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Note: Birth, marriage and death information from "The Woodmans of RI" by Helen Denny Woodman. American Civil War Soldiers Name: Almund Burgess , Residence: Brighton, Wisconsin Enlistment Date: 21 Jan 1865 Side Served: Union State Served: Wisconsin Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 21 January 1865. Enlisted in Company G, 2nd Cavalry Regiment Wisconsin on 21 Jan 1865. Mustered Out Company G, 2nd Cavalry Regiment Wisconsin on 15 Nov 1865 at Austin, TX. Almond served in the Civil War and received a pension. BURGESS, ALMOND, 2ND WI CAV, Post 89 1870 Census, Gage County, Nebraska enumerated August 1, 1870 Dwelling #297, Family #301, Post Office: Beatrice BURGESS, Almond, 26, m/w, farmer, $1600/$400, WI ________, Arminta, 21, f/w, keeping house, MI 1880 Census, Grant Precinct, Gage County, Nebraska, Roll 749 Dwelling #70, Family #73 BURGESS, Almond, w/m, 35, farmer, WI VT NY ________, Arminta, w/f, 31, wife, MI VA WV ________, Margaret M., w/f, 9, daughter, NE WI MI ________, Alena, w/f, 7, daughter, NE WI MI ________, Charles, w/m, 4, son, NE WI MI ________, Carrie, w/f, 1, daughter, NE WI MI ________, Leroy, w/m, 1/12, son, NE WI MI 1900 Census, Grant Precinct, Gage County, Nebraska enumerated, June 6-7, 1900 Dwelling #34, Family #34 BURGESS, Almond, head, w/m, Mar 1844, 55, WI VT NY, farmer ________, Arminta L., wife, w/f, July 1849, 50, MI WV WV, married 32 yrs, mother of 12, 10 living ________, Leroy S., son, w/m, May 1880, 20, NE WI MI, farm laborer, single ________, Robert E., son, w/m, Feb 1882, 18, NE WI MI, farm laborer, single ________, Estella S., daughter, w/f, Oct 1883, 16, NE WI MI, single ________, Alice L., daughter, w/f, May 1886, 14, NE WI MI, single ________, Sarah J., daughter, w/f, May 1890, 10, NE WI MI ________, Ethel G., daughter, w/f, Oct 1895, 4, NE WI MI 1910 Census Ward 4-District 47, Beatrice City, Gage County, Nebraska enumerated April 25 & 26, 1910 Dwelling #318, Family #321 BURGESS, Almond L., head, m/w, 66, WI VT NY ________, Araminta, wife, f/w, 61, MI WV WV, married 42 years, mother of 12, 10 living ________, Robert E., son, m/w, 27, NE WI MI, single, moulder-implement factory ________, Ethel, daughter, f/w, 14, NE WI MI, single 1920 Census, Washington Township, Johnson County, Missouri Dwelling #362, Family #377 BURGESS, A. L., Head, m/w, 75, WI NY NY ________, Arminta I., Wife, f/w 70, NE WI MI Struble, Margaret, Daughter, f/w, 49, Widow, NE WI MI, Farmer BIOGRAPHY A.L. BURGESS PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF GAGE COUNTY, NEBRASKA c. 1888 PGS 321-321. ALMOND L. BURGESS is widely known through the county as a prosperous and enterprising general farmer, who has occupied his highly cultivated farm on section 27 of Grant Township for over twenty years, having settled upon it in 1867. It is 160 acres in extent, and is well improved, and upon it is a good, commodious, pleasantly situated farm dwelling, and also a substantial and complete set of the various farm buildings requisite to its successful operation. . Our subject is a native of Wisconsin, and was born in Racine County on the 23d of March, 1844. He is the eldest son and child of Nehemiah and Sophia (Woodman) Burgess, both natives of New York State, where they were educated and brought up. Both came to Wisconsin about the time they attained their majority, were married in Racine County in the year 1843, continued to reside there until 1868, and then came to Nebraska, where their son, our subject, had preceded them a few months, and established a home. The father went to reside upon his own farm, where he made his home until his death, in 1875, when he was fifty-nine years of age. His father was Robert Burgess, a native of New York State, but for many years owner of a sawmill in Wisconsin, where he died. The wife of Nehemiah Burgess is yet living with her children, and is sixty-five years of age. She has all her life been a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.. Our subject received his education in Racine County, and lived there until he attained the estate of manhood, and from the close of school days was a farmer. Not very long after he came to this State he made the acquaintance of Miss Araminta Claybourn, a native of Michigan, and daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Kinzie) Clayhourn. One of the sad events in the early history of the township was the death of her father, which occurred in 1866. During the afternoon he had gone over to see a neighbor, and started about sundown to return; he was caught in a blizzard, lost his way and wandered hither and thither, and was finally found three miles from home, but frozen to death. He died while in the full vigor and prime of manhood. His wife, who is now over seventy years of age, is still a resident of Grant Township, making her home with her children.. After his marriage our subject began life as a farmer, and has so continued ever since. During the late Civil War, and previous to coming to Nebraska, he enlisted in Company G, 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry, and went with his regiment to the South and Southwest. The regiment suffered very much while in Texas, where they were compelled to march and fight on half rations and could obtain only very poor water. The regiment was chiefly used to chase bushwhackers, and our subject escaped in every combat unhurt, and at the close of his term of service was honorably discharged and returned home.. Mr. and Mrs. Burgess are members of the Church of Latter-Day Saints, and in it are held in high regard. In his political sentiments our subject is a Republican, and has so continued since he was old enough to vote. He has always been a friend of good morals, giving his hearty support to movements that were calculated to help the township or county, and is generally recognized as a much-valued citizen. Mrs. Burgess' family came and settled in Nebraska in the summer of 1860, when there were only three families within eight miles.. OBITUARY--Knob Noster Gem Weekly, June 15, 1922 Almond Leroy Burgess was born near Racine, Wisconsin March 23, 1844 and died at the home of his son R. E. Burgess near Knob Noster June 8, 1922 at the age of 78 years, 2 months and 15 days. When in his twenty-first year he enlisted as a volunteer in the Second Wisconsin Cavalry and served in that regiment until the close of the Civil War, being discharged in Galveston, Texas in January 1866. Soon after returning to Wisconsin he emigrated to Nebraska where he made his home for more than 40 years. December 22, 1868 he was united in marriage to Ariminta Bell Claiborn. To this union 12 children were born, two of them dying in infancy. Those living are Matilda Millerons and Alena Bell of Elba, CO, C. W. Burgess of Haines City, Florida, Carrie Butler of Powell, Nebraska, Elder R. E Burgess of this city, Estella Peterson of Michigan, Alice Mayes of Cambridge, Nebraska, Sadie Hawkins of Beatrice, Nebraska and Ethel Wright of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The wife of the deceased preceded him in death about 6 months. Funeral services were held at the L. D. S. Church Saturday morning at 11 o'clock by Elder I. M Smith of Warrensburg, assisted by Elder W. S. Macrae. Interment was made at City Cemetary. J. E. Myers, Frank Goode, Allen Bugbee, J. P. Peery, E. E. Petre and Don C. Chick were pallbearers.
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