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The updating of the numbering system used on this page has been completed. Generation 28 is my own;
27 is that of my parents; 29 is that of my children, etc. -- John M. Gwin, May 2009

Page updated 3 Aug 2019

Page updated 18 Feb 2019
Page updated 18 Jun 2009
Page started December 1999

SOURCES:

When I first started this page in December of 1999, most of the information I had was graciously provided by my wife's (nee Sharon Lynn Hamrick) fourth cousin, Ms. Tara Burnside Bunner, who has now displayed her bountiful collection at www.BurnsideGenealogy.com.

In 2009, more data [in this blue color] was added which was taken from the book, Paxtons from West Virginia, 1820-1977, written by my first cousin once removed, the late Roscoe Conkling Keeney, Jr., who acknowledged and thanked by name over two dozen "Paxton and Paxton relatives who went out of their way to offer information and advice on this publication. Special thanks is given to Lyda Withrow Turner, a first cousin, who...collected a great deal of material."

[Tara Bunner Note: First of all, our name spellings are different. I have my grandaunt's name as Malinda Rena Burnside. According to Rebecca Moore, who is also working on this family, her name is Rene Malinda. I also have a note that she "was known as Rena, married and moved to Clay Co." The information I have is from the West Virginia University Library genealogy floor and records and also some came from family group sheets submitted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints headquartered in Salt Lake City where they have extensive genealogical information from all over the world. Let me know where you got your spelling--maybe yours is first hand and more accurate! I'd be interested to know.]

[John M. Gwin Note, 2 Aug 2019: Here's the story of the numbering system I use to delineate the generations. When I first started my collection, I used the farthest-back person in each line as generation one. (The numbers AFTER the decimal point would show the number in the BIRTH order for that particular person's family--that part of the system has not changed.) But since the farthest-back person in one line might be farther back than the farthest-back person in another line, that would give me, John M. Gwin, a different generation number in each line, and this quickly became very confusing at best. Further, when additional research would take my known family even further back in time, I'd have to renumber my generations after each such discovery, a horrendous task that commpounded the confusion even more. And so I decided to take my own generation number in my GWIN line--which at the time was generation 8.01--and add some arbitrary number of generations to it that would be all but impossible to take back to generation one, in this lifetime, anyway. I chose the number twenty as that arbitrary number. So when I added twenty to my number 8, my generation number became 28. So I myself would always be generation 28.01 in EVERY line, and my younger and only sibling, Patrick F. Gwin, would always be 28.02. My parents' numbers became 27.04 for Dad and 27.03 for Mom. My three children's numbers became 29.01 for Jeremy, 29.02 for Charity, and 29.03 for Sarah. At some point in the future, should I or some other researcher ever be able to reach back to generation "one", all we'd have to do is add one hundred to the existing numbers, making my own number 128.01, and so on. Samuel Burnside's number would become 119.00, etc.]

An Outline of the Known Family

18.00--Before the mid 1600's the Burnsides were probably from the Wallace family who came to Ireland from Scotland.
19.00--(possibly) Samuel Burnside

20.00--Robert Burnside (may have been the son of Samuel Burnside) b. 1656 in Ulster, Ireland.

21.00--James Burnside, Sr., b. 1700 in Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland.

22.00--James Burnside, Jr., b. 1727 in Union, Monroe Co., VA; m. unk.;

23.00--George Alexander Burnside, b. 1764 in Augusta, VA; d. after 1853 in Monroe Co., VA; m1. 14 Jun 1812 in Monroe Co., VA, to Margaret C. "Peggy" Garner (b. 20 Mar 1794, Monroe Co., VA; d. 11 Feb 1835 in Monroe Co., VA); 7 of 17 ch. ; m2. Julianna (Julia A.) Woodrum (b. 28 Dec 1809 in Monroe Co., VA {d/o Richard Woodrum and Rhoda Bird}; d. 2 Apr 1860 in Fayette Co., VA.); 10 of 17 ch.

24.01--Henderson B. Burnside, b. 31 Aug 1813, Union, Monroe Co., VA; d. unk., but allegedly on the same day as his brother William; bd. in TX?; m. 4 Jan 1836 to Lucinda Holstine (b. unk.; d. unk.; bd. unk.); unk. ch.

24.02--William M. Burnside, b. 10 Dec 1815, Union, Monroe Co., VA; d. unk., but allegedly on the same day as his brother Henderson; bd. in TX?; m. unk. date/place to Melvina Alexander (b. unk.; d. unk.; bd. unk.); unk. ch.

