Union Army Burned Porch & Killed Stock
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Name spelled Margaret and Margurett and Burk and Burke.
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Burke is Anglo-Norman. Page 25
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Her great-grand daughter Madeline Johnson Barnett remembers Margaret Burke would visit her daughter Mary Ann Johnson (Madleine's grandma) when they lived in Arlington, CO and Madeline was very young. Madeline remembers Margaret as a very small little old lady who would talk very fast when she was excited about the subject and would also move around very fast.
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Margaret moved to St. Clair Co, MO when she was about 7 years old. Margaret Ann Burke and Charles Henry Hurt lived on a farm near the town of El Dorado Springs, MO. the farm was owned by the Hurt family until around 1980 - deed to Sandifer Hurt in 1846.
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She lived on the Hurt homplace for several years after her husband, Charles Henry Hurt, passed away and then she moved to El Dorado Springs where she lived until she passed away on July 10, 1930. . . Margaret Ann Burke was born in Boone County on July 14, 1840 and moved to El Dorado Springs, Mo. with her family when she was about 7 years old. . . Margaret Ann’s mother was Millie Shock and her father was William Burke.
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Mar 2002: email from Charlene Wein
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Birth date listed as 1837, 1847 in Roser notes from Grandma Roea.
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buried in Martin Cemetery, El Dorado Springs, Cedar Co, MO
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Husband listed on death certificate as John Hurt?
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Died of apoplexy with old age contributing.
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BURKE (also Burk, Berk, Birk, Berke) Irish
361900 Census
271880 Census
231870 Census
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I have had a continuing question if Sarah remarried in 1907 in Missouri, possibly Speedwell, Saint Clair Co., to a John Street who was born in 1862. Her headstone says “Sara E. Adcock”. If she were to have then there is a 1930 census which shows her mother living with them, but this is doubtful.
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