Mary
(Miner) Burgoin
(1798?- ? )
Mary (Miner) Burgoin was born in about 1798, and if she is who we think, she likely entered the world on the mountainous border of Fayette/Somerset Counties, PA, the daughter of Daniel and Mary Minor Sr. As a girl, she moved with her parents to Sego, Perry County, OH, though when Mary was age 15, in 1813, her mother passed away.
At about the age of 21, Mary married James Burgoin (1795?- ? ) on Dec. 17, 1819. The wedding took place in Perry County, by the hand of Allen Goff, a minister of the Gospel of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which is consistent with the known church affiliation of this branch of the Miners. The record of this marriage is still on file in the Perry County courthouse in New Lexington, OH, and in the booklet, Ohio Records and Pioneer Families, Volume XIII, 1972).
Mary and James' marriage license
Mary's life was researched in the 1970s by a possible grand-nieces, Blanche (Clark) Tarter and Alba (McGirk) Peck. In their typed manuscript of the family, they wrote: "There is some question as to whether this Mary Miner is a daughter of Daniel ... She was probably born in 1798 - and that would have made her to be 20 years of age when she was married."
Census records show that the couple had seven children -- Mahala Woods, Evan Burgoin, James H. Burgoin, Duanna Hawkins, Matilda Woods, John W. Burgoin and Robert L. Burgoin. It's possible that two other children were Sarah Stockton and Elizabeth Russell. The family name also has been commonly spelled as "Burgoyne" in early records.
The Burgoins did not live in Perry County for long after their marriage. When the federal census was taken in 1820, they lived as neighbors to Mary's uncle, Frederick Miner Sr., in Madison Township, Perry County.
They are believed to have moved to Muskingum County, OH, where they are listed in the 1840 federal census as residents of Newton Township.
By 1850, it is thought that Mary had died, and that James had migrated further west to Wayne County, IN, with his home in Center Township.
Daughter Mahala (1821-1859) married William Woods on Aug. 7, 1845, in Wayne County.
Son Evan (1825- ? ) married Elizabeth Ann Taylor in Wayne County on Jan. 9, 1853, and may have died in Kansas.
Son James H. (1834-1883) married Lura Butler on New Year's Eve 1866 at Butler's Point, Vermilion County, IL. He died in 1883 in Danville, Vermilion County.
Daughter Duanna (1835- ? ) married William Hawkins on March 28, 1855 in Catlin, Vermilion County. She likely died in Catlin.
Daughter Matilda (1838- ? ) married her widowed brother in law, William Woods, on Feb. 24, 1860, in Howard County, IN. Matilda died on March 1, 1872 in Howard County.
Son John (1840- ? ) married Jane S. Hawkins. Nothing further is known.
Son Robert (1841- ? ) is lost to history.
Cindy Mitchell has researched this family and generously shared her findings with us.
Copyright © 2006 Mark A. Miner