24.03--Martha W. Burnside, b. 10 Jun 1818, Union, Monroe Co., VA

24.04--Nancy C. Burnside, b. 26 Feb 1821, Union, Monroe Co., VA

24.05--Anderson (Andrew) Smith Burnside, b. 15 Sep 1823, Union, Monroe Co., VA

24.06--Phoebe J. Burnside, b. 11 Jun 1827, Union, Monroe Co., VA

24.07--Mary Ann Burnside, b. 23 Mar 1830, Union, Monroe Co., VA

GAB m2. to Julianna (Julia A.) Woodrum (b. 1809; d. 1860);



24.08--George Alexander Burnside, b. 21 Oct 1836, Union, Monroe Co., VA

24.09--John M. Burnside, b. 1 Mar 1838, Union, Mercer Co., VA

24.10--Rhoda E. Burnside, b. 19 Jan 1840, Union, Fayette Co., VA

24.11--Isaac G. Burnside, b. 27 Sep 1842, Union, Fayette Co., VA

24.12--Isabelle Burnside, b. 1843, Union, Mercer Co., VA

24.13--Harrison L. Burnside, b. 19 Aug 1844, Union, Fayette Co., VA

24.14--Richard I. Burnside, b. 27 Mar 1846, Monroe Co., VA; d. ; m.


25.01--William H. Burnside, b. 1870, WV;

25. 02--John Burnside, b. 1872, WV;

25.03--Charles Hale Burnside, b. 7 Jun 1874 in Oak Hill, Fayette Co., WV; d. 11 Nov 1953; bd. Weeks Cem., Bridgeport, OH; m. 16 Mar 1896 in Fayette Co., WV, to Mary Ann Brown (b. 2 Feb 1879 in London, Eng.; d. 2 Jan 1974 in Chester, Hancock Co., WV; bd. Weeks Cem., Bridgeport, OH); at least one ch.

26.01--John Burnside; d. in infancy

26. 02--Caroline Alena Burnside; d. in infancy

26. 03--David Ervin Burnside "Davy" Burnside, Sr., b. 16 Sep 1898, Richwood, WV (but FindAGrave says Redstar, Fayette Co., WV; d. 28 Jun 1987 in Bainbridge, Decatur Co., GA; bd. Rose Lawn Memory Gardens, Bainbridge, Decatur Co., GA--FAG mem. #73150338; m. bef. 1934 to Edna Pearl Brocious (Procious?, b. 31 Oct 1903 in Washington Co., PA; d. unk.; bd. unk.); at least 4 ch.

27.01--David Ervin Burnside, Jr., b. 23 Jan 1934 in Monongalia Co., WV

27.02--Madelyn Burnside, b. unk.;

27.03--Delores Burnside, b. unk.;

27.04--Eileen Burnside, b. unk.;

26. 04--Charles Leland Burnside, b. 14 Aug 1901, , Taylor Co., WV

26. 05--James Clinton Burnside, b. 17 Jan 1904/1905, Bridgeport, Belmont Co., OH

26. 06--Mary Ann Burnside, b. 1905

26. 07--Gladys Ruth Burnside, b. 23 Dec 1908, Camore, Kanawha Co., WV

26. 08--Wallace Alvin Burnside, b. 10 May 1910, Bridgeport, Belmont Co., OH

26. 09--Paul Burnside, b. 12 May 1914, Bridgeport, Belmont Co., OH

26. 10--William Hershell Burnside, b. 4 Mar 1915, Bridgeport, Belmont Co., OH

26. 11--Arthur Udale Burnside, b. 14 Oct 1918, Bridgeport, Belmont Co., OH

26.00--Tara's grandparent (one of the eight males above who reached adulthood, currently unknown to us)--[PRIVATE]; b. ; d. ; m. unk. ([PRIVATE])

27.00--James Carroll Burnside; b. ; d. ; m. Dawn Eavenson;

28.00--Tara Lynn Burnside, CONTRIBUTOR; b. 4 Mar 1954; d. 21 Jun 2014 in Morgantown, WV; bd. Beverly Hills Memorial Gardens; m. Mr. Bunner; five ch.;

[John M. Gwin Note: Tara is 4th cousin to my wife, Sharon Gwin. The following online obituary was copied from Memorial Solutions.com]

