52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week #5 Theme - BRANCHING OUT, which could include branches going up or down.

Over the years we have tracked Gerry's elusive Burris/ Burrows ancestors. Through census records and some old letters we found his 2 Gt. Grandfather, Josiah Burrows (Burris, Burroughs, etc.) who was born in Tennessee 1825, and lived in Arkansas, and Missouri. He died in 1889 having been married at least 4 times and fathering 23 children. So Josiah could fulfill the theme of Branching Out, right there.

But, after Gerry had received DNA results on Ancestry, we found that many of his DNA "cousin matches" descended from one Anthony Burrows/ Burroughs who lived in Tennessee in the early 1800s. Not proving the father of Josiah, we could still track his ancestry to this Anthony by DNA. Anthony's will of 1822, Franklin County TN, has given us the information that his land was called Pear Place at the headwaters of the Elk River. With all the geographic info, we could locate this land two hundred years later. As we planned our trip and corresponded with a local gentleman, we were told of a spring which produced a pool called the Blue Hole at the headwaters of the Elk River. And what is the land still called? Burrows Cove. Accompanying photos show the only Pear Tree we could find in Burrows Cove and the beautiful Blue Hole.