Burke Cemetery
Located at Charles Fork, Smithfield District, Roane County, West Virginia
Submitted by Larry R. Hall …. ldhall@cetlink.net …. a great-great grandson of Robert Peter Burke + Sarah Florence Amiss(Amos).
In center of cemetery one tall stone with inscriptions:
(Top of stone) R. P. Burke …. 2-20-1827 / 2-16-1901 – Age 74
(Bottom of stone) Sarah F. …. 12-12-1827 / 3-27-1869 – Age 42
(To right of center stone) Roberta Burke Hershman …. 1863 – 1929
(To left of center stone) Elton Amos Burke .. B. 1837 – D. 1908 .. Age 71
Other grave markers:
H. C. Burke …. 1887 – 1905 …. Age 18
Luly Burke ….Wife of Wm. Kincaid …. 1859 – 1915
Ethel Burke …. 1892 – 1903 …. Age 11
Ulva Burke …. 1899 – 1903 …. Age 4
J. B. Burke …. 1864 – 1905 …. Age 41
America B. Walker Burke …. 1867 – 1931
(James B. and his three children died in the typhoid epidemic.)
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