                                                                    OBITUARY

        Tara Lynn Bunner, 60, of Morgantown, WV, passed away on Saturday, June 21, 2014 at her home, surrounded by her family.
        She was born March 4, 1954 in Morgantown, the daughter of James Burnside and Dawn Eavenson.
        Tara was a 1972 graduate of Morgantown High School, and she completed her bachelor’s degree in    Education at The University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2011.
        Tara loved gardening, teaching children, and caring for animals. She was an accomplished seamstress, dancer, and choreographer, and she adopted anyone and anything that was in need of a loving home. She ran    her own business, Tara’s House Daycare, for many years. She was a devoted member of the Church of Jesus    Christ of Latter Day Saints.
        She is survived by her mother, Dawn Eavenson, stepmother Shirley Burnside, five daughters Jennifer    Bunner and her husband Tony Sass, Gretchen Gustavich and her husband Clint Gustavich, Emily Bunner and her fiancé Kory Stuemke, Amy Robson and her husband Cody Robson, Rebecca Bunner and her fiancé Joshua Totten; Sisters Cheryl Ann Baker and Sheila Blosser and her husband Jacob McClellan; step brother Jesse    Tennant and his wife Deborah Tennant; and her beloved golden retriever Niblet.
        Friends and family will be received at Fred L. Jenkins Funeral Home Tuesday, June 24 2014 from 2:00 pm until 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm. Funeral services will be held at Fred L. Jenkins Funeral Home Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 1:00 pm. Interment will directly follow the services at Beverly Hills Memorial Gardens.
        At 3:00 pm following the service, friends and family are invited to meet at the LDS Institute of Religion    building at 596 Willey Street in Morgantown for a potluck dinner.

29.01--Jennifer Bunner, facebook [PRIVATE] ; m. Tony Sass [PRIVATE];

29.02--Gretchen Bunner, facebook [PRIVATE] ; m. Clint Gustavich facebook [PRIVATE];

29.03--Emily Bunner, facebook [PRIVATE] ; m. Kory Stuemke, facebook [PRIVATE];

29.04--Amy Bunner, facebook [PRIVATE] ; m. Cody Robson [PRIVATE];

29.05--Rebecca Bunner, [PRIVATE] ; m. Joshua Totten, facebook [PRIVATE];

25.04--Anna Burnside, b. 1875 in WV

25.05--Emery Burnside, b. Oct 1876, Sugar Branch, Fayette Co., WV

25. 06--Alice Burnside, b. 1879, WV

25. 07--unk. Burnside, b. 1 Sep 1882, Sugar Creek, Fayette Co., WV

25. 08--James Price Burnside, b. 17 Jul 1884

25. 09--George P. Burnside, b. 20 Jul 1885, Fayetteville, Fayette Co., WV

25. 10--Harry Burnside

25. 11--Virgil Burnside

25. 12--Mary Burnside

25. 13--Ida Burnside, b. ca. 1883

24.15--Delila Melissa "Lila" Burnside, b. 11 Mar 1848, Union, Mercer Co., VA

24.16--Mary Melinda Burnside, b. 22 Feb 1851, Union, Mercer Co., VA

24.17--Malinda Rena (Rena Malinda?) Burnside, b. 11/8 Apr/Dec 1853/1855, Union, Mercer Co., VA [but Roscoe C. Keeney reports: b. 8 Dec 1855 in Bethlehem, PA; d. 8 Jan 1942]; m. 27 Apr 1871 to Winfield Worthington "Worth" Paxton (b. 1852 [6 Oct 1853 in Craig Co., VA], s/o Abner Jehu Paxton and Hester Elmore; d. 17 Dec 1931; bd. Ivydale, Clay Co., WV); 9 ch.

25.01--Charles Abner Paxton b. 12 Jun 1872 at Ivydale; d. 6 Feb 1937 of pneumonia; m1. 1 Jan 1891 to Bertha Caroline Procious (b. Nov 1874, d/o Adam Procious and Belle Weaver); 8 children; m2. 23 Jul 1928 to Chessie Mae Loving Nicholas ();

[John M. Gwin Note: Tara has the following as children of Charles Abner Paxton. Roscoe has them as Charles A.'s siblings, below. A little sleuthing in the censuses should straighten it out. ]

26.01--Winifred Paxton, b. Nov 1891;

26.02--Lawrence Shelburn Paxton, b.

26.03--Riley Leonard Paxton, b.

26.04--William W. Paxton, b.

26.05--Oscar W. Paxton, b.

