434. Emanuel Hall
SETTLED NEAR MOUTH OF STANLEY FORK, MUD RIVER, WV WHEN WIFE SALINA DIED IN 1911, HE LEFT FOR CHEYENNE WYOMING, LATER ENDING UP IN OREGON WITH 500 ACRE FARM. ASKED JOHN SR. & HALLIE TO JOIN HIM IN OREGON IN 1921 FOR 6 OR 7 YEARS. LOST FARM
446. Rathburn Burke
Rathburn and Martha had 12 children, but six were still-born or died in infancy.
447. Demanza Burke
(Burks/ Burk)
Death certificate lists her birth date as 30 Jun 1868 and her father as Bill Mullins, b. Pike Co., KY
1348. Della Burke
Died at age 7 - Downs Syndrome.
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449. Tobias Burke
Moved from Pike County, Kentucky to Greenup County, Kentucky in March 1907 in wagons pulled by mules or horses. The hogs and turkeys were made to walk. Ken Burke
1360. Walter Burke
**Last Residence: South Shore, Greenup County, Kentucky
450. Andrew "Brave Rivers" Burke
My Dad, before he died, told me that Andrew Burks owned several miles of timberland along the "Big Sandy River" and what is now part of Route 23 in Floyd County, Kentucky. Like most loggers of the time, Andrew probably logged his land during the late fall for hardwood timber and skidded them out during the winter with mules. The sap is always down in the Fall and logs will just season better when cut this time of year. Anyhow, during the winter of 1898 or early spring of 1899, Andrew was rafting a band of river-logs down stream and slipped off a still frozen log and into the icy cold water of the "Big Sandy River". It was pouring down rain that day, but rather than quit and risk loosing his logs, Andrew climbed back on and continued riding his logs down river to Pikeville, Kentucky. After taking care of business, Andrew traveled through the night to get back to his family, but by that time he was already deathly ill. He never recovered and died that Spring of consumption. Andrew Burks was 33 years old when he died and my Pappaw, Hibbard H Burke, was only 3 yrs old at the time. I believe, Andrew Burks must have died in the Spring of 1900. Later that same year recently widowed Margaret "Mullins" Burks married James Melvin Addington and became known as "Granny Addington" to my Dad, Polmer, and the rest of the tribe. I would guess that Granny told my Dad this story and he told me.
*The 1870 census of Pike co., Ky lists Andrew Burks as 4 years old and living under the roof of Greenville and Lurena Burks.
Growing up as a child I heard stories that my Dad's granny was a Cherokee Indian that lived in a Cherokee Camp somewhere in North Carolina, and first came to Eastern Kentucky when she was just old enough to remember. My Dad once told me that she kept an array of bottled remedies by her bedside and had concoctions for just about anything that ailed them. She was known by her Grandkids as "Granny Addington" and they would huddle in and around her while she told spooky tales, in the wee morning hours, that would raise the hair on the back of their necks. My Mom also remembered her and told me that she wore a red bandanna around her head and dressed in bright colored clothing. She was first married to my great Granddad, Andrew Burks, that died of consumption (probably in the Spring at age 33. Soon after Andrew's death, she sold their timberland along the Big Sandy River in Floyd Co., Kentucky and then married Melvin Addington. They lived near what is now known as Brushy Fork, Beefhide, Pike Co., Kentucky. Margaret "Mullins" Burks had 4 kids at the time of Andrew's death and Melvin had kids of his own.
I do not have proof that Margaret Mullins was a Cherokee Indian or actually lived on a reservation.
From "One Mullins Family" - page 79:
"According to the statement of relatives when Margaret married Mr. Adington, she had the four children mentioned above. Mr. Adington had been married before. He married Nancy Osborne on February 27, 1889. A school record for J. M. Adington shows he had a daughter, Palmira, born October 11, 1890. The 1900 Pike County, Kentucky Census copies from federal census and published by Jesse and Leah Stewart, shows that besides Margaret's children by Andrew Burke the following other children were in the home: Luvina and Arminda, born 1891 (twins); Lee, born 1893. It is assumed that these were Mr. Adington's children by his first wife. If this is true, he had four and Margaret had four, although Minnie Dell is not mentioned in the 1900 Cenus."
1371. Zella Sanders
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