BURDETTE: Of Spencer.
St. Clair Burdette, horn in Monroe County, Virginia, about the year 1824, married Octavia Kincaid in Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, in first years of decade, 1840; moved to Fayette County, next to Grass Lick, Jackson County, 1862, then came to Roane, settling on upper Flat Fork of Poca in Harper District. To St. Clair and Octavia Burdette were horn nine children. Of these, five were born in Fayette County, and the four younger were born in Jackson County. The names of these 'given in order of their ages (by Jiles N. Burdette, a son) are as follows:
Charles, who married Jane Gandee, daughter of George Gandee, son of Uriah, of Gandeeville.
Mary, who married Henderson, son of Geo. Gandee, son of Uriah Gandee.
Sarah married Jonathan R. Reed, of Flat Fork.
John Asher, died in youth.
Jiles Numern, see further at end of this.
Martha, married Crittenden Coon, of Higby.
Ellen, died in youth.
Alice, married Joseph Fields, of Flat Fork.
George, married Julia Suck, daughter of the feed and mill merchant at Silverton, Jackson County, West Virginia.
George entered the Christian ministry in his early manhood, choosing his place with the United Brethren; he has long been spoken of as the Reverend Burdette; has been president or moderator of their General Conference; he is now (1926) resident minister of a United Brethren Church in Huntington, West Virginia.
Of Jiles N. Burdette, of the City of Spencer, we write further: He was the fifth child and third son, as observed above; born about 1859; married Martha Ellen Hudreth, of Spring Creek, October 30, 1882, at the home of the bride's parents, William Harrison and Sallie (Hickman) Hudreth. Jiles was ordained a ministed of the Baptist Church in the year, 1886; preached to churches of his charges in Jackson, Roane, Wirt and Calhoun Counties for a period of about ten years, then returned to his trade-house carpenter; was long a prominent A. F. and A. M. and became a permanent resident of Spencer about 1902.
To Jiles N. and Martha Ellen, his wife, were born the following named children, in order of their ages:
Maud, married Harvey J. Simmons, of Spencer, on November 14, 1904.
May, married Earl Simmons, garage and auto dealer of Spencer at this time (1926).
Sallie, married Frank Tumbull, of Colorado.
Clyde L., married Katherine Arnett, 5th June, 1919, his age 28, her age 19; she is a daughter of Hayes Arnott.
Otho and Hugh, hoth unmarried young men of Spencer.
Abby, married Lyle Chapman, of Huntington, West Virginia.
Source: History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 460-461
Submitter: Sandy Spradling, November 28, 1999