26.06--Dorothy Belle "Mom" Paxton, b. 3 Apr 1900; d. ; m1. 1 Sep 1917 to Ona Byrne "Onie" (say /OH-knee/), "Big Daddy" Hamrick (b. 4 Jun 1899 in Clay Co., WV; d. 22 Aug 1953; bd. Cunningham Mem. Park, St. Albans, WV; ); 4 ch.; m2. aft. 1953 to Alfred Gill (b. ; d. ; bd. )

27.03--Stanford Sherman Hamrick, b. 10 Dec 1922; d. May 2001; m1. unk.; no ch.; m2. Frances Marie Droddy (b. , {d/o Austin Bay Droddy and Maysel Belle Rhodes}; d. 9 Nov 1996; bd. Cunningham Mem. Cem., St. Albans, WV);

28.02--Sharon Lynn Hamrick [PRIVATE]; m. to John M. Gwin [PRIVATE], s/o Adrian Sutton Gwin and Dorothy Lee Keeney)

[John M. Gwin Note: Sharon is 4th cousin to Tara Bunner, above.]

29.01--Jeremiah "Jeremy" Scott Gwin, [PRIVATE]; m. Kara Marie Douglas [PRIVATE]

30.01--Adriana Rose Gwin [PRIVATE]

30.02--daughter Gwin [PRIVATE]

30.03--daughter Gwin [PRIVATE]

29.02--Charity Elizabeth Gwin [PRIVATE] ; m. Beau Scott Pihlaja [PRIVATE]

30.01--Asher Samuel Neeraj Pihlaja [PRIVATE]

30.02--Cressida Noel Pihlaja [PRIVATE]

29.03--Sarah Joy Gwin [PRIVATE] ; m. Jason Deane Johnson, Sr. [PRIVATE]

30.01--Jason Deane "J. D." Johnson, Jr. [PRIVATE]

30.02--Ryan Jonathan Johnson, [PRIVATE]

30.03--Tate Austin Johnson, [PRIVATE]

30.04--Zachary Jacob Johnson, [PRIVATE]

26.07--Rhoda Paxton, b. 25 Mar 1903;

26.08--Raymond Howard Paxton, b. 1 Apr 1904;

26.09--Roy William Paxton, b.

26.10--Gilbert J. C. Paxton, b. 5 Dec 1909;

26.11--Aubrey Leo Paxton, b. 1911 in McLean, VA;

26.12--Arlene Claire Paxton, b. 1916;

26.13--Charter Paxton, b.

25.02--Laura Bell Paxton, b. 12 Aug 1874; d. 28 Apr 1948; m. 10 Nov 1895 to Harry Bleakney (b. unk.; d. unk.; bd. unk.); unk. ch.

25.03--John Riley Paxton, b. 1877; d. 1952; bd. unk.; m1. Victoria Walker (b. unk.; d. unk.; bd. unk.); unk. ch.

[Tara Bunner Note: Rebecca Moore tells me that he was married twice.]

25.04--Alonzo "Lonnie" Shelburn Paxton b. unk.; d. unk.; bd. unk.; m. Nannie Walker (b. unk.; d. unk.; bd. unk.); unk. ch.

25.05--Robert Henry "Bob" Paxton , b. 1888; d. 1961; m. Estel Hart (b. unk.; d. unk.; bd. unk.); unk. ch.

25.06--Harrison Leonard "Clyde" Paxton, b. 14 Feb 1883; m1. Mary Sue Elmore; m2. on 28 Sep 1921 to Ollie Moore McKown; m3. in Apr 1952 to Lora Hackney Jones (b. unk.; d. unk.; bd. unk.); unk. ch.

25.07--Barbara Ellen Paxton b. unk.; d. unk.; bd. unk.; m. s (b. unk.; d. unk.; bd. unk.); unk. ch.

25.08--Bertha Harriett Paxton b. unk.; d. unk.; bd. unk.; m. Mark Smarr (b. unk.; d. unk.; bd. unk.); unk. ch.

25.09--Jesse Howard Patterson Paxton b. unk.; d. unk.; bd. unk.; m. Florina Hamrick (b. unk.; d. unk.; bd. unk.); unk. ch.

[Tara Burnside Bunner Note: I now have online a webpage with all of the genealogy I have (except for living members) at www.BurnsideGenealogy.com. Let me know what I have left out if you have it, too, please, and I will enter that into my webpage as well. In this way we can help others in our family who are looking for us and our ancestors. If you feel comfortable sending me your own genealogy that links up with Rena and Worth, I would gladly take that, too. You may be interested to know that there is a Burnside reunion held at Chestnut Ridge State Park outside of Morgantown, WV (my home town), every year on the Labor Day Weekend for the descendants of Charles Hale Burnside. I have yet to go because our family has moved to Wisconsin, and I have children in school during the week before Labor Day. Maybe this year I will make it anyway. I'm kind of the official genealogist for the family, so it would be nice to be there.
Happy hunting,
Tara Burnside Bunner]