Alfred Burt was born 1824 in NC to Willis and Rebecca Womack Burt. He was raised in Franklin County, TN. Lucinda Franklin Burt was born 1832 in Bedford County TN to (possibly) Peter Franklin and Rachael (maiden name unkn) Franklin. They were Methodist, and married by Methodist preacher Joseph Smith, Dec.22, 1848.
The first census I located Alfred and Lucinda Burt was Franklin County, TN 1850. Alfred's vocation was listed as a blacksmith. In 1860 he was listed as an attorney. Alfred fought in the Civil War - 2nd Company C 4 Confederate Reg't TN. He was recruited in Shelbyville, and fought in the battle of Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga TN. . The bitterness toward the Yankees didn't diminish in his lifetime, and hatred of the "Yankee" was passed through generations. His great-grandson told the story handed down to him, of how Alfred passed an amputee Yankee soldier, begging on the streets. Alfred made a comment about how that Yankee was cut down to the right size.

When interviewing his granddaughter, Flora, (in her late 80's about 1985-86) as she relayed a story to me, she paused, looked solemnly into my eyes and said "Well, I don't know whether you're North or South, but "we're" South" then continued with her stories. She told me the story of when, during the Civil War, soldiers were coming through TN, near the home of Lucinda and children. (Alfred was off fighting). She said the Yankees would come through, taking food, and whatever else they needed. The family had hidden their meat out in a cave, among the cedar bushes and the Yankees didn't find it. One of the men reclined on Lucinda's settee and she harshly told him to take his feet off her couch! ----- The oldest daughter, Eliza Mary, about 13, told a smirking Yankee he looked like he'd washed his teeth in the ash pile. (or perhaps that he needed to wash his teeth in the ash pile? JD)

After the Civil War their lives must have changed markedly. On all subsequent census records I've found, Alfred's occupation was listed simply as a farmer. Alfred and Lucinda left Franklin County TN about 1870, along with a colony of others,  including her sister Indiana (Virginia A), and  husband Lorenzo Smith ,  migrating west to Denton County, Texas.
Flora told me the tale of Lucinda bursting into tears somewhere near the Brazos river when she passed a rose garden. Her rose garden was left in TN.
Sons Allen and Asbury were born in Texas in 1872 and 1877, respectively. Asbury was born in the town of Aubrey. Sometime around 1895 the family traveled to Seminole County, OK . Their children , Bell, Allen and Asbury are found in the Pottawatomie County, OK marriage records in the years 1897and 1898.

By 1900 they were living in Pottawatomie county, OK with their youngest son, Asbury and his budding family. Lucinda died in 1906, prior to Oklahoma statehood. The major news in the area was talk of the railroad, and Temperance meetings. There was an article in the local paper reporting the fatal injury of a man whose runaway team had become frightened at an automobile. Alfred died in 1911 and he, like Lucinda, is buried in Seminole county, in the Little Cemetery, Little, OK. They are surrounded by a host of other family member's graves.

Gravestone of Alfred Burt.

"Dearest loved one we have laid thee in the poweful grave's embrace. But thy memory shall be cherished til we see thy heavenly face."

Gravestone of Lucinda Franklin Burt.

"Heaven now claims our treasure, earth the lonely casket keeps. But the sunbeams long to linger where our sainted mother sleeps."

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