Burt, Mrs. Jemima

BIRT, BURT

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Page 502, 1879 History of Jefferson County, Fairfield Township;
MRS. JEMIMA BURT, farming, Sec. 27; born in England in 1823. Married MR. JOHN BIRT in 1850, also a native of England; have three children living—JAMES J., aged 23; FRANK, aged 17; and LINCOLN, aged 5; came to Iowa in 1857. Made all the improvements on her place, which is very pleasantly situated, three miles west of Fairfield. Congregational Church.

Ledger, June 13 1906 obituary MRS. JOHN BIRT, bur. City Cemetery.