| Record Last Updated On:
1/21/2016 |
| Name: HENRY WILLIAM BURKE |
| Death Date: MAR/27/1912 |
Interment Date:
MAR/29/1912 |
Birth Date: NOV/30/1837 |
| Age at Death: 74y3m27d |
Cause of Death:
carcinoma of liver |
| Location at Death:
SAINT JOSEPH, MO |
| Physical Location at Death:
2614 FOLSUM |
| Sex: M |
Nativity: AMERCIAN |
Ethnicity: CAUCASION |
| Occupation:JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, FORMERLY PRINTER |
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| Child of: William Burke and Sophia Bosher |
| Spouse of: single |
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| Other Known Relatives: Josephus Burke & wife Mary Rebecca Elmore Burke (brother & his wife), Napoleon Burke & wife Julia Goddin Burke (brother & his wife), |
| Brief Biography: from
https://sites.google.com/a/pcmproconsulting.com/burke-genealogy/home/burke-family-tree/henry-w-burke
In 1875 this time Henry was an editor and reporter for the St. Joseph, MO Gazette, and a future lawyer, judge and school board president in the making. This was after Henry and his family had moved from Richmond, VA to St. Joseph after the Civil War. In Richmond Henry worked as a printer, reporter and had been a prison guard in the infamous Confederate Libby Prison that held Union Solider prisoners.
Became Justice of the Peace of Washington Twp., Buchanan County, MO see more of his bio at the above link. |
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