| From the History of Nodaway County, 1882 |
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Allen J Burks Jr. is my husband's Great Grandfather. Denell Burks: DB1776-vacaville@comcast.net |
| Page 732-733: Allen J. Burks {Jr}, farmer and stock raiser, section
34, was born on a farm in Mercer County, Kentucky, on the 10th of June,
1814. His father, Allen Burks, a native of Virginia, was by occupation
a hatter and a farmer, and lived to the age of ninety-three years.
His mother, formerly Elizabeth Townsend, was born in South Carolina, near
the town of Charleston. Allen spent his boyhood days on a farm and
received the benefits of a common school education. He accompanied
his parents to Putnam County, Indiana in 1828, and remained there until
1839, when he immigrated west, and settled near Weston, Platte County, Missouri.
After living there for seven years, he returned to Putnam County, Indiana,
but came back to Missouri in the fall of 1855, and settled in Clark County;
thence to Hancock County, Illinois in the fall of 1865, and from there to
Nodaway County, Missouri, in the spring of 1873, locating where he now resides.
He owns 174 acres of fine bottom land, upon which is a neat residence, with
a fine view of the City of Maryville. His farm is well watered by
springs, and stocked with different grades of stock. Mr. Burks is
a member of the Masonic fraternity. Politically, he is a Greenbacker.
He has been twice married. First, about the year 1836 to Elizabeth
Chadd. She died in the fall of 1855, and left five children, three
of whom are now living: :John H. born October 18, 1838; David C. born
September 27, 1842, and Ruth C. born September 15, 1848, (now Mrs. I. J.
Crossan). He was married again on the 15th of May, 1856 to Mary S.
Waggner [message from Denell this spelling of Waggner is not a mistype],
a native of Clark County, MO, born September 6, 1833. By this union
they have seven children: Alexander C., born December 8, 1858; Martha
A., born April 10, 1862; William A., born February 8, 1865; Eugene, born
November 25, 1866; Cassia, born May 12, 1869; Robert E. Lee, born in April
1871; Ada born September 1, 1875. Himself and wife are active members
of the Christian Church of Rose Hill. |