Squire Burvender was born in Surrey County, North Carolina, on March 3, 1827. He came to this county in 1856. His parents are Jacob and Talitha (Hill) Burvender, who settled in Lawrence county in 1858. Squire Burvender’s first wife was Nancy Steward, who was born in Surrey County, North Carolina, in 1833. She was the daughter of John and Lizzie (Hill) Steward, and died in 1859, leaving one daughter, Betsie J., born in 1851.
The second wife of Mr. Burvender is Mariah L. Harris, daughter of Essex and Betsey (Roberts) Harris, settlers of this county in 1828. She had been married twice previously; first to Hanson Wayne, by whom she had one child—Evangeline, born June 10, 1850, died April 1857.
Her second husband was Ambrose, son of Simon and Violett Thomas. He died in 1859, leaving one child, Leo Augustus, born in August 1857, and died in April 1862.
The date of her marriage to Mr. Burvender was May 10, 1861, in this county. She was born in this county on October 16, 1831.
Newspaper ad from Topeka Republican 10 Sept. 1892
The following are the children: Oscar M., born June 17, 1862, died August 2, 1879; Caroline, December 22, 1864, died October 6, 1871; William G., August 10, 1867, resides at home; Delila, June 9, 1868, resides at home; Roberthy, February 2, 1873, at home; Viola, January 5, 1874, died July 10, 1878; John Evans, an orphan child, January 7, 1873, resides at home.
A brother of this sketch, Morack Burvender, served in the late war. He enlisted in 1863 in the 5th Ohio Colored Volunteer Infantry, and after serving two years died of sickness in the hospital at Point of Rocks, Maryland.
Levi Harris, a brother of Mrs. Burvender was also in the war, a member of the 5th Ohio Colored Volunteer Infantry, and served to the close of the war. Mr. Burvender is engaged in blacksmithing and wagon making. His post office address is Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio.
The Pensacola News, Pensacola, Florida, 30 Aug 1891
STABBED TWELVE TIMES
A Maddened Lover Uses a Knife When the Revolver Failed.
Ironton, Ohio, Aug, 28 – Word has reached here from Macedonia Hill, a settlement twenty miles distant, of a murderous assault made upon Mollie Howard, a pretty mulatto girl by a rejected lover named Jake Burvender.
Miss Howard met Burvender in a lonely spot in the road, and he lectured her on her rejection of his proffered love. She again refused his proffer of undying love, when, maddened to desperation, he drew a revolver and snapped it in her face twice, but the weapon refused to do his murderous bidding, and he threw it at her feet, and drawing a knife, stabbed the defenseless girl twelve times, some wounds being twelve inches long.
He escaped across the river and is still at large. The girl will probably recover but will be marked for life, a six-inch cut extending down her cheek and neck.
Jacob Burvender CRIME: Cutting with intent to kill
PRISONER #: 22781 VOL: 16 PAGE: 184 SENTENCE: 7 yrs COUNTY: Lawrence COURT TERM: Nov 1891
DATE RECEIVED: 1 Dec 1891 DATE RELEASED: Pardoned 8 Aug 1894 AGE: 25 NATIVITY: OH OCCUPATION: Fireman
RELATIVES Father: Jacob; Mother: Charity; Brother: Will, Howell, Lawrence County, OH.
Akron Daily Democrat, 9 Aug. 1894
Columbus, Ohio. – Aug. 9 – The penitentiary managers have issued the following paroles: Jacob B. Burvender, Lawrence county, seven years, assault to kill.
Oklahoma Weekly Leader, Guthrie, Oklahoma, 21 Jul 1898
The suit was filed in the District Court today by Squire Burvender vs. A. H. Crabb, D. M. Ross, and Coyle Oil Co., to compel Crabb to make a deed for two lots sold to Burvender. The lots in the quest are included in the property purchased by W. H. Coyle Oil Co.
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