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Note: story: January 20, 1920 I Nancy Mahulda Burden, Born Feb. 20, 1831 in Bedford County, Tenn. Lived there until thirteen years of age, Moved then with my parents to Ozark County, Missouri. Lived there with my parents until I was 17 years old. at that age I married Joseph Burden, In 1848, he was being Born also, in Tenn and moved to Missouri. I lived there with my husband for four years. Three children were Born in Missouri, In the Month of May 1852, My Husband and two, children and myself, the oldest child having died, we started to Texas, in a two-Horse wagon and landed in Texas in July. We stopped with Bill Burden who came to Texas a year before we did, who was a brother to my husband. he lived in Cook County about 4 miles North west of where Bloomfield now stands, in Cook County. He built a log house on this land and we moved in. In the month of April, soon after, our House burned with all it's contents. The day this house Burned I had been to the Branch, about 1/2 mile from the house to do my washing, had returned to the house and hung out my clothes, but had to go back to the Branch to get a bucket of water, so I put two children out of the house and tied the door up high, so they could not get back into the house, and when I was returning from the Branch with the bucket of water I looked and saw my house going up in flames. By the time I got to it I could do nothing but let it burn. In the Spring we fenced in a little patch, My husband turned the sod and I sowed some cotton seed, and when it made, I picked it out of the Boll, then I picked the seed out of the cotton with my fingers and then I corded it and spun it, and made it into cloth, and that was the first dress I had after I left Missouri. Our smokehouse did not burn, and I had what was called a side loom and that was what I had left. we didn't have anything given to us after our house burned, but two quilts and one tablecloth. and Aunt Susie Jones gave them to me. There was not anybody to give us anything, because everybody that was here had come in wagons and brought just what they needed, or rather what they could make out with. I did not see how we could live, but we did. My parents back in Missouri had plenty, but I had no way of getting it out here. After this house burned my Husband's brother gave us a log house and we put it on our claim. Since landing in Texas I have lived all the time in Cook, and Denton Counties, most of the time in Cook. My husband Died June 22, 1912 in Cook county at the age of 64 years old. I have lived as a widow ever since. I have one sister and four brothers now living in Missouri. they Beg me to come and see them, but I have put it off to long. We worked hard and got so we had nearly everything we wanted, and my husband and boys took a notion they wanted a gin and Grist Mill so they got it and run it for nearly six years and worked hard and at last it broke us up, there it was again. I hardly knew what but by the help of God I have got along so far now. I am the Mother of 12 Children. 5 Girls and 7 Boys. I now have 3 Boys living their names are as follows: John Burden of Weeletka, Okla....R.L. Burden of Okmulgee, Okla....J.T. Burden of Reed, Okla....The Girls are: Mrs. Polly Menasco from Aubrey, Tx...Mrs. Samantha Robinson from Pilot Point, Tx Mrs. Emaline Rogers from Aubrey....Mrs. Tishia Wood of Tishomingo, Okla....Besides raising my own children, I have raised 9 Orphaned children, they were the children of my husband three brothers and wives, who had died and left them. I had to spin and weave clothes for my own children and these orphans, with but very little bought. I had some of these orphaned children to care for during the war, I am glad to say in raising them nine Orphaned Children I never whipped anyone of them one time. They were good to obey me, and I had no cause to punish them, some of these children are still living. I have 37 G
Note: Parents were Joseph Burden and Nancy Mulhulda Dobbs. Nancy told the following
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