Burt, Calvin Martin

BURT, GABBERT, CRABTREE, NELSON

Posted By: Daniel K. Higginbottom (email)
Date: 11/14/2014 at 13:23:59

Burt, C.M.--Farmer and stock-raiser, section 26 (Madison Twp), P. O. Polk City. Among the pioneers of this township is the subject of this sketch. He was born in St. Lawrence county, New York, June 23, 1818, and as his father was a farmer before him, he was naturally raised at that occupation. He came to this State in 1838, settling near Davenport, Scott county, and remained there till he came to this county, in May of 1846. Made a claim in what is now Crocker township and shortly after sold out and came to this township, took a claim and went back to Scott county after his family in the fall of the same year. In May of 1848 he settled on his present home of 124 acres of well-improved land, where he has since resided. He enlisted in the war in company B, Twenty-third Iowa infantry volunteers, August 23, 1862, and served three years. Was mustered out at Galveston, Texas, and honorably discharged at Davenport, having participated with his regiment in many of the hard-fought battles of the war. His first marriage was in Scott county, this State, June 2, 1844, to Miss Elizabeth Gabbert, of Illinois, who died June 26, 1847, and left one son, now living in Nebraska, George W. His second marriage was to Mary Crabtree, of Ohio, February 1, 1848, who died March 30,1858, and left a family of three children, of whom two are now living: Martha and Henry. One deceased, Mary--another, named Oliver, having died before. His present wife was Mary E. Nelson, a native of Ohio, whom he married in this county November 18, 1858. By this union they have five children living: Walter F., James W., Miranda E., Calvin E., Grace A. and three deceased: Eva F., Alice L. and Horace C.

Source: "The History of Polk County, Iowa" p.1027, Des Moines, Union Historical Company, 1880.