Asa married Emily Wealthy Hill in Geneva, Kane Co., IL in 1843.
They had 4 children I know of.
I am not sure where Emily is buried but should be here I would think.
Their daughter, Lurissa who married Jacob Staats is buried here also.
It was interesting to find Henry Hill living with this Burbank family.
Contributed by John Burbank:
Suggested edit: Descendants have accepted Wakefield as Asa's middle name but only Asa W. is found in known public records. A letter written by Cleva Sola Staats gave his name as Asa William; also a copy of a diary from this branch of the family owned by Nancy Burbank, editor of The Buzzin' Cuzzin' had Asa William.
Some of the facts of Asa's life can be read in the 1921 letter of Lurissa Rosalia Staats, daughter of Asa W. Burbank, which she wrote at age 75 to her niece, Eva Burbank:
"My Father & Uncle Williams & Uncle Thomas B. crossed the water and went back to Illinois & brought cattle & horses & drove them across the plains & sold part of them & kept part. Yes Father had the first store in Independence and him & some of his brothers were in the gold mines among the 49ers. I can remember seeing Father dig up the dirt in our log house & burry gold nuggets & gold dust in leather bags in the ground. Father was in San Francisco at the time of the great fire there & lost some goods in it.
He used to come on ocean on a sailing vessel then up Columbia river to Portland then ride to Indi on horse back. Well when I was six years old Father had a two story frame house build across the creek and it was in this house that coming winter that brother Albert came they had sent me to Uncle Aarons and I remember so well Aunt had some nice buscuit baked in a bake oven on the fire place hearth. Things were very primitive in those days in far away Oregon, then later on brother "Lello" [Rozello] came and while he was quite small we sold out & crossed the Pacific over the isthmus of Panama. The time Father & his brother came to buy cattle & horses they rode mules across the Isthmus where the great canal is now. We crossed on the cars which had just got to runing. Mothers health was never good in Oregon, that is why father left there. He made lots of money there. They settled in Wauconda and he went in co. with Kimball. His wife was fathers sister, the only one of the Burbank family who did not go to Ore. They build a large Flour Mill and also a brick store building & carried on quite a large business. Uncle Thomas B. & family came back with father & they settled in Elgin (the great watch factory town where I was born) but he only staid a short time. Ore. had too great a lure for him. Well not long after that Grandpa B. died & is also burried in the Rickerol Cem. My sister Lettie has had the pleasure of visiting at Independence & also going over the cemetery there. I was always homesick to go back but after Uncle Henry Hill & so many of them died I gave it up. Grandpa Hill bought a family lot at W- and a lot of the family are buried there. They have a large monument for him & G. ma. I also have a child buried in that cem. little "Eva" Lettie never lived in Ore. She was born in Wauconda. Aunt Kimballs name was Lavilla Burbank and she had a daughter Annie Burritt who did live at Downing, Cali, a subarb of Los Angelles but she may be dead. I have lost track of her although we used to correspond while she lived there. I have tried to tell you a little about our people, none of them very wealthy, but so far as I know all were self supporting, no criminals, or vagabonds and the most of them believers of God so I feel we have a good deal to be thankful for. Some of our people are buried in Portland Ore."
Although Asa went to Oregon, he returned to Illinois via the isthmus of Panama and settled in Wauconda, going into business with his brother-in-law, Luther Kimball. They had a flour mill and store.
Asa didn't stay in Wauconda very long as it is thought the family moved to Parker Township, Montgomery Co. KS around 1867-68 where he applied for a land grant. This was known at "the strip," a place on the border of Indian Territory (Oklahoma). The Verdigris River had to be crossed for them to get there. A letter by Emily refers to the town as Coffe. Evidently the town was later moved to west of the river and named Coffeyville. Asa farmed, raised Morgan horses, had cattle stock and one of the first general stores in town. Eva Burbank Harrington in a 1960 letter to her cousin, Cleva Staats, wrote:
"The Henry Hill family whom I met for about an hour in 1933 told me that our grandfather, Asa Burbank, raised Morgan Horses...that he crossed the continent six times bringing horses and cattle back. I had an old cane for years which was among my father's things that was said to have come from the Isthmus of Nicaragua. Mother said my father told her that AWB was opposed to war to settle the slavery question and that he thought the gov't should buy up the slaves, pay a fair price and either settle them in some part of this country or ship them back to Africa if they wanted to go; and because he was so outspoken he was hanged in effigy and would have been hanged in person if he hadn't had a wooden leg (due to an accident crossing the Isthmus); the public was so inflamed with the war spirit and anyone who was opposed to war was in trouble."
In her reply to Eva, Cleva was unable to recall ever hearing about Morgan horses or the slavery opinions of her grandfather.
They had 4 children I know of.
I am not sure where Emily is buried but should be here I would think.
Their daughter, Lurissa who married Jacob Staats is buried here also.
It was interesting to find Henry Hill living with this Burbank family.
Contributed by John Burbank:
Suggested edit: Descendants have accepted Wakefield as Asa's middle name but only Asa W. is found in known public records. A letter written by Cleva Sola Staats gave his name as Asa William; also a copy of a diary from this branch of the family owned by Nancy Burbank, editor of The Buzzin' Cuzzin' had Asa William.
Some of the facts of Asa's life can be read in the 1921 letter of Lurissa Rosalia Staats, daughter of Asa W. Burbank, which she wrote at age 75 to her niece, Eva Burbank:
"My Father & Uncle Williams & Uncle Thomas B. crossed the water and went back to Illinois & brought cattle & horses & drove them across the plains & sold part of them & kept part. Yes Father had the first store in Independence and him & some of his brothers were in the gold mines among the 49ers. I can remember seeing Father dig up the dirt in our log house & burry gold nuggets & gold dust in leather bags in the ground. Father was in San Francisco at the time of the great fire there & lost some goods in it.
He used to come on ocean on a sailing vessel then up Columbia river to Portland then ride to Indi on horse back. Well when I was six years old Father had a two story frame house build across the creek and it was in this house that coming winter that brother Albert came they had sent me to Uncle Aarons and I remember so well Aunt had some nice buscuit baked in a bake oven on the fire place hearth. Things were very primitive in those days in far away Oregon, then later on brother "Lello" [Rozello] came and while he was quite small we sold out & crossed the Pacific over the isthmus of Panama. The time Father & his brother came to buy cattle & horses they rode mules across the Isthmus where the great canal is now. We crossed on the cars which had just got to runing. Mothers health was never good in Oregon, that is why father left there. He made lots of money there. They settled in Wauconda and he went in co. with Kimball. His wife was fathers sister, the only one of the Burbank family who did not go to Ore. They build a large Flour Mill and also a brick store building & carried on quite a large business. Uncle Thomas B. & family came back with father & they settled in Elgin (the great watch factory town where I was born) but he only staid a short time. Ore. had too great a lure for him. Well not long after that Grandpa B. died & is also burried in the Rickerol Cem. My sister Lettie has had the pleasure of visiting at Independence & also going over the cemetery there. I was always homesick to go back but after Uncle Henry Hill & so many of them died I gave it up. Grandpa Hill bought a family lot at W- and a lot of the family are buried there. They have a large monument for him & G. ma. I also have a child buried in that cem. little "Eva" Lettie never lived in Ore. She was born in Wauconda. Aunt Kimballs name was Lavilla Burbank and she had a daughter Annie Burritt who did live at Downing, Cali, a subarb of Los Angelles but she may be dead. I have lost track of her although we used to correspond while she lived there. I have tried to tell you a little about our people, none of them very wealthy, but so far as I know all were self supporting, no criminals, or vagabonds and the most of them believers of God so I feel we have a good deal to be thankful for. Some of our people are buried in Portland Ore."
Although Asa went to Oregon, he returned to Illinois via the isthmus of Panama and settled in Wauconda, going into business with his brother-in-law, Luther Kimball. They had a flour mill and store.
Asa didn't stay in Wauconda very long as it is thought the family moved to Parker Township, Montgomery Co. KS around 1867-68 where he applied for a land grant. This was known at "the strip," a place on the border of Indian Territory (Oklahoma). The Verdigris River had to be crossed for them to get there. A letter by Emily refers to the town as Coffe. Evidently the town was later moved to west of the river and named Coffeyville. Asa farmed, raised Morgan horses, had cattle stock and one of the first general stores in town. Eva Burbank Harrington in a 1960 letter to her cousin, Cleva Staats, wrote:
"The Henry Hill family whom I met for about an hour in 1933 told me that our grandfather, Asa Burbank, raised Morgan Horses...that he crossed the continent six times bringing horses and cattle back. I had an old cane for years which was among my father's things that was said to have come from the Isthmus of Nicaragua. Mother said my father told her that AWB was opposed to war to settle the slavery question and that he thought the gov't should buy up the slaves, pay a fair price and either settle them in some part of this country or ship them back to Africa if they wanted to go; and because he was so outspoken he was hanged in effigy and would have been hanged in person if he hadn't had a wooden leg (due to an accident crossing the Isthmus); the public was so inflamed with the war spirit and anyone who was opposed to war was in trouble."
In her reply to Eva, Cleva was unable to recall ever hearing about Morgan horses or the slavery opinions of her grandfather.
Asa married Emily Wealthy Hill in Geneva, Kane Co., IL in 1843.
They had 4 children I know of.
I am not sure where Emily is buried but should be here I would think.
Their daughter, Lurissa who married Jacob Staats is buried here also.
It was interesting to find Henry Hill living with this Burbank family.
Contributed by John Burbank:
Suggested edit: Descendants have accepted Wakefield as Asa's middle name but only Asa W. is found in known public records. A letter written by Cleva Sola Staats gave his name as Asa William; also a copy of a diary from this branch of the family owned by Nancy Burbank, editor of The Buzzin' Cuzzin' had Asa William.
Some of the facts of Asa's life can be read in the 1921 letter of Lurissa Rosalia Staats, daughter of Asa W. Burbank, which she wrote at age 75 to her niece, Eva Burbank:
"My Father & Uncle Williams & Uncle Thomas B. crossed the water and went back to Illinois & brought cattle & horses & drove them across the plains & sold part of them & kept part. Yes Father had the first store in Independence and him & some of his brothers were in the gold mines among the 49ers. I can remember seeing Father dig up the dirt in our log house & burry gold nuggets & gold dust in leather bags in the ground. Father was in San Francisco at the time of the great fire there & lost some goods in it.
He used to come on ocean on a sailing vessel then up Columbia river to Portland then ride to Indi on horse back. Well when I was six years old Father had a two story frame house build across the creek and it was in this house that coming winter that brother Albert came they had sent me to Uncle Aarons and I remember so well Aunt had some nice buscuit baked in a bake oven on the fire place hearth. Things were very primitive in those days in far away Oregon, then later on brother "Lello" [Rozello] came and while he was quite small we sold out & crossed the Pacific over the isthmus of Panama. The time Father & his brother came to buy cattle & horses they rode mules across the Isthmus where the great canal is now. We crossed on the cars which had just got to runing. Mothers health was never good in Oregon, that is why father left there. He made lots of money there. They settled in Wauconda and he went in co. with Kimball. His wife was fathers sister, the only one of the Burbank family who did not go to Ore. They build a large Flour Mill and also a brick store building & carried on quite a large business. Uncle Thomas B. & family came back with father & they settled in Elgin (the great watch factory town where I was born) but he only staid a short time. Ore. had too great a lure for him. Well not long after that Grandpa B. died & is also burried in the Rickerol Cem. My sister Lettie has had the pleasure of visiting at Independence & also going over the cemetery there. I was always homesick to go back but after Uncle Henry Hill & so many of them died I gave it up. Grandpa Hill bought a family lot at W- and a lot of the family are buried there. They have a large monument for him & G. ma. I also have a child buried in that cem. little "Eva" Lettie never lived in Ore. She was born in Wauconda. Aunt Kimballs name was Lavilla Burbank and she had a daughter Annie Burritt who did live at Downing, Cali, a subarb of Los Angelles but she may be dead. I have lost track of her although we used to correspond while she lived there. I have tried to tell you a little about our people, none of them very wealthy, but so far as I know all were self supporting, no criminals, or vagabonds and the most of them believers of God so I feel we have a good deal to be thankful for. Some of our people are buried in Portland Ore."
Although Asa went to Oregon, he returned to Illinois via the isthmus of Panama and settled in Wauconda, going into business with his brother-in-law, Luther Kimball. They had a flour mill and store.
Asa didn't stay in Wauconda very long as it is thought the family moved to Parker Township, Montgomery Co. KS around 1867-68 where he applied for a land grant. This was known at "the strip," a place on the border of Indian Territory (Oklahoma). The Verdigris River had to be crossed for them to get there. A letter by Emily refers to the town as Coffe. Evidently the town was later moved to west of the river and named Coffeyville. Asa farmed, raised Morgan horses, had cattle stock and one of the first general stores in town. Eva Burbank Harrington in a 1960 letter to her cousin, Cleva Staats, wrote:
"The Henry Hill family whom I met for about an hour in 1933 told me that our grandfather, Asa Burbank, raised Morgan Horses...that he crossed the continent six times bringing horses and cattle back. I had an old cane for years which was among my father's things that was said to have come from the Isthmus of Nicaragua. Mother said my father told her that AWB was opposed to war to settle the slavery question and that he thought the gov't should buy up the slaves, pay a fair price and either settle them in some part of this country or ship them back to Africa if they wanted to go; and because he was so outspoken he was hanged in effigy and would have been hanged in person if he hadn't had a wooden leg (due to an accident crossing the Isthmus); the public was so inflamed with the war spirit and anyone who was opposed to war was in trouble."
In her reply to Eva, Cleva was unable to recall ever hearing about Morgan horses or the slavery opinions of her grandfather.
They had 4 children I know of.
I am not sure where Emily is buried but should be here I would think.
Their daughter, Lurissa who married Jacob Staats is buried here also.
It was interesting to find Henry Hill living with this Burbank family.
Contributed by John Burbank:
Suggested edit: Descendants have accepted Wakefield as Asa's middle name but only Asa W. is found in known public records. A letter written by Cleva Sola Staats gave his name as Asa William; also a copy of a diary from this branch of the family owned by Nancy Burbank, editor of The Buzzin' Cuzzin' had Asa William.
Some of the facts of Asa's life can be read in the 1921 letter of Lurissa Rosalia Staats, daughter of Asa W. Burbank, which she wrote at age 75 to her niece, Eva Burbank:
"My Father & Uncle Williams & Uncle Thomas B. crossed the water and went back to Illinois & brought cattle & horses & drove them across the plains & sold part of them & kept part. Yes Father had the first store in Independence and him & some of his brothers were in the gold mines among the 49ers. I can remember seeing Father dig up the dirt in our log house & burry gold nuggets & gold dust in leather bags in the ground. Father was in San Francisco at the time of the great fire there & lost some goods in it.
He used to come on ocean on a sailing vessel then up Columbia river to Portland then ride to Indi on horse back. Well when I was six years old Father had a two story frame house build across the creek and it was in this house that coming winter that brother Albert came they had sent me to Uncle Aarons and I remember so well Aunt had some nice buscuit baked in a bake oven on the fire place hearth. Things were very primitive in those days in far away Oregon, then later on brother "Lello" [Rozello] came and while he was quite small we sold out & crossed the Pacific over the isthmus of Panama. The time Father & his brother came to buy cattle & horses they rode mules across the Isthmus where the great canal is now. We crossed on the cars which had just got to runing. Mothers health was never good in Oregon, that is why father left there. He made lots of money there. They settled in Wauconda and he went in co. with Kimball. His wife was fathers sister, the only one of the Burbank family who did not go to Ore. They build a large Flour Mill and also a brick store building & carried on quite a large business. Uncle Thomas B. & family came back with father & they settled in Elgin (the great watch factory town where I was born) but he only staid a short time. Ore. had too great a lure for him. Well not long after that Grandpa B. died & is also burried in the Rickerol Cem. My sister Lettie has had the pleasure of visiting at Independence & also going over the cemetery there. I was always homesick to go back but after Uncle Henry Hill & so many of them died I gave it up. Grandpa Hill bought a family lot at W- and a lot of the family are buried there. They have a large monument for him & G. ma. I also have a child buried in that cem. little "Eva" Lettie never lived in Ore. She was born in Wauconda. Aunt Kimballs name was Lavilla Burbank and she had a daughter Annie Burritt who did live at Downing, Cali, a subarb of Los Angelles but she may be dead. I have lost track of her although we used to correspond while she lived there. I have tried to tell you a little about our people, none of them very wealthy, but so far as I know all were self supporting, no criminals, or vagabonds and the most of them believers of God so I feel we have a good deal to be thankful for. Some of our people are buried in Portland Ore."
Although Asa went to Oregon, he returned to Illinois via the isthmus of Panama and settled in Wauconda, going into business with his brother-in-law, Luther Kimball. They had a flour mill and store.
Asa didn't stay in Wauconda very long as it is thought the family moved to Parker Township, Montgomery Co. KS around 1867-68 where he applied for a land grant. This was known at "the strip," a place on the border of Indian Territory (Oklahoma). The Verdigris River had to be crossed for them to get there. A letter by Emily refers to the town as Coffe. Evidently the town was later moved to west of the river and named Coffeyville. Asa farmed, raised Morgan horses, had cattle stock and one of the first general stores in town. Eva Burbank Harrington in a 1960 letter to her cousin, Cleva Staats, wrote:
"The Henry Hill family whom I met for about an hour in 1933 told me that our grandfather, Asa Burbank, raised Morgan Horses...that he crossed the continent six times bringing horses and cattle back. I had an old cane for years which was among my father's things that was said to have come from the Isthmus of Nicaragua. Mother said my father told her that AWB was opposed to war to settle the slavery question and that he thought the gov't should buy up the slaves, pay a fair price and either settle them in some part of this country or ship them back to Africa if they wanted to go; and because he was so outspoken he was hanged in effigy and would have been hanged in person if he hadn't had a wooden leg (due to an accident crossing the Isthmus); the public was so inflamed with the war spirit and anyone who was opposed to war was in trouble."
In her reply to Eva, Cleva was unable to recall ever hearing about Morgan horses or the slavery opinions of her grandfather.
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