ELIJAH BURDETTE, of Middle Reedy in Curtis District located on lands and made the farm now the County Poor Farm; he was prominent from years 1845 to 1868, or thereabout; we have no data as to whence he came or of his wife's family name; but at that home they reared several daughters, and two sons named Morgan and William C., the latter married Josephene Kyger March 1, 1869; now long a farmer and stock man on Right Fork Sand Creek, in Reedy District.


Source: History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 459
Submitter: Sandy Spradling, November 28, 1999