SOURCES:
Most of the information on this page was graciously provided by my wife's (nee Sharon Lynn Hamrick) fourth cousin, Ms. Tara Burnside Bunner, in December of 1999.

[Tara Bunner Note: First of all, our name spellings are different.  I have my great-aunt'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.]

1.0--Before the mid 1600's the Burnsides were probably from the Wallace family who came to Ireland from Scotland.

2.0--(possibly) Samuel Burnside

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

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

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

6.0--George Alexander Burnside, b. 1764 in Augusta, VA; d. after 1853 in Monroe Co., VA; m. Julianna (Julia A.) Woodrum (b. 28 Dec 1809 in Monroe Co., VA; d. 2 Apr 1860 in Fayette Co., VA.)

7.0--Richard I. Burnside , b.  ;  d. ; m.

8.0--Charles Hale Burnside ,  b.  ;  d. ; m.

9.0--(PRIVATE);  b. ; d. ; m.

10.0--(PRIVATE) ;  b. ; d. ; m.

11.0--Tara Burnside Bunner;  b. ; d. ; m.

7.0--Malinda Rena Burnside , b. 11 Mar 1790 in Bath Co., VA. ;  m. 27 Apr 1871 to Winfield Worthington Paxton  (s/o Abner Jehu Paxton and Hester Elmore)

8.0--Charles Abner Paxton b. before 1937; d. 1937; m. Bertha Procious; 8 children

9.1--Lonzo Shelburn Paxton; m. Nannie Walker.

9.2--Bertha Harriet Paxton; m. Mark Smarr.

9.3--Jesse Howard Paxton; m. Florina Hamrick.

9.4--Sally Paxton who died in childhood.

9.5--Laura Belle Paxton, b. 12 Aug 1874; d. 28 Apr 1948; m. Harry Blakney.

9.6--John Riley Paxton, b. 1877; d. 1952; Rebecca Moore tells me that he was married twice; m1. Victoria Walker

9.7--Harris Leonard Paxton, b. 14 Feb 1883; m1. Mary Sue Elmore; m2. Ollie Moore McKown on 28 Sep 1921; m3. Lora Hackney Jones in Apr 1952.

9.8--Robert Henry Paxton, b. 1888; d. 1961; m. Estel Hart.

9.?--Dorothy Belle "Mom" Paxton, b. ; d. ; m1. Ona Byrne "Big Daddy" Hamrick (b. 1858 [John M. Gwin Note: this has to be wrong...]; d. 1952); 4 children (private); m2. Alfred Gill (b. ; d. ; bd. )

10.3--Stanford Sherman Hamrick, b. ; d. May 2001; m1. unk.; no ch.; m2. Frances Marie Droddy (b. , d/o Austin Bay Droddy and Maysel Belle Rhodes; d.; bd. Cunningham Mem. Cem., St. Albans, WV);

11.2--Sharon Lynn Hamrick, b. 28 Sep 1951 in So. Charleston, WV; m. 24 Jul 1976 in St. Albans, WV, to John M. Gwin (b. 29 Oct 1947 in Charleston, WV, s/o Adrian Sutton Gwin and Dorothy Lee Keeney)

12.1--son (PRIVATE);  b. ; d. ; m.
12.2--daughter (PRIVATE);  b. ; d. ; m.
12.3--daughter (PRIVATE);  b. ; d. ; m.

13.1--son (PRIVATE);  b. ; d. ; m.
13.2--son (PRIVATE);  b. ; d. ; m.
13.3--son (PRIVATE);  b. ; d. ; m.

I am currently working on a webpage with all of the genealogy I have (except for living members), so I will let you know when I get that up and running. I am not a computer expert, but my daughter and husband are, so hopefully with their help it will be up within the month. Until then I will try to give you as much as I have time to give. 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. If you have some specific questions that you want answered before I get
this webpage up, let me know and I'll get that to you, too.
Happy hunting,
Tara Burnside Bunner