Hij is getrouwd met Elizabeth Jane Knight.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 20 februari 1914 te Selma, Dallas, Alabama, USA, hij was toen 31 jaar oud.
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Social Security #: 419-52-8280
Last residence: AL 36741
State of issue: AL
"Tis something akin to the immortals that makes us long nottobealtogetherunworthy of t h e f ame of our ancestors."
E. Burson
The story of our family in the twentieth century mustbeginwithWakefield.For years my gran d father, a country doctor in ruralWilcox County,Alabama, would get up and go out on the fr o n t porch ofhis houseto lookup the hill at the Steamboat Gothic plantation houseacross t h e street.The "Laura Gulley" place, otherwise known asWakefield, hadbeenmoved pieceby pie c e i nto "town" from the plantationseveral mile saway down theFarmersville Road. The mov e a cross thestreet and his subsequentownership of the plantation became a symbol ofa chang e i nstatus for thefamily that came to America as Quakers a partof theWilliam Penn exodus fro m England. The ancestors of ElizabethKnight whomDr. Elkanah GeorgeBurson eventually marri e d were also a partof that movement and came inthe first wave of immigration to settle als o in Pennsylvania and maketheir way South, as did the Burson family.
Elkanah George Burson (1882-1970) studied medicine at ; Alabama CollegeinMobile and intern e d in New York at Bellevue Hospital, the Collegeof Physicians and Surgeons. He practiced med i cine in Furman until hisdeathin April 1970. He was a handsome man who dressed dapperly un t ilthe dayhe died. His son, also a doctor who moved to Houston County afterWorldWar II , r emembered the many nights someone would come knocking onthedoor needing a doctor to com e ma ke a call on a sick patient.He'dsaddle up the horse, put on the Mackintosh to protec t hi m fromtherain,and ride out into the night. Cars like the one he drove inthepicture co uld n't make it down the rain slicked dirt roads.
Favorite stories were of the patient who invited father and son tostay for supper. When they noted that everything was being cookedinthesamepot, the patient commented: "Well, i t ' s all going tothesameplace, aint it?" ; Another patient bought a new car and was forever out tooling about, riding hither and yon. Upon comment, themanreplied:""Doc,them wheel' s i s made round for rollin'."
He worked hard as a doctor and saved. His children rememberedeatingbiscuits with only mol a sses for lunch at the one room schoolhouse theyattended. E. G. Burson, Jr. vowed he'd b e a ble to affordwhite breadone day so he could have a sandwich like the other kids. Atth e ti me ofDr.Elkanah George Burson, Sr.'s death he owned 8000 acres ofland and aplantation h ous e with an enviable collection of antiques heacquired inSt. Louis, Savannah, Montgomery , an d New Orleans. Asthedoctor for therailroad, he traveled for free and made friends wit hdea lers in allofthose areas after purchasing the Laura Gulley houseacross thestreetfrom t h e h ome he raised his children in (about 1939).He and hiswife enjoyed traveling and colle c ting during those years.ElizabethKnight Burson favored cut glass so she owned an exquisi t ecollectionatthe time of her death.
Methodist faith
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