Individual Details

Buried Family Cemetery near Murfreesboro :
Tombstone reads: Isaac Burleson, Tennesse Pvt., Jones Co. 1st Tenn. Mtd Inf. War of 1812, Jan 24, 1865.

Attached to Ancestry tree.
Presuming, the son of David Franklin Burleson Sr. and Ursula Weatherford
There is a burial in Rutherford, Tennessee in a Burleson Cemetery with a military headstone. The headstone reads “1st Tenn MTD Inf., Pvt. Jones Co. (it may should have been Capt. Jones Co.).
• DESIGNATION: 1st Regiment of West Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Gunmen
• DATES: September 1814 - March 1815
• MEN MOSTLY FROM: Davidson, Dickson, Williamson, Bedford, Maury, Montgomery, Rutherford, Smith, and Stewart Counties
• CAPTAINS: Bethel Allen, Ephraim D. Dickson, Robert Edmonston, Robert Evans, Cuthbert Hudson, Thomas Jones, James McMahon, Glen Owen, Thomas White, Joseph Williams, James Wyatt
BRIEF HISTORY:
Part of Coffee's brigade at New Orleans, most of this regiment took part in the night battle of 23 December 1814. Most of the company muster rolls show casualties from this engagement. Portions of this regiment also participated in the capture of Pensacola from the Spanish in West Florida (7 November 1814). The initial rendezvous point for this unit was Fayetteville, Tennessee. From there they passed through Fort Hampton, to Baton Rouge, and finally to New Orleans.

Birth	17 Oct 1795	Anson County, North Carolina
Death	24 Jan 1865	Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee

Father	David Franklin Burleson (1753 - 1832)
Mother	Ursula Weatherford (1758 - 1835)
Sibling	John Washington Burleson (1775 - 1845)
Sibling	Moses Burleson (1777 - 1836)
Sibling	Sarah Burleson (1778 - )
Sibling	Mary Burleson (1785 - 1852)
Sibling	William Burleson (1786 - 1850)
Sibling	Hilkiah Burleson (1786 - 1856)
Sibling	David Franklin Burleson (1786 - 1856)
Sibling	Eleanor "Nellie" Burleson (1789 - 1870)
Sibling	Margaret "Peggy" Burleson (1791 - 1839)
Sibling	Ursula Burleson (1793 - 1861)