Leakey Roots

Hello Family-
I have started this blog for us to have an online archive of the Burdett family history. I hope you find it interesting! I feel that retaining these sorts of historical and familial records is important to who we are and where we came from. It's interesting how quickly times change and how quickly generations move on. Here, I hope to collectively capture in one digital location a snapshot of our ancestry. Please scan in and contribute your old photos - not your most recent family trip to
Disney land! (that's for a different blog entirely), but those photos that might fade soon and those faces that may otherwise may be lost to time and dust. Or, those old photos of our relatives long gone that are in your mother's old scrapbook that many of us have never seen.

I created this specifically with the direct descendants of C.W. and Pansy Burdett in mind. I hope that we can help flesh this out. I'd love to see some photos and stories posted about Pansy's childhood, parents, grandparents, etc. I'd love to see entries and photos about their days in Wimberly. If you want to contribute your old photos and family heritage stories, please email me at dorie@creativepickle.com and I will give you the account info and instruction on posting. It's really easy!

So, here's my first entry to kick this thing off. Maybe this will be the only entry. Maybe many of you will add to it. Maybe lines of the family that have never connected, will here connect. Either way, here it goes:

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This past weekend my family and I went to Leakey to get away and relax in the hill country. I knew we had roots in area, so we stopped by the library, the museum and the graveyard. We found a few pages in a book called Wagons, Ho! A History of Real County which contained a few paragraphs and photos of the Burditts and the Coopers. As I understand it (and please correct me where I may go wrong), my grandfather CW Burdett was born near Leakey, Texas, to George & Gladys (Cooper) Burditt.

Here are the relevant pages that explain some of the Burditt and Cooper roots: Click HERE. (This is a large PDF document.) The first two pages are the Burditts and the last 2 pages are about the Coopers.

In addition, several items were on display at the local museum that belonged to Sam Cooper (Who I believe would be our/my great-great grandfather):








...as well as John Burditt (Who I believe would also be my great-great grandfather):





Here are a few photos of the Burditt cemetery plot (I couldn't find the Cooper plot):





Here are some other shots from the book as well as from the museum:



I believe the little girl on the right in the front row is Phebe Gladys Cooper, CW's mother (marries the little boy below). That makes her our great grandmother. And, her parents there are our great-great grandparents.



I believe that the little boy in the back row is George Burditt, CW's father and our great-grandfather. And his parents in the front row would be our great-great grandparents.




I believe the man in the middle there is John W Burditt, our great-great grandfather.


That's it for now. I believe my mom has a family tree somewhere that I will ask her to post. Also, there is an old family cemetery plot in north Austin (Old Fiskville) that Roy once discovered. At some point I'll get out there and take some photos to post.