 So Elzy agreed to serve as keeper until he could find a way to finish the keeper's house.In the first decade of the nineteenth century Elzy's family members served as keepers of every Virginia lighthouse but one.Elzy's younger brother William K. Burroughs was appointed the second keeper of the Smith Point Light in 1806, another brother, Travey Burroughs, was appointed keeper at Cape Henry Light, and a few years later Elzy was succeeded as keeper at New Point Comfort Light by his brother-in-law, Robert Lightburn.