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HENRY BURRIS AND WIFE CHARLOTTE CAME TO AR. SOMETIME AFTER 1850. A SON. NYMPHOLOUS AND WIFE MARY WAS WITH THEM. THEY SETTLED ALONG THE CADRON CREEK IN CADRON TWP. IN VAN BUREN COUNTY AR. THEY RAN A WAGON YARD . THEY HAD BOUGHT UP AROUND 900 ACRES. SOME OF IT WAS HOMESTEAD LAND AND OTHERS WAS BOUGHT FROM THE RAIL ROAD FOR 25 CENTS A ACRE, IN 1862 NYMP WENT OFF TO WAR. WHEN HE CAME BACK MARY HAD DIED AND SO HAD HIS FATHER HENRY. WE DONT KNOW EXACTLY HOE THEY DIED. NYMP MARRIED HIS 2ND WIFE JULIA GOFF 1866 VAN BUREN CO.THE OLD BURROUGHS FAMILIY CEMETARY ON THE HOMEPLACE CONTAINS THE GRAVES OF HENRY ,CHARLOTTE, MARY, AND ONE OF MYMPS DAUGHTERS SALLY ANNE ABOUT 4 YEARS OLD , A YOUNG MAN BY THE NAME OF PHILIPS AND ANOTHER CHILDS GRAVE. WE ARE TRY TO GET NYMPS GRAVE MOVED TO THIS CEMETARY AND GET HIM A CIVIL WAR MARKER. THIS CEMETARY IS ON PRIVATE LAND NOW OWNED BY THE CLIFON CHAPMAN FAMILIY. WE WOULD LIKE TO GET THIS CEMETARY ON THE NATIONAL HISTORIC LIST AND GET A ROAD BUILT TO IT FOR EASY ACESS.
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