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Below is a sample of a family biography
included in the Biographical and Historical
Memoirs of Phillips County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed in 1890.
These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing
ancestors or filling in the details in a family tree. Family biographies often
include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.
Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place
of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including
maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if
married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service,
church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often
ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical
record.
Moses Burke has been long and worthily identified with the
interests of Phillips County, and no worthy history of this immediate vicinity
would be complete which failed to make proper mention of his life. He was born
in the house in which he now resides March 1, 1848, and is a son of Elisha and
Eliza (Cail) Burke, both natives of North Carolina, the former’s birth
occurring July 13, 1798, and his death in Phillips County, Ark., June 21,
1860. His marriage took place March 24, 1825, and until 1835 or 1836 they
resided in their native State, moving then to Arkansas, and soon after located
on the farm on which our subject is now living. The father was a farmer all
his life, and was very successful, and in connection with this work was
engaged in milling, ginning, blacksmithing and wagon making, being successful
in all these undertakings. While in North Carolina he represented his county
several times in the State legislature, and after coming to Arkansas he
represented his district in the senate three or four terms, and later was a
member of the legislature from Phillips County. He was also colonel of militia
in North Carolina and Arkansas for many years, and while the Whig party was in
existence affiliated with that party. He was born of Irish parents, and his
wife was of Scotch descent, her birth occurring on July 9, 1807. She bore her
husband the following children: Eliza (wife of Dr. James H. Gibson, of La
Grange, Ark.) and Moses being the only ones living. Those deceased are:
Richard C. (who died in 1870 when about forty years of age), Sallie F. (wife
of Joseph Neville, died in 1857 at the age of twenty years), Elisha (was
accidentally killed at Helena in 1856 at the age of fourteen years), and the
rest of the children, numbering three, died in infancy. Moses Burke received
his early education at his home, and when only nineteen years of age he
assumed the management of his mother’s property, and has continued to
successfully conduct it up to the present time. They now jointly own 740 acres
of land, of which 400 acres are under cultivation, nearly all of it having
been obtained since the war, as during that time the most of their property
was demolished. Mr. Burke was married in 1878 to Miss Jenny E. Goodwin, a
daughter of Sanford E. Goodwin, her birth occurring in Phillips County, in
1852, and by her he has a family of five children: Aubrey, Elisha B., Ethel,
Moses Oscar and Jennie E. Mrs. Burke is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and in his political views Mr. Burke is a Democrat. He is a live and
enterprising agriculturist, and his long residence in this county, his
industrious habits and perseverance, as well as his strict integrity and
honesty of purpose, have contributed to place around him a host of friends and
acquaintances.
This family biography is one of 103 biographies
included in the Biographical and
Historical Memoirs of Phillips County, Arkansas published
in 1890. For the complete description, click here:
Phillips County Arkansas History,
Genealogy and Maps
View additional Phillips County,
Arkansas biographies here:
Phillips County, Arkansas Genealogy
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