattle. Nearly half thecattle died and were lost; 225 wagons followed Stephen Meek on a newroute. They were lost and out of provision". We never saw such adistress before and I never hope to again. We took in for the Missionmore than $600 cash, and cattle and property more. But I am tired of thisbusiness. I came to labor for the good of Indians."
Brazen Overlander somewhat smaller, and undoubtedly more accuratefigures: 2300 people, 400 wagons, 7100 livestock.
The Burdens came to the Willamette Valley by boat (and portage) from TheDalles, down the Columbia. It is noteworthy here that Portland was nottheir destination. Oregon City was the metropolis at the time. Job’sletter to a friend in Illinois mentions that they arrived at Linnton.
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The ancestry of Job Burden is less sure.
The Harrison Co, WV birth place comes from family tree information atGenealogy.com. It agrees with the "Virginia" place of birth given in the1850 census. (West Virginia was part of Virginia in 1850.)
According to a Quaker Encyclopedia found online at Genealogy.com, a JobBurden, born in 1796, son of another Job Burden, was recorded in FayetteCo, PA. I believe that the Job of Harrison Co, Virginia and the Job (aQuaker) of Fayette Co, PA may be the same person. The two counties areless than 40 miles apart. The PA birth is implied by the QuakerEncyclopedia information, which may be more oriented to where Quakercenters are located and he may surely have been "of Fayette Co, PA".Probably the birth date for PA is correct and the West Virginia birthlocation is correct.
Job, according to the Quaker Encyclopedia, had a brother named Reuben.According to the information supplied by Nita Salvatori in the nextsection, both a Job Burdan & Reuben Burden ended up in Sangamon Co., IL.This adds to the evidence that the Job of Harrison Co, VA and the Jobborn to a family which met at a Quaker center in Fayette Co, PA were thesame person.
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Thanks to Anita "Nita" Salvatori, who e-mailed me the followinginformation from History of Early Settlers in Sangamon County Illinois byJohn Carroll Powers, pub by Edwin Wilson & Co., Illinois 1876., online athttp://www.rootsweb.com/~ilsangam/sanghist.htm
Reuben Burden is mentioned in the following story:
A SNAKE STORY:--Gen. James Adams was bitten by a rattlesnake in 1821, andwishing to obtain some rattlesnake oil, he advertised that he would payfifty cents for the first one brought to him, and in order to make sureof getting one, he offered twenty-five cents for each additional one. Aman by the name of Barnes found a den near the mouth of Spring creek,killed all he could, loaded them in a wagon, drove to Springfield, andleft his wagon in an out-of-the-way place. He first took one snake andreceived fifty cents, then two, and received twenty-five cents each. Hethen took Gen. Adams to the wagon and showed him the whole load. Adamsrefused to pay for them. Barnes then called his attention to theadvertisement, but he still refused. Barnes then called on two men,Reuben Burden and John White, who counted the load, and there were 122snakes. He then demanded his money, $30.75. This brought the General to acompromise, and the matter was settled by his paying $5.00 extra. JosephE. McCoy is my authority.
Job Burdan is one of the grand jurors summoned in the following account:
The first three or four years of the records of the Circuit Court revealsnothing more than the ordinary routine in such tribunals. The moststartling event in the community occurred August 27, 1826. A murder wascommitted that day near the Sangamon river, in what is now Menard county,about five miles above where Petersburg now stands. A blacksmith namedNathaniel VanNoy had, in a fit of drunken frenzy, killed his wife. He wasarrested and lodged in jail the same day. The sheriff, Col. John Taylor,notified Judge Sawyer, who at once called a special session of theCircuit Court. A grand jury was empanneled and sworn, consisting of thefollowing citizens:
Gershom Jayne, foreman,
Stephen Stillman,
John Morris,
John Stephenson, Jr.,
James White,
Thomas Morgan,
James Stewart,
Jacob Boyer,
Robert White,
John N. Moore,
Wm. Carpenter,
Jesse M. Harrison,
Robert Cownover,
James Turley,
Aaron Houton,
John Young,
John Lindsay,
Charles Boyd,
Wm. O. Chilton,
Job Burdan,
Hugh Sportsman,
Abram Lanterman.
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