Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 629
GEORGE H. BURCHAM

George H. BURCHAM, deceased, first came to Harrison County in 1853. He was a native of Kentucky, born in 1807, the son of John and Nancy BURCHAM. They had a family of ten children. His father settled in Kentucky at an early day, when it was principally peopled by the Indians, and a few pioneers of the Daniel Boone stripe. About 1811 the family moved to Ohio, where they remained until the death of the father. Our subject followed farming for a livelihood all his days. He went to Virginia in 1846, and came from there to Iowa, coming down the Ohio and up the Missouri River to Council Bluffs. He settled in Magnolia and later lived on section 36, of Margan Township. He was married in 1835, to Mary MARTIN, the daughter of Johan and Elizabeth (GWINN) MARTIN, who was of Irish descent, but a native of Virginia. They reared a family of twelve children -- Elizabeth, John, Melvina, Samson S, Mary, Amanda, Andrew J., George W, Susan, Henry, Ruth, and Frank.

Mr BURCHAM died August 3, 1879, and was buried in Magnolia Township. His wife is now (1891) 76 years of age.

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