Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 889
JOHN T. BURCH

John T. BURCH, a farmer located on section 24, of Allen Township, came to Harrison County in the spring of 1876, and first located on the Willow, in Lincoln Township. He was a poor man at the time he came to the county, and rented land the first year, and then bought the farm he now occupies, which consisted of two hundred acres of wild land. He subdued this land and made the necessary improvements, including house, barn, granary, stables and outbuildings. Eight-five acres of his land are under the plow, while the remainder is pasture and meadow land. With the exception of one year, he has been quite successful; that being the grasshopper year, when all of his small grain was destroyed.

Our subject was born in Loudoun County, VA, the son of Mr. and Mrs. James BURCH, natives of Virginia and Pennsylvania, who had five children�Emma, John, James, William and Grafton. Three of these children are living; two residing in Iowa. Mr. BURCH lived in Virginia with his parents until seventeen years of age, when they moved to Missouri, where the father leased land, and remained until the breaking out of the Rebellion, when on account of the Bushwhackers, he was compelled to leave Missouri, and went to Nebraska, where he farmed for ten years, and then moved to Harrison County, Iowa.

He was married in November 1869, to Eliza DALE, daughter of John and Cynthis DALE, natives of Missouri, who had six children�William, Eliza, Catherine, John, Elias, Benjamin, Josephine.

Nr. And Mrs. BURCH, are the parents of the following children, born in the order have given�Charles (deceased), October 18, 1870; Barbara, September 4, 1872; John (deceased), February 5, 1874; James (deceased), October 12, 1876; Frederick, September 29, 1879.

In his political belief Mr. BURCH is a Democrat.